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New comment by injidup in "Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'"

injidup — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:40:13 +0000

Liam Neeson?

New comment by injidup in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

injidup — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:25:34 +0000

Some research suggests that clustering simply on public vs private is correlation not causation. Many public utilities in the USA are clustered around hydro electric system and dense urban system whilst private utilities pick up the more expensive to run and traditionally less well serviced markets.

Small models may be able to self replicate within 3 months on IoT devices

injidup — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/10/13/ai-could-self-replicate-on-home-devices-within-months-anthropic-says

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068558

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New comment by injidup in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

injidup — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:01:54 +0000

I suspect the whole field of mathematics will simply disappear as a career path. It seems obvious that the trajectory is for the machines to be able to provide proof on demand for any solvable problem. Whether or not the proof is understandable by humans is perhaps irrelevant in the larger sense. Doing hard math will simply become another black box tool in the larger AI toolkit for goal optimisation. Is this sad and should we try to prevent it? Is it any less sad than the venerable London cabbie who spent a life time memorising every street to gain "the knowledge" and almost overnight supplanted by machine intelligence.

New comment by injidup in "What is Codemode"

injidup — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:17:26 +0000

Claude scripts can be anything and can call any library.

https://gofastmcp.com/clients/client

New comment by injidup in "What is Codemode"

injidup — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:25:15 +0000

How is this different to Claude writing mini scripts to get jobs done which it does quite often?

New comment by injidup in "Open Source as We Know It Is Dead"

injidup — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:17:05 +0000

There is also the fact that Maintainers simply don't need contributions any more. This I've noticed also happens at work. Everyone is maintaining their own mini stacks of things. Contribution is up cooperation is down. Why go talk to a colleague when you can talk to Claude? Change is everywhere.

New comment by injidup in "Sites in ChatGPT"

injidup — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:22:41 +0000

Text is not ideal in many cases. I work with CNC algorithms. I have opus 5.5 optimising algorithms. When I don't understand what it is blathering on about I ask it to sketch some svg animations to explain itself. I've been shocked at how on point most of them are. You still have to watch out for the odd hallucination but I have some base prompts that tell it always to use scripts and real math to generate SVG rather than do it by inference. With some tweaking it can create some shockingly godd one off animations to explain part of an algorithm it's working on. Text is simply difficult to comprehend when a picture can do the job much better.

New comment by injidup in "Aweb – Communication for AI Agents"

injidup — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:43:26 +0000

You are probably still writing for agents. It's more than likely these constant "AI smell" insults on HN are simplY themselves agents scanning posts for any AI smell simply because it gets upvotes to post such slanders.

New comment by injidup in "Goodbye Google"

injidup — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:14:40 +0000

Why is uncertainty about the motives of one form of superintelligence terrifying, whilst, at the same time, uncertainty about the motives of another, omnipotent supernatural intelligence comforting? i.e. the “I don’t know God’s plan, but I sleep well knowing He has one” line of reasoning.

New comment by injidup in "Spymarks, Not Watermarks"

injidup — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:22:44 +0000

Wouldn't synthid type watermarking fall under GDPR. Personally identifiable information attached by third party to content in the expectation that it would be published and trackable?

New comment by injidup in "Who gets to define the rules for AI?"

injidup — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:45:59 +0000

If you want a seat at the table then your AI must prove itself capable of winning some competition against the incumbents. How about a nice game of chess?

New comment by injidup in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

injidup — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:39:24 +0000

Cancer is simply cells breaking free of the cooperative jail. Essentially the grey goo scenario of nano machines. Instead of cooperation they just do their own thing.

Cells have a certain optimised DNA mutation rate kept in check by various machinery. Multi cellular life expects each of these little replication machine to co-operate in the grand scheme of running a body. But it's also required in the grand scheme for DNA to mutate a little bit to ensure population variance. So you could say that cancer is the tax paid for having cooperative yet flexible and adaptive nano machinery.

So yes the propensity for cancer developed under evolutioniary pressure towards a non zero level.

The population could have optimised for zero cancer but it would not have paid for itself in terms of overall population adaptability and survival.

New comment by injidup in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

injidup — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:11:09 +0000

Let's use AI to test the validity of an AI generated clickbait article.

Fable 5.1 was presented with the following prompt to do research.

> https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-n... states an interesting causality. Generate an artifact that tests this claim. Is it causal or coincidental. ie if libreoffice downloads have been increasing every release then it's possible to claim any recent feature change is responsible for the download. You need to get access to the download stats and then see what other major features could be responsible

https://funny-taffy-f8d6c0.netlify.app/

Conclusion is that the claim is speculative.

(This post was meat written. The report is AI generated content. )

New comment by injidup in "Muse Spark 1.3"

injidup — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:58:41 +0000

There are still job interviews?

New comment by injidup in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

injidup — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:10:24 +0000

Prompting it often to use simplified technical english generally stops this kind of horrid prose.

New comment by injidup in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

injidup — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:36:06 +0000

So I run my app in a linux container under windows and I'm exempt from age verification? Isn't android linux under the hood? I'm sure the law is not so easy to get around. How does it work?

New comment by injidup in "New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog"

injidup — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:11:47 +0000

The assumption that because something is important and the consequences are dire when it fails, infinite resources should be allocated is simply wrong. At some point 911 calls will be backlogged. What to do then? Maybe AI triage is the best of the worst options.

New comment by injidup in "Nerd culture is murdering intellectuals"

injidup — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:32:23 +0000

Back in my day, "nerd" meant actually being an intellectual. You know, reading books, doing math, being interested in physics, etc. How did consuming comic book slop become false signaling for what Nerdom once was?

New comment by injidup in "Codex Micro"

injidup — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:41:00 +0000

I checked the date but no.