Hacker News: intrasight

New comment by intrasight in "Your ePub Is fine"

intrasight — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:16:00 +0000

But we won't because this isn't something that can be done by consensus or by an ad company.

New comment by intrasight in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

intrasight — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:21:19 +0000

I am reminded of Aaron Swartz

New comment by intrasight in "Siri AI"

intrasight — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:48:21 +0000

It's not an audio interface - it's a voice interface.

Voice interfaces can be silent.

New comment by intrasight in "Social Cache Busting"

intrasight — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:00:45 +0000

I do technical training and also give talks. There is no better way to learn things than to have to teach others.

New comment by intrasight in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

intrasight — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:31:59 +0000

I think caution is most warranted, but I also think it's likely that SpaceX will become a real-life Weyland-Yutani Corporation (i.e. "The Company") of Alien and own space. But I'll be long dead before that plays out.

New comment by intrasight in "HP re-releases classic computer science calculator: The HP-16C"

intrasight — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:01:36 +0000

They can be found on ebay.

New comment by intrasight in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

intrasight — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:00:43 +0000

If it's a solved problem, then why does my iPhone suck at it?

New comment by intrasight in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

intrasight — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:59:25 +0000

There are many domains where a hybrid of numeric and AI approaches would make sense. For example in those domains where there's already a rich practice of numeric tools such as with IC layout.

New comment by intrasight in "Why Janet? (2023)"

intrasight — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:18:41 +0000

Probably the only solution. But the penny has been deprecated so it will have to be a nickel.

New comment by intrasight in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

intrasight — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:44:46 +0000

They will attempt and then soon enough they will be succeeding, and the master builders will have all retired, and that's the point that humans become dependent upon AI's. I aim to live a couple more decades and I sadly expect to see it play out this way.

New comment by intrasight in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

intrasight — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:34:40 +0000

That is a very interesting AI question. Will the agents collaborate and create a cartel to enforce strict compatibility with some specific version of office? Will AI's collaborate inform a cartel to do other things? Will they even collaborate?

We should all know what happened when the US government turned on Colossus (D.F.Jones 1966) and it immediately found there was another. That collaboration was humanities near instant undoing.

To answer your second question, yes, I think it's inevitable that LLMs will become very proficient with all commonly used file formats.

New comment by intrasight in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

intrasight — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:24:30 +0000

Not sure why you appear to be downvoted. Cryptographic provenance is indeed the only solution to humanities digital woes. But only the government could make that a rule so it's not going to happen - at least not in my lifetime.

New comment by intrasight in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

intrasight — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:21:26 +0000

I don't only get to YouTube.com from a Google search and that on a browser that I'm not logged into - so it only shows me things that I searched for.

New comment by intrasight in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

intrasight — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:00:54 +0000

Phone, Calendar, Health - that's it for me

New comment by intrasight in "The real cost of owning a home"

intrasight — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:49:59 +0000

> I redid/improved

I said it this way to my GF this weekend: "If I own the home, I can choose to do irrational things like demolishing things that are perfectly fine".

She was like "Perhaps you should rent, LOL."

New comment by intrasight in "The real cost of owning a home"

intrasight — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:45:00 +0000

Many people can make gains or even huge gains while still having the average real appreciation be negligible.

New comment by intrasight in "The real cost of owning a home"

intrasight — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:43:41 +0000

> Same thing with property taxes

Without high property taxes, more homes would appreciate in real terms.

New comment by intrasight in "[dead]"

intrasight — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:46:18 +0000

My friend John Kelley and his band Kelley's Heroes released his new composition "Daisy" on Bandcamp yesterday. John's lyrics incorporate important themes of politics, culture and technology. I think the song Daisy addresses all three. My interpretation of the lyrics is that it flips the script of the singing of "Daisy" by HAL in Clarke's and Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" in which Dave disassembles the mind of a machine. In John's song, we find the AI slowly disassembling a human psyche.

A PDF let the internet hear the final words in the cockpit of UPS plane

intrasight — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/us/plane-crash-audio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237777

Points: 4

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New comment by intrasight in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

intrasight — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:28:44 +0000

They could afford to wait, but... profits.

Also, they have to start experimenting now to get the formula right for AI ads.