Hacker News: islandfox100

New comment by islandfox100 in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

islandfox100 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:35:01 +0000

it's just a fact of the market, it's not an attack on you.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

islandfox100 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:46:20 +0000

because my country isn't protecting my freedom, it's killing schoolgirls in a country we had a perfectly fine agreement with four years ago

New comment by islandfox100 in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

islandfox100 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:40:23 +0000

A net loss on the order of dozens of thousands of dollars. And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

islandfox100 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:39:32 +0000

Are you under the impression that personal ability and external government structure determine an individual's politics? Under your framing it's impossible for any fascist to exist in any liberal democracy.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

islandfox100 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:09:05 +0000

Then it should be simple for one of the frontier labs to produce a model trained only on private data. We haven't seen that.

New comment by islandfox100 in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

islandfox100 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:52:12 +0000

Seems to me OP's implication is that they were fired because someone wanted to hit a quota of (employees cut/payroll expenses reduced), or other similarly ''reasonless'' justifications.

New comment by islandfox100 in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

islandfox100 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:08:26 +0000

''Now, the total population of well-off countries in the world is about 1 billion, while China has more than 1.3 billion people. If we are all to become modernized, the well-off population must more than double. If we are to consume as much energy in production and daily lives as the present well-off people do, all the existing resources in the world would be far from enough for us! The old path seems to be a dead end. Where is the new road? It lies in scientific and technological innovation, and in the accelerated transition from factor-driven and investment-driven growth to innovation-driven growth.'' -Xi Jinping, Governance of China

New comment by islandfox100 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

islandfox100 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:54:55 +0000

Substance aside, I feel this comment is combative enough to be considered unhelpful. Patronizing and talking down to others convinces no one and only serves as a temporary source of emotional catharsis and a less temporary source of reputational damage.

New comment by islandfox100 in "The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?"

islandfox100 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:22:14 +0000

Reminiscent of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson

New comment by islandfox100 in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

islandfox100 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:54:36 +0000

The categorization of the problem isn't an excuse to propogate and intensify the problem. The tech should not be used until the problem is resolved.

New comment by islandfox100 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

islandfox100 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:16:01 +0000

Where do browser extensions exist? I've got a dreadful feeling they might be on my computer.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

islandfox100 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:58:22 +0000

Rather, in what way is any generic closed claw, or NemoClaw, so much better than an open variant that it's worth using? I consider phoning home for inference about (all of the contents of my computer, email ,etc) a very large downside.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

islandfox100 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Maybe I'm reading wrong here, but what's the implication of the clean room re-implementations? Someone else is cloning with a changed license, but if I'm still on the GPL licensed tool, how am I "not protected"?

New comment by islandfox100 in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

islandfox100 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:47:20 +0000

I'm still extremely skeptical on Claws as a genre, and especially more skeptical of a claw that's always reporting home. What's the use case for a closed claw?

New comment by islandfox100 in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

islandfox100 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:41:16 +0000

Coal is a lot cheaper and easier than modern energy sources when your goal is modernizing rural areas. Meanwhile, urban centers are decommissioning old emissive power plants and shifting to renewables. It's a fine way to do green transition and rural development.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

islandfox100 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:16:28 +0000

That's because it's a macroecon dip, and the effect of AI on hiring has been greatly pre-empted as excuse

New comment by islandfox100 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

islandfox100 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:46:24 +0000

Well if Gemini says fires have existed, that's enough proof!!!!

New comment by islandfox100 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

islandfox100 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:45:38 +0000

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...

Chinese emissions have peaked and are now falling.

New comment by islandfox100 in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

islandfox100 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:44:48 +0000

I think this is a fundamentally adverserial mindset and so you should be prepared for others to treat you in kind (i.e. to attack you and minimize the value of your work)

New comment by islandfox100 in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

islandfox100 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:56:19 +0000

It strikes me that if this technology were as useful and all-encompassing as it's marketed to be, we wouldn't need four articles like this every week