Hacker News: jabedude

New comment by jabedude in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

jabedude — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:58:40 +0000

how much does this chip help with inference speed?

New comment by jabedude in "Oracle shed about 20k roles globally in the last year"

jabedude — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:20:06 +0000

For those curious, this is a report about firings from the last year. Not a new round of layoffs:

> Oracle shed about 21,000 roles globally in the last year as the US technology giant reshapes its business around artificial intelligence (AI), the firm's latest annual report shows.

New comment by jabedude in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

jabedude — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:36:47 +0000

"The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. The Orientals score higher"

"These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow. If I tell Singaporeans – we are all equal regardless of race, language, religion, culture, then they will say, 'Look, I'm doing poorly. You are responsible.' But I can show that from British times, certain groups have always done poorly, in mathematics and in science."

"If you don't reproduce yourself, what happens? Next generation you will have a less capable generation to run the country... We must go closer to the evidence of the experts, which shows that about 80 per cent of a person's makeup is nature, inherited, and only 20 per cent nurture, environment and training."

New comment by jabedude in "Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore Story (2023)"

jabedude — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:53:25 +0000

> If Powell hadn't been a racist shit, he could have been as effective as Lee Kwan Yew was

How do you compare Powell's "racism" and LKY's views on race and intelligence? By nearly all definitions of racism, Yew was a racist as well

New comment by jabedude in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

jabedude — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:55:25 +0000

Apple is the only company doing this sort of processing

New comment by jabedude in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jabedude — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:13:17 +0000

At what point does this company undo their name change that was aligned with them pivoting to the metaverse and virtual reality?

New comment by jabedude in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

jabedude — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:56:38 +0000

That's relevant to the future prospects of the product, but most of the comments are bemoaning the current and previous state of Dropbox. Just seems unrelated to me

New comment by jabedude in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

jabedude — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:29:25 +0000

Why are the HN comments about how Dropbox's business is not doing well? I don't think there's any indication that Drew is stepping down because of that?

New comment by jabedude in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

jabedude — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:19:12 +0000

Where is a source for either of these extraordinary claims?

New comment by jabedude in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

jabedude — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:37:59 +0000

The reason people don't like Spirit has less to do with the airplanes and more to do with the typical Spirit passenger. Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers. All the usual euphemisms apply: 'good school districts', 'safe suburban neighborhoods', etc

New comment by jabedude in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jabedude — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:59:36 +0000

> and a truly 21st-century monolith-microkernel hybrid whose specific design is a mystery to public science

What is this a reference to? Fuchsia?

New comment by jabedude in "Fast16: High-precision software sabotage 5 years before Stuxnet"

jabedude — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:56:11 +0000

Spying on and sabotaging weapons development of foreign adversaries is a completely normal government function

New comment by jabedude in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

jabedude — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:31:35 +0000

Are you claiming that Pakistani nurses and doctors are not educated on the dangers of needle reuse?

New comment by jabedude in "The Closing of the Frontier"

jabedude — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:30:37 +0000

This happened before with GPT-2 being touted as "too dangerous to release"[0] at the time by OpenAI. I don't think that means every model will be safe to release in the future, but nothing I've read about Mythos seems like it's going to be different this time.

[0]: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/

New comment by jabedude in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

jabedude — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:01:42 +0000

I'm actually somewhat surprised the OS fully boots when it's not connected to the expected vehicle peripherals

New comment by jabedude in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

jabedude — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:39:20 +0000

Probably a reference to shows like 'Secret Lives of Mormon Wives'

New comment by jabedude in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

jabedude — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:15:38 +0000

At what point does this company un-do their name change to Meta?

New comment by jabedude in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

jabedude — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:04:06 +0000

This is quite literally the end of open source. projects will find themselves in the position of making their test suites private to avoid being sherlocked like this

New comment by jabedude in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

jabedude — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:51:20 +0000

Neither is voting free, what's the argument here?

New comment by jabedude in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

jabedude — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:28:43 +0000

Why should anyone at the Department of War or the general public care what non-citizen employees of these companies think?