Hacker News: jakebasile

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

jakebasile — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:19:48 +0000

Neat, so the scene in the movie was pretty close to reality then!

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

jakebasile — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:16:09 +0000

I don't know if that's a real quote from Gates, but I do know it was in Pirates of Silicon Valley.

New comment by jakebasile in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

jakebasile — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:18:11 +0000

I saw the film without seeing the YouTube stuff and didn't feel like I missed out on anything. The film is self contained (and excellent).

New comment by jakebasile in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

jakebasile — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:12:33 +0000

As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice.

Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown requests? What if it then decides to host illegal content at the domain (generated or otherwise). Who is responsible? Agents aren't (yet) legal persons, so it must be the person who owns the agent, but if that person never even sees the legal agreement being agreed to how would it hold up in court? If the person didn't direct the creation or hosting of illegal content, what then?

New comment by jakebasile in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

jakebasile — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:56:11 +0000

HN is not one mind.

New comment by jakebasile in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

jakebasile — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:53:47 +0000

Matthew 6:34 is probably my favorite verse and one I come back to often in my anxiety.

New comment by jakebasile in "Message from Pope Leo XIV on the 60th World Day of Social Communications"

jakebasile — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:09:27 +0000

> [...] [I]n the long run, choosing to evade the effort of thinking for ourselves and settling for artificial statistical compilations threatens to diminish our cognitive, emotional and communication skills.

Probably the pull quote of the (short) thing for me. It lines up exactly with my personal experience, and is probably one of the biggest overall dangers of this technology aside from mass unemployment and making my RAM cost too much.

I'm very glad that Pope Leo continues to speak about AI in such clear ways. It's obvious he and/or the Curia really get it and the costs and dangers it has.

New comment by jakebasile in "Linux is good now"

jakebasile — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:15:54 +0000

I also game on Ubuntu and snaps have never been in my way. I actually like them and wish more non-game software was distributed this way, but Canonical has a brown thumb when it comes to growing their weird little side projects.

New comment by jakebasile in "Linux is good now"

jakebasile — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:14:29 +0000

I'm sorry if you hear this a lot, but your house is so cool, and I must admit I am more than a little jealous.

I've also said it here before but I will just give up on PC gaming wholesale before I go back to Windows. It's crazy how much gaming on Linux has improved in just the past couple years.

New comment by jakebasile in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

jakebasile — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 08:21:37 +0000

I think the very first code I wrote was in QBasic, but the first _real_ code I wrote was in Visual Basic 6. I drew a row of dice and then a bunch of buttons and wrote a Yahtzee game (single player). It took me weeks and it was mostly a giant nested if statement.

Good times.

New comment by jakebasile in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

jakebasile — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:48:41 +0000

Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this.

A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day:

Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.

- Matthew 6:34

New comment by jakebasile in "Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels"

jakebasile — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:58:41 +0000

What a lovely hit of nostalgia on this cold winter morning. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks to the people who made it. Cruising through Besaid Village and Ironforge brought back some strong memories. I could hear the music in my head even though the room was silent.

New comment by jakebasile in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

jakebasile — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:20:10 +0000

So, you say that AI has made you "ridiculously faster", but then admit you've always been terrible at estimating how long something would take?

New comment by jakebasile in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:52:17 +0000

Yeah. Thanks for trying to keep me positive.

Hopefully this all calms down eventually. But it's hard not to feel like shit in this situation.

New comment by jakebasile in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:14:08 +0000

It’s frustrating that it’s been one thing after the other, seemingly aimed directly at the thing I enjoy most.

New comment by jakebasile in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:13:20 +0000

Hopefully this blows over in a few years and you’re right and I’m just catastrophizing.

New comment by jakebasile in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:12:50 +0000

I can afford it. Other people cannot, and the hobby is driven by a market existing for games. If newer people don’t enter the hobby as others die out, it fades away.

New comment by jakebasile in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:02:39 +0000

I hate this. PC gaming is my hobby, the only one that’s lasted my whole life. It’s always been there. It’s how I met my wife. It’s how I relax after a long day. It’s how I’ve participated in so many stories that stick with me and given me so many memories.

All of it is being murdered by the AI bros. Before them it was the crypto bros. It’s one thing after the other and I hate it so much.

New comment by jakebasile in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

jakebasile — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:19:03 +0000

If only this were the case.

New comment by jakebasile in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

jakebasile — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:39:08 +0000

> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commercial segments, Micron aims to improve long-term business performance and create value for strategic customers as well as stakeholders.

What the fuck does "secular" even mean in this context? Is there religious DRAM?

What a short-sighted, boneheaded move. I'm so tired of the MBA-ificiation of every single part of my life.