Hacker News: jaykru

New comment by jaykru in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

jaykru — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:15:52 +0000

corrected my comment, apologies for the uncorroborated misinfo.

New comment by jaykru in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

jaykru — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:08:30 +0000

The cascading outage theory would make sense to me for Claude -> Codex. But Grok and Gemini too?

[actually gemini at least on the web appears to be up, contrary to some reports in this thread]

New comment by jaykru in "Uber is laying off 10% of staff"

jaykru — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:57:40 +0000

Layoff note mentions AI => it's not AI

Layoff note omits AI => it's AI

I am onboard with the idea that corporate messaging is typically anything but forthright but I don't see the logic here.

New comment by jaykru in "The war with Iran will not be won through airstrikes, so what's left?"

jaykru — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:39:37 +0000

"The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt across student loans, credit card balances, auto loans, and personal loans, with some estimates go as high as $100 thousand. This is the cohort the Pentagon needs. A federally administered debt-forgiveness enlistment program that fully discharges student loan, credit card, and loan balances after 24 or 36 months of service, and extends the GI Bill, would produce voluntary enlistment at scale."

Never for a moment thought my Subaru would be sending me to die for Israel. How could a patriotic Israeli write deranged dreck like this knowing full well the PR catastrophe the state is experiencing in the United States? It's so beyond the pale that you might even read it as parody.

New comment by jaykru in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

jaykru — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:22:48 +0000

GLM 5.3 will probably do your vintage computing work without fuss.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza

jaykru — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:46:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093509

Points: 57

# Comments: 11

New comment by jaykru in "Is Kimi K3 Better Than Opus? It Was Until Opus 5"

jaykru — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:30:03 +0000

Gemini 3.6 Flash seems like the clear perf/$ leader here.

New comment by jaykru in "Ask HN: Can we get a day that is free from AI news?"

jaykru — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:50:15 +0000

You can, by logging off ;-) lobste.rs has a filter for AI/LLM related content if you want pre-2023 computing fare without the slop and upheaval.

New comment by jaykru in "We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12"

jaykru — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:06:18 +0000

They begged publicly, multiple times to be regulated. This is before even mentioning the gross exaggeration of their model's dangerous capabilities.

New comment by jaykru in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

jaykru — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:25:27 +0000

The party in question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rebro_Party. Doesn't sound extremist far-right to me. Many of its positions would be considered center-left or even far left in much of the world.

New comment by jaykru in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

jaykru — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:50 +0000

The "cashier standard" you advocate for has already crept toward centralized state tracking in places like Utah. When you go to a restaurant and order a drink, the staff are required to take it to the back and scan it for verification. The scanned data is also compared with a state database of DUI offenders. It's not clear whether the database is stored on site, or if that data goes out on the wire for the check; presumably the latter. Scanned data is also stored for up to 7 days by the restaurant, and it's easy to imagine further creep upping that storage bound.

New comment by jaykru in "Waymo in Portland"

jaykru — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:49:00 +0000

It ~objectively doesn't off-road well or hold lots of stuff compared with other vehicles in its class. That said, unlike the meanie commenter I'm glad you like your vehicle and very jealous of the self-driving! :)

New comment by jaykru in "Bugs Apple loves"

jaykru — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:03:59 +0000

I'm not sure four examples of failure, each developed under very different conditions, is the best argument for success with a 5th ;)

New comment by jaykru in "A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot'"

jaykru — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:32:30 +0000

For posterity: https://archive.ph/jsJgf

New comment by jaykru in "Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid"

jaykru — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:38:40 +0000

I don't see why not.

New comment by jaykru in "Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid"

jaykru — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 18:46:51 +0000

It seems like the point of this comment is to concoct an example for which anyone agreeing with the parent comment would supposedly hold an inconsistent opinion. I'll insert my own consistency: neither should be flagged NSFW.

New comment by jaykru in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

jaykru — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:52:30 +0000

I've faced many fewer hiccups on CachyOS/Arch in the past few months than on Windows. In the first month of owning this hardware, I had an unexplained BSOD that actually bricked my whole Win11 install. And this is pretty recent/funky 2-in-1 hardware, not an old ThinkPad I've cherry-picked for good Linux support. This is an important moment for free software; the big platforms are finally cinching down on users hard enough that we have a shot at convincing regular people to join us. Please don't blow it with vague complaints.

New comment by jaykru in "A Mac-like experience on Linux"

jaykru — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:20:55 +0000

CachyOS is a great way to get started. Plasma has both X11 and Wayland backends.

New comment by jaykru in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

jaykru — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:55:03 +0000

another day, another example of why we must all vigorously reject the campaign to stop users from installing software on their computers. stallman was right!

New comment by jaykru in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

jaykru — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:28:45 +0000

RIP gomailify :( https://www.gomailify.com