Hacker News: jsphweid

New comment by jsphweid in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

jsphweid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:53:19 +0000

Why is this being downvoted? It's a reasonable question.

Argus: Omnidirectional robot with 20 telescoping legs

jsphweid — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/robot-duke-argus-6ba9651ba6553ebc4405ffc07a26afed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299696

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jsphweid in "State of Homelab 2026"

jsphweid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:10:43 +0000

This is not so much a fantasy about "being independent". Instead, it's a fantasy about being a sysadmin.

New comment by jsphweid in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

jsphweid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:11:18 +0000

> This is just as much for america's benefit as it is for Israel's.

Citation needed.

New comment by jsphweid in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

jsphweid — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:43:28 +0000

I used to play on the regular world (RSC Preservation, non-bot). There's not enough people. And probably won't be hardly anyone there when I'm old enough to be in a nursing home.

I could join the bot worlds, but I'm fairly certain that they don't talk much or behave like a normal player in general (stumble through quests, make friends, trade with other random players, etc.). They probably just grind skills in some optimal way.

New comment by jsphweid in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

jsphweid — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:58:42 +0000

I've always imagined my last few days on earth as being in a nursing home playing Runescape Classic (2001-2003 runescape) with just me and a bunch of bots, recreating the glory days.

New comment by jsphweid in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

jsphweid — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:35:23 +0000

I've been to this museum ~10 times. It never gets old. I take everyone I know there. I like to see their reactions.

New portal looks kinda cool too.

New comment by jsphweid in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

jsphweid — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:16:36 +0000

Hallmarks of AI or AI slop? Or are you suggesting that AI is slop by definition?

Let's assume it's a bot. Is the point it's making unreasonable? Is it really unreasonable to refer to eBay's listings as inventory?

Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs

jsphweid — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:24:53 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14982

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623729

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jsphweid in "C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories"

jsphweid — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:13:57 +0000

std::movable

New comment by jsphweid in "Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space"

jsphweid — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:41:27 +0000

Was the wrong article linked?

The actual article title is: "China’s AI Power Play: Cheap Electricity From World’s Biggest Grid"

San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi

jsphweid — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:47:59 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/baby-born-waymo-san-francisco-6bdd0fb853330f806adf5a7ca225ec8e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46226223

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by jsphweid in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

jsphweid — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:46:38 +0000

What year was it when you were 18? Facebook was enormous for me when I was 18, in 2008, for similar reasons. However, these days facebook is mostly just ads and generic modern feed garbage content in general.

New comment by jsphweid in "TSA Introduces New $45 Fee Option for Travelers Without Real ID"

jsphweid — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:29:20 +0000

The headlines around this are misleading potentially. I think instead of "Without Real ID" it means "Without Real ID or other acceptable forms of ID" (such as passport).

New comment by jsphweid in "Nano Banana Pro"

jsphweid — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:45:42 +0000

Pretty sure Nano Banana only produces images.

Nonetheless, ask it to “create an infographic on how Google works”. Do you not see any excitement in the result? I think it’s pretty impressive and has a lot of utility.

Google Advances Its Layer-1 Blockchain

jsphweid — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/08/27/google-advances-its-layer-1-blockchain-here-s-what-we-know-so-far

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45057153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jsphweid in "This website is for humans"

jsphweid — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:26:37 +0000

Or they just wrote down what their grandma used to do and changed how much salt they put in the water.

Or they read a few recipes and made their own statistical amalgamation and said "hey this seems to work" on the first try.

Or they're just making stuff up or scraping it and putting it on a website for ad money.

"Soul" not required.

Also does an LLM give the same recipe every time you ask? I'd wager you could change the context and get something a little more specialized.

New comment by jsphweid in "This website is for humans"

jsphweid — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:59:16 +0000

> "Generative AI is a blender chewing up other people’s hard work, outputting a sad mush that kind of resembles what you’re looking for, but without any of the credibility or soul. Magic."

Humans have soul and magic and AI doesn't? Citation needed. I can't stand language like this; it isn't compelling.

Electrify completes majority investment in Veritasium

jsphweid — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:48:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.electrify.video/post/electrify-completes-majority-investment-in-veritasium

Hacker News: jsphweid

New comment by jsphweid in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

Argus: Omnidirectional robot with 20 telescoping legs

New comment by jsphweid in "State of Homelab 2026"

New comment by jsphweid in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

New comment by jsphweid in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

New comment by jsphweid in "RS-SDK: Drive RuneScape with Claude Code"

New comment by jsphweid in "Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection"

New comment by jsphweid in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs

New comment by jsphweid in "C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories"

New comment by jsphweid in "Bezos and Musk Race to Bring Data Centers to Space"

San Francisco woman gives birth in a Waymo self-driving taxi

New comment by jsphweid in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

New comment by jsphweid in "TSA Introduces New $45 Fee Option for Travelers Without Real ID"

New comment by jsphweid in "Nano Banana Pro"

Google Advances Its Layer-1 Blockchain

New comment by jsphweid in "This website is for humans"

New comment by jsphweid in "This website is for humans"

Electrify completes majority investment in Veritasium

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