Hacker News: kart23

New comment by kart23 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

kart23 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:42:31 +0000

this is just not true. the market for new grads is extremely bad. Microsoft could easily invest in more early career people, instead they're hiring more senior H1-Bs.

New comment by kart23 in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

kart23 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:08:48 +0000

i didn’t even see that. add the ‘crumble topping’. this is legit terrible

New comment by kart23 in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

kart23 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:24:49 +0000

for the sunday lamb roast instructions, how much is 1500g of potatoes? What kind of potatoes?

> Also pick up garlic, rosemary, thyme, lemons, honey, almonds, olive oil, gravy ingredients, mint sauce, crumble topping and vanilla ice cream.

what??? how the hell are you supposed to remember all that. Even the before example tells you what kind of potatoes to get. tbh it would be cool if you could just click a button and get an order pre-filled out on a grocery delivery/pickup service. I really wonder who reviewed this post and if they cook, because imagining yourself in that scenario and reading those instructions falls apart very fast

New comment by kart23 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

kart23 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:54:00 +0000

i mean actual dealer plates, with dlr on the side:

https://www.californiadealeracademy.com/articles/the-importa...

New comment by kart23 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

kart23 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:37:43 +0000

this is actually happening in california now. a lot of people are using dealer plates on expensive cars they just drive around normally. no registration, no taxes.

New comment by kart23 in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

kart23 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:36:47 +0000

pretty sure in a lot of these cases it’s already illegal, enforcing the law is another matter. someone actually has to pull over the montana plate owner, then the state has to sue them for tax evasion, build the case, etc. Thats just not gonna happen. ideally there would be a nationwide standard for registration and taxes.

also the new hot thing in california is to have dealer plates on your million dollar car. you never register it, never pay taxes, but it’s still legal to drive. you just need to own a dealership, but on paper again that’s not hard if you’re rich

New comment by kart23 in "Astra for Law"

kart23 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:35:58 +0000

construction productivity is actually down since the 60s!

New comment by kart23 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

kart23 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:42:03 +0000

I definitely agree with this, but the transition is gonna suck for some.

New comment by kart23 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

kart23 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:26:41 +0000

it doesn't require nearly as much compute as normal LLMs. anything depending on increased datacenter and compute spending would be threatened.

New comment by kart23 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

kart23 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:21:48 +0000

This makes me kind of nervous for the whole AI thing now. Are people gonna lose their jobs, etc.? so much of the economy is now built on top of LLMs.

New comment by kart23 in "We must pace the frontier"

kart23 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:16:39 +0000

> Do not sell powerful AI chips or semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and crack down on chip smuggling operations and remote access to data centers outside China. Chips will be the main determinant of China’s AI strength.

> If we execute these measures well, I believe they would slow China’s progress enough to widen America’s lead significantly over the next 3–5 years — the window when AI becomes geopolitically most important.

china is literally making their own ASICs now, not sure that this is the silver bullet he proposes.

https://www.silicon.co.uk/ai-2/huawei-cambricon-ai-630499/am...

New comment by kart23 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

kart23 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:16:27 +0000

what exactly is the solution?

pacing between the us labs? what does that do for china?

the solutions just aren’t realistic here, nations are treating ai like a nuclear arms race. at this point the cats out of the bag and we need to figure out how to live in this reality and get the best possible outcome. it’s not slowing down or stopping ever.

and yes, i’m still optimistic. our economy sucks for the majority, our infrastructure is crumbling and major US cities are in a huge housing shortage. Maybe we should put more effort and think about the possibility of AI fixing things like extreme poverty and world hunger and actual real world problems instead of coming up with math proofs and slop apps if it’s so superintelligent.

New comment by kart23 in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

kart23 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:49:08 +0000

spending taxpayer money on buying the taxpayers data from credit card companies.

imagine paying someone to buy your own information to spy on you, pretty incredible system that we've come up with

New comment by kart23 in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

kart23 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:06:26 +0000

I mean honestly anything is taste and art. People care about very different things. Some people see their clothes as the biggest expression of themselves, whereas others don't care about their clothing but see their cars as art and a special experience thats separate from the purpose.

But yeah, I think a lot of food is just practicing. And if possible, learn from someone who's food you do really like, and experiment. Just try making some dish you really liked, you'll be surprised at how far you can get.

New comment by kart23 in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

kart23 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:48:56 +0000

wasn’t there a moral panic in the 18th and 19th that kids were reading too much? that books would rot the minds of the newest generation. i’d like to see that history addressed a little better. Part of me is sympathetic to this, I do agree that movies, media has gotten painfully simple. But at the same time, young people are working incredibly hard, richer than older generations were at their age, and technology and culture is definitely moving incredibly fast from my POV.

New comment by kart23 in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

kart23 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:13:21 +0000

f folding clothes, i wanna just have a robot be my personal chef. the amount of different tasks and capabilities a robot will need to make any meal that I can in my kitchen is huge and i feel like it’s still a while from being solved.

New comment by kart23 in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

kart23 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:43:42 +0000

radial spokes on the back wheel is not a thing irl. i wonder if any model has gotten that right?

New comment by kart23 in "Playa Phone"

kart23 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:58:09 +0000

leave no trace is insane.

look at the overflowing dumpsters and abandoned bikes in reno. even some people just dumping trash at random peoples homes. think of the amount of diesel burned in generators, trucks hauling tons of steel, shipping containers for camps, just so people can party in the middle of nowhere.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Reno/comments/1n5z9kc/burning_man_t...

New comment by kart23 in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

kart23 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:54:53 +0000

apple has ads in the os. that seems deeply anticompetitive

New comment by kart23 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

kart23 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:47:43 +0000

AI can do this shit but can't do the dishes