Hacker News: kingkawn

New comment by kingkawn in "Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions"

kingkawn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:22:33 +0000

AI Slop writing

New comment by kingkawn in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

kingkawn — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:01:28 +0000

All of these rhetorical devices to make the assertion seem authoritative and correct are derived from academia

New comment by kingkawn in "Claude Opus 5"

kingkawn — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:46:48 +0000

The exhausting worthlessness of all LLM writing is so palpable that we need a new theory of the value of culture that has no relationship to the content. Back to the old Aura of the Artist arguments from the Industrial Revolution

New comment by kingkawn in "Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling"

kingkawn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:06:39 +0000

Cuz they don’t believe in anything else anymore except violence

New comment by kingkawn in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"

kingkawn — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:14:57 +0000

I bet this easy cash coke binge will last forever!

New comment by kingkawn in "Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels"

kingkawn — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:58:31 +0000

You’re missing the Incal and Metabarons

New comment by kingkawn in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

kingkawn — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:56:35 +0000

That’s the point of this thread that each device would have a small sensor that would sync and aggregate with others in the room

New comment by kingkawn in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

kingkawn — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 11:38:00 +0000

If that’s the sole source and the application does thoughtful analysis it could determine that there are sections of the room that are better than others, yes

New comment by kingkawn in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

kingkawn — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:27:09 +0000

Mesh with the other Apple/et al devices in the room to take multiple samples and aggregate the results for an overall picture of the ambient co2

New comment by kingkawn in "Claude-real-video － any LLM can watch a video"

kingkawn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:22:32 +0000

Inhumane

New comment by kingkawn in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

kingkawn — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:40:20 +0000

Nearly all basic science research is publicly funded, then in the US transferred to the private sector for commercial exploitation

New comment by kingkawn in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

kingkawn — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:03:33 +0000

Cars are a major domestic industry for production, sales, and service. E-mopeds aren’t. That’s all.

New comment by kingkawn in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

kingkawn — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:23:15 +0000

You can’t take credit for other people’s work to displace the absence of your own

New comment by kingkawn in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

kingkawn — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:35:31 +0000

AI dungeon, a gpt2 product on iOS. Had almost no context, no memory, but could generate endless slop story. It was the first time I’d seen something like that, and the wild implications felt clear. I wasn’t aware at the time how immense the computational needs were to run the tech as it grew and the social implications, but just couldn’t believe that something like the MUDs I’d played in the late 80s early 90s could be autogenerated in a way now. It had no guardrails like now to prevent it from adopting a personality and so on, so it was in some ways more interesting than what the general public has now.

New comment by kingkawn in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

kingkawn — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:16:31 +0000

Wouldn’t this change be evidenced right away after the elimination of the test as criteria if the test was responsible

New comment by kingkawn in "δ-mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models"

kingkawn — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:07:19 +0000

What about broad unsupportable generalizations on hackernews, how do those rank?

New comment by kingkawn in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

kingkawn — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:54:07 +0000

This is because a broad spectrum antibiotic with low resistance is an essential public good that will likely rapidly be made generic by either legal action or international disregard for copyright law. So no major pharma companies will want to invest resources into the development of something like this, and governments are not under the gun enough to produce new abx to invest the billions needed to get it through the approval process. The compromise is to leave it sitting at this phase until some disaster creates enough public incentive to socialize the completion of its development.

New comment by kingkawn in "Guitar tuner that uses phone accelerometer"

kingkawn — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:45:43 +0000

The very clear and succinct description on the landing page makes me miss the bizarre antisocial charming quirk that people who made things like this used to be stuck with for their copy rather than AI generated language. Our cacophony of experience is quieting.

New comment by kingkawn in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

kingkawn — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:30:01 +0000

6 months will be an impossible gap once the thing starts closed loop self improvement

New comment by kingkawn in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

kingkawn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:52:39 +0000

And yet the world keeps turning we’ll figure it out