Hacker News: kingkawn

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

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

kingkawn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:15:19 +0000

If a catastrophic failure occurs we will have to return to first principles and re-derive the solutions. Not so bad, probably enlivening even to get to spin up the mind again after a break.

New comment by kingkawn in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

kingkawn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:05:56 +0000

This is 100% coming barring a mass political rising

New comment by kingkawn in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

kingkawn — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:38:03 +0000

So do most people to help the convo end and to solicit such support if the tables turn

New comment by kingkawn in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

kingkawn — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:15:49 +0000

All the information to replicate the structure we have delineated. But what else?

New comment by kingkawn in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

kingkawn — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:51:51 +0000

The depth of complexity and innumerable interacting variables of biology make attempts to map brain function always seem like an absurdity

New comment by kingkawn in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

kingkawn — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:45:04 +0000

America’s repulsive classism at work to be indifferent to her rights like this

New comment by kingkawn in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

kingkawn — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:33:45 +0000

I sacrifice a houseplant to baphomet as an alternative

New comment by kingkawn in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

kingkawn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:33:19 +0000

Is it a side effect of spiking ram prices and trying to meet their momentary price point?

New comment by kingkawn in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

kingkawn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:28:06 +0000

How about that few want one artist’s particular style reproduced, instead they want what they are vaguely seeing in their head produced from a cacophony of styles

New comment by kingkawn in "Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5"

kingkawn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:19:41 +0000

It’s not meaningless; it’s a way for them to immediately prove that the person speaking has been intimidated enough by them to acquiesce to this absurdity. If they don’t, they can be punished just for refusing. If they do, they’re already back on their heels proving their willingness to cave on anything else.

New comment by kingkawn in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

kingkawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:24:40 +0000

Yes, but as I’ve read it that was to simplify it at studio demand for 1999 audiences. The original conception was to use human minds as coprocessors

New comment by kingkawn in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

kingkawn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:21:48 +0000

Wasn’t this the original conceptualization for the Matrix?