Hacker News: kingofthehill98

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Discovery Loop"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:21:18 +0000

I agree, for better or for worse.

If I had to bet my money, it would be on "for worse".

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Will It Mythos?"

kingofthehill98 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:33:44 +0000

Only if you buy their math, which basically is "hey, if we don't do any training we can actually make a profit".

The problem with that math is that if they don't do any training they would be out of the market in 12 months, they're only relevant ("profitable") precisely because they trained the current reference SOTA model.

They can't just release Mythos and sit on top of it forever, competition is catching up fast and people expect a new more powerful model every 6 months.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:24:36 +0000

>The US has a long history of protecting individual freedoms

You can't be serious.

Was the individual freedom of those 120 Iranian girls protected?

Was the individual freedom of Renée Good protected? Alex Pretti?

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:21:29 +0000

Yeah, I remember clearly when China invaded/bombed: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Panama, Syria...

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

kingofthehill98 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:55:36 +0000

Yeah, if the future is "Claude, think for me" I'm happy to stay at the good old present.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

kingofthehill98 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:12:57 +0000

Peter Thiel is the definition of "rich people bad", he's the stereotype of the billionaire who wants to rule over the state because somehow he knows what's best for us.

He's a lunatic.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

kingofthehill98 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:23:25 +0000

What?! That's well regarded as one of the worst features introduced after the Twitter acquisition.

Any thread these days is filled with "@grok is this true?" low effort comments. Not to mention the episode in which people spent two weeks using Grok to undress underage girls.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Fragment of a human face aged over one million years discovered"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:01:09 +0000

The craziest thing for me is that there's a lot of evidence for claiming that Sapiens interbred with other Homos, such as the Neanderthal.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Meta Movie Gen"

kingofthehill98 — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 13:49:17 +0000

But mostly just porn.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT"

kingofthehill98 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:06:58 +0000

That's unfathomable to me. I live in a 1kk metropolitan area and I can go basically anywhere without a navigation system, in fact I'll only pull the GPS if I'm going to some remote neighborhood.

P.S: I was born here and lived here all my life.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:39:07 +0000

No, it's not.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:42:58 +0000

Don't see why they would join this fight agains't Brazil.

The money X Corp is paying them cannot be THAT great to justify losing all brazilian costumers and Cloudflare doesn't seem like a very ideology-driven company.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:29:33 +0000

Exactly, they were the ones burning books. I'd like to keep them prohibited from openly defending their ideology online or offline.

If you're a Nazi the only place you belong is in a prison cell.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:11:58 +0000

Free speech is not a law set in stone, in the US you can be a Nazi without any legal repercussions, here in Brazil you cannot.

I'd like to keep it that way.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:10:20 +0000

I'd say it's more likely that Cloudflare will receive a legal order to block X in Brazil.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block"

kingofthehill98 — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:09:08 +0000

Then our Supreme Court will have to issue a legal order to Cloudflare, which has representatives in Brazil, to block X nation-wide.

Blocking Cloudflare itself wouldn't make any sense as our country systems themselves would get hurt and I don't think Cloudflare will deny such order.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?"

kingofthehill98 — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:30:30 +0000

One of those people is Nikita Popov (nikic). PHP core development took a hard hit when he left to work on other projects at JetBrains.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Swift is a more convenient Rust"

kingofthehill98 — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:49:26 +0000

Thank you!

The whole time I was like "what in the absolute hell is a ML language".

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

kingofthehill98 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:26:39 +0000

The Nexus 4 was beautiful, IMO one of the coolest smartphones ever made. It was manufactured by LG, but AFAIK Google was responsible for the design.

New comment by kingofthehill98 in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

kingofthehill98 — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:24:08 +0000

I never used a case in my life, owned like 6 phones since my first Galaxy back in 2012. Much rather deal with a few scratches than touching some cheap case instead of the premium metal/glass.

My reason is that I never sell phones anyway, after 2 years I get a new one and give the old one to a cousin or something like that.