<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kingstnap</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kingstnap</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 06:34:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kingstnap" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingstnap in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've tried this ~2 months ago with GPT pro and lost the chat. Basically assumming a scenario where it has technocratic control over the budget and it has to manage it.<p>It really didn't come up with anything crazy. It was basically cutting spending and raising and creating new taxes. With the plan being to spread the pain based on tolerability and medium to long term sustainability. With actions like a fedral consumption tax with planned rebates depending on household wealth.<p>Its also tried to be careful around things that might create long term problems like dramatic education cuts and what not.<p>The reforms it gives are altogether pretty numerically radical but its not radical in the internet way where its a polarized solution. It's not a reddit style eat the rich or a business trickle down wealth solution.</p>
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<p>Bro the car literally jumped over a semi like its the TF2 soldier. Nothingburger???</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:06:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112985</link><dc:creator>kingstnap</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingstnap in "Why are chip companies allergic to open source?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you can get pretty far when it comes to hardware design.<p>I mean you can download and use verilator, openroad, yosys, ngspice, bsim-cmg, klayout and all this fun stuff.<p>The big blocker is really pdks. Where are you gonna get something that actually fabs? ASAP7 is just predictive.<p>And foundries are incredibly geopolitically important so they aint revealing anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:38:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100046</link><dc:creator>kingstnap</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50100046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingstnap in "Has AI tells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The AIs generation isn't freeform completetion from the beginning of sequence token. It's not an average over all string seen. It's a conditioned generation based on the context (i.e. prompt).<p>If the context can be above average quality the result should be too as long as the AI is sufficiently smart. Especially if people iterate on the produced work to push it up in quality.<p>However if you don't have a good topic and don't iterate to improve the result then you get incredibly poor writing.</p>
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<p>Comments and documents written by agents of are poor quality so its not surprising that deleting them is fine.<p>They tend to be wordy, long, and leak chatbot history or project management in unimportant ways that just distract.<p>I could point this out in my <i>own</i> code, but I don't need to since a vibe coded GitHub repo is linked in this very article.<p>> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a202933d6badb52fc8c952729e125f9/src/games/launch.ts#L204-L207" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a2029...</a><p><pre><code>  // `const` now: the entry is no longer reassigned here, because
  // `ensureGameRender()` moved inside the render callback below and
  // its upgraded copy is consumed there.

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> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a202933d6badb52fc8c952729e125f9/src/api/index.ts#L10-L14" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a2029...</a><p><pre><code>  * Phase 5 (boot decomposition) will move the runtime facade
  * assembly here as well — a single `attachPublicApi(services)`
  * function that wires every `wp.os.*` method in one place.
  * Until then, the runtime assembly continues to live in
  * `src/desktop.ts`.

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> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a202933d6badb52fc8c952729e125f9/src/desktop-files/layer.ts#L19-L21" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a2029...</a><p><pre><code>  * Phase 3 only ships drag-within-folder. Cross-folder drags
  * (drop into a folder, drop out to root) and the Recycle Bin
  * drop integration land in later phases.
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> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a202933d6badb52fc8c952729e125f9/src/pwa/sw.ts#L694-L700" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/WordPress/openstation/blob/dd21eb131a2029...</a><p><pre><code>  // v1: no-op. Phase 4 will populate this from the push payload.
  // We claim the event so a hosting environment that signs us up
  // for a push subscription before the v2 PR lands doesn't see
  // silently-dropped pushes — the empty handler still satisfies
  // `Notification` capability checks on browsers that gate them.

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There is a certain taste to not drop comments like this, but there is a tendency to do this in AI. They drop references to phases of work and outdated architecture in ways that aren't helpful and then don't get cleaned up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:15:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093374</link><dc:creator>kingstnap</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingstnap in "Has AI tells"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm fine with AI writing as long its not bad. The issue is that its far easier to produce large amounts of poorly made AI writing over well made AI writing.</p>
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<p>When you ask stuff in your car on android auto it uses 3.5 flash-lite. The response details would include it in the logs.<p>Flash lite is very noticeably more idiotic than 3.8 Flash. It's why the quick AI overview is often much worse than the AI mode one.</p>
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<p>All these things are sort of irrelevant amounts of tokens. Even if the answers are worthless.<p>Like in my experience the real burn is if there is some sort of feedback edge where an agent is producing stuff that eventually it has to reconsume.<p>Like if there is a dag of agents doing something its almost fine.<p>But if there is a loop somewhere without a huge amount of damping then you have an issue.<p>If you have ever been a human debugging in the middle of an agent it produces like so many commands and tests for you to do. Like way more than a human would.<p>I'm pretty sure they do the same thing to each other. Like the loop will amplify the yapping.</p>
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<p>Pro messages is like 50 per week for pro 100 and 200 for pro 200.<p>Regular chat, even on extra high thinking mode, is sort of unlimited. Idk at what point you hit the abuse gaurdrail but its really high whatever it is.</p>
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<p>GPT-6's design sense is kind of ridiculous imo.<p>I have explicit instructions to tone it down. Less taglines, eyebrow text, subheadings, decorative spacing, pills, cards.<p>Hopefully this doesn't bleed into the chat...</p>
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<p>Error 403 unfortunately.<p>> To keep the experience safe and welcoming, every published game undergoes safety screenings aligned with our Community Guidelines, along with user reporting.<p>Kind of cringe. I mean I suppose its one thing to stop people making CSAM but safety screens make it sound like you can't have any sort of mature game? Gore, violence, drugs, suggestive themes or nudity etc all disallowed or something? Everyone has to make a T for Teen game?</p>
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<p>Yeah its ridiculously small, but any improvement on n log n is wild.<p>Like there is somehow redundancy in a fourier transform that makes it sub Linearithmic?<p>Which low and behold -><p>130. Fourier transforms below n log n.</p>
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<p>Some of these are interesting ngl.<p>109. Integer multiplication below n log n<p>Surprising that this is possible.<p>158. The Euclidean plane cannot be colored with five colors.<p>Only 6 and 7 remain!<p>376. Universal computation in forced Navier–Stokes flows.<p>Morning coffee proven turing complete</p>
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<p>This is entirely stochasticity. The entire reasoning trace was:<p>> Create a cartoon pelican riding a bicycle. Need SVG only output.</p>
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<p>I mean the GTX 1080 is over a decade old.<p>Compare it to some other products from that time:<p>- AMD FX Piledriver CPUs<p>- Skylake i7-6700K<p>- iPhone 6s<p>- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS<p>- Oculus Rift CV1<p>- Android 6 Marshmallow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:50:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954404</link><dc:creator>kingstnap</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954404</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49954404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kingstnap in "Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the deal  that would move thousands of Grace Blackwell chips  it is installing in US data centres into  a special-purpose vehicle<p>> The cloud giant will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the  SPV<p>I mean nothing is disappearing off the balance sheet. They have this lease agreement they will need to pay.<p>I would watch for what they do with the freed up cash though. If they use these GPUs they already own as collateral to *double down* on buying more GPUs then we got some serious downturn risk building because its leveraged.<p>Btw this is like 100% what Jensen was saying when he said gpu compute would be an "investable asset class".</p>
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<p>I have my doubts about them following through with this increase. I mean how many times has an increase on the same model happened.<p>There was Deepseek v4, which then later Deepseek v4.1 came out and it went back down again.</p>
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<p>Mostly pretty straight forward. The idea that proofs be desloppified, attribute existing literature properly, and published somewhere expediently where it can be commented on, with artifacts for verification, is all very uncontroversial stuff.<p>I think the spicy take is definitely this stance that longstanding mathematical problems shouldn't be used as benchmarks for (specifically proprietary) models. Stated right at the very top.<p>The justification is pretty clear.<p>> The use of proprietary internal models by AI labs to do mathematical research risks creating a two-tier system where labs outrun the rest of the field, effectively alienating the mathematical community from its own discipline.<p>It is all fun and games (for non mathematicians) when mathematicians can't compete with AI labs but I think the more dangerous direction is when this starts being true for the rest of everything. For example cybersecurity or whatnot. Hence why I think Anthropics whole stance of being completely against open anything is actually *extremely* dangerous due to the centralization of power which they completely ignore as a risk factor.<p>The most discussable thing in this is certainly the idea that labs should fund mathematicians to do expositions.<p>> One of our principles is that AI labs have a responsibility to provide support, including funding, for the development of human understanding of the AI mathematical output that they release.<p>Obviously this directionally sounds like the role of mathematicians would be shifting towards interpreting AI results instead of making proofs. I'm not sure who would should really be billed for that. Plus how would you decide who gets the grant?<p>An interesting thing is that by stating that that the lab that dropped the result provide the funding, this is *directly* proposing an example of taxing AI labs for displacing knowledge workers.</p>
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<p>You can personally do that but I don't see how having ChatGPT means mass uninstalls of excel occur in enterprise. AI using PowerPoint doesn't mean powerpoint got replaced right.</p>
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<p>I'm very confused by what you mean.<p>My point was that AI isn't some productivity software thing. The addressable market is white collar work that can be done on a computer.<p>You think its implausible for AI to replace some fraction of white collar workers? To me this is directionally exactly where this is heading?</p>
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