Hacker News: kkarakk

New comment by kkarakk in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

kkarakk — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:49:58 +0000

so what? people still keep using the service and you make more money. the point of a company is to make money not to be as efficient as possible.

when a market is saturated you differentiate by being nicer than the competitors but most markets are not saturated customers have literally no choice.

New comment by kkarakk in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

kkarakk — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:46:05 +0000

because you're too poor to afford anything else? why does anyone goto mcdonalds?

it's certainly not service that hasn't been good for a decade now. it's a consistent product not abysmal not great.

if a robot could reduce the chance of me getting soggy french fries and non crispy nuggies that's fine bring in the robot.

also lol plates and tables, how long has it been since you ate fast food? people eat in their car to avoid dealing with the shouting staff,dirty floor and sticky tables.

New comment by kkarakk in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

kkarakk — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:37:00 +0000

what moral order? the moral order where america (and allies) bomb whoever they want to the stone age for not following their rules? where nuclear powers basically get to bully non nuclear states?

rules based world order never existed, thiel etc just openly acknowledge it.

yes atrocity is atrocity there is an equivalence.

New comment by kkarakk in "Tesla Roadster"

kkarakk — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:34:57 +0000

we're increasingly entering an era where holistic package matters more than cool one offs. musk is an asshole so he taints everything he does, even if it's kinda cool you're instantly reminded that tesla ships later(or never) and cybertruck isn't that good of a product. oh a car his company made did a 180 loop and landed an aileron roll? fuck you he was part of doge etc etc same with zucc or any of the "visionaries" nowadays, they have so much history that the forward momentum they need for anything is crazy.

New comment by kkarakk in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

kkarakk — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:20:33 +0000

and saying ai generated content is all "worthless" and "disgusting" is not malicious? both are just signaling imo

New comment by kkarakk in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

kkarakk — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:40:47 +0000

i think it was a bad analogy. he was talking about competent evil for eg ai enhanced weapons systems vs incompetent evil for eg middle easterners stoning people coz of religion.

both are evil but you can rationalise competent evil coz you're getting something real done like preventing the upending of the moral world order.

New comment by kkarakk in "Codex Micro"

kkarakk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:23:41 +0000

i've seen tons of vibe captured peeps posting screenshots of their receipts. there is a market for fleecing gullible rubes

New comment by kkarakk in "Codex Micro"

kkarakk — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:19:58 +0000

it's an interesting insight into how openai thinks - they think they're being cool and trendy while giving you an overpriced product that would be 10 times better if you configured it yourself.

New comment by kkarakk in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

kkarakk — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:56:00 +0000

doubt it - in the uber/waymo thing the guy got pardoned by trump after lobbying from thiel/luckey, probably a similar outcome for this guy since altman has trump's ear rn.

New comment by kkarakk in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

kkarakk — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:50:11 +0000

yep the most that will happen is apple/openai co-branded devices or some sort of "corporate synergy" now that everyone knows apple tech is in the upcoming openai stuff. there's no value in it for apple to go nuclear like there was for google to push a competitor out of the market w/ uber vs waymo

New comment by kkarakk in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

kkarakk — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:39:46 +0000

trump totally wasn't elected with the help of foreign interference no sir, it was all on the up and up will of the people to have an incompetent waging war in iran(despite saying he wouldn't) and siphoning up money from crypto scams and insider trading.

New comment by kkarakk in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:40:20 +0000

Just like that - Smoking just got infinitely more cool among UK youth

New comment by kkarakk in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:31:17 +0000

big prestige from people who still thing facebook/instagram are positives in the world i guess

New comment by kkarakk in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

kkarakk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:42:48 +0000

Apple software is unusable in india, no one uses it coz it has terrible data and thus the data never gets changed coz no one uses it. i have gotten wrong timings for gyms, wrong routes, it won't detect my home address from my contacts etc etc always find it funny when americans say "it's good now", no brother they fixed all the glitches in states it's still launch apple maps trash in india

New comment by kkarakk in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

kkarakk — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:16:38 +0000

pretty basic - they know they have no chance of hiding from the US. so they go plausibly in reach but outside of being casually bombed by missiles from israel. the moment they go deep US will go after them hard.

New comment by kkarakk in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:22:43 +0000

we can see what happened to opera/theater/hand drawn art as conclusive answer. humans move on to the newer more easier to create/consume thing in general (digital music/tv/digital art) and a small percentage of people treat the older mode of creation as high art coz it's more difficult and expensive to learn / implement.

New comment by kkarakk in "Google AI Ultra"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:12:38 +0000

the point is not that AI services will be affordable "eventually" it's that the advantage is so crazy that people who don't have access to them will NEVER be able to catch up. First AI wrappers disrupt industries ->developing nations can't compete coz the services are priced prohibitively -> AI wrappers take over even more -> automation disrupts the need for anyone -> developing nations never develop further. this seems more and more likely not less. cutting edge GPUs for eg - already are going into the stratosphere pricing wise and are additionally being sanctioned off.

New comment by kkarakk in "Google AI Ultra"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:03:47 +0000

AI has completely eliminated salary adjusted pricing in software. no discounts for 3rd world in anything.

New comment by kkarakk in "AI's energy footprint"

kkarakk — Tue, 20 May 2025 21:01:11 +0000

when has ESG not been FUD or a way to bypass sanctions from poorly thought out climate change targets?

New comment by kkarakk in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

kkarakk — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:57:08 +0000

China has already been transshipping saying they assemble in vietnam with the only thing being done is stuff like taking labels that say made in china off the products. Vietnam does not care as long as vietnamese people are getting paid something.

https://redarrowlogistics.com/international/dodging-tariffs-...