Hacker News: loandbehold

New comment by loandbehold in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

loandbehold — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:58:11 +0000

Anthropic is paying xAI, not other way around.

New comment by loandbehold in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

loandbehold — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:45:26 +0000

This is pretty much what underlies AI doomer argument of people like EY. Humans will gradually hand over civilization to black box AI they can't understand. As AI becomes more complex and powerful it will be harder and harder to control.

New comment by loandbehold in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

loandbehold — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:01:06 +0000

Researches at top AI labs don't consider EY to be a kook even though they may not necessarily agree. EY concepts/terminology appear in Anthropic safety papers. Geoffrey Hinton takes him quite seriously and mentions him in his interviews.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

loandbehold — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:59 +0000

Watch WhistlinDiesel cybertruck video.

How Russia Is Luring Africans to Ukraine

loandbehold — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/world/africa/ukraine-russia-war-african-soldiers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011507

Points: 5

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New comment by loandbehold in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

loandbehold — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:32:12 +0000

You need to separate training and inference usage of GPUs for this analysis.

New comment by loandbehold in "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)"

loandbehold — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:44 +0000

You can ask same question about any decision that outlasts you. E.g. why write a will for your children?

New comment by loandbehold in "Some things just take time"

loandbehold — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:52:59 +0000

Knowledge is a distilled experience.

Buzzy UCSD Math Readiness Report Failed to Mention Calculator Ban

loandbehold — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/02/26/buzzy-ucsd-math-readiness-report-failed-mention-calculator-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204419

Points: 1

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New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:05:13 +0000

Yes I do in fact use FSD with my children in the car.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:17:12 +0000

Mercedes system was pretty useless because you could only use it in very limited conditions (specific freeways, only following another car). Nobody wants to pay $200/month to use it for 5% of their driving. Tesla FSD drives for you end-to-end.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:12:17 +0000

They are behind Waymo but they are getting there. They started giving fully autonomous drives since last month without safety driver in Austin. Tesla chose a harder camera-only approach but it's more scalable once it works.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:58:59 +0000

I'm using FSD for 100% of my driving and only need to intervene maybe once a week. It's usually because the car is not confident of too slow, not because it's doing something dangerous. Two years ago it was very different where almost every trip I needed to intervene to avoid crash. The progress they have made is truly amazing.

New comment by loandbehold in "I’m joining OpenAI"

loandbehold — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:13:06 +0000

The guy has a long history of building popular products, long before vibe coding became possible. He is certainly good at writing code manually as well.

New comment by loandbehold in "Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:33:07 +0000

I read somewhere about people using 3D printers to make vinyl records.

New comment by loandbehold in "The wonder of modern drywall"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:56:56 +0000

I have many friends who own houses built in the last 10 to 30 years ago. None of them have any issues with mold.

New comment by loandbehold in "The wonder of modern drywall"

loandbehold — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:01:32 +0000

In places like Boston there are many 100+ years old stick frame houses. They hold up just fine. Properly built wooden houses don't get any mold.

New comment by loandbehold in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

loandbehold — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:06:19 +0000

There absolutely was. "reading addiction" was a medical diagnosis in 18th/19th century Europe. And if you read some of the essays about negative effects of reading from this time, it's pretty striking how similar it is to modern views on TV. There was even a German term of that time "Leseseuche" which literally translates as "reading plague".

New comment by loandbehold in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

loandbehold — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:00:32 +0000

There was a time people used think the same about books.

New comment by loandbehold in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

loandbehold — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:27:18 +0000

Coding agents as of Jan 2026 are great at what 95% of software engineers do. For remaining 5% that do really novel stuff -- the agents will get there in a few years.