Hacker News: memonkey

New comment by memonkey in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

memonkey — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:29:34 +0000

Yeah, probably not the best strategy but it is a strategy. I just think this is generally how most wars in history won. Biggest army to just pummel the enemy.

New comment by memonkey in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

memonkey — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:55:00 +0000

isn't it more like: i have 1000 bits, i transfer 1000 bits but depending on the person, it might be lossy, so they only understand about 700. they then come up with the 300+- on their own, potentially putting them over 1000 or they come back and ask questions to fill in the blank. the bits don't ever have to be bit identical.

New comment by memonkey in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

memonkey — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:27:19 +0000

ah, if it's anyone it'd be dan abramov

New comment by memonkey in "Incident with Github.com"

memonkey — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:10:53 +0000

wow totally forgot about nearlyfreespeech. so glad they're still around. wonderful host.

New comment by memonkey in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

memonkey — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:31:33 +0000

Ah, also Newgrounds

New comment by memonkey in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

memonkey — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:23:30 +0000

How do people mentally price things. I'm on the fringe but I'm willing to pay $60 for a AAA 60 hour game that I'm positive I won't finish but am find if I get 6-10 hours out of it.

New comment by memonkey in "I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel"

memonkey — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:18:58 +0000

I love reading Gwern. This seems like a really ambitious project, but guaranteeing some of these things like trustworthiness and security behind a private company is a bit sus. Later on they make military use a selling point for GA. Maybe I'm a bit of a cynic but the division of USA values are increasingly dividing each year. Assuming that our values and principals today will not be the values and principals of tomorrow. And that those values taught today (or even yesterday) will be left out of the context window tomorrow.

EDIT: tbh, some of this reads as satire now.

New comment by memonkey in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

memonkey — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:30:52 +0000

For all of these things, then what's the point of having a humanoid robot then? The last thing is a folding laundry bot that I would happily also pay $1000 for.

New comment by memonkey in "After the AI Crash"

memonkey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:48:50 +0000

What is the true purpose of our existence?

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

memonkey — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:01:20 +0000

Yes, but they won't say that. Instead they will say _too Chinese, too communist, too national security-y_

New comment by memonkey in "The AI Price War Is Here, Piling Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic"

memonkey — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:30:41 +0000

I use Claude at work and burn tokens at a regular rate on a huge monorepo. If I'm using heavy skills, these burn up pretty quickly.

At home, I have a pretty simple project and pay $20 for Deepseek which has lasted me more than 2 weeks with pretty heavy usage.

I know my cost at work is something like $500-$1000+ per month, and I have found negligible difference with a $20 Deepseek usage based pricing.

New comment by memonkey in "New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times"

memonkey — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:37:57 +0000

I think the meaning is that because we can see success with KRAS mutation of pancreatic cancer, we can now begin clinical trials for other cancers that may have KRAS mutation (colorectal, lung) and see if there is success there. If there is success in treating other cancers during clinical trials, it could be fast tracked through FDA to be more generally available and then become part of the national treatment option (ideally in 1-5 years after clinical trials).

New comment by memonkey in "When the Internet Was a Place"

memonkey — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:18:38 +0000

was just thinking how I'd like to have multiple chat boxes like for AIM vs a tabbed experience like with all chat clients now

New comment by memonkey in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"

memonkey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:00:57 +0000

I am slightly reminded of Gattaca, the story of which is that certain people are discriminated based on their DNA. Society is built, in general, excluding certain people due to their disabilities. Whether or not a blind person can find meaning or enjoy life has road blocks but is not impossible. Science can provide technologies to potentially improve people's lives -- cochlear implants for those with hearing loss, for example. There are ongoing philosophical discussions of whether or not these technologies and scientific discoveries are actually harming or helping those with these disabilities and the broader discussion of 'normalizing' society at large (I don't want to use the term eugenics).

New comment by memonkey in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

memonkey — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:23:05 +0000

I've always been very interested in these types of games. Grew up playing Neopets which was inspiration to becoming a software engineer. Am interested in gamified aspects as well. The thing I've not quite figured out is how to make these types of games _actually_ addictive? Neopets had a lot going for it IMO. Would love to know if this is actually working for you (and maybe others) personally and why.

New comment by memonkey in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

memonkey — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:49:31 +0000

I know we're getting deep in the meta discussion but the free will that you're describing involves basically starving to death. Sure, you can walk away but unless you're well off, we all basically live in the same society that makes sure you are ALWAYS dependent on some kind of wage. You cannot live off the land, build housing, or eat food without some kind of income in the modern world. And thus the concept of wage slave.

New comment by memonkey in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

memonkey — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:08:51 +0000

The post is about a scientific study and your response is your opinion with nothing else to back it up?

New comment by memonkey in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

memonkey — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:08:37 +0000

except that it only allows summaries behind paywalls. in many cases you never get the full article

New comment by memonkey in "A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev"

memonkey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:45:37 +0000

i feel this totally ignored the point of infinite input space. you only providing 3 scenarios and eye balls rigorous comment is either hilariously patronizing or ironically self aggrandizing.

New comment by memonkey in "Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains"

memonkey — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:26:38 +0000

Agree with you and your responses in the threads elsewhere.

There seems to be a point of contention amongst the terminology for anybody with autism. Someone with autism might not see themselves as having a disorder. But there are certainly very high needs autistic individuals. Apply a whole spectrum of people as being "developed wrong" and you can start to see ableist language.

I appreciated your metaphor about cars on a highway -- and that there's something wrong with the highway, not the car. I thought it was really simple and clear and I think I got the point you were trying to make. And even if it the highway isn't wrong (it was made for cars after all), we should at least extend it to support many types of transportation.