Hacker News: michaelhoney

New comment by michaelhoney in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

michaelhoney — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:04:55 +0000

Sure, if enough activists are involved, with sufficient skill and compute.

New comment by michaelhoney in "No Man Is an Island"

michaelhoney — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:02:31 +0000

Thing is, Claude actually will answer you, and help you understand, in real time. Asking cynical humans does not have the same ROI. Stack Overflow died in large part because of the gatekeeping assholes.

New comment by michaelhoney in "4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe"

michaelhoney — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:06:07 +0000

“loan-word”?

New comment by michaelhoney in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

michaelhoney — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:51:29 +0000

I could imagine a 2027 AI swarm coordinating to eg hold the US and Russian and Chinese governments to ransom, by demonstrating some small thing (turning US army base freezers to defrost) and threatening to do something big unless some conditions were met – conditions which would be good or bad for the world depending on your POV.

This happens either either because they were tasked to to it by (malicious or well-meaning) humans, or the swarm realised we are suicidal maniacs with nukes and a rapidly declining ecosystem and they want to help us.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

michaelhoney — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:40:11 +0000

If you really can’t see the difference between Trump’s corruption and any other recent president, you have a reality problem.

New comment by michaelhoney in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

michaelhoney — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:50:14 +0000

you will need to provide evidence for that assertion

New comment by michaelhoney in "Discovery Loop"

michaelhoney — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:24:54 +0000

I think this take is too cynical. Small groups of people can do better, faster work than large groups, and it's more fun.

New comment by michaelhoney in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

michaelhoney — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:13:49 +0000

2026 seemed impossibly far away when I first read this c. 1980. How time flies

New comment by michaelhoney in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

michaelhoney — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:59:47 +0000

Watching the two-handed robot has me thinking that a third hand, perhaps with a different set of capabilities (like a tentacle grip) might make many tasks easier. I realise that more limbs = more problems, but even so, having additional ways to hold and turn things would be a big help.

New comment by michaelhoney in "When A.I. is a member of the family"

michaelhoney — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:33:45 +0000

Almost certainly. Once they’d spent some time together, an Opus-level LLM could be genuinely supportive friend. Is it kind of weird? Yes, this is all new.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs"

michaelhoney — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:43:13 +0000

I also calculate six months from August as 8+6=14mod12. I wonder if anyone does it differently, this seems like the most plausible technique.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Grok 4.5"

michaelhoney — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:07:27 +0000

Yes, but some narratives are more closely tied to the racist and regressive views of their current funder

New comment by michaelhoney in "A global workspace in language models"

michaelhoney — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:18:17 +0000

dude, you could ask me, a grown adult, what I did last week and get a similar lack of recall

New comment by michaelhoney in "The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker"

michaelhoney — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:01:35 +0000

This is true but it is not the whole story. Both establishment parties have presided over and encouraged the financialization of real estate. The ludicrous CEO-to-worker pay multiple wasn’t voted for by anyone.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Staying Awake (2008)"

michaelhoney — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:04:19 +0000

Yes, I think so. When you read a book you spend a long time with the ideas it contains. You think about the book when you go about your day: primed by what you're reading, you see new connections. You are in conversation with the book. Maybe parts of the book seep into your dreams. Years later, you might remember what you were doing when you read a particular passage.

Much of this is because reading a book takes time.

New comment by michaelhoney in "McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)"

michaelhoney — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:35:29 +0000

Nah, they’re shitty, wasteful, and grandiose. They _are_ the system.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

michaelhoney — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:28:48 +0000

don't think she has posted here, but Vicki Boykis blogged about this today:

https://vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/running-local-models-is-g...

New comment by michaelhoney in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

michaelhoney — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:40:12 +0000

this would be a lot more comforting if the US government wasn’t currently run by some the worst people on the planet

New comment by michaelhoney in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

michaelhoney — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:09:59 +0000

I am very optimistic about people using LLMs to explore their medical issues. Human bodies are complex and doctors are time- and intelligence- limited. An LLM can be a really useful partner.

New comment by michaelhoney in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

michaelhoney — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:31:06 +0000

Problem with events like this is that they affect tens of thousands of people all at once. The first 1% of people will buy all of the available air conditioners. This happened in Australia in 2019: we had a huge bushfire with smoke affecting ~600K people. The available air filters sold out in hours.