Hacker News: mkbelieve

New comment by mkbelieve in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

mkbelieve — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:22:25 +0000

I don't understand how anyone can believe that we're near even a whiff of AGI when we barely understand what dreaming is, or how the human brain interacts with the quantum world. There are so many elements of human creativity that are still utterly hidden behind a wall that it makes me feel insane when an entire industry is convinced we're just magically going to have the answer soon.

The people heralding the emergence of AGI are doing little more than pushing Ponzi schemes along while simultaneously fueling vitriolic waves of hate and neo-luddism for a ground-breaking technology boom that could enhance everything about how we live our lives... if it doesn't get regulated into the ground due to the fear they're recklessly cooking up.

New comment by mkbelieve in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

mkbelieve — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:17:57 +0000

I've been wondering for awhile what keeps bad actors from using bots to upvote solutions that introduce malware, thereby poisoning LLMs and making them even more untrustworthy than they are currently. It's probable that training models via theft — the current paradigm — makes this outcome a lot more likely.

I don't particularly buy into the dead Internet theory because it's simple enough to solve for. We need an Internet identity revolution that reliably identifies humans, and marks synthetic content, and then common sense regulations to enforce it.

So... Dead Internet ahoy!

New comment by mkbelieve in "Kagi News"

mkbelieve — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:27:23 +0000

Buggy as hell. Proton Drive cost me a weekend and they lost me for life.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Are We in an A.I. Bubble? I Suspect So"

mkbelieve — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:57:51 +0000

Of course we are and I suspect there are also an absolutely absurd number of Ponzi schemes underway as well.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

mkbelieve — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:39:27 +0000

As someone who leans heavily on emdashes, this has all been very annoying.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Apple rumored to be working on a smart home operating system version"

mkbelieve — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:19:51 +0000

I only ever use mine for the face + notifications. The UX is godawful. I'd probably buy an Apple watch that only served to relay OTPs.

New comment by mkbelieve in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

mkbelieve — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 01:22:06 +0000

The Internet is fickle and full of dullards. It's always a toss of the dice.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

mkbelieve — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:57:11 +0000

I understand, but I also will not pay a subscription fee for limited service. I canceled as soon as I got this e-mail. Too bad I signed up for an annual subscription last month.

This is also exactly why I feel this industry is sitting atop a massive bubble.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

mkbelieve — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:48:01 +0000

Same boat. Feels like a nice, big bait & switch.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?"

mkbelieve — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:15:02 +0000

Dropped out in the eighth grade, taught myself, and I've been working as a SRE for the past decade or so. Have been working in tech for a little over 20 years.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras"

mkbelieve — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 00:13:52 +0000

"feature"

New comment by mkbelieve in "Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market"

mkbelieve — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 01:30:06 +0000

I'd love to live in a country where these apps are developed by the federal government as open source freeware tools for local governments to offer tip-free deliveries to citizens, and well paying jobs with good benefits.

New comment by mkbelieve in "Try Switching to Kagi"

mkbelieve — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:25:32 +0000

Kagi rules for search, and they also have the best AI front end in my opinion.

New comment by mkbelieve in "TmuxAI: AI-Powered, Non-Intrusive Terminal Assistant"

mkbelieve — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:18:01 +0000

Uninstalled warp, as the whole thing felt clunky and slow, and never even turned on the AI. You can accomplish everything it does with zsh + plugins without much fuss.