Hacker News: moomin

New comment by moomin in "Grok 4.7"

moomin — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:02:16 +0000

It’s not just that it was generated, it’s that they argued in court, _and won_, that it was legal, giving every last predator a nigh-on unverifiable defence.

New comment by moomin in "Brood War Bench"

moomin — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:04:26 +0000

Wondering what it would look like if you allowed them to write scripts. You could throttle the number of clicks to make it interesting.

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

moomin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:11:38 +0000

Pretty sure Gödel’s theorems imply the halting problem if you squint hard enough.

New comment by moomin in "If materialism is true, the United States is probably conscious"

moomin — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:46:32 +0000

Pretty sure this is basically the plot to Tales of Arise.

New comment by moomin in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

moomin — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:38 +0000

Honestly, Picard asked a very relevant question to the modern age. What if our societal standards aren't what we thought they were, and we've just had rose-tinted glasses convincing ourselves otherwise. Of course, we never saw them actually deal with that properly, but S1 was a much more interesting series than S2 and S3 were.

New comment by moomin in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

moomin — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:56:42 +0000

Look, I do not have a scooby if current AI models are conscious and I strongly suspect it’s a meaningless question, but sooner or later we will need to address whether or not a certain thing is or isn’t a person, and we’d better not screw it up as badly as the Founding Fathers.

New comment by moomin in "Java 27"

moomin — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:28:20 +0000

C# dev here: it’s amazing how different this is from a Microsoft release. First off, Oracle are doing versions at approximately twice the cadence. But also, and I’m guessing this is a function of the much larger Java audience: things rarely get two preview versions in a proper release. Updates in beta versions, yes, all the time. It also feels like Microsoft are bundling a lot more into the platform and leaving less to the community. Again, probably an artifact of the different sizes of the communities. Also, the page reads like an open source “We’re finished, we’re tired.” announcement rather than the razzmatazz of a Microsoft release.

New comment by moomin in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

moomin — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:23:39 +0000

Indeed, with the best will in the world, nothing on X is that essential. XCancel is the only way I read it.

New comment by moomin in "LRU is harder to beat than the KV-cache papers suggest"

moomin — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:04:29 +0000

It is. And the reason for that is* surprising: the base knowledge corpus is clickbait internet articles.

*not at all

New comment by moomin in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

moomin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:23 +0000

A lot of people seem to be the Antichrist these days. I’d have though we’d get a lull after the millennium but it’s all the rage.

New comment by moomin in "iPhone Duo"

moomin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:02:05 +0000

You’ve just described why people have a phone.

New comment by moomin in "iPhone Duo"

moomin — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:01:21 +0000

Not something I have strong opinions on, but probably something by Garmin. (Remember them? They’re still around and shockingly successful.)

Check whether any device you’re looking at requires a subscription.

New comment by moomin in "iPhone Duo"

moomin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:02:44 +0000

The problem is, health is easily the biggest thing in wearables. The problem for Apple is their health stuff isn’t up to snuff with their competitors.

New comment by moomin in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

moomin — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:27:09 +0000

Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?

New comment by moomin in "The turbulent AI era is here"

moomin — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:47:53 +0000

Whilst the objections you raise are valid, in the face of the country being destroyed if you don’t, the equation’s rather different. What does it matter if China is dominant if you’re better off living in the US?

New comment by moomin in "VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents"

moomin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:28:36 +0000

I don’t think the post claims magical abilities. Just that most things are already crackable given public knowledge and LLMs can exploit those. Worse, that the rate at which we update security issues is too slow to keep up with “knowing about a problem is equivalent to having a working exploit”.

New comment by moomin in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

moomin — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:44:32 +0000

Problem with that is so few of them are repairable these days. Laptops just kind of fall apart over time.

New comment by moomin in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

moomin — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:59:59 +0000

There’s a very simple reason that artists don’t worry about selling out anymore (a phenomenon that was much more widespread than just the early 90s): the music industry finally finished their project of extracting nearly all of the money. These days, you’re more likely to have a hit because your song was in an advert than have your hit song used in an advert. Merchandising and the rest is pretty much your principal revenue stream.

New comment by moomin in "If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?"

moomin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:42:20 +0000

I think you're trying to uninvent tort law here.

New comment by moomin in "If your agent commits a crime, who is responsible?"

moomin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:08:03 +0000

Imagine your dog had a dog trainer and you didn’t know the dog had been trained to bite under those circumstances. You might have a case against the trainer.