Hacker News: msy

New comment by msy in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

msy — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:24:31 +0000

Given OpenAI's well documented history of unethical behaviour it seems adorably naive to think they actually do that in general, or that they wouldn't pull this particular data separately to generate these proofs.

New comment by msy in "A Tesla ran a stop sign and killed a man, Full Self-Driving/Autopilot was on"

msy — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 22:17:15 +0000

We do tend to impose them on individual drivers who make egregious and consequential failures, that’s the point. If every car running the same software is functionally the same ‘driver’ this class of failure absolutely should trigger a moratorium.

New comment by msy in "The Amazon tax"

msy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:00:04 +0000

This is a lot of words to describe rent seeking. Google, Amazon, Instagram/Meta, ultimately all of these are earning their outsized margins through market-dominance enabled intermediation of commerce. I search for 'foo' and the top result is either Foo paying through the nose for what should really should be organic traffic or Bar 'buying' the click instead. In the absence of anti-trust the only winning move is to buy stock in the monopolists, their ability to extract these rents from an ever-growing proportion of the economy is only getting stronger.

New comment by msy in "AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class"

msy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:50:31 +0000

If you leave your front door open I don’t think you’d classifying someone walking in and taking your laptop as ‘not stealing’.

New comment by msy in "The AI Aesthetic"

msy — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:36:44 +0000

I suspect a lot of these aesthetic baselines aren’t some kind of organic emergence from the model and more a layer of human curated fine tuning, prompting and harness adjustments to produce a positively received aesthetic in lieu of user guidance.

New comment by msy in "Grok Build is open source"

msy — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:52:52 +0000

A lot of companies are still using Cursor but I don't know of anyone moving to it, and I do know of many moving from it to Codex or Claude, feels like a legacy product at this point alongside windsurf & the replit/lovable/bolt cluster.

New comment by msy in "CarPlay Is Additive"

msy — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 01:55:08 +0000

I imagine the Venn Diagram of Rivian buyers and Apple users is basically a circle (or one small circle inside a much larger one), this seems like a wildly obtuse position for them to take.

New comment by msy in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

msy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:26:55 +0000

I find myself in an odd predicament. For nearly all my life I would have seen all of this as an unconscionable anathema. But having watched what social media has done to our society, the tsunami of bullshit collapsing critical thought, science and reason I just don’t think civilisation can survive this without controls. Too many people are too gullible, too uncritical for it to survive without the state being able to curtail harmful speech at scale. Do I hate it? Absolutely. But I hate the alternative more. And I want the bounds of acceptable speech to be decided by my democratically elected government, not a bunch of American billionaires determined to burn society to the ground so they can pan the ashes for yet more gold.

New comment by msy in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

msy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:25:12 +0000

Do they? There's been a lot of hot air, quite literally, but aside from some math conjectures actual evidence of meaningful progress on anything that actually helps humanity seems rather thin on the ground.

New comment by msy in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

msy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:32:17 +0000

That's the difference between returning search results and interpreting the information and summarising them. If a newspaper says 'so-and-so has been arrested for theft' it's not the same as them summarising to 'so-and-so is a thief', the second is potentially libel. Why should Google be held to a different standard?

New comment by msy in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

msy — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:48:59 +0000

I wonder what the wet bulb temperature is, it feels like the day when we have our first true mass casualty event (as opposed to the longer, slower crisies caused by say european heatwaves in the last decade) caused by the climate crisis is getting close.

New comment by msy in "Remove–AI–Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

msy — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:31:19 +0000

...except they can produce the same image without the fake SynthID.

New comment by msy in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

msy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:06:05 +0000

We suddenly have a proliferation of new internal tools and resources, nearly all of which are barely functional and largely useless with no discernible impact on the overall business trajectory but sure do seem to help come promo time.

Barely an hour goes by without a new 4-page document about something that that everyone is apparently ment to read, digest and respond to, despite its 'author' having done none of those steps, it's starting to feel actively adversarial.

New comment by msy in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

msy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:36:32 +0000

You don't have to trust the AI to do it with Rust, you just have to ensure certain conventions are followed and you can formally prove you're 'safe' from certain classes of issue, no AI magic dice-roll.

A lot of people are very excited by the idea that now language capabilities (and almost every other technical nuance) somehow don't matter but much like gravity they will continue to assert themselves whether you believe in them or not.

So far humans have proven unable to write large apps in C without those issues, given their work is the training basis for LLMs this creates two problems, one being that they don't 'know' what a safe app looks like either and any humans reviewing the outputted code will be unable to validate that either.

New comment by msy in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

msy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:48:20 +0000

'rewrite in C, make sure there are no memory leaks'. You first.

New comment by msy in "Car Seats as Contraception"

msy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:25:47 +0000

Minivans cause minivans?

New comment by msy in "Car Seats as Contraception"

msy — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:58:08 +0000

Or cars usually fit 2 child seats because that's the common number they get from customer research.

New comment by msy in "Goodbye to Sora"

msy — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:41:36 +0000

Oh there's a huge (and wildly depressing) market for people endlessly scrolling video slop, it's just the barriers to entry and expectations of the market are so low you can't really differentiate with 'slightly better branded slop'.

New comment by msy in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

msy — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:09:57 +0000

Don't worry, they'll buy your boss's boss nice dinners and box seats at sports games until they see the light.

New comment by msy in "Oil hits $100 a barrel despite deal to release record amount of reserves"

msy — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:24:37 +0000

Absolutely agree there's both some dubious suppositions and hand-waving there. The real question is I suspect how much pressure the GCC can withstand and how much pressure they can apply to Trump directly given business ties etc. If they lose a serious chunk of desalination capacity for example the situation becomes dire extremely quickly. For Dubai simply not having a decent supply of fresh food would alone be an economic catastrophe, every day this drags on is doing reputational damage that'll take years to fully recover from long after the hotel facades are patched up.