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New comment by neitherboosh in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

neitherboosh — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:54:33 +0000

Did you read the article you are commenting on?

> There will inevitably be some people who dismiss this story as a dishonest marketing trick by OpenAI to make their models sound terrifyingly effective … To those people I say pull your heads out of the sand

New comment by neitherboosh in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

neitherboosh — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:39:47 +0000

You’re right; you can make this claim about anything. We have to be careful about which things we spend resources worrying about, and if we’re overzealous with restrictions we pay a lot of opportunity cost.

The thing is, AI is not a normal technology; it is already vastly more powerful than any technology we could compare it to, and more resources are being poured into its development right now than the development of any other technology; we are in uncharted waters. If there is any new technology to be careful with, it is this one. In this case, it is worth paying the opportunity cost.

New comment by neitherboosh in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

neitherboosh — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:42:21 +0000

Right. But I think the fear is that if we wait for this type of evidence, it will be too late.

New comment by neitherboosh in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

neitherboosh — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:04:17 +0000

What would compelling evidence look like to you?

New comment by neitherboosh in "What will be left for us to work on?"

neitherboosh — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:45:15 +0000

I think what's actually happening is that the "threshold" of technical understanding required to be more productive than average is increasing, and other non-technical skills are becoming more important. Those below the threshold are not able to provide value over anyone else, even if they have a lot of technical experience. For example, I think today a strong PM with no technical ability can produce higher quality technical output compared to a mediocre frontend developer with no project management ability.

New comment by neitherboosh in "What will be left for us to work on?"

neitherboosh — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:36:19 +0000

> Gen Z and Gen A are now very much opposed to AI

This is true as a sentiment, but my understanding is that the majority of students are overwhelmingly using AI for ~everything. If a thing provides massive utility people will use it.

New comment by neitherboosh in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

neitherboosh — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:53:28 +0000

The copy on your website itself kind of reads like LLM slop (eg. "One week. Three senior engineers. $10,000"). You may have written it yourself and marketing copy just tends to look like this, but it doesn't inspire confidence that your service will actually improve my code.

New comment by neitherboosh in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

neitherboosh — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:13:22 +0000

> It's not a hosting contract, it's an arms race with a moving target.

Why use an LLM to write an HN comment? What does anyone gain from this?

New comment by neitherboosh in "US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality"

neitherboosh — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 19:36:03 +0000

I actually don’t think the summary is bad and I do think the comment is helpful and am glad to have read it; I just would have preferred to know it was AI before I started reading.

New comment by neitherboosh in "US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality"

neitherboosh — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:27:38 +0000

Hm, this comment makes me realize that there isn’t really a social consensus on whether or not AI generated content is welcome in these kinds of discussions. On one hand, I’m generally annoyed any time I see unsolicited AI generations because it’s usually garbage and I could have just asked an AI myself. But in this case I probably wasn’t going to and this comment is genuinely insightful…

I guess I would have preferred some kind of qualifier at the beginning saying it’s not written by a human

New comment by neitherboosh in "I spent a year designing a low profile, minimal mechanical keyboard"

neitherboosh — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 14:52:21 +0000

I’m sure I’d use it as a physical volume knob

New comment by neitherboosh in "Comment via GitHub Pull Request"

neitherboosh — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 20:30:54 +0000

I like projects like this; totally unnecessary, but fun in a kind of absurd way.

I tried to post a comment but I didn’t really want to fork your repo, is there no other way of doing it thru github’s api?

New comment by neitherboosh in "Pen Plotter Art and Algorithms, Part 1 (2017)"

neitherboosh — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 23:08:55 +0000

I have an Ender 3 (one of the cheapest available consumer 3D printers) and have had success using Inkscape to generate gcode for it. For anyone interested, Processing/p5.js are great tools for programmatically generating .svgs for plotting. It’s great fun! Thinking about making some wall art soon.

I also have a MUJI notebook on my desk that I use to sketch out ideas before coding them :)

New comment by neitherboosh in "How to avoid being hit by a laser in a room of mirrors [video]"

neitherboosh — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:29:27 +0000

The posted solution seems to work even when the objects have zero area, and are just points in space. If you just surrounded the target with 16 points, there would either be gaps or the points would be infinitesimally close to the target and would occupy the same space.

New comment by neitherboosh in "I was let go for refusing to deploy a dark pattern"

neitherboosh — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 16:31:10 +0000

Fans who really want to see their favorite artist/sports teams get extorted, and the money goes to scalpers instead of the artists and venues which are actually providing value. Scalpers provide no value to society.

New comment by neitherboosh in "Ask HN: Notion is withholding my company data, what can I do?"

neitherboosh — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 03:43:14 +0000

This is also more or less how I talk to other engineers when they find bugs I’ve written :)

New comment by neitherboosh in "Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700"

neitherboosh — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:53:13 +0000

This looks really cool and I’m sure the tech can be used to do all kinds of interesting things, but I’m struggling to think of an actual use case for the product. From the marketing and price it seems to be directed towards consumers—is there anything this can do for me that a backpack can’t do? Still want one, anyway.

New comment by neitherboosh in "Unitree’s Go1 Robot Dog Looks Pretty Great, Costs Just $2700"

neitherboosh — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:46:14 +0000

My feeling is that there is no overlap whatsoever between use cases for a real dog vs. a robot dog…

New comment by neitherboosh in "Show HN: Word2Vec Gender Bias Explorer"

neitherboosh — Tue, 25 May 2021 01:13:08 +0000

Cool project, although it seems to think the word “male” has moderate female bias... word embeddings can be fussy.

I would think you could just compare cosine similarities between the entered word and words like male/female or man/woman (not sure if this is what you’re doing).

Flywheel Energy Storage

neitherboosh — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 14:18:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26844441

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