Hacker News: nerdo

New comment by nerdo in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

nerdo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:19:34 +0000

What is TSLA's valuation based on anymore? Maybe next week it'll be the moon colony they’ll have up and running in 2028.

New comment by nerdo in ""We're Definitely Going to Build a Bunker Before We Release AGI""

nerdo — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:15:57 +0000

https://archive.is/xe77F

New comment by nerdo in "Reverse engineering OpenAI code execution to make it run C and JavaScript"

nerdo — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:56:48 +0000

The escalation of commitment scam, interesting to see it so effective when applied to AI.

Big Tech Think Tank Pushes for a Post-Election Crackdown on Online Speech

nerdo — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:28:44 +0000

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/big-tech-think-tank-pushes-for-a-post-election-crackdown-on-online-speech

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113761

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nerdo in "Imgpls – An extension to load Imgur images directly"

nerdo — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:50:27 +0000

For iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363...

New comment by nerdo in "Jeff Bezos' management rules are slowly unraveling inside Amazon"

nerdo — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:03:15 +0000

https://archive.ph/iDMXO

New comment by nerdo in "Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)"

nerdo — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:07:59 +0000

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

New comment by nerdo in "Are We Watching the Internet Die?"

nerdo — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:55:01 +0000

They’re burning 30 million dollars a year on a site that’s torched over a billion since its inception. Just give the product manager one signup for their kpi before they/them are put out on the street.

New comment by nerdo in "Are We Watching the Internet Die?"

nerdo — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:08:14 +0000

You can't, it's very expensive and controlled now: https://www.tumblr.com/photomatt/696629352701493248/why-go-n...

New comment by nerdo in "Eternal Shell History"

nerdo — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:35:22 +0000

What's the deal with bash history on macos anyway? It absolutely refuses to persist, no matter which combination of incantations are entered.

New comment by nerdo in "ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)"

nerdo — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:47:58 +0000

What “kinds of things” are “we” really worried about? Representative government, public referendums? Very much on what table?

ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)

nerdo — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:55:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/icann-is-not-the-internet-content-police-12-6-2015-en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39554940

Points: 69

# Comments: 14

Mounting research shows that Covid-19 significantly lowers IQ

nerdo — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 06:39:40 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39546926

Points: 27

# Comments: 11

New comment by nerdo in "Google's Gemini Headaches Spur $90B Selloff"

nerdo — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:56:21 +0000

No, perfectly sane. The party says there are five fingers.

New comment by nerdo in "Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster"

nerdo — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:56:54 +0000

> Phind-70B is also less "lazy" than GPT-4 Turbo and doesn't hesistate to generate detailed code examples.

OpenAI's leaked prompt literally encourages it to try harder[1]:

> Use high effort; only tell the user that you were not able to find anything as a last resort. Keep trying instead of giving up.

1: https://pastebin.com/vnxJ7kQk

New comment by nerdo in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

nerdo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:50:50 +0000

The regime doesn’t want people saying or thinking things they aren’t being currently told to say and think. The regime is technically not allowed to use the legal system directly to punish people for this quasi-crime but is very happy to ruin everything else in same pursuit. So why should a protocol for p2p financial transactions the regime doesn’t control be allowed to exist?

New comment by nerdo in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

nerdo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:00:54 +0000

Porn can be an understandable concern because of the amount of chargebacks it can create for processors, though the excessive chargebacks should be the rule not the porn. Hate speech they never tried to explain afaik. FWIW repealing fair banking[1] was immediate priority for Biden up there with fortifying elections[2].

1: https://reason.com/2021/02/11/biden-administration-suspends-...

2: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1

New comment by nerdo in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

nerdo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 18:26:18 +0000

In the US the receiver gets unbanked without warning or explanation and permanently loses the ability to accept money through any service via systems like MATCH.

New comment by nerdo in "What happened with the Web Monetization API?"

nerdo — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:35:23 +0000

What if money gets sent to websites that host hate speech?

New comment by nerdo in "Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll"

nerdo — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:35:58 +0000

Incredible effort. Text of scroll is essentially "drink more Ovaltine" which is on theme.