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New comment by nerdyadventurer in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 03:59:19 +0000

This can be a reason too. There is an another reason, they want some govt involvement because good relationship with govt, so govt will help them with public money, when the bubble bursts.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:24:09 +0000

As I read, this OpenAI and Anthropic slowdown and asking government to help regulate them is an attempt to govt bail them out when bubble burst. Otherwise why they did not want regulations when starting out?

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:18:22 +0000

I do not thing anything wrong with this statement, do LLM model know about objects on a table? are they conscious? they are just glorified pattern matchers, we get amazed due to their sophisticated and large pattern matching capability.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:10:47 +0000

Consumption is only part of the problem other part is ground water pollution[1]

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Plan mode is dead"

nerdyadventurer — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:26:15 +0000

We cannot blame just LLM models, it is brains nature to save energy. If agent did tasks consistently good, our brain try to delegate cognitive load to the model to save energy. After consistent use of LLMs anyone can have tendency commit slop just reviewing at high level, this is specially true with busy lifestyle. Also AI generated code do not give dopamine just like solving problems we did before LLMs, we tend to get lazy. Strict discipline is necessary to make good use of LLMs in order to not commit slop and not to make us dumb.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Plan mode is dead"

nerdyadventurer — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:10:10 +0000

There is a popular skill for this kind of workflows: https://github.com/obra/superpowers

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

nerdyadventurer — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:44:53 +0000

> For the first time in my career, I acted as a senior product manager, steering the project along the right roadmap. Without AI, I wouldn't have been able to do that.

This may be Dunning–Kruger effect in action. (this is not an insult, but showing cognitive biases)

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

nerdyadventurer — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:02:50 +0000

While they can scrape all whole web, ignoring copyright content. Sometimes Gemini even output images with watermarks from a popular licensed media seller. Mean while Aron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping[1] and finally he end up taking his life.

1: https://blog.curiousquail.com/im-upset-again-about-a-co-crea...

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Coding Is Over. Get over It"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:06:28 +0000

Even though I use AI selectively, there are great engineering who do not use AI ex: Jake Wharton [1]

Major problem with AI blunt your critical thinking, in order to use AI mindfully, you should have critical thinking, but usage of it blunt the very thing. What an irony?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WjPdgOK-68

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Sam Altman: I agree with Dario that we need to pace the frontier"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:51:21 +0000

As I think they are already regulating things, unlike in US, oligarchs cannot control the govt in China. They crackdown the rich, before it is too late. ex: Jack Ma[1]

You may listen to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1y_m8pKiKY

1: https://www.dw.com/en/china-alibaba-founder-jack-ma-appears-...

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean not afford $50, but can afford $3M to Omarchy?"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:39:16 +0000

May be it is because of DHH. Not sure why did they canceled measly $50 for Gnome.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Sergey Brin pours more than $100M into fighting California's billionaire tax"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:28:23 +0000

I used to admire these two people when I was a teen, but look at them now. Where is their goal to do good?. May be money really blind people. Why cannot they just spend 5% onetime? I'm wondering how much they will spend if there is recurring tax of 40%?

These oligarchs have enormous power over us, at least impose 50% recurring tax as a start. In 19s tax rates were really high (even 94%)

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

nerdyadventurer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:39:55 +0000

I also recently requested for data exports on all platforms before deleting the history. Claude and Google ones came quickly while OpenAI took about two days, I'm suspicious, may be it's their worker scheduling?

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

nerdyadventurer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:02:16 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:09:00 +0000

Health affect all others. Also I would love to have a quiet mind, those who do not have it know why.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:52:50 +0000

I also noticed this, login prompt seems to have added recently.

Also you cannot anonymously scroll on mobile browser for long, prompts to install the app.

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

nerdyadventurer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:23:15 +0000

There is also Caveman[1] skill which rewrite prompts.

1. https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman/

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

nerdyadventurer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:14:45 +0000

> What an ahistorical thing to say

I know about dynasties expanding centuries some was prosperous others were not, same goes for European monarchies, amount of killing, abuse, looting done in colonies is staggering even though about most boast about how they conquered this and that.

> less comments under cat videos

I find cats interesting they have different personas kind of similar to humans than dogs who are people pleasing.

Aside from that world should be like this[1], where Chinese and Americans work together.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhd7vERQY3A

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

nerdyadventurer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:13:19 +0000

Cannot understand EU leadership.

Urzula turnning of AC for others, but not for her.[1]

Russian helicopters sitting duck when wild fire rages[2]. Afterall these are Spanish property even though Russian made.

They do not want to find solution to this heat wave getting intense year by year other than war mongering. 35K excess deaths this year[3]. Next year it will be far worse.

Trying harder to install backdoors[4]

Keep postponing Ukrain joining EU, while they have suffered imensley.

These things are getting ridiculous day by day.

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-fo...

[2] https://www.intellinews.com/sanctions-on-russia-backfire-lea...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/25/at-least...

[4] https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-protecteu-strategy-encryption-b...

New comment by nerdyadventurer in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

nerdyadventurer — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:12:24 +0000

I'm not Chinese, but I'm confused why people think Xi Jin Ping is worse, yes they have surveillance, there is single party authoritarianism, but they always take care of their people unlike US who when filthy rich getting rich, more and more on homeless on the streets. In addition to that there is surveillance by Flock and Palatir. Most of all they do not let corporation to manage govt, even though their big corps like Alibaba has tried. They have to wage the wars to capture someones natural resources, unlike US holding Iraq oil revenue captive, manage Venezuelan oil. Not to mention helping genocide with trillions.

Funny thing, I recently saw comment under Turkey cat video, saying something like

> Stray cats in live better than homeless in US.