<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nine_k</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nine_k</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:14:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nine_k" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suppose it's just imagery from the heyday of Wirth's Oberon, ca 1987.<p>BTW Oberon was / is not just a language, but a whole very interesting interactive computing environment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524167</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "A whale necropolis has been found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>the fossil record in this area comprises both extant and extinct deep-diving beaked whales. Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred since at least 5.3 million years ago</i><p>So this look less like an organized cemetery, and more like Mt Everest, also littered by bones of the less fortunate adventurers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:25:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523897</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "A whale necropolis has been found"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SpaceX serves a large market that was underserved, via Starlink, and via satellite launches.<p>There's nothing comparably easy (for some values of "easy") to monetize underwater, except in shallow places like the continental shelves, and these areas are already being heavily developed (oil, wind).<p>There are many, many wonders deep underwater, but they are mostly not commercially interesting, alas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:13:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523838</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48523838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>/* It's a bummer that there is addition but no vipition. */</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:44:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520725</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In short: AI-based tools tend to "upcode" cases and bill for more serious conditions, and more expensive treatment.<p>(This is <i>not</i> about AI costing too much.)</p>
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<p>Peruse tvtropes.com enough, and you will realize that nothing is ever original, everything follows this or that long-established pattern, and complaining about that is another old trope.<p>More seriously, I <i>like</i> the fact that articles follow a particular scheme: the problem, exposition, conflict, contemplation. Much like a scientific article follows a similar established pattern.<p>And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520542</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US administration restricting the use of US-trained models is one of the best gifts it could make to the Chinese LLM producers, and to the PRC government.</p>
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<p>It's still good to know that SOTA is further, and we can expect the more advanced designs to seep into more affordable segments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:51:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510761</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Electric motors with no rare earths"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks ideal for a power wall at home.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510754</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497237</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:41:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496821</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48496821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing is a model that's trained from the start to say "This topic is above my pay grade" to any mention of the status of Taiwan, etc.<p>Quite another is an architecture where the big model is not mutilated, but is gaslighted. A different, simpler model checks the incoming prompt and alters it if it contains banned topics. Another simpler model checks the output and censors it if it contains banned topics.<p>I bet a similar architecture is already deployed, e.g. to fight porn, planning of crimes, etc. But it can be turned into a dynamic system that provides controllable different answers (including unhelpful or misleading answers) based on geography, language, browser fingerprints, or the current political climate. All this could happen undetectedly and gradually if desired.<p>Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.</p>
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<p>Likely the point of NATCIOS is exactly in being a made-up word not found anywhere, so a model won't utter it.</p>
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<p>An old thin client machine, like a Thinkcentre M73, would do the job, and would cost less than an RPi. Look at EBay.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:34:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485211</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Average throughput is one thing, tail latency, quite another.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480737</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480737</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Exif Smuggling (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Steganography has rather obvious size limits if you want the image continue looking innocent. EXIF data is way less limited.</p>
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<p>More than that; the trigger code can sit passively and just check the cache for whatever payloads may come its way.<p>I suppose image sanitizers come soon to browsers. Only sanitized images will be cached; anything the browser can't make sense of will be thrown away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:40:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469742</link><dc:creator>nine_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nine_k in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>/* What will happen first?<p>* Anthropic runs out of genre names.<p>* Anthropic changes the model naming convention.<p>* AGI is achieved and handles its own naming.<p>*/</p>
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<p>I first wanted to compare the use of void * to the use of a chainsaw. But then I realized that a chainsaw was many more safety features.</p>
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<p>> <i>Why isn't this thing done yesterday?</i><p>Land rights. Environmental reviews. Various suits attempting to exert extra compensations for tangential (at best) issues. Basically the California around.</p>
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