<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: nisten</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nisten</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:22:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nisten" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 2-3 decades 30% of the world population will be over 60 years old (~3 BILLION seniors).We don't have an economic model for it, nor does gen-z want to all be Personal Support Workers while paying rent. 
Nvidia only makes 6million data center GPUs a year. Huawei makes 900k. We need 10 to 100x more to be able to automate enough just to hold civilization together. Amazon built datacenters with near 0 water use but it used 35% more electricity overall. So tha problem can be solved however we need to change out of the whole scarcity mentality if we're going to actually make the planet nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:39:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509783</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>teacher, leave em linux kids alone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413674</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switch from iPhone to a pixel 9 fold, and installed graphene after 2 weeks on stock android.<p>Look, it's better than stock android overall, UI much more simplified even though it gives you a lot more security control, battery feels slightly longer, but there are drawbacks, i.e. twitter/x wouldn't install, neither would my bank's app. However from time to time I go to use iOS on the iphone and it just feels like better software, with better ergonomics overall, the combination of the xnu kernel plus the design and feel of the..buttons.. on iOS is still years ahead in my opinion. So keep that in mind if you're switching away from apple to it, as android still feels like decade plus old software.<p>Now for the upsides.. there's a built in terminal and debian vm you can install and run your agentic AI tools (claude code,opencode etc) in a portable sandboxed environment which you just don't get onios. You can even fire up a graphical xfce session albeit that takes quite a bit of work to get it to go.<p>As for the tablet form factor of the phone itself when unfolded, i found it amazing the first few weeks and then later found myself rarely using it.<p>Overall I'm going to stick with itand will never go back to stock android, but am quite annoyed at how much better it could actually be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:39:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048669</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone fully supportive of the social media ban for Australian kids, I think As someone fully supportive of the social media ban for Australian kids, I think we need to teach UK kids to vibecode their own VPNs with OSS models at this point so they can save what's left of their future civil liberties.<p>We all know where this is going, they're going to ban the one mathematical tool we have that gives us control over machines, encryption.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:38:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238294</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46238294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All in typescript too. Actually very impressive. Well, some webm videos and .glb 3dfiles but only the essentials it seems, the rest is all propper typescript.<p>But a very nicely put together repo. Good job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:45:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45696411</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45696411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45696411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Replacement.ai"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm very much pro hyper-automation, especially for all government work... but can't help but think this type of branding is just in bad faith and that these are not good people.<p>It just screams fried serotonin-circuits to me. I don't like it. I looked at the site for 2-3 seconds and I want nothing to do with these guys.<p>Do I think we should stop this type of competitive behaviour fueled by kids and investors both microdosed on meth?  No.
I just wouldn't do business with them, they don't look like trustworthy brand to me.<p>Edit: They got me with the joke, being in this field there are people that do actually talk like that, both startups and established executives alike.  I.e. Artisan ads in billboards saying STOP HIRING HUMANS and another new york company I think pushing newspaper ads for complete replacement. Also if you're up with the latest engineering in agentic scaffolding work this type of thing is no joke.</p>
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<p>it's good</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:58:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604769</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nextjs being 4 times slower latency wise than plain react or even vanilla js is pretty funny</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:49:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586359</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45586359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While I don't want to discount the work of any physician-founded org knowing the pain they go through from working with them after they've seen 18 patients in a days work, this still just just looks like bad software. With no testing, no internal bench.<p>Did you do some kind of zod schema, or compare the error rate of how different models perform for this task? Did you bother setting up any kind of json output at all? Did you add a second validation step with a different model and then compared their numbers are the same?<p>It looks like no, they just deferred to authority the whole thing. Technically theres no difference between them saying that gpt5-mini or llama2-7b did this.<p>Literally every single llm will make errors and hallucinate. It's your job to put all the scaffolding around to make sure it doesn't or that it does a lot less than a skilled human would.<p>So then have you measured the error rate or maybe tried to put some kind of error catching mechanism just like any professional software would do?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:00:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581637</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45581637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the end of the day, if you look at almost any government, roughly 2/3 of expenses go towards healthcare and education things which, AI worlkflow are very likely continue offsetting a larger and larger percentage of the costs on.<p>Can we still have a financial crisis from all this investment going bust because it might take too long for it to make a difference in manufacturing enough automation hardware for everyone? Yes.<p>But, the fundamentals are still there, parents will still send their kids to some type of school, and people will trade good in exchange for health services. That's not going to change. Neither will the need to use robots in nursing homes, I think that assumption is safe to make.<p>What's difficult to predict change in is adoption in manufacturing, and repairs ( be that repairing bridges or repairing your espresso machine )  because that is more of a "3D" issue and hard to automate reliably (think about how many gpus today would it actually take to get a robot to reason out and repair a whole in your drywall), given that your RL environments and training data needs grow exponentially. Technically, your phone should have enough gpu performance to do your taxes with a 3B model and a bunch of tools, eventually it'll even be better than you at it. But to tun an actual robot with multiple cameras and stuff doing troubleshooting and decision making.... you're gonna need a whole 8x rack of gpus for that.<p>And that's what makes it now difficult to predict what's going to happen. The areas under the curve can vary widely. We could get a 1B AGI model in 6 months, or it could take 5 years for agentic workflows to fully automate everyones taxes and actually replace 2/3 of radiology work...<p>Either way, while theres a significant chance of this transition to the automation age being rough, I am overall quite optimistic given the fundamentals of what governments actually spend majority of their money on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:06:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572769</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45572769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like MacOS is finally having it's Windows Vista moment<p>Meanwhile linux people are removing buttons, window borders entirely, sometimes removing colors too, it's glorious.</p>
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<p>Looks like the emergency reserve management worked?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543002</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45543002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's slow. 
Get back to work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:49:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532226</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "GPU Hot: Dashboard for monitoring NVIDIA GPUs on remote servers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>half readable color scheme.. random python and javascript mixed in, ships with 2 python CVEs out of the box out of 5 total dependencies... yep it checks out bois...certified infested slop<p><pre><code>  python-socketio==5.8.0: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-61765); Remote Code Execution via malicious pickle deserialization in multi-server setups.
  eventlet==0.33.3: 1 CVE (CVE-2025-58068); HTTP request smuggling from improper trailer handling.

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And then economists wonder why are none of these people getting jobs...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:14:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531840</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Devpush – Open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Render, Netlify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Opens project supposed to automate typescript deployments...it's a bunch of python.<p>So now I'll have TWO clusterfucks of infested dependencies to deal with instead of just one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503971</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45503971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:38:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476044</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "New antibiotic targets IBD and AI predicted how it would work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand why they don't give researchers GPU credits directly given the type of impact they can make.<p>No legal slop, just email address of runpod/prime-intelect/x-gpu provider account and deposit directly $5000 there. let them waste it.<p>You can easily filter who's worth receiving by they github and huggingface history.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476024</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45476024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think a good way to shame politicians that push this type of erosion of civil liberties is to label it at gestapoware.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:25:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465363</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465363</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45465363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they're too slow,<p>by the time they do the kids can just vibecode another chat app for themselve</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:32:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376934</link><dc:creator>nisten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376934</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nisten in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are a smart kid in europe learn to vibecode XChacha20 & ed25519 encryption keys for you and your friends to chat with so you can go tell your incompetent government to go fuck themselves.</p>
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