Hacker News: nlarion

New comment by nlarion in "Our position on open-weights models"

nlarion — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:48:10 +0000

FUD

New comment by nlarion in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

nlarion — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:40:45 +0000

I appreciate the distinction between being the orchestrator in a complex prompt and completely handing over the reigns... but insofaras what people should or shouldn't do is irrelevant. What people will do is important, and they _will_ do everything. Some will offload as much as possible to AI others none at all. A better question in my mind is to ask what happens on a long enough timeline where letting AI take the wheel becomes easy/free/frictionless? To me that seems like some people will become full NPCs with AR glasses making all the decisions for them. Others maybe like the skroderoders from a fire upon the deep will have to buffer before talking because so much of their knowledge is stored in some ai they need to access first. Anyway, I appreciate people who think about these things, but it just doesn't matter. People will do the worst thing imaginable with AI, and letting it run your life is certainly one of them.

New comment by nlarion in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

nlarion — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:11:31 +0000

Charlatans and demagogues.

New comment by nlarion in "Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case"

nlarion — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:47:12 +0000

What's the tl;dr, or intuition to gain here?

DIY Air Drums

nlarion — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.instructables.com/SpaceDrums-Play-Drums-in-the-Air/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651727

Points: 3

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New comment by nlarion in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

nlarion — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:29:00 +0000

Yet, I know many people who've done cocaine that are in other respects law abiding citizens. Making unjust laws makes us all criminals. The government cannot protect people from themselves, no one can. The best we can do is try to educate, and we can't even seem do that. Good luck out there buddy.

New comment by nlarion in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

nlarion — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:13:22 +0000

Yeah it's too bad there aren't any tools you can use to block any content at your home YOU personally deem irresponsible /s. Im not sure what your argument is here. If it's for regulation then please do some reading on regulatory capture before you hand over your ID card while logging in to respond to my comment

New comment by nlarion in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

nlarion — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:14:48 +0000

There is no personal responsibility left in America. I have a child. It's my job to teach him and watch what he watches and does. I guess I am the only one who thinks this way. Good luck having the parental government raise your child. Parody: I let my child have cocaine and now they're addicted!!!!! Hilarious.

New comment by nlarion in "Neurons outside the brain"

nlarion — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:35:14 +0000

Interesting article, Douglas Hofstadter's book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_a_Strange_Loop takes it a step further and says that parts of our consciousness/soul lives outside of ourselves and in the minds and brains of others. Since one can generally guess how person you know would respond in a given situation, such as how a spouse might be able to know exactly what their spouse would say/do, and in that sense our "souls" are distributed. It's a bit more nuanced than that, but I think that gets the point across of how parts of ourselves live in others.

New comment by nlarion in "Atari 2600+ vs. Atari 7800+ – Which Should You Get?"

nlarion — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:37:42 +0000

Yars' revenge is pretty good. I'm guessing these don't boot homebrew, but synthcart allows you to play music.

New comment by nlarion in "Make It Yourself"

nlarion — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:55:30 +0000

This isn't the first time I've read a comment criticizing PDF, but it is the first time I can recall the Portable Document Format (PDF) being accused of low portability.

New comment by nlarion in "Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?"

nlarion — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:25:15 +0000

Stopping climate change, and helping homeless would be at the top of my list, and if those are not up your alley space exploration and AGI seem fun.

For bonus points, you could work on not making us poor folk feel bad for having to work a 9-5! ;)

New comment by nlarion in "John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990"

nlarion — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:07:58 +0000

A few people mentioned they miss his writing, so i thought it was worth pointing out he still writes occasionally: https://dvorak.substack.com/ though it's less technology focused..

New comment by nlarion in "Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends"

nlarion — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 06:52:54 +0000

Clearly, the medium is the massage; there are also those who massage the medium

New comment by nlarion in "Why modifying gravity doesn’t add up"

nlarion — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 02:42:19 +0000

The main argument of this article seems to fall into the counterfactual fallacy category. Even if MOND has problems and ends up being wrong, that doesn't make dark matter exist.

New comment by nlarion in "Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?"

nlarion — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 18:37:07 +0000

Excellent film, to me, it perfectly describes the relationship between the corporate media and politicians in the US. That being said, this film is 25+ years old, and while still very relevant (and great) it generally leaves me feeling apathetic.

New comment by nlarion in "How to Build Your Own Quantum Entanglement Experiment (2013)"

nlarion — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:47:14 +0000

Not sure why, but the article doesn't have the original photos that went along with the post(s):

https://web.archive.org/web/20160919103031/http://blogs.scie...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150926005801/https://blogs.sci...

New comment by nlarion in "Building a modern home in the woods"

nlarion — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 11:06:04 +0000

My mistake!

New comment by nlarion in "Building a modern home in the woods"

nlarion — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 07:05:38 +0000

You're out of touch with current prices if you think 5 acres is sub 100k anywhere but eastern wa/or...

New comment by nlarion in "Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates"

nlarion — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 20:52:07 +0000

I recommend you do some basic research on the history of quarantine and the united states as well as colonial america. You'll quickly see your assertion stands on shaky ground. https://www.ushistory.org/laz/history/index.htm