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New comment by nova22033 in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

nova22033 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:55:38 +0000

OkCupid and Match do not have to pay a financial penalty

Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount: Reuters

nova22033 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:16:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/14/meta-planning-sweeping-layoffs-as-ai-costs-mount-reuters.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376381

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by nova22033 in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

nova22033 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:48:41 +0000

Company X sued by company Y shouldn't automatically translate to company X did a bad thing. Companies get sued all the time.

New comment by nova22033 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

nova22033 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:46:10 +0000

Why does DoD need claude? I thought xAI was "less woke" and far better than claude

New comment by nova22033 in "US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives"

nova22033 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:16:17 +0000

Why is it wrong for US diplomats to advocate for a policy that clearly benefits US companies?

New comment by nova22033 in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

nova22033 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:35:03 +0000

and that's just my doordash order..

New comment by nova22033 in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

nova22033 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:34:47 +0000

Wasn't most of this spending going to ORCL?

https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/ORCL

Remember this press conference?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYUoANr3cMo

New comment by nova22033 in "Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards"

nova22033 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:30:43 +0000

yeah they should get up on stage and hold hands

https://fortune.com/2026/02/19/openai-anthropic-sam-altman-d...

New comment by nova22033 in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

nova22033 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:22:34 +0000

It's not complicated. LIDAR hardware was in short supply during COVID. Elon obviously couldn't slow down production and sink the inflated stock price.

New comment by nova22033 in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

nova22033 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:00:36 +0000

He going to fix this by having grok redefine "widespread"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/musk-tesla-robotaxis-us-expa...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the company’s robotaxis will be “widespread” in the U.S. by the end of 2026.

New comment by nova22033 in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

nova22033 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:40:49 +0000

> They would rather accept someone else’s structure, despite having to force fit it into their product, rather than taking the time to start from the goal and work backwards to create the perfect suit for their idea. Like an architect blindly accepting another architect’s blueprints and applying them regardless of the context, the needs, the terrain, the new technological possibilities. We decided to remove complexity not by sharpening our mental models around the products we build, but by buying a one size fits all design and applying it everywhere. That is not simplification. That is intellectual surrender.

Sorry, i don't buy this. There is a very good reason to use tried and tested frameworks. Am I "intellectually surrendering" when I use a compiler/language/framework that has a great track record?

And how is it not "intellectual surrender" to let the AI do the work for you?

New comment by nova22033 in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

nova22033 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:29:22 +0000

Remember...they can make you use touch id...they can't make you give them your password.

https://x.com/runasand/status/2017659019251343763?s=20

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it.

New comment by nova22033 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

nova22033 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:48:45 +0000

And? Donald Trump's presidency has made it clear that "this is bad for our country" isn't a sufficient argument.

New comment by nova22033 in "xAI joins SpaceX"

nova22033 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:48:22 +0000

What's to stop president AOC from pulling the clearances of everyone working for SpaceX?

New comment by nova22033 in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

nova22033 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:17:29 +0000

Amazon's entire business model depends on importing cheap Chinese made goods so this isn't a real surprise.

New comment by nova22033 in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

nova22033 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:10:24 +0000

>In short, Google owns the river and sells the boats, and the public built a wall around it.

That would be a monopoly if there was only 1 river in the whole world.

New comment by nova22033 in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

nova22033 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:56:45 +0000

* - GPU prices rising - RAM prices rising *

How else is grok going to generate semi-naked images of minors?

New comment by nova22033 in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

nova22033 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:40:22 +0000

Speaking of fintech

https://www.henricodolfing.ch/case-study-4-the-440-million-s...

New comment by nova22033 in "Silicon Valley's man in the White House is benefiting himself and his friends"

nova22033 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:40:23 +0000

Mr. Huang argued that restricting exports of Nvidia’s chips would push Chinese companies to develop more powerful alternatives.

This is so disingenuous. You think they'll stop developing local alternatives if you sell them your high end chips? That won't even stop Google, much less a command economy like China.

New comment by nova22033 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

nova22033 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:34:42 +0000

THe "leak" is just Sam Altman trying to put out the "OpenAI is spending a gazillion $$ and has no path to profitability" fires.