Hacker News: octocop

New comment by octocop in "The case against a C alternative (2022)"

octocop — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:57:36 +0000

I think the first argument of there being a good toolchain is nonsense, obviously there was something before C with a great toolchain.

New comment by octocop in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

octocop — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:23:49 +0000

So will you tell me Steve Jobs was part of the MK-Ultra project too?

New comment by octocop in "Stop Making TUIs"

octocop — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:49:16 +0000

I was going to post this but you beat me to it. I think we need the folks whom do not enter the terminal to start using it instead of the other way around.

New comment by octocop in "On A.I. regulation and messaging"

octocop — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:12:31 +0000

AI made a large improvement in accuracy on a specific protein dataset. We still don't know how exactly protein folding works. So no, it's not solved.

New comment by octocop in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

octocop — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:36:33 +0000

people need to be better at gatekeeping

New comment by octocop in "Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf"

octocop — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:35:37 +0000

goldfish memory

New comment by octocop in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

octocop — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:05:32 +0000

when will we see MIT license Qwen again?

New comment by octocop in "Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp"

octocop — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:38:10 +0000

a win is still a win

New comment by octocop in "Everything you do is being recorded"

octocop — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:24:17 +0000

commenting for digital footprint

New comment by octocop in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

octocop — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:51:52 +0000

Bitcoin received a lot of backslash due to its power usage and ecological footprint. It's obvious that HN users don't have the same criticisms towards AI data centers. Maybe someone with a short position will coordinate that communication soon..

New comment by octocop in "OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor"

octocop — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:56:27 +0000

Looks solid

New comment by octocop in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

octocop — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:28:41 +0000

Roko's basilisk might be at work here

New comment by octocop in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

octocop — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:11:35 +0000

Made me think of Ozymandias, king of kings.

New comment by octocop in "M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida"

octocop — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:05:54 +0000

An explosion that is nourishing to marine life, that is one way to see it.

New comment by octocop in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

octocop — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:03:28 +0000

Isn't this done in the open? I saw the Qwopus model the other day. Basically same thing?

New comment by octocop in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

octocop — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:28:24 +0000

it seems they will remember that you wasted tokens for no reason and punish you instead.

New comment by octocop in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

octocop — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:38:53 +0000

Finally someone who pays proper respect to GGML ecosystem.

New comment by octocop in "Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American"

octocop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:49:14 +0000

Mistral brought Mixture of Experts and other really good innovations

New comment by octocop in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

octocop — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:40:29 +0000

Nobody is asking for a git replacement? I keep seeing these posts and I don't know who wants them.

New comment by octocop in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

octocop — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:57:32 +0000

Really? Maybe this is news to you then, I rarely get to educate ppl on here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack