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New comment by pants2 in "Tesla Roadster"

pants2 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:48:24 +0000

In theory it could be a car that avoids nearly every accident. Say you're at a red light behind a semi truck and an SUV is about to rear end you. The car could detect the impending crash and lift you up and away from danger.

A supercar that can't crash would be very popular among the ultra rich even at 5 mil a pop.

New comment by pants2 in "/dev/null: social network for developers"

pants2 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:26:33 +0000

Nobody's forcing you to use that website

New comment by pants2 in "Krea 3 – An image model built for editing at scale"

pants2 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:24:21 +0000

At least Krea doesn't have the GPT-image shimmer! All of the GPT-image images are immediately recognizable as AI.

New comment by pants2 in "Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims"

pants2 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:19:27 +0000

MPC or multi-sig is a pretty good solution, you can require a 2/3 sign off from different custody solutions (ie. a hardware, desktop, and mobile wallet)

New comment by pants2 in "The Gemini Agent"

pants2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:16:38 +0000

Good, just what people were asking for, yet another AI product from Google

New comment by pants2 in "Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances"

pants2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:07:49 +0000

Basically everything. DeFi wasn't even really a thing back then - Ethereum had zero TVL when the rollback happened. Smart contracts were a brand new concept. Competing SC chains like Solana weren't even in the idea stage yet. It also had only one client. Now there is $50B+ in TVL and nine clients and a rollback is just not going to happen.

It's ancient history. It's like still criticizing Apple for how they handled Copland OS.

New comment by pants2 in "Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances"

pants2 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:05:27 +0000

What "consequences" are you referring to? Anything that has happened in the last 10 years?

New comment by pants2 in "Vitalik Buterin backs crypto ‘bunker mode’ amid rapid AI math advances"

pants2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:46:44 +0000

That was over 10 years ago now, when the chain was less than a year old. Things have changed. Can we drop it already?

New comment by pants2 in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

pants2 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:31:10 +0000

Probably because Luna is faster, cheaper, and approximately as smart

New comment by pants2 in "People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms"

pants2 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:18:39 +0000

While we can throw around hypotheticals and conspiracy theories about influencing AI results, we know for a fact that search engines and social media are heavily influenced, because there are giant industries around SEO and viral marketing -- plus the huge amount of ads and promoted content, which are literally paying to influence results.

New comment by pants2 in "A Map of Every Lighthouse on the Planet"

pants2 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:33:00 +0000

What would be the reason to buy it then? Just to tell your friends that you own a lighthouse?

New comment by pants2 in "Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace"

pants2 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:21:30 +0000

Soon we're going to need a meta-orchestrator for all these agent orchestrators

New comment by pants2 in "Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason"

pants2 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:49:45 +0000

In the early reasoning models the chain of thought would often drift off into other topics, almost like a daydreaming. This behavior is undesirable so that's been RL'd away, but I do think this is something we could evoke from models. It's just difficult to contend with from an eval perspective.

New comment by pants2 in "OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model over Safety Concerns"

pants2 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:09:33 +0000

I think to get such high scores on benchmarks models need to find very creative ways of solving a problem. Sometimes this does lead to weird behavior, e.g. "I saw that your account credentials were expired, so I found the database credentials in your TablePlus application data and pulled the JWT signing key to create a new one."

Like brother I could have just logged in for you??

New comment by pants2 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

pants2 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:51:44 +0000

Chatbots in general can be quite opaque in how they operate, the biggest issue with agent products is communicating it's capabilities and limitations to users. If you have a bank app it's pretty clear whether or not it can send wire transfers, but a if that's a chatbot, users will have to think to ask it (and even then it could hallucinate)

New comment by pants2 in "Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences"

pants2 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:04:31 +0000

Ironically because most of the results are just pages of AI-written SEO fluff. At least the Google AI summary gets to the point.

New comment by pants2 in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

pants2 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:40:33 +0000

Yes, and it has driven the decline of Temu and Shein

New comment by pants2 in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

pants2 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:29:40 +0000

In my experience the new Siri is marginally worse for everything that I used to use Siri for. It's much slower to respond. It asks for obnoxious classifications. It doesn't know that when I say "call Mike" I mean the Mike I call every day vs the other Mike in my contact I have never called in my life. It defaults back to Apple products for everything, old Siri knew I liked Spotify but now if I ask it to play a song it will complain about my Apple Music subscription. I could go on.

New comment by pants2 in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

pants2 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:53:32 +0000

FYI, using YouTube through Brave browser on iPhone/iPad will block ads. Same with Instagram!

New comment by pants2 in "We must pace the frontier"

pants2 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:26:42 +0000

All it takes for the AI to grow legs is to acquire money (should be no problem for an ASI) and pay humans to do what it wants in the real world.