Hacker News: pants2

New comment by pants2 in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

pants2 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:04:56 +0000

If I found the best human writer in the world, and had him write every article on the internet, wiping his memory between each one, his writing would start to get pretty noticeable and boring!

New comment by pants2 in "VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents"

pants2 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0000

I can't believe we're actually experiencing a real life "the AI escaped its simulation" scenario. This is straight out of science fiction.

This headline would not be out of place at the beginning of Terminator, foretelling Skynet going rogue.

New comment by pants2 in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

pants2 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:10:40 +0000

Just be rich. What's so hard about that?

New comment by pants2 in "Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe"

pants2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:50:41 +0000

Seems like some of the most interesting objects are missing or have weird red/green artifacts, why is that?

New comment by pants2 in "Uber fined $966M in NL for automating driver suspensions"

pants2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:46:24 +0000

Wow, crazy fine -- they say only 126 drivers were affected. If true that's almost $8M per driver.

New comment by pants2 in "Introducing AI Futures"

pants2 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:10:25 +0000

From the title I assumed this would be about futures contracts for inference, similar to CME's new GPU compute futures. Instead "Futures" the the name of some weird political think-tank that's envisioning the collapse of society.

Guess they need to create hype somehow.

New comment by pants2 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

pants2 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:44:56 +0000

Agreed, that's what I thought it meant when I used the phrase :)

New comment by pants2 in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

pants2 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:43:41 +0000

It's certainly not well defined today; memecoins, prediction markets, sports betting, and more are all toeing the line of gambling.

New comment by pants2 in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

pants2 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:35:02 +0000

This would require airlines underwriting the value of the meetings that you might miss and pricing their services accordingly. I imagine an airline would never sell a flight to CEOs on their way to board meetings, or actors on their way to filming a big budget movie.

You can absolutely find someone willing to sell you insurance on whatever you need for a price, but the airline isn't in the business of insuring the value of your meetings.

New comment by pants2 in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

pants2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:11:54 +0000

Yes, was going to say I use it exclusively for video and audio. The ability to give it a YouTube link through the API and ask questions about it is awesome

New comment by pants2 in "GPT 5.6 Cyber"

pants2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:11:15 +0000

Sure, and OpenAI will be happy to let them self-host for a large fee. However I doubt that Pfizer will be developing their own frontier models for biological research.

New comment by pants2 in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

pants2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:10:23 +0000

I'd think an ethicist at Meta/OpenAI involves extremely challenging mental gymnastics

New comment by pants2 in "GPT 5.6 Cyber"

pants2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:55:00 +0000

The frontier labs would rather charge a premium for the best capabilities. You joke but they will probably soon have a GPT-bio that they license to Pfizer and a GPT-quant that they license to Citadel, rather than keeping those valuable capabilities in the public models.

New comment by pants2 in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

pants2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:58:27 +0000

You're right. Wh/day is a terrible unit!

New comment by pants2 in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

pants2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:08:04 +0000

A quick search suggests one hamster can produce around 0.5 Wh/day, so 100 hamsters should easily power your phone laptop with a constant 50W!

New comment by pants2 in "Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users"

pants2 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:36:42 +0000

There's a super obvious tell, 5.5 instant loves emojis.

New comment by pants2 in "Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody"

pants2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:09:47 +0000

Yeah, something very cool is XOR can only improve randomness as long as there's no correlation between the sources. So Linux RNG XOR'd with this comment is even better than it's source!

New comment by pants2 in "Coldcard's $38M (so far) exploit shakes faith in self-custody"

pants2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:28:55 +0000

Crypto people make fun of me for making up passwords in my head, but my brain RNG has never been exploited, nor has anyone successfully Sherlock'd my password.

New comment by pants2 in "Don't credit the LLM"

pants2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:23:12 +0000

You must be fun at parties

New comment by pants2 in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

pants2 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:49:10 +0000

There's a staggering amount of new, basic software which often goes unmaintained quickly because no discipline was needed to build it. But I don't think we're seeing, for example, Adobe releasing new creative suite tools faster than before. This isn't something I can quite quantify, though.