Hacker News: paradoxyl

New comment by paradoxyl in "Ask.com has closed"

paradoxyl — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:12:27 +0000

as I recall, they hired writers and freelancers who put together broad articles that got pointed too when you asked a question, instead of trying to answer questions individually... but my memory could be off, that was 20 years ago.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

paradoxyl — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:28:19 +0000

Creating productivity gain narrtives

New comment by paradoxyl in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

paradoxyl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:38:24 +0000

What a dystopian, pro-tyranny ask. Horrifying.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

paradoxyl — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:47 +0000

That's a tad naive. CEOs can and have and often lied about everything:

Sam Bankman-Fried, Elizabeth Holmes, Kenneth Lay - and hundreds if not thousands more.

The SEC is a regulatory agency, not able to bring criminal charges. The above-named for the most part had to be prosecuted by the Department of Justice or sometimes state attorneys.

New comment by paradoxyl in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

paradoxyl — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:04:08 +0000

Just thinking out loud... why can't an algorithm be an artificial person in the legal sense that a corporation is? Why not legally incorporate the AI as a corporation so it can operate in the real world: have accounts, create and hold copyrights...

New comment by paradoxyl in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

paradoxyl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:20:12 +0000

And maybe TSMC should make cellphones? If you're higher up the supply chain why go downstream into risk? It's financially irresponsible.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

paradoxyl — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:09:03 +0000

Maybe a subtle form of gaslighting with features of victim blaming and argument from authority? Microsoft treats its users and customers with utter contempt.

I hope Valve takes this opportunity to turn its toehold with Steam OS into a full-blown invasion of the desktop/laptop market and destroy Microsoft's monopoly while the latter is so focused on creating everything an actual user doesn't want:

- virulent data mining

- wanton privacy destruction

- worthless UIX changes

- clumsy, useless "agentic" integrations

- disgustingly overpriced "licenses"

- software as a service

- planned obsolescence

etc.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

paradoxyl — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:49:18 +0000

Should 17-year-olds be gambling? They're still in high school, the high-tech excuse of blaming the parents while pocketing billions of dollars is odious and convincing a jury to slap these companies with tobacco industry levels of damage remains feasible.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

paradoxyl — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:52:02 +0000

This guide hasn't been updated since 2020, does it need or will there be updates in the future?

New comment by paradoxyl in "Grifters, believers, grinders, and coasters"

paradoxyl — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 07:18:06 +0000

He should've thought harder about the names, particularly "grifter." What he describes is not even remotely close to what grifting means.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models"

paradoxyl — Sat, 25 May 2024 08:34:36 +0000

The technocrat thinks that the AI is that generalist and will impose it on you whether you want it or not:

"I didn't violate a red light. I wasn't even driving, the AI was!"

"The AI said you did, that's 50,000 yuan please."

New comment by paradoxyl in "So you wanna de-bog yourself"

paradoxyl — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:57:15 +0000

Failure to define your meaning of "bog" in the opening paragraphs leads to unneeded frustration.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Top Israeli spy chief exposes his true identity in online security lapse"

paradoxyl — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:01:02 +0000

Given how unreliable LLM is in general usage with its tendency to "hallucinate" -- a grossly anthropomorphic term, when it's just an alogrithm with no sense of what's "actual" or "fictional" -- to use this in government and law is irresponsible and criminaly negligent.

To use it in war is abhorrent.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Argentina's Economy Is Screaming at Top of Its Lungs"

paradoxyl — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:58:38 +0000

If Milei is turning away from the economic independence offered by BRICS to sell off all state assets to Blackrock he is a traitor.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Meta's new LLM-based test generator"

paradoxyl — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:53:16 +0000

Just another way to censor the free speech of those who opppose the technocracy, or "private-public partnership" or whatever weasel words they use to take away freedom from the masses.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Why do so many people think they are in a bullshit job?"

paradoxyl — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:12:00 +0000

This is why the elites have to be overthrown, their insane structures destroyed. They are beyond greedy, they are simply stupid. Imagine, wasting 12k on a powerpoint while people in your country starve and struggle on the street with addiction. What sort of psychpathy have you ingested?

New comment by paradoxyl in "Dianne Feinstein has died"

paradoxyl — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:30:16 +0000

When do you think some third party is going to arise out of the broken cesspool of one-party machine politics in the state of dementia known as California? Please, fill us in.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl?"

paradoxyl — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 12:10:06 +0000

It doesn't suck, it's been destroyed for the sake of control.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

paradoxyl — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 12:31:10 +0000

As long as old.reddit.com still exists for desktop, the site is semi-usable, although the insane moderation policies and narrow ideology makes the site basically useless except for niche reddits. Though I have gone from a daily user years back to maybe once a month. It's that bad.

On mobile, I can still read direct links to reddit posts that crop up on HN using Firefox for Android. Can't say same for the Twitter, which just says, "You need to enable javascript." Well, I won't.

New comment by paradoxyl in "Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain"

paradoxyl — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:40:20 +0000

Alarming? There's 7,000,000,000 humans and only 50,000 orcas left. Who's in the wrong here?