Hacker News: pastel8739

New comment by pastel8739 in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

pastel8739 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:31:44 +0000

Are you suggesting that in fact we have not entered any new wars in recent history?

New comment by pastel8739 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

pastel8739 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:48:16 +0000

Why is that better? Because you read about it in a sci fi book?

New comment by pastel8739 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

pastel8739 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:46:44 +0000

I personally am _not_ used to seeing the sun after sunset and before sunrise.

New comment by pastel8739 in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

pastel8739 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:01:23 +0000

Sure, but the comment I am responding to is arguing that there is a way around pressures towards a traceable token, so you can prosecute the person sharing their credentials. This is not the case.

New comment by pastel8739 in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

pastel8739 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:38:32 +0000

How so?

New comment by pastel8739 in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

pastel8739 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:12:12 +0000

If the smart cards required some human input to perform a signature maybe this could work. Otherwise there is nothing stopping someone from selling use of their card via some proxy software

New comment by pastel8739 in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

pastel8739 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:10:45 +0000

This doesn’t stop the scheme the parent proposes, where adults install some proxy on their device and challenges are responded to on the parent device. Then the private key never leaves the parent device and all the child device has is the proxy software, which could be set up to not log any identifier of the key that it used

New comment by pastel8739 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pastel8739 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:21:43 +0000

Books?

New comment by pastel8739 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

pastel8739 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:19:33 +0000

Does this private data come from places like Reddit, Twitter, etc., where it’s contributed by users? I think it is unethical for these companies to accept payment for user-contributed data.

New comment by pastel8739 in "1,700 Free Online Courses from Top Universities"

pastel8739 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:29:59 +0000

Do you wish you had time to learn about them? Or do you wish you just knew them? Having them uploaded to your brain might make you know about them, but is much different from having time to learn them. This is important if for you, like for me, learning itself is a large part of the enjoyment

New comment by pastel8739 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

pastel8739 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:48:47 +0000

I wish the option was just “yes I know this word” or “no I don’t”. Reading the definitions takes too long for so many words

New comment by pastel8739 in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

pastel8739 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:04:32 +0000

Definitely, I’m not saying that AI can entirely replace humans. But AI is definitely replacing parts of many jobs. If AI companies raise their rates to be profitable, and it turns out that paying for profitable AI is not worth it vs paying for humans, that might be a sticky situation.

New comment by pastel8739 in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

pastel8739 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:49:56 +0000

People use AI because it is cheaper than paying humans to think. Soon you won’t really be able to find human thinkers.

New comment by pastel8739 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

pastel8739 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:31:20 +0000

You’re clearly referring to something specific, what is it?

New comment by pastel8739 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

pastel8739 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:49:40 +0000

> The value of water to a person dying from dehydration is infinite compared to someone who's adequately hydrated.

But most people are adequately hydrated in steady state, and to them the value of water is not that high. Since today it is necessary to sell an item for the same price to everyone, selling water for infinite money would lose nearly all customers.

(Not to mention that it’s possible to acquire water from natural sources, for free)

New comment by pastel8739 in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

pastel8739 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:07:06 +0000

Realistically though, if there are some humans left, they are going to want to live in a society. Humans are fundamentally social and I think the people in charge would eventually realize this. But then again rich people are not normal, so maybe not

New comment by pastel8739 in "Codex for open source"

pastel8739 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:12:06 +0000

The marginal cost of all of those is definitely much lower than for Codex, though

New comment by pastel8739 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

pastel8739 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:08:17 +0000

Opus in January was right about when AI became actually useful for coding for me. So if that’s the case, that is absolutely great.

New comment by pastel8739 in "Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search"

pastel8739 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:15:38 +0000

That assumes that the agent knows which one is better. And to bake in which one is better via post-training would require a study like this to establish where each one works well

New comment by pastel8739 in "Siri AI"

pastel8739 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:35:23 +0000

Well.. it’s not the furthest thing from the truth in the bay