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New comment by pingou in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

pingou — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:18:18 +0000

In the US, shareholders get rich while regular people get left behind. In China, shareholders returns seem quite bad, and standards of living seem to actually improve. Granted, China started from a much lower point, which makes rapid growth a lot easier.

Show HN: Palimpscape, adblocker that replaces ads with vocabulary

pingou — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:06:24 +0000

Inspired by https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker, Palimpscape is an ad-blocker extension (or a full browser on Android and iOS) that replaces ads with vocabulary, either rare words in your native language if you’re feeling fancy, or more common ones if you are learning a new language.

You can also add your own words that you need to remember.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070734

Points: 3

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New comment by pingou in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

pingou — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:25:01 +0000

Why does the US stock market keep having record years while the population doesn't seem to benefit, whereas the opposite is happening in China? Isn't that a failure of US capitalism?

Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

pingou — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:11:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q9w3x9qn2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066962

Points: 206

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Making 3 AI's Count to 100 Together [video]

pingou — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:36:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXEInc6Zy7Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057519

Points: 3

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New comment by pingou in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

pingou — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:59:42 +0000

Wouldn't improving LLM efficiency make them even more useful across the board, then they can enjoy the nice economies of scale?

The plan is to have LLM working completely autonomously, in that case, the more resources you have, the better. Perhaps people will use local LLM to ask questions, or coders use them for their personal projects, but that's not where the real money is.

New comment by pingou in "Google's Gemini delay: Coding stumbles, clashing teams and frustrated engineers"

pingou — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:54:35 +0000

"Early in the rollout of the technology, employees also faced restrictions on using Gemini to write or analyze software over concerns that proprietary code could leak into the AI model’s training data, they said"

Wait, what?

New comment by pingou in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

pingou — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:05:58 +0000

If in 2020 I had sent you a book about the LLM achievements of 2026, you would probably have thought it was a science fiction book with no relation to reality, wouldn't you?

New comment by pingou in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

pingou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:30:47 +0000

Perhaps it will. And perhaps countless animals are already better than us at appreciating a good sunset, yet we do not seem to value them much.

New comment by pingou in "How dementia is being defeated"

pingou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:57:26 +0000

https://archive.ph/u7VB8

How dementia is being defeated

pingou — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:56:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/07/09/how-dementia-is-being-defeated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868888

Points: 7

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New comment by pingou in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"

pingou — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:59:20 +0000

Personally I am happy that there are weirdos and that they share their weirdness.

What he has may not be a very serious disease yet I was interested in learning about his experience and felt sorry for him.

New comment by pingou in "Bryan Johnson: I have an autoimmune disease. My stomach is eating itself"

pingou — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:49:27 +0000

Did he somehow wronged you or are you just having a bad day?

New comment by pingou in "Has China obtained the most important machine?"

pingou — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:48:44 +0000

https://archive.ph/3vOjh

Has China obtained the most important machine?

pingou — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/china/2026/07/05/has-china-obtained-the-worlds-most-important-machine

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796823

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

New comment by pingou in "South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots"

pingou — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:39:07 +0000

Because supposedly they would repair themselves or be repaired by other robots, and energy would cost less and less, anything would cost less and less if work is increasingly done by robots than can be improved year after year.

New comment by pingou in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

pingou — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:18:12 +0000

Would it be more scientific to say it is sure it will happen?

I suspect the opposite is happening, too many times an environmental catastrophe has been predicted in too certain terms and has not happened, which is why many people lost trust.

And if you think that we shouldn't try to predict but only inform about what has already happened that seems even stranger to me.

New comment by pingou in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

pingou — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:51:01 +0000

But this paper is not about extra EU migrants but all migrants. And even then if we control for age they say they are contributing less than natives.

I think it would be very odd that less educated people on average contribute more than natives, especially if they are at risk of being discriminated when looking for a job.

New comment by pingou in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

pingou — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:27:10 +0000

Is the SpaceX 1.7 trillion IPO on Friday some kind of psychological anchoring?

Say it goes down 50%, then it suddenly appears cheap, when in reality that would still be way overpriced.

New comment by pingou in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

pingou — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:23:13 +0000

But surely Google has both ML people and people expert at optimising stuff, be it hardware or software. In my opinion they have the talent, the sheer number of employees and the capital. Can deepseek really have people much more talented at optimizing stuff?