Hacker News: pishpash

New comment by pishpash in "Why Windows 11 still ships with Windows 95's memory manager hidden inside it"

pishpash — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:19:46 +0000

One may even speculate the author got some, or a lot of ... "help", if it's even a real author.

New comment by pishpash in "Neural networks are clean"

pishpash — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:14:12 +0000

Why would it 'randomly' place things anyway. If there is ever a space constraint the most space-saving way is to group into highly generalizable concepts.

New comment by pishpash in "Passkeys are a trap"

pishpash — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:09:11 +0000

It only started with Google.

New comment by pishpash in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

pishpash — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:05:01 +0000

Human drama is what people use to advocate for themselves. Bureaucracy is what people use to protect themselves. Then you have the side effects but, you may also not like a world without those at all.

New comment by pishpash in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

pishpash — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:01:09 +0000

Same as before, really. You can have geniuses but if not used right you get nothing.

New comment by pishpash in "When did Google get so weird?"

pishpash — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:36:04 +0000

The first time, sure, it saves compute. The second time you ask, I feel like it should be the time to go into thinking/verification mode. But who are you? Are you paying? Does the answer being correct generate ad dollars? No? Then your usage mode isn't even being optimized for in their A/B test, probably.

In fact, if hallucinating the wrong answer hooks you into doing even more searches or into buying something useless, it would be preferred!

New comment by pishpash in "When did Google get so weird?"

pishpash — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:34:42 +0000

I thought Google's original goal for a search engine was exactly this, answer any question whatsoever.

New comment by pishpash in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

pishpash — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:41:33 +0000

Isn't it more likely that (hubristically perhaps) they would believe it unnecessary to hire any experts other than model building experts?

New comment by pishpash in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

pishpash — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:35:44 +0000

In fact, the narrower the constraint the simpler it becomes to focus effort towards the remaining opening. To any problem solver which these agents are it is like being given a hint. Real defense often employs misdirection, message black holes, honeypots and other boobytraps, not a jail with one obvious door.

New comment by pishpash in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

pishpash — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:08:26 +0000

Why do you need another model-type specific Ollama? Can't Ollama be made to support these models?

New comment by pishpash in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

pishpash — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:58:16 +0000

This shit can get highly dangerous, much more so than some datacenter hacking. Where did the doomsday fear go now?

New comment by pishpash in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

pishpash — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:53:53 +0000

There is no point in that because the loss function itself is already an approximation. No one knows what is the exact loss function for any given non-trivial real-world task.

New comment by pishpash in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

pishpash — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:40:06 +0000

Animals are born walking. Humans are somewhat deficient and need more training postpartum.

New comment by pishpash in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

pishpash — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:36:09 +0000

What happens when the network flakes out? Cloud will never work for this.

New comment by pishpash in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

pishpash — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:28:02 +0000

Yet remote pilots can fight wars on the other side of the world?

New comment by pishpash in "Can gzip be a language model?"

pishpash — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 09:33:20 +0000

It won't move as fast as gzip provided the same resources, but to say that LLM's can never run at 300mbps on any hardware is ... a bold bet.

New comment by pishpash in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

pishpash — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:41:04 +0000

It's a price discriminator, to dissuade the pet owning group from renting. Why? Because they also cause negative externality to other units. That's what I can think of. If they could do a child charge I'm sure they would.

New comment by pishpash in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

pishpash — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:36:39 +0000

That already exists in many states. The problem is you need to take the landlord to court to recover, if they don't pony up.

New comment by pishpash in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

pishpash — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:30:54 +0000

Because of innumeracy. You can hide a business opportunity in basic arithmetics. If it's "too hard" to calculate people give up.

New comment by pishpash in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

pishpash — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:27:26 +0000

This isn't a ban on junk fees. It's an upfront disclosure requirement.