Hacker News: postalrat

New comment by postalrat in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

postalrat — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:49:53 +0000

Easier with a calendar reminder

New comment by postalrat in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

postalrat — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:07:16 +0000

AI haters think their activism is going to make a difference what other people want.

New comment by postalrat in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

postalrat — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:00:06 +0000

How much electricity is too much?

New comment by postalrat in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

postalrat — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:51:38 +0000

Isn't that what it always has done after caching a few weeks of websites?

New comment by postalrat in "Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)"

postalrat — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:21:29 +0000

Maybe its because they are practical solutions for a branch of mathematics we haven't been able to solve.

New comment by postalrat in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

postalrat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:51:51 +0000

If IBM themselves can't reproduce the artifact do they have the source?

New comment by postalrat in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

postalrat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:26:22 +0000

I work in the HR space and though about something similar with jobs. A bunch of recuiters will publish the same job. What I figured would be best is have one job entry and show all the recruiters who published and let you go to one of them.

New comment by postalrat in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

postalrat — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:52:03 +0000

Businesses focused more on seeking out easy government money than building good products.

New comment by postalrat in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

postalrat — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:06:38 +0000

Nobody is going to trust your $5 a month service.

New comment by postalrat in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

postalrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:48:19 +0000

They probably want an icon to open your app. They probably dont know the difference between an app rendered with a browser or a truly native app. In the past apple as made it difficult for users to know how to do this and users just know about the app store. Great for apple (walled garden) and social media apps (more tracking, unlimited ads) but not great for users.

New comment by postalrat in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

postalrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:40:35 +0000

How does that change anything? I think its more due to mobile sites acting like this https://www.reddit.com/r/TechNope/comments/urboo6/reddit_app...

A user on a app is more valuable since you get a lot more data on them, and can stop their ad blockers.

New comment by postalrat in "Google DeepMind Paper Argues LLMs Will Never Be Conscious"

postalrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:37:27 +0000

Sure if that's how you define consciousness. What do you want to call the machine version of the same phenomenon?

New comment by postalrat in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

postalrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:42:33 +0000

Do you install a hacker news app?

New comment by postalrat in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

postalrat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:41:31 +0000

Could it be you are pushing your native app? Maybe for more control to advertising in your app, tracking, etc. Keep those nasty ad blockers out.

New comment by postalrat in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"

postalrat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:14:51 +0000

Amazing machines. Can't wait till I can buy something a bit bigger that can also travel to other planets

New comment by postalrat in "For $700 a Month, Sleeping Pods Make SF More Affordable"

postalrat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:10:52 +0000

Because that might harm retirement accounts of the rich.

New comment by postalrat in "Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits"

postalrat — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:41:41 +0000

Biological brains need to run a self reproducing machine. Still alien tech we are hoping to one day understand.

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

postalrat — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:17:36 +0000

I'm predicting now that there is a clear use-case for this tech that work will (and has) accelerate specialized hardware, software, models, etc that will run much more efficiently in 10 years. So that the real token costs will be a fraction of what they are now.

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

postalrat — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:17:24 +0000

In a decade the cost of compute will be a tiny fraction of what it costs now. Specialized hardware will exist that will be cheap and efficient.

New comment by postalrat in "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"

postalrat — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:57:51 +0000

Well people love to try even though they always fail. It's a fun challenge to change someone's mind.