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New comment by primax in "Eridani-speak – make your LLM talk like Rocky from Project Hail Mary"

primax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:51 +0000

Found this via Reddit, I am not the author.

Eridani-speak – make your LLM talk like Rocky from Project Hail Mary

primax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:05:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SijuEC/eridani-speak

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863008

Points: 1

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New comment by primax in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

primax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:27:12 +0000

Yes I would say any honest reading of Apple's position in the last 30 years is they are not a zero to one company, they are a 0.5 to 1 company.

They take great ideas, cut half the functionality out, put it in a shiny white and aluminium case and make it fashionable.

New comment by primax in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

primax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:32:12 +0000

Every technological advance in this space has caused harm to someone.

The advent of digital systems harmed artists with developed manual artistic skills.

The availability of cheap paper harmed paper mills hand-crafting paper.

The creation of paper harmed papyrus craftsmen.

The invention of papyrus really probably pissed off those who scraped the hair off thin leather to create vellum.

My point is that in line with Jevon's paradox there is always a wave of destruction that occurs with technological transformation, but we almost always end up with more jobs created by the technology in the middle and long term.

New comment by primax in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

primax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:22:33 +0000

Devils advocate here - pro and max tier customers for all the major inference providers are loss leaders from the data we have been able to figure out, and reverse engineer. They are effectively a marketing exercise.

The real profitability is selling tokens to enterprise, and enterprise demand is growing so fast that they are short on the total amount of tokens they can generate per minute, and are prioritising rationally - enterprise gets a better experience - instead of optimizing for their lowest paying (and most loss leading) customers.

We are in a hardware crunch right now but that won't be forever, and eventually (likely 2028) we will get experiences like we got in January from pro-sumer accounts again.

New comment by primax in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

primax — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:46:37 +0000

It's not really netiquette to accuse people of AI generated comments unless it's clear

New comment by primax in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

primax — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:51:28 +0000

Well, there probably are some in there. Data centre designers, comms experts, architects, electricians, etc. Lot of smaller organisations benefiting from the work.

New comment by primax in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

primax — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:37:41 +0000

It had it coming.

New comment by primax in "Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems"

primax — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:52:59 +0000

It's good for creating meeting notes and action lists in Teams, but that's about it.

MS use of AI in apps really feels like their Google+ moment.

New comment by primax in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

primax — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:01:48 +0000

Given the rate of change that is happening with everything AI now I'm a little surprised that the rate is that high.

I'm fairly confident it'll improve over time though.

New comment by primax in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

primax — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:07:37 +0000

I'm building a scraper in Golang based on Colly to do two things:

* Automatically train the scraper on the structure of the page to acquire the data you want, and

* Clean and structure the data into a format suitable to go into a relational database

I got sick of doing all that manually for some pricing data I wanted to monitor on some suppliers sites, and I've always wanted to contribute more to open source and give back.

New comment by primax in "From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year"

primax — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:48:45 +0000

I'd recommend you listen to the consumer's of those systems, instead of American pundits talking about them.

Our system in Australia is absolutely fantastic, and far cheaper in taxes than you'd think.

New comment by primax in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

primax — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 22:49:39 +0000

I'd rather live through a financial crisis than fascism, thanks.

New comment by primax in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

primax — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:13:08 +0000

> There's no evidence to support that gene therapy will ever be inexpensive. We can merely say that the process may become less shockingly expensive.

A similar thing has been said about so many cutting edge therapies and technologies in the past that I think you'll end up being quite surprised.

Eventually someone will invent a machine that spits these therapies out like espresso machines.

New comment by primax in "Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents"

primax — Wed, 14 May 2025 22:44:25 +0000

I think if you got some experience in the industries this serves then you'd reconsider your opinion

New comment by primax in "NotebookLM Audio Overviews are now available in over 50 languages"

primax — Thu, 01 May 2025 05:45:49 +0000

I use it for loading up source materials and notes for a DnD campaign I run. Then I ask it questions when I need off the cuff answers, instead of researching.

It's also good for when I can't think of anything (like a background NPCs name and backstory)

New comment by primax in "Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch"

primax — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:41:35 +0000

There is a giant world of high end replica watches that are so close to the original that they take expert mechanics to tell apart. I've got a few $500 watches that are identical to $10-40k watches.

Worth checking out reptime to scratch that itch without selling a kidney.

New comment by primax in "AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission"

primax — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:28:31 +0000

We're running out of critical metals at the price point we want to mine them. There are more that will become viable when the price goes up.

New comment by primax in "AstroForge selects target for “high risk, seat of the pants” asteroid mission"

primax — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:26:28 +0000

Bringing it back is a lot more energy efficient than getting up there in the first place.

New comment by primax in "Railroad Tycoon II"

primax — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:38:13 +0000

I'd suggest trying Railway Empire and it's sequel. It's the closest successor I've found.