Hacker News: riversflow

New comment by riversflow in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

riversflow — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:28:20 +0000

maybe its standard for someone who ends up on hackernews, but I'm a 30 something and all of my friends are online people around my age and none of them have ever heard of the HPMoR. The internet is a huge place.

New comment by riversflow in "Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme"

riversflow — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:16:41 +0000

nothing about this is neobrutalist by their own standards. There is nothing “uncomfortable” about these standard round flat shapes, and unvibrant 3/4 saturated tones, they aren’t distinct, its called Alegria[1], calling it neobrutalism is a corruption of the meaning of brutalism and comes off as distinctly uncultured.

neobrutalism should have sharp edges, very vibrant saturated colors, and virtually none of these flowery spiral shapes. (neo)brutalism is forcing a square peg in a round hole with a hammer, and leaving it like that on purpose, because the raw swedge is the aethetic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

New comment by riversflow in "US Reading Scores Plummet on Global Exam"

riversflow — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:05:03 +0000

Here is a link to the actual report which is better than this paywalled editorialization.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volum...

New comment by riversflow in "I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task"

riversflow — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:35:43 +0000

huh. goes to show how much browser selection impacts things. the OMP Qwen result is completely unresponsive in free cam on my iphone, whereas the opencode version is responsive, has multitouch zoom and multitouch pan. the glm models do really well with this as well, but all of the anthropic models have pretty gimped camera controls, even astra, which while pretty wont let me pan and only allows me to rotate about 120 degrees! I’m really impressed with the Qwen 27b OpenCode result.

I suppose the only thing that the prompt asks for is the cinematic view, and honestly they all kinda fail on the “subtle volumetric-style fog planes”, none of them have more fog when you get farther from a light source.

New comment by riversflow in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"

riversflow — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:53:57 +0000

yeah, isn’t that the main focus of discipline of software engineering?

New comment by riversflow in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

riversflow — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:58:02 +0000

Wouldn’t any software that is a client and relies on a proprietary server to function (like most modern AAA games) be “closed source” under this definition? Not that I agree with this definition of open source btw, just saying that there is precedent.

New comment by riversflow in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

riversflow — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:53:08 +0000

i would agree with your if it weren’t for this article recently published by anthropic:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta

“Throughout this process, Jarred's input was mostly limited to sending Claude messages of encouragement (mostly variants of “keep going” or “believe in yourself”).2 This seems to have helped Claude overcome some initial skepticism that it could make meaningful progress.”

IBM and the University of Chicago Demonstrate Quantum Advantage

riversflow — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:55:39 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-07-30-ibm-and-the-university-of-chicago-demonstrate-quantum-advantage,-establishing-trusted-quantum-computation-on-logical-circuits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371318

Points: 3

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New comment by riversflow in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

riversflow — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:14:57 +0000

you should review the data on processed meat. It's one of the least healthy things you can eat.

New comment by riversflow in "ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year"

riversflow — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:56:42 +0000

yeah i'm genuinely baffled by this too. I read this attitude frequently and I'm tending towards the conclusion that its simply a loud minority of people. I don't know anyone who acts like this in real life.

How is an LLM summary really any worse than reading through random blogs, forum posts, or reddit? Those are somehow so much more reliable? If you want authority it gives you links, and if you don't find good enough links you can ask it a follow up--no need to be coy--just straight up ask it for more authoritative sources and it will usually surface them. It's so blazingly fast relative to doing genuine naive search, I really don't see the downside.

New comment by riversflow in "India's surprise baby bust"

riversflow — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:07:18 +0000

I have more energy in my 30s than my 20s

New comment by riversflow in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

riversflow — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:33:21 +0000

you should see people who play competitive fps games fly through windows menus and websites. the reason I think mousing is superior to keyboard is when you attain a high skill level of eye hand coordination, you are completely adaptable to any GUI.

New comment by riversflow in "They’re made out of weights"

riversflow — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:05:34 +0000

Is a photograph art?

New comment by riversflow in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

riversflow — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:54:29 +0000

disdain for dumping industrial sludge into rivers is quite high too. if you don’t demand regulated domestic production it will just get moved to the least regulated place with the best underlying economics, I imagine you know this though…

New comment by riversflow in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

riversflow — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:50:22 +0000

Nuclear bombs and ICBMs aren’t a net positive for society either, but not pursuing them is bad geopolitical strategy.

New comment by riversflow in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

riversflow — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:23:53 +0000

lol, i think the LLM shows more wisdom here than the average person. Functionally, being 50m away from the car wash is at the car wash if you have a dirty car in your possession that needs cleaning. Realistically, the only reason you express the need to go to the carwash if you are in a 50m proximity with your car you intend to clean at the carwash is if you need to walk in and talk to someone.

New comment by riversflow in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

riversflow — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:18:33 +0000

nah, there is no reason they should be discharging any hexavalent chromium, we have better, less insanely toxic ways of chroming things. trivalent chromium is much less toxic, hexavalent chromium should be banned world-wide.

what's more, i'm not finding a reason that tesla would need hexavalent chromium in battery production, which leads me to speculate that this is waste from one of their other car factories where they presumably have a hexavalent chrome line (it's a cheaper and more robust process than trivalent chrome) and they are mixing/discharging on purpose at the limit at this plant.

New comment by riversflow in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

riversflow — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:48:17 +0000

Collecting crime data is already in their purview. Thats literally what this is. If this was an app that primarily facilitated contract murder, this would be obviously justifiable. Seems to me you and many others here just don’t actually believe in the states regulatory authority of digital things, like the computer in your car.

New comment by riversflow in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

riversflow — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:40:35 +0000

Earth's resources are finite, both in terms of raw materials and ability to absorb pollution. Stewardship of our resources entails the regulation of the things we create with those resources such that our collective consumption is conserved. Such oversight is both prudent, and as history and global outcomes teach, quite necessary.

New comment by riversflow in "Paraloid B-72"

riversflow — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:43:49 +0000

> 3M

Since it hasn’t been mentioned in this thread: 3M 94 primer with 3M VHB tape is truly amazing stuff for bonding things with high surface energy.