Hacker News: rooftopzen

New comment by rooftopzen in "How the Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

rooftopzen — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:20:03 +0000

Anyone accountable for AI being deterministic (this is most of the bay) - am curious how they incorporated the movie into the BS they shill (if they do).

New comment by rooftopzen in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

rooftopzen — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:15:54 +0000

The bar @ OAI is surprisingly low (watch a few minutes of their video presentations) - I've concluded it has something to do w how their recruiters define 'AI Native' (who assign their own meaning to meaninglessness of it), resulting in higher aggregate brain atrophy (hard to ignore once you notice it)

New comment by rooftopzen in "What's Dragging Down AI Efficiency? The 'Verification Tax.'"

rooftopzen — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:27:20 +0000

No “human bottleneck”. A probabilistic technology was never able to automate (this has been a marketing lie for a few years now, old news)

New comment by rooftopzen in "Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack"

rooftopzen — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:10:57 +0000

Curious where it’s being documented - this is a fascinating study (who knows how long time period to measure its impact will last) - do you have links?

Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack

rooftopzen — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d#bot-traffic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051532

Points: 222

# Comments: 113

New comment by rooftopzen in "Four AI lab breaches were caused by a single underlying issue, Irregular says"

rooftopzen — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 22:30:49 +0000

"Irregular says"? That same company is misreporting all these alarmist headlines while withholding evidence, funded by Ethical Altruism - see below (footnotes)

https://www.effort.news/irregular

New comment by rooftopzen in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

rooftopzen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:25:06 +0000

This comment is an ad itself, has been posted every few days, I would guess by OpenAI (shows they have no product)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ads.openai.com

New comment by rooftopzen in "Apollo economist says a 'painful repricing' of AI markets is possible"

rooftopzen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:36:29 +0000

The same company that applied absurd valuations to AI infra (see below) - I agree with the 'repricing' assessment to a severe degree, but what is one of the main investor's intention here?

https://peinsights.substack.com/p/apollo-and-blackstone-clos...

New comment by rooftopzen in "Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs"

rooftopzen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:30:47 +0000

Cliche topic - from a few years ago (the "RAG is dead" vs "All You Need Is Advanced RAG" BS - it came in waves and cycles, spread by bots on social media networks).

"Pruning RAG Context" is trying to recycle the old stuff (again), presuming the reader is naive (implies kapa.ai is not going anywhere). The current cycles were "openclaw" (I think that died), now we are on "harnesses" - when that dies the paid social media bots will give you something else. Shell game.

Just declare / define dictionary as a variable in your prompt to carry forward (when you decide to continue using LLMs for certain things). Also either summarize or truncate history. 3-4 year old concept. Not a big thing.

New comment by rooftopzen in "AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector"

rooftopzen — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:21:32 +0000

Article is authored by a private credit firm who assigned absurd valuations to AI infra (see below as an even super recent example) - what is their intention by writing this (is it due to the AI fear narratives around software investments they also hold that drive ppl to withdraw their holdings in Apollo?)

From last month: https://peinsights.substack.com/p/apollo-and-blackstone-clos...

New comment by rooftopzen in "Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search"

rooftopzen — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:38:19 +0000

Great viz; the original paper wasn't peer reviewed; it might be great but I've learned its a waste of time to read those in current times (sorry and take this as one data point that suggests they should have done that).

That said, I've found FAISS great for certain use cases; wanted to say thx for surfacing - its not updated to work with most packages these days outside of faiss-cpu - curious why Meta dropped its maintenance; was it due to its slower speed or otherwise priorities?

New comment by rooftopzen in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

rooftopzen — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:48:32 +0000

Smart guy phoning it in now - realized a few weeks ago that he “notices” something interesting to share, but is really paraphrasing a recently released paper that found it - without giving paper credit.

New comment by rooftopzen in "Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter"

rooftopzen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:24:32 +0000

Being the datacenter is apparently mostly a scam, curious on who concocted an attack as an exit?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-massive-stargate-data...

New comment by rooftopzen in "Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO"

rooftopzen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:30:43 +0000

Hypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).

New comment by rooftopzen in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

rooftopzen — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:49 +0000

Considering how YC companies are customers of other YC companies (presumably to lift ARR), how many YC companies have Delve compliance?

Should we worry about AI startup customer data…

Why the US Could Blame AI for Blowing Up the Iranian School

rooftopzen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jonathanbennion.info/p/why-the-us-may-blame-ai-for-blowing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319128

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by rooftopzen in "Ezra Klein: The Future We Feared Is Here"

rooftopzen — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:27:24 +0000

Ezra Klein - any premise he has had in past 1-2 years is built on a maligned belief in AGI that is unscientific. Have heard he recently pivoted eg “moved goal posts” for his AGI timeline but the guy appears to be wasting time following delusional trends, this piece included.

New comment by rooftopzen in "Chamath Palihapitiya Says AI Costs at Startup 8090 Could Hit $10M"

rooftopzen — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:21:59 +0000

This guy generalizes lots with “could” and “might” like a politician, why waste energy responding to it?

New comment by rooftopzen in "Yann LeCun: Current AI Is Dead End"

rooftopzen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Everything I’ve been saying for 2 years, curious what’s taken him so long for him to finally speak reality the last few weeks of interviews

Yann LeCun: Current AI Is Dead End

rooftopzen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/an-ai-pioneer-warns-the-tech-herd-is-marching-into-a-dead-end.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774318

Points: 12

# Comments: 2