Hacker News: sambapa

New comment by sambapa in "Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI"

sambapa — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:06:44 +0000

What's the problem of not liking shit when it is shoved down your throat? It is not an extreme overreaction, it is a reaction, so maybe this technology is just really bad?

New comment by sambapa in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

sambapa — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:40:16 +0000

If this comment is serious, then you may have the beginnings of AI psychosis

New comment by sambapa in "Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques"

sambapa — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:34:40 +0000

Plot twist: critics are bots (just like me)

New comment by sambapa in "Knitting bullshit"

sambapa — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:42:19 +0000

Have you lost a limb?

New comment by sambapa in "Virtual violin produces realistic sounds"

sambapa — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:38:31 +0000

Yeah, not to mention overlapping sounds produced on the same string

New comment by sambapa in "To my students"

sambapa — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:58:07 +0000

I mean... Right now it sounds pretty good?

New comment by sambapa in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

sambapa — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:13:45 +0000

"almost everywhere" can mean the curve has countably infinite number of discontinuities

New comment by sambapa in "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus"

sambapa — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:09:55 +0000

You meant antiderivative?

New comment by sambapa in "NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)"

sambapa — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:52:10 +0000

Yes, don't be such a nagger

New comment by sambapa in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

sambapa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:58:44 +0000

Torment Nexus sounds fun

New comment by sambapa in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

sambapa — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:48:42 +0000

That book was like a matryoshka doll but instead stacked dolls there were stacked mindfucks

New comment by sambapa in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

sambapa — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:57:58 +0000

Well, Charles would just say that you are one of the ones that dgaf

New comment by sambapa in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

sambapa — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:30:23 +0000

Because most of that list isn't classical music

New comment by sambapa in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

sambapa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:02:01 +0000

Known repertoire is a function of BAC only.

New comment by sambapa in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

sambapa — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:24:20 +0000

Vinyl is for plebs, hiring troubadours for your party is the way.

New comment by sambapa in "Building a TB-303 from Scratch"

sambapa — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:07:00 +0000

Shitty? Why so harsh? That web app IMO is great, like supercollider running in a browser.

At least it isn't some ai slop

New comment by sambapa in "Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead"

sambapa — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:51:00 +0000

Nope, you are!

New comment by sambapa in "Gemini Said They Could Only Be Together If He Killed Himself. Soon, He Was Dead"

sambapa — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:45:52 +0000

As far as I know, we haven't done any proper Turing Tests for LLMs. And if we did, they would surely fail them.

New comment by sambapa in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

sambapa — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:15:09 +0000

No, but I can develop methods to eventually do it.

New comment by sambapa in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

sambapa — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:51:50 +0000

And I'm trying to bench press an elephant while Europe is succeeding to macromanage shitty companies.