Hacker News: savanaly

New comment by savanaly in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

savanaly — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:48:48 +0000

How is that saying the quiet part out loud?

New comment by savanaly in "Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible"

savanaly — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:11:57 +0000

Riot games tried exactly this with Riot Forge, but it was shut down because none of its 5+ games they tried amounted to much in terms of sales.

New comment by savanaly in "Court throws out killer's sentence after judge said he loved AI video of victim"

savanaly — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:03:36 +0000

So basically it's that they believe the AI video was so off-putting that it sabotaged its own case in the judge's eyes? And that the case for leniency is stronger without the AI video so let the trial run again so the case can be heard without the AI video??

New comment by savanaly in "On social reality in China"

savanaly — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 05:09:40 +0000

He is also a vlogger in China making videos in English, but his don't use AI.

New comment by savanaly in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

savanaly — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:04:13 +0000

>so we arent being taken andvantage of

For the last time...that's not how trade works! People who say this in this context mean well, but are committing the exact same category error/misunderstanding of economics that Trump and his supporters are.

New comment by savanaly in "Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix"

savanaly — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:35:29 +0000

Complete tangent, but my impression is that one glass of wine per day is "fine", but you're still statistically better off in a non-trivial way by going down to zero. Not counting the benefits of course.... :)

I got an email about resistance

savanaly — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/i-got-an-email-about-resistance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228736

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by savanaly in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

savanaly — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:25:26 +0000

>I think things like web search should probably be run on a different sandboxed AI whose task is to write a summary that is then ingested by the main agent, similar to how existing sandboxing already works, but this would diminish the usefulness quite a bit.

It also wouldn't work. You would simply mindjack the outer AI and have it mindjack the inner AI in turn with its summary. Nesting AIs can't fix the malicious input problem.

New comment by savanaly in "GPT‑Live"

savanaly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:24:56 +0000

You have always been able to pick between voices of many kinds though? Do you find them all sultry? From the British woman to the 17th century pirate soundalike?

New comment by savanaly in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

savanaly — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:07:50 +0000

Yes but the point of the phrase "apples to oranges" is that they are hard to compare. But if you comparing something they both have and is easily measurable, such as sugar, then yes you should compare apples to oranges!

New comment by savanaly in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

savanaly — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:13:02 +0000

Millions? Makes me think of https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...

New comment by savanaly in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

savanaly — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:54:17 +0000

>One reason the "passion tax" is possible for employers is that there seems to be a degree of labor monopsony for the kind of development done by AAA game studios.

How is the existence of a monopsony necessary or even related to a passion tax existing? Suppose the market were a fully free market with tons of software companies on one side and tons of developers on the other. It would fly in the face of reason, and fairness in my eyes, if all developers were paid the same but some got to work on fun stuff like games and others worked on the scheduling software for the scheduling software for the warehouse robot repairs. So a passion tax seems like something that should exist and not really be decried.

Every Magazine Piece on the SF AI Scene

savanaly — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/every-magazine-piece-on-the-sf-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135994

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by savanaly in "Why Japan has such good railways"

savanaly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:54:28 +0000

>how ingenious Japan’s system of zoning is

I'm only barely familiar with it so I ask this in good faith: is it really ingenious or is it just more permissive? My bias/priors are that the simpler and truer statement is: it can't be overstated how beneficial more permissive zoning laws are to a society.

New comment by savanaly in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

savanaly — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:18:00 +0000

>YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

No it doesn't. If you were hoping it would mean you don't see shorts when you visit the Youtube home page, that's not what this is. I just tried the thing mentioned in the article-- set my Shorts time limit to 0 minutes. What it does is make it so if you click a short from somewhere the short plays, but then if you try to swipe to the next one it hits you with the "You reached your short limit". If you then return to the home page you still see Shorts.

New comment by savanaly in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

savanaly — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:22:16 +0000

Not just insider knowledge. Being more willing to put in hard work than anyone else, being better at synthesizing public knowledge, or maintaining a more clear and unemotional outlook all can also lead you to superior outcomes.

New comment by savanaly in "Good software knows when to stop"

savanaly — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:22:46 +0000

Exception that proves the rule, IMO.

New comment by savanaly in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

savanaly — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:40:45 +0000

"Bus stop reduction" makes it sound like it will make it harder to take the bus. But the point of the article is that's compensated by the buses being more useful because they get where they're going more quickly. So "balancing" seems apt to me.

New comment by savanaly in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

savanaly — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:34:13 +0000

Can't you also make money by making a good decision that benefits you and another party? I feel like I do this all the time, just on a relatively small scale.

New comment by savanaly in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

savanaly — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Regular Joe version as far as I know.