Hacker News: selfhoster11

New comment by selfhoster11 in "RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin"

selfhoster11 — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:48:42 +0000

That's like saying we shouldn't be letting people access glasses or wheelchairs because we need a way to fix the issue at the root. Nope.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows"

selfhoster11 — Fri, 01 May 2026 06:34:07 +0000

I use both of these and I don't think I've once had an LLM rewrite my comment before posting it on HN.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

selfhoster11 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:39:57 +0000

They are trained on natural language. Not anthropomorphizing them is the worse end of the spectrum.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

selfhoster11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:30:43 +0000

LLMs are indeed displacing labour. Junior IT roles are drying up in places. Translation and art are also becoming harder to earn from.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

selfhoster11 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:38:40 +0000

They always have a choice, it just doesn't make them as much.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

selfhoster11 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:42:23 +0000

There was Lavabit, though that's an example of just one such event.

Edit: and to some extent Apple, at least in the past.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

selfhoster11 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:40:18 +0000

I am on this very forum as an explicit effort to counterbalance that very view. You have my strong agreement.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

selfhoster11 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:02:42 +0000

I didn't even realize that this is (allegedly) written with AI. If it's AI, then it's the kind of AI writing that's closer to the real deal and that I want to see more widely applied if AI is to be used.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "The soul might just be a check engine light that got too good at its job"

selfhoster11 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:58:49 +0000

AI slop

New comment by selfhoster11 in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

selfhoster11 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:21:41 +0000

No. I reject this framing. It is none of anybody's business how "secure" my device ever is. A smartphone is a piece of electronics, and not a tamper evident identity device.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Molly guard in reverse"

selfhoster11 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:11:56 +0000

Which is why that's not what it does. It asks you to input the hostname instead, just like deleting a repo in Github does.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

selfhoster11 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:48:45 +0000

The good rephrasing will not include that voice.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn"

selfhoster11 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:19:22 +0000

I refuse to engage in "LLMs are evil, period" views. That's like walking out into a battlefield with a samurai sword, while your enemy has Gatling guns. You'll be shredded. The pressure to survive means new tools have to be examined and incorporated as and when needed. The resources needed to run a 24B LLM on a gaming GPU are not costing the earth.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

selfhoster11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:33:48 +0000

K2.5 and GLM-4.7/-5 were good in my experience, another vote for those.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way"

selfhoster11 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:34:27 +0000

I could spend 100% doing the work with my own Claude, and 0% reading yours. That's a negative-sum outcome. I do think that the 80%/20% split is better (though anything that is mostly human voice is fine for me).

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws"

selfhoster11 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:47:28 +0000

Red Star OS.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

selfhoster11 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:29:23 +0000

Please add Internet Archive's bot to your auto-allows, at least. Their bot is presumably well behaved, and for public benefit.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

selfhoster11 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:11:59 +0000

No, the problem absolutely is identity verification. No KYC should be needed for any kind of online API service, period.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "Anthropic announces proof of distillation at scale by MiniMax, DeepSeek,Moonshot"

selfhoster11 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:42:47 +0000

It doesn't take much hardware. I have run larger models.

New comment by selfhoster11 in "ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives"

selfhoster11 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:48:04 +0000

I have seen such drives. ATAboy promises to be a nice option if manufacturing and populating a PCB is not too expensive.