Hacker News: seu

New comment by seu in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

seu — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:01:25 +0000

Before that, a more important question is: why assume that buying or having "more stuff" leads to a better life?

New comment by seu in "AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU"

seu — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:47:45 +0000

I love it how the rampocalypse is pushing people to squash all the performance they can. I hope that this also leads to rethinking model architecture so that they can do the same with less.

New comment by seu in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

seu — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:46:51 +0000

This looks like a great idea, thanks for sharing it!

New comment by seu in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

seu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:58:42 +0000

All videos are so full of stereotypes and clichés, often borderline (or just plainly) racist. But of course, that's not the main worry for people making these things, right...

New comment by seu in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

seu — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:53:21 +0000

So much money spent to avoid the easiest answer: less cars (more public transport, more bicycle lanes, etc.)

New comment by seu in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

seu — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:45:54 +0000

So while we're trying to make computers do what humans do, we play pretend being computers.

New comment by seu in "Codex for open source"

seu — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:20:31 +0000

Of course the solution to overusing AI is... to use more AI. Love it.

New comment by seu in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

seu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:37:39 +0000

> This is generally driven by people’s desire for a new device, including for the functionalities provided by new models.

So people are to blame, not the companies shoveling ads, offering promotions to buy new phones, and in general creating the huge demand that they later, "are forced to satisfy".

New comment by seu in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

seu — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:15:13 +0000

I'm skeptical about efforts to discuss changing schools (not even "revolutionizing" them) without even mentioning Ivan Illich or Paulo Freire.

Here some links for the lazy ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy_of_the_Oppressed

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

seu — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:26:29 +0000

The article is great and very informative. But I feel there's a general vibe of "privatizations are great". For example, they do mention that privatizations didn't work in Argentina (they were a total mess and the total railway went from something like 50k kilometers to two thirds of that - if) but they don't mention enough of it - or other cases - to understand which regulations and why worked the way they did. It feels too much like it's all about integrating corporations, and that's it.

New comment by seu in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

seu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:48:55 +0000

I was dual booting Linux Mint (work) and Windows 11 (games). A month ago, Windows started trying to push an update, which I resisted. A week ago, they just force fed it to my computer. I deleted the partitions without a second thought, tried CachyOS, realized that the games I play worked perfectly out of the box, and now I'm using it as my main OS. I'm never again installing windows on a computer I own.

New comment by seu in "Overcoming the friendship recession"

seu — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:43:18 +0000

I think there should be less "how to solve friendship" posts, which see our social interactions as "problems" to be solved, and more reflection about how this is a consequence of a market oriented, inequality driving system. If the problem is that friendships need time, we should demand less working time and more free time to establish friendships.

New comment by seu in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

seu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:58:22 +0000

Sometimes it looks like the purpose of those hundreds of billions of parameters and those apparent feats of engineering, is to get others to tell you how clever you are. Now we have even automated that.

New comment by seu in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

seu — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:42:53 +0000

There's a very interesting critique of Kahneman's "Thinking fast and slow" from German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzen: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397923694_The_Legac...

I suggest everyone interested in learning how these theories emerge, and how the social sciences work, to give it a read. Also, it kind of dismantles the whole idea of System 1 and 2, which then I guess would question the theoretical foundations of this paper too.

New comment by seu in "Java is fast, code might not be"

seu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:01:39 +0000

I'm a bit surprised to see those examples, because there's nothing really new here. These are typical beginner pitfalls and have been there for at least a decade or more. Or maybe it's because I learned java in the late 90s and later used it for J2ME, and then using things like StringBuilder (StringBuffer in the old days) were almost mandatory, and you would be very careful trying to avoid unnecessary object allocations.

New comment by seu in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

seu — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:27:53 +0000

> Flip the toggle and tap to confirm you are not being coerced

This is just spreading fear. If you're being coerced to do this, then you're in a much bigger danger than what a rogue application sideloaded to your phone represents.

New comment by seu in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

seu — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 09:48:06 +0000

Looks great! It could be nice to have an integrated temperature control solution that keeps your servers cool and your plants warm.

New comment by seu in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

seu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:05:17 +0000

> giving you oodles of tax money for this nonsense reason.

You've never heard of tax avoidance, have you?

https://itep.org/trump-meta-tesla-alphabet-amazon-obbba-taxe...

New comment by seu in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

seu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:02:08 +0000

> you are making the recipient wade through noise to get to signal

Because we all know that human beings are actually computers in disguise, or radio receivers, and everything that matters is "perfect", "unpolluted" transmission of messages. :shrug:

New comment by seu in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

seu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:28:58 +0000

Would love to hear it unsorting the same array.