<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: shitloadofbooks</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=shitloadofbooks</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:29:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=shitloadofbooks" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't stay the most cash-rich company by chasing every expensive fad and they've been equally conservative with other "THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING" tech fads such as Cryptocurrency and VR. I don't blame them for not rushing to light Billions a month on fire like the other big players; their play always seems to be to let things shake out and then deliver something refined and sophisticated.<p>There also doesn't seem like any real opportunity for them to Apple-ify this tech (any more than today's announcement). There's lots of rough edges and the underlying technology is fundamentally janky and extremely problematic in Apple's second differentiator of privacy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:46:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452655</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48452655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the name for the literary device that LLMs use where it explains something and then follows with a "pithy" "gotcha" sentence?<p>> > Atherton didn't have to win. A CEQA lawsuit doesn't need a strong legal theory to do damage — it just needs to introduce enough risk that funders freeze and clocks keep running. The delay is the weapon.<p>In my opinion, this construct is massively overused by LLMs and is extremely jarring to read. The pithy followup "The delay is the weapon." feels like Year 8 Debate Club and is very melodramatic and cringy.<p>It must be possible to steer the LLM away from this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:17:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350766</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Atherton spent $145K to delay train electrification. The rest of us paid $400M"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Atherton didn't have to win. A CEQA lawsuit doesn't need a strong legal theory to do damage — it just needs to introduce enough risk that funders freeze and clocks keep running. The delay is the weapon.<p>In my opinion, this construct is massively overused by LLMs and is extremely jarring to read. The pithy followup "The delay is the weapon." feels like Year 8 Debate Club and is very melodramatic and cringy, which LLMs do a LOT.<p>There are other spots that stand out, but this is the point where I said to myself "oh this is the point where the author stopped "cowriting" and just pasted the LLM slop directly."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:14:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350735</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an Australian with a family and 2 high-paying salaries paying a LOT of tax, none of those countries are remotely comparable to Australia.<p>If you hate taxes and fees, Singapore has a 60% Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty on residential property applied to foreign buyers, on top of an already insane property market. There's huge fines and government intervention into  _everything_ and a massive high-stress culture.<p>Hong Kong is equally absurd for property and has a sword hanging over its head, that falls if China ever makes a move on Taiwan; the inevitable US and global sanctions would decimate HK.<p>Dubai is just a comical option.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 23:16:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261983</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is total FUD.<p>The goal that AI-Megacorp CEOs have been pushing lately is "super intelligence" and so if that's where you truly think we are rapidly heading, what's the risk for those of us not hyper-invested in AI? This "super intelligence" (by definition) will be able to understand us both equally well, so all these "prompting skills" people claim sets them apart from people who don't use AI that much will be utterly pointless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:37:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484460</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assuming the cutting face is down, the handle is on "backwards" too (the swell at the bottom normally goes the other way).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:27:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358693</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Shall I implement it? No"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I certainly wouldn't use a compiler that "screws up" 1% of the time; that's the perfect amount where it's extremely common where everything I use it for will have major issues but also so laborious to find amongst the 99% of correct output that I might as well not use it in the first place.<p>Which is ironically, the exact case those of us who don't find LLM-assisted coding "worth it" make.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:17:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358596</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47358596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point, where everyone is using an LLM to post and I'm having to use an LLM to keep up and summarise it, I think I'll just ...stop and go outside for quite a while...</p>
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<p>My BYD Sealion 7 has been an absolute joy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:27:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971216</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46971216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Apple M5 chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you care so much? Sounds exhausting...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:56:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598797</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45598797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cancer Council is an Australian charity which raises funds for cancer research and support.<p>Buying their products supports them (and you would expect they hold themselves to even higher standards for the effectiveness of their product  than a random company).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:22:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45153434</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45153434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45153434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking, or routes the traffic through TCP proxies so your traffic appears to come from a different country without these laws.<p>This will increase the latency of all traffic to that site though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936200</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Analyzing a Critique of the AI 2027 Timeline Forecasts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI proponents keep drawing perfectly straight lines from "no AI --> LLMs exist --> LLMs write some adequate code sometimes" up into the horizon of the Y axis where AIs run all governments, write all code, paint all paintings and so on.<p>There's a large overlap with the crypto true-believers who were convinced after seeing "no blockchain --> blockchain exists" that all laws would be enshrined in the blockchain, all business would be done with blockchains, etc.<p>We've had automation in the past; it didn't decimate the labour-force; it just changed how people work.<p>And we didn't go from handwashing clothes --> washing machines --> all flat surfaces are cleaned daily by washing robots...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:28:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372175</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44372175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Show HN: RomM – An open-source, self-hosted ROM manager and player"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made my own really mediocre version of this 2 years ago just for PS4 and Switch ROMS, also using IGDB etc. Glad to see something so polished and professional looking.<p>For the maintainers, does this pull the metadata (e.g Title ID or PKG ID) from the (supported) ROM files directly, or only from the filename? I skimmed the README and Docs and couldn't find a clear answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:42:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253335</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44253335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Couldn't you try implement them in a game engine?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 07:22:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167323</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44167323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "With AI you need to think bigger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know you’re being disparaging by using language like “bake into their identity” but everyone is “something” about “something”.<p>I’m “indifferent” about “roller coasters” and “passionate” about “board games”.<p>To answer the question (but I’m not OP), I’m skeptical about LLMs. “These words are often near each other” vastly exceeds my expectation at being fairly convincing that the machine “knows” something, but it’s dangerously confident when it’s hilariously incorrect.<p>Whatever we call the next technological leap where there’s actual knowledge (not just “word statistics” I’ll be less skeptical about.</p>
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<p>My country (Australia) in the past month shut down 3G and 2G was shut down in 2017.<p>The 3G shutdown was ...problematic: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIJavqEzEIw</a></p>
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<p>In my opinion the difference is that a recent graduate knows to say “I don’t know” to questions they’re not sure on, whereas LLMs will extremely confidently and convincingly lie to your face and tell you dangerous nonsense.</p>
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<p><a href="https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2-clips/ebc93c27-de42-4b9a-af68-7010f13703c2-uCT9hWe33kHcfmIt4r9iXRyWXPrfA3.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://6ammc3n5zzf5ljnz.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/inf2...</a><p>It’s astounding that 2 sentences generated this. (I used text-to-image and the prompt for a space marine in power armour produced something amazing with no extra tweaks required).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 00:33:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470713</link><dc:creator>shitloadofbooks</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41470713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by shitloadofbooks in "Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had 2 (stolen) cars pull up out the front of my house and 6 teenagers swarm my house (whilst several stayed in the cars) in Brisbane, Australia.<p>I was notified by the motion alarm in my driveway and then my front door and was able to hit the Siren button and scare them off.<p>Without that, I would have had 6 "armed" intruders inside my house with myself+partner+4 year old.<p>The camera system prevented the crime being far more serious than it would have been (both cars+valuables stolen and maybe a stabbing or 3).</p>
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