Hacker News: shwaj

New comment by shwaj in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

shwaj — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:14:13 +0000

“Striped office floors. Flickering lights. Walls covered in repetitive geometric patterns.”

Not sentences. AI slop.

New comment by shwaj in "GPT-5.6"

shwaj — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:35:19 +0000

Inference providers, sure, but wouldn't we expect customers to win also?

New comment by shwaj in "Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast"

shwaj — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:20:03 +0000

Benn Jordan, you mean. Good video.

New comment by shwaj in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

shwaj — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:48:27 +0000

> ML researcher or engineer

The charitable reading is that they meant “ML researcher or ML engineer” with the latter meaning, I guess, an engineer who works on developing LLMs not just using them.

New comment by shwaj in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

shwaj — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:10:53 +0000

I don’t think society is a monolith. Many of those who support your proverbial alimony are also against CEOs acting with impunity.

New comment by shwaj in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

shwaj — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:40:17 +0000

It's becoming a reliable heuristic that when somebody says "... got it", they probably didn't get it.

New comment by shwaj in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

shwaj — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:17:12 +0000

“Put it there in the back with the others”, lol.

New comment by shwaj in "Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb"

shwaj — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:46:58 +0000

"Formerly banned books" would be more accurate.

We no longer say that "cannabis is illegal in California"; that would be factually incorrect. Instead we say, "cannabis was formerly illegal". In standard usage of English, the same pattern applies to banned vs formerly banned books.

Edit: wording

New comment by shwaj in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

shwaj — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:00:07 +0000

I’ve heard about that “open secret” and I don’t understand.

What’s the incentive for Anthropic to pump up the token usage on their top end plan? Is it to move Pro users up to Max? That’s the only plausible idea I can think of.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:39:18 +0000

Maybe I just don’t know how the business works. Many of the support calls that I make are for things or services that I’ve had for a while, not just purchased. So I expected that to be more of a trailing indicator rather than the first area hit.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:20:35 +0000

I’m as skeptical of fiat currencies as the next guy, but denominating in Bitcoin is the ultimate cherry pick.

The price of everything has crashed in the last 10 years when denominated in Bitcoin. If we measured GDP in Bitcoins, the statistics would show that we’re in an unprecedented depression.

New comment by shwaj in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:55:14 +0000

Sales people sure, but secretaries and support staff?

New comment by shwaj in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

shwaj — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:35:04 +0000

Not on my timeline, this has been the name the whole time.

New comment by shwaj in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

shwaj — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:11:39 +0000

Relatively small amount compared to the billions we see thrown around for AI startups a couple of years old.

New comment by shwaj in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

shwaj — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:04:37 +0000

I thought they’re primarily water vapor resulting from the combustion reaction, not from wing tip turbulence.

New comment by shwaj in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

shwaj — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:43:08 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. A jitter buffer is necessary for a human listener, but a LLM isn’t aware of a time lapse, just like it isn’t aware of the time since your last message in the conversion (unless the chat harness explicitly informs it).

New comment by shwaj in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

shwaj — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:16:16 +0000

It’s manipulative if you don’t care and pretend you do, especially to achieve a goal of your own.

It’s not manipulative if you cultivate the tendency to actually care about others, and not treat them like NPCs who are only important for your goals.

New comment by shwaj in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"

shwaj — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:23:37 +0000

Why do they call it a speed limit on the highways?

New comment by shwaj in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

shwaj — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:58:24 +0000

In fact, it didn’t. Trump continued to make “no new wars” a plank of his platform.

Some of his base will follow wherever he goes, but he would not have been elected without those who supported him on the basis of this (broken) promise.

New comment by shwaj in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

shwaj — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:40:27 +0000

The videos are good training data, but the comments? The comment UX is so non-conducive to discussion, and the general quality is very low compared to what used to be on Google+ (to be fair, the self-selected users of Google+ were not representative of the general population).