<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: sigmaisaletter</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sigmaisaletter</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:19:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sigmaisaletter" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Claude 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4<p>Online at: <a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad13df32ed995.pdf#page27" rel="nofollow">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68eb70eb9572b4cafad1...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 22:33:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067881</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> 10 years ago, the entire conversation would have seemed ridiculous<p>Bostrom's book[1] is 11 years old. The Basilisk is 15 years old. The Singularity summit was nearly 20 years ago. And Yudkowsky was there for all of it. If you frequented LessWrong in the 2010s, most of this is very very old hat.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dangers,_Strategies" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang...</a><p>[2]: Ford (2015) "Our Fear of Artificial Intelligence", MIT Tech Review: <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/02/11/169210/our-fear-of-artificial-intelligence/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/02/11/169210/our-fear-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 21:16:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067144</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you mean "somewhat naive" instead of "somewhat native". :)<p>But, yes, this, in my mind the peak[1] bubble times ended with the DeepSeek shock earlier this year, and we are slowly on the downward trajectory now.<p>It won't be slow for long, once people start realizing Sama was telling them a fairy tale, and AGI/ASI/singularity isn't "right around the corner", but (if achievable at all) at least two more technology triggers away.<p>We got reasonably useful tools out of it, and thanks to Zuck, mostly for free (if you are an "investor", terms and conditions apply).<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 21:08:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067044</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067044</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>* The first generation were those silly AI pins last year.<p>* The second generation will be this opaqueAI ivePad.<p>* And when the third generation comes out, all phones will already have whatever makes this special.<p>I don't think Sama and Ive are smarter than everyone else, but even if they are, I don't see how this flies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 17:20:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064278</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44064278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Social media platforms: what's wrong, and what's next"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After reading all the posts, I feel this is far too strongly centered on Reddit. What about the other services? They seem to be mentioned in an aside, if at all.</p>
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<p>> I feel like federated social media platforms are not going to be the answer in the end -- and although its adoption has grown in the coming years, I think it's always going to lag behind others.<p>Care to give an argument to substantiate that? These are pretty strong claims, "in the end" and "always" have a certain finality to them, which indicates you very strongly believe that. Why?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:44:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063835</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Launch HN: WorkDone (YC X25) – AI Audit of Medical Charts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool idea. This seems US-only, unless I missed something.<p>Is this even possible in the EU with the GDPR and its stricter rules on medical data?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:40:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063780</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Worldcoin is and always will be opt-in.<p>Government solutions will be opt-out, and only in the most tedious way: Leaving the country, burning your passport and becoming a stateless person. Not recommended.<p>If there ever was a moat, government has it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 11:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44060955</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44060955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44060955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for the (possible) clarification.<p>But as long as Google isn't their _only_ customer, why would Nvidia care?</p>
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<p>I am a serial account-hopper, so this couldn't happen to me, so perhaps I don't understand the point at all.<p>But what is keeping you from making a new account and rejoining the same subreddits, except perhaps losing a hundred million magic internet points?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 20:33:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056032</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44056032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "'Turbocharged' Mitochondria Power Birds' Epic Migratory Journeys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"With few exceptions, all animal mitochondrial genomes contain the same 37 genes: two for rRNAs, 13 for proteins and 22 for tRNAs. (...) the comparison of animal mitochondrial gene arrangements has become a very powerful means for inferring ancient evolutionary relationships, since rearrangements appear to be unique, generally rare events that are unlikely to arise independently in separate evolutionary lineages."<p>Source: Boore (1999) Animal mitochondrial genomes. Nucleic Acids Res. 1999 Apr 15;27(8):1767–1780<p>Hyperlink: <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC148383/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC148383/</a><p>i.e. mtDNA changes a lot less than our "normal" cell nucleus nDNA</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 20:14:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055823</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44055823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have my upvote for pedantic overkill.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049919</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Ask a person on the street who their favorite painting movements are and likely every name will be more than 100 years old<p>I think you overestimate the publics art appreciation. The average answer will be a blank stare.</p>
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<p>Your post strangely sounds like Nvidia primarily makes graphic cards for consumers.<p>Last time I checked, they couldn't produce enough H100s/GB100s to satisfy demand from everyone and their mother running a data center. And their most recent consumer hardware offerings have been repeatedly called a "paper launch" - probably because consumer hardware isn't a priority, given the price (and profit) delta.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 23:12:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046849</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Google AI Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The same companies who stole... sorry.. fair-used all the worlds artworks and all text on the internet to train their models are now promising you they won't steal...sorry... fair-use your uploaded data?<p>In unrelated matters, I have a bridge to sell you, if you are interested.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 22:20:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046517</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44046517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The chain of thought goes like this:<p>-american labour is expensive<p>-because of tariffs (or geopolitics) cheap asian labour unavailable<p>-investment in automation research<p>-first Gen automation is expensive<p>-further research<p>-2nd Gen automation is price-competitive with american labour<p>-iterate n times<p>-Nth Gen automation is price-competitive with asian labour<p>> why doesn't it happen with the chinese supply chain<p>The idea is that because asian labour is so cheap, there is no real incentive to invest in automation research, because everyone knows it won't be price-competitive for long.<p>No idea if that is actually true, but that is the argument.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 13:11:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041220</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Imagine a drive where every file exists as all file types all of the time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a fancy file format conversion utility.<p>Am I missing something?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 13:00:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041084</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44041084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Went searching and found a few more:<p>-PlayStation: <a href="https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css">https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css</a><p>-Gameboy: <a href="https://github.com/luttje/css-pokemon-gameboy">https://github.com/luttje/css-pokemon-gameboy</a><p>-Windows7: <a href="https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css">https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css</a><p>-Win95: <a href="https://github.com/AlexBSoft/win95.css">https://github.com/AlexBSoft/win95.css</a><p>-Oldschool RPG: <a href="http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/" rel="nofollow">http://ronenness.github.io/RPGUI/</a><p>-MacOS 8: <a href="https://github.com/npjg/classic.css">https://github.com/npjg/classic.css</a><p>-MacOS 6: <a href="https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css">https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css</a><p>And some that are more than just CSS:<p>-386 DOS: <a href="https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386">https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386</a> (Bootstrap Theme)<p>-Terminal: <a href="https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js">https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js</a><p>-another Terminal: <a href="https://github.com/andersevenrud/retro-css-shell-demo">https://github.com/andersevenrud/retro-css-shell-demo</a><p>-90s website: <a href="http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/" rel="nofollow">http://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/</a> (Bootstrap)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 20:42:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034623</link><dc:creator>sigmaisaletter</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmaisaletter in "Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>-counter strike 1.6: <a href="https://cs16.samke.me/" rel="nofollow">https://cs16.samke.me/</a>?</p>
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<p>It seems that PCC indeed went live with 18.1 - tho not in Europe (which is where I am located). Thanks for the heads up, I will look into this further.</p>
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