Hacker News: slicktux

New comment by slicktux in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

slicktux — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:53:14 +0000

Why are we putting so much weight (no pun intended) on AI companies. At the end of the day the scaled up LLM transformers lack emotion and will… They do as they are told; or more correctly put. They do as they are programmed to do so.

New comment by slicktux in "Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”"

slicktux — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:45:13 +0000

We do have regulation on food and safety and the recall is because of those parameters.

New comment by slicktux in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

slicktux — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:37 +0000

I believe a similar thing happened with fast food and food delivery fees. It costs money to be listed on the food delivery app so fast food chains started charging everyone the same price to offset the cost of being listed on the apps.

New comment by slicktux in "Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods"

slicktux — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:51:46 +0000

There’s many theories but one that I learned was that women and children provides the bulk of the calories for Early Humans. While the men went out and hunted for meat they also relied on the fruit harvested by the women and children. That would give them the energy necessary for trekking and hunting.

New comment by slicktux in "US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?"

slicktux — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:17:21 +0000

I recall back in 2016 when the debt was $19 trillion dollars. Here we are 10 years later at double that. “we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt… place economy among the first and most important republican virtues” -Thomas Jefferson

New comment by slicktux in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

slicktux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:53:58 +0000

That’s a rather splenetic response. On paper their contractor requires them to run an Amazon route and wear Amazon logo. Therefore, it’s not Amazon. I’m asking honest question that any court law will ask; cynicism is not part of the scales in court but rather objectivity.

New comment by slicktux in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

slicktux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:29:51 +0000

Honest question; it’s not Amazon that requires them to wear an Amazon vest but rather their contractor. Amazon may set the route but they don’t pay them to run the route. This should be interesting from a legal perspective.

New comment by slicktux in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

slicktux — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:47:25 +0000

I’ve been taken to a steak house for birthday and was shunned for ordering something basic. My reasoning is; a steak is so easy to ruin because it’s so easy to make that it’s just not worth the price to risk eating an expensive crappy steak. So I opt for something more basic that I know will be excellent because of the establishment.

New comment by slicktux in "French musician Kavinsky found dead"

slicktux — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:21:40 +0000

He was a whole aesthetic and genre. Love his music!

Rest in peace.

New comment by slicktux in "Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]"

slicktux — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:07:06 +0000

Just like that new jobs created by AI! Localized model maintainer/technician.

Will it be possible to do LLM Pool Training?

slicktux — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:22:08 +0000

Inspired by Crypto Pool Mining: would it be possible to train LLMs as a pool of volunteers? I feel like that would be a good way to have frontier models that are open and don’t rely on big corporations with data centers to train and release them…

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048332

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by slicktux in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

slicktux — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:02:13 +0000

One of the most important things for any profession is experience. Experience comes from learning from your own mistakes or those of others. Those with the best skills can be said to have learned a lot from previous mistakes.

So, how can someone become professional if they don’t learn from their own mistakes? In the case of AI; they will learn to become professional prompters and learn from the mistakes of bad prompts??? I prefer the former not the ladder.

New comment by slicktux in "The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)"

slicktux — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:32:40 +0000

The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station had a similar vintage looking control room. You can see a sad but cool image of the room as it’s being demolished on this nbc article.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/demolition-of-iconic-...

New comment by slicktux in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

slicktux — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:47:02 +0000

I recall reading the original research paper from a student who made the same RF ‘camera’ here in hacker news.

New comment by slicktux in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

slicktux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:51:33 +0000

Thank you! I will definitely check it out!

New comment by slicktux in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

slicktux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:50:23 +0000

My favorite space probe is the European Space Agency Philae. It probes the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and actually landed on it. It was able to send back images of its surface. Amazing!

New comment by slicktux in "AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price"

slicktux — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:06:59 +0000

Maybe a system running a local model is not so bad. The tokens per second will allow for that break?

Also, at what point does AI take over for all the thinking and white board planning?

AI should be a rubber duckie one can use to posit and assist when hit a brick wall. But if using it for all code generation, planning and troubleshooting then one is not in control; they’re just prompt drones…

New comment by slicktux in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

slicktux — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:34:17 +0000

Cool anecdote!

Couldn’t help but notice you misspelled car twice but only when talking about the blue car..

New comment by slicktux in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

slicktux — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:20:52 +0000

That’s great news ! Have they also solved the nuclear waste problem?

Honest question; here in the USA we have not.

New comment by slicktux in "15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test"

slicktux — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 19:05:44 +0000

Interesting enough; Lyme disease come from ticks that fed on infected mice. Like deer-mice or white footed mice. Rodents are the problem.