Hacker News: smith7018

New comment by smith7018 in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

smith7018 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:20:22 +0000

Cheap labor has always been a thing; a random country getting more access to the internet doesn't change that. What's truly changed is velocity, quality, and quantity. Framing the pure firehose of slop targeting scientific research, used for nefarious political purposes, flooding social media, scamming people, and much more as something that "would've come regardless" without LLMs is disingenuous imo

New comment by smith7018 in "Claude Fable 5"

smith7018 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:54:14 +0000

Fwiw it's not available on my enterprise account: "Disable zero data retention to unlock Fable 5 access"

New comment by smith7018 in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

smith7018 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:51:43 +0000

I've long believed those numbers were faked by Anthropic/OpenAI to serve as a form of advertisement. The estimates are impossible to verify and their ability to do "2 days of work" in 10 minutes will presumably make the user go "Wow, I just saved SO much time!" Plus, the unnecessary text eats up the users' tokens so it helps the companies on the backend, as well.

New comment by smith7018 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

smith7018 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:44:30 +0000

Apple really isn't as hostile towards OSS as people think. With that being said, the reason to discontinue Rosetta 2 is to push developers to upgrade their software. Allowing others to continue using Rosetta 2 by way of 3rd party maintainers works against that goal :(

New comment by smith7018 in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

smith7018 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:32:41 +0000

I get why Apple wants to remove it but it genuinely sucks. I can't imagine it costs them a lot to put it into maintenance mode and just support 20 years of macOS games and apps going forward. They want developers to fully move to ARM but older titles or software whose developers have moved on/passed will be lost to the sands of time.

New comment by smith7018 in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

smith7018 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:33:29 +0000

Agreed. IA should take snapshots of the articles over time and then make them publicly available X months/years later. There's no reason to immediately publicly mirror the articles beyond people trying to get around paywalls.

New comment by smith7018 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

smith7018 — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:03:45 +0000

They didn't sue OpenClaw; they sent a C&D over the name. That's how trademark law works. If they didn't defend their name then anyone can use it.

New comment by smith7018 in "WinCE64 – Windows CE 2.11 for N64"

smith7018 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:38:04 +0000

This is one person's hobby project that presumably less than 100 people will actually install. Of course no one cares that it was made with AI and won't be maintained.

New comment by smith7018 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

smith7018 — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:23:55 +0000

Most applicants know that that outcome is antithetical to pursuing a PhD. It's common knowledge that a PhD involves 5-7 years of academic work (read: low pay) in pursuit of becoming an expert in a specialized topic. You don't enter a PhD program expecting to immediately make money or to graduate as soon as possible. It's not a coding bootcamp.

New comment by smith7018 in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"

smith7018 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:16:10 +0000

Duke University is, in fact, in North Carolina, USA.

New comment by smith7018 in "Haunted Paper Toys"

smith7018 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:46:05 +0000

Wow how hard was it to make the vac forming table? Have you used it since? I'd love a link to a tutorial if you have one.

New comment by smith7018 in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

smith7018 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:59:02 +0000

Hmm, three spam comments posted within 9 minutes of each other. The accounts were created 15 minutes ago, 51 days ago, and 3 months ago.

Interesting.

Hopefully these aren't bots created by Z.AI because GLM doesn't need fake engagement.

New comment by smith7018 in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

smith7018 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:25:00 +0000

I know that someone got Gemma 4 E4B working with MLX [1] but I don't know much more than that.

1: https://github.com/bolyki01/localllm-gemma4-mlx

New comment by smith7018 in "AirPods Max 2"

smith7018 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:43:12 +0000

Apple added wired lossless audio last year when they moved to USB-C iirc

New comment by smith7018 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

smith7018 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:38:18 +0000

I completely agree. The tech industry has long been overrun by people sacrificing morals for money and it's destroyed society and presumably the world. We've given people a free pass to work for companies we've all known are harming the fabric of society and look where it's gotten us. I'm sorry, I would rather be poor and switch careers if my only option was xAI and making image generation models that explicitly allow people to undress others. At X's scale, technology like that harms an unfathomable amount of people. I could never have that on my conscience. All so I could make more money than a job at another tech company? I'd rather work somewhere innocuous like Figma, Cloudflare, Notion, Jetbains, Linear, etc. Hell, if you only wanted to work for an AI company then at least go to Anthropic.

New comment by smith7018 in "MacBook Air with M5"

smith7018 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Yeah, the rumor mill says the redesign will feature their C1X/C2(?) modem for the first time.

New comment by smith7018 in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

smith7018 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:27:16 +0000

Apple makes some of (if not) the best hardware around. It makes sense that some people would want to buy a Macbook Pro for its hardware and run their favorite OS on it.

New comment by smith7018 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

smith7018 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:21:10 +0000

Sure, but I've never experienced a 20 minute wait with CC before. It was an architectural question but it would have taken a couple minutes with a definitive answer on 4.5.

New comment by smith7018 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

smith7018 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:28:17 +0000

I just asked Opus 4.6 to debug a bug in my current changes and it went for 20 minutes before I interrupted it. Take that as you will.

New comment by smith7018 in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

smith7018 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:07:46 +0000

According the MacRumors, yes but they cant confirm if its only for the new AirTags yet:

"watchOS 26.2.1 is also coming, and it expands Precision Finding to the Apple Watch Series 9 and later, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later. We have not yet confirmed if this is for the new AirTag only or also works with the original model."