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New comment by squidsoup in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

squidsoup — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:25:23 +0000

People still use tea bags even though what they contain is a byproduct of tea production and barely counts as tea.

New comment by squidsoup in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

squidsoup — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:07:02 +0000

Capitalism subsumes all culture, even counter culture, destroys its essence and commodifies it.

New comment by squidsoup in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

squidsoup — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:57:06 +0000

UC Berkeley just banned the use of AI for conceptualising, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing student work.

New comment by squidsoup in "AI is slowing down"

squidsoup — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:22:47 +0000

> LLMs to drive NPC dialog

Far more interested in dialog and characters developed by a writer - simulation is boring

New comment by squidsoup in "AI is slowing down"

squidsoup — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:17:36 +0000

It doesn't matter under Capitalist Realism, the banks were bailed out, the AI companies will be bailed out, and you will pay for it. There is no alternative.

New comment by squidsoup in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

squidsoup — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:17:42 +0000

> I think a great example of what probably will happen is found in Suno, the AI Music thing. I don't know if y'all have tried it, but it now produces really good stuff.

Suno doesn't make music, it makes simulacra of music. Music is only made by humans.

Show HN: Gaussographs – Gaussian Splat Photography

squidsoup — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:10:51 +0000

As a photographer, I've been experimenting with gaussian splatting as a quasi-photographic artistic medium. After alignment and training (colmap, brush), I post process my models with some python software I've written called rhêgma which allows for algorithmic transformation and distortion of the splats (volumetric shearing and redistribution of the data). My subject matter is primarily industrial structures and architecture in my hometown, Ōtepoti/Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410382

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New comment by squidsoup in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

squidsoup — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:08:11 +0000

The breakthroughs in mass state surveillance are coming, never fear.

New comment by squidsoup in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

squidsoup — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:58:44 +0000

It's comforting to know that Anthropic's most capable model, Mythos, is named for the Lovecraftian universe replete with horrifying evil gods with complete indifference to humanity. Nothing at all to worry about.

New comment by squidsoup in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

squidsoup — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:39:03 +0000

That's a process problem at your company - no developer should be proposing branches over 1k loc (or whatever your agreed tolerance threshold is) without a very good reason, vibe coded or not.

New comment by squidsoup in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

squidsoup — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:53:46 +0000

It’s not a matter of belief - cost of rent and food in Chinese cities are 50-70% lower than US cities. There are hundreds of sources that will confirm that.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...

China’s food policy is also well documented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_policy_in_China

New comment by squidsoup in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

squidsoup — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:18:05 +0000

While that’s true, the Chinese government does also seem to be motivated to keep the cost of housing and food low for its citizens, and provide services and facilities for the public good.

New comment by squidsoup in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

squidsoup — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:04:20 +0000

House of Leaves form of hypertextual academic satire is so firmly bound to the written word that it would be un-filmable, but you could make a film from the Navidson Record (and it would potentially be much more interesting than Backrooms).

New comment by squidsoup in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

squidsoup — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:50:44 +0000

Showing alongside Obsession, another horror film made by a YouTuber.

New comment by squidsoup in "On Labubu and the Hyperreal"

squidsoup — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:07:43 +0000

You don't need to care about the product to find the sociology interesting.

New comment by squidsoup in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

squidsoup — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:25:58 +0000

You might enjoy some of my art derived from gaussian splats in that case, I've been calling them gaussographs.

https://bayardrandel.com/gaussographs

More recent work on my instagram

https://www.instagram.com/bayardrandel/

New comment by squidsoup in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

squidsoup — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:55:01 +0000

This was a GitHub Actions hack, nothing related to publishing on npm was compromised.

New comment by squidsoup in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

squidsoup — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:15:03 +0000

If cargo was as popular as npm, the same issues would surface.

New comment by squidsoup in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

squidsoup — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:34:09 +0000

nice, thank you

New comment by squidsoup in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

squidsoup — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:02:38 +0000

Has anyone found a browser with comparably good dev tools to Chrome?