Hacker News: svobodamartinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=svobodamartinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:06:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by svobodamartin in "PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works"]]>3.8B tokens, really Billions?

In my case token consumption per week of kinda intense 3 simultaneous projects coding half of the day on Max20 is 55M tokens.

Where do the extra ~2 orders of magnitude come from?

]]>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:02:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074859svobodamartinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074859https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074859<![CDATA[New comment by svobodamartin in "If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level"]]>Few years ago was 17th Karmapa Thaye Dorje (first consciously reincarnating Lama) asked whether machines can host mind (become conscious).

His answer was that it might be possible, but he doesn't see it happening in a lab here on Earth.

]]>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:44:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074664svobodamartinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074664https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49074664<![CDATA[New comment by svobodamartin in "France first European country to ban social media access for under-15s"]]>Isn't the actual effect of "protecting kids" agenda forcing ID check on everybody ? aka "In order to protect your kids we need to watch everybody else more closely too" ?

Reminds me that satiric "joke" asking how do you want to have this censorship/online control wrapped - protecting kids or fighting terrorism or AML?

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