Hacker News: taffydavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=taffydavidHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:26:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by taffydavid in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]>One thing I've not heard much discussion of is alternative routes. In the early days of this war there were discussions i of pipelines but it tapered off pretty fast

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:48:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689462taffydavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689462https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689462<![CDATA[New comment by taffydavid in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"]]>Saudi Arabia needs jet fighters to patrol a very large desert and active threats all around. France doesn't have enemies on all sides, and it has nukes and a navy. There's no pressing need for France to have more planes than Saudi Arabia

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:46:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689447taffydavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689447https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689447<![CDATA[New comment by taffydavid in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]>Waking up in Europe:

Trump didn't nuke Iran, ceasefire! Yay!

Newest anthropic model will definitely kill your job this time and maybe take over the world. Aww.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:20:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687033taffydavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687033https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687033<![CDATA[New comment by taffydavid in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"]]>I've built my own tts apps testing whisper and while it's good it does hallucinate quite a bit if there's noise, or just sometimes when the audio is perfectly clear.

It often gives the illusion of being very good but I could record a half hour of me speaking and discover some very random stuff in the middle that I did not say

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:04:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672072taffydavidhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672072https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47672072<![CDATA[New comment by taffydavid in "How Pope Leo is pushing back on divine justification of war"]]>It'll make you more paranoid to hear that the Pentagon prepared an Easter Sunday service exclusively for non-Catholic Christians. Nothing was arranged for Catholics

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