Hacker News: telesilla

New comment by telesilla in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

telesilla — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:38:46 +0000

Let's remember.. 'Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542814

New comment by telesilla in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

telesilla — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:51:18 +0000

I love your thought experiment. May I counter, what purpose does such a machine have to us, that can think beyond our needs? Sorry, but to reference the great Rick and Morty, "your purpose is to pass the butter".

New comment by telesilla in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

telesilla — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:45:41 +0000

Suicide decriminalisation, abortion and euthanasia legalization, decriminalisation of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, gender recognition, disability rights, abolition of death penalty, indigenous rights and land sovereignty, probably a lot more. That's in the eighties, nineties and two thousands, depending on the country.

New comment by telesilla in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

telesilla — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:03:15 +0000

I agree. My grandmother was not allowed to make decisions over her body, own a bank account, or work after marriage until the late 60s. For many of us, it's definitely a golden age of rights and possibilities.

New comment by telesilla in "Lady Gaga, Lena Dunham and surrogacy: Why isn't it causing a scandal in the US?"

telesilla — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:54:21 +0000

>able-bodied and fertile celebrities

That seems an unfair assumption. Both the women in the title have been upfront with their medical histories to the press in the last years. (For the record I'm pro-foster care / adoption myself, the wealthy have excessive resources to give unwanted youth a home).

New comment by telesilla in "Enjoy Every Sandwich"

telesilla — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:26:12 +0000

I hear you. I'm chasing a simple dish of fish and pomegranate sauce I had in (Eastern European) Georgia 25 years ago, haven't been back but go to every Georgian restaurant and hope one day to see it on the menu.

New comment by telesilla in "I think you should almost never use AI to write"

telesilla — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:41:51 +0000

Excellent idea, I'll try this. And for those who don't speak a second language other than English, you could use leet.

New comment by telesilla in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

telesilla — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:44:18 +0000

I agree. It's such a pity Cats don't recognize images, would make for wonderful CatTV.

New comment by telesilla in "Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?"

telesilla — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:25:56 +0000

I think there's still plenty of good stuff here, but agree that is beneficial to be kept up for to date on model evolution. We gotta get through this together.

I'm glad HN isn't a curated feed, it would end up like all the the others.

New comment by telesilla in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

telesilla — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:57:50 +0000

This felt very late-90s net art. Stressful but nicely done satire.

New comment by telesilla in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

telesilla — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:41:45 +0000

That's why there are no assistant editor jobs anymore.

New comment by telesilla in "Elevator of the Year: Modernization of the Metropolis Trust Building"

telesilla — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:53:17 +0000

I don't know if it's still running but the hand-operated elevator in Chicago's Fine Arts building on Sth Michigan Ave deserves an award. I always enjoyed having an excuse to visit the music rooms on the top floors. The first time I visited I was worried but seeing the skill of the operator was something else.

https://soundquality.org/2025/04/chicagos-last-manually-oper...

Maybe they shut it down already and are reading Elevator World for replacement ideas. A glass one please!

New comment by telesilla in "Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)"

telesilla — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:54:22 +0000

Definitely AI written, though it got the point across and it wasn't terrible to read and it was new information to me so I was glad to read it.

At this point what news site isn't AI written? Except for the few remaining human blogs (which are a delight and a pleasure). Why I detected AI: it said "The honest footnote.." at the end. That's how Claude always ends our long-rambling discussions.

New comment by telesilla in "How Railroad Crossings Work (2024)"

telesilla — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:18:12 +0000

I can't remember the last time I crossed a train track in western europe - trams yes but not trains. Is this being engineered into bridges and tunnels in this part of the world or is this increasingly common. I suddenly feel very safe.

New comment by telesilla in "Salad Theory"

telesilla — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:11:03 +0000

I refer to the Spanish definition of "ensalada": La ensalada es, en términos generales, un plato que combina verduras frías - a salad is a plate which combines cold vegetables.

Thus pizza, in Spanish, is not a salad, until about an hour after it comes out of the oven.

New comment by telesilla in "Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public"

telesilla — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:20:39 +0000

It is a garden, with forking paths.

(I adore Borges, his Aleph story follows me through life, such wonders he opened.. "but all space was there, actual and undiminished"..)

https://dn760105.eu.archive.org/0/items/borges-jorge-luis-bo...

New comment by telesilla in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

telesilla — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:44:30 +0000

How does it compare to Wise/Payoneer and other existing payment transfer systems?

New comment by telesilla in "Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?"

telesilla — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:16:03 +0000

I have a similar question. Why is AI not ring-fenced for real problems like cancer research?

New comment by telesilla in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

telesilla — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:39:46 +0000

My M1 macbook with 64GB ram is still going great, I think it will be some time yet before I feel the need to upgrade my daily working machine. Team-wise though, we're looking into getting something to run a local model and offset token costs for generic tasks. It's starting to make sense.

New comment by telesilla in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

telesilla — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:16:22 +0000

I spent time in the interior of Portugal that had fibre internet, it was very impressive and incredibly helpful to the village. Better payment services and banking for example.