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New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Mystery donor gives Japanese city $3.6M in gold bars to fix water system"

tessierashpool9 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:38:44 +0000

Plot twist: the donation is from the owner of the company doing the infra project with the intention to launder money.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:26:39 +0000

but then eclipse + moon = sun, which doesn't make much sense either :/

Microsoft is using Claude Code internally while selling you Copilot

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.devgenius.io/microsoft-is-using-claude-code-internally-while-selling-you-copilot-d586a35b32f9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855163

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "I stopped following the news"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:19:41 +0000

I second that and I think the HN moderation (@dang) here should do a better job keeping things on topic. That is actually super important because HN will eventually just be another reddit. Quality of conversation here has been deteriorating already significantly in the past years due to more and more people with insignificant curiosity about technology and science but all the more interest for engaging in pointless political debates.

There are other platforms for discussing Trump and his shenanigans. Reddit for example.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "TikTok investigating why some users can't write "Epstein" in messages"

tessierashpool9 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:03:03 +0000

In the same vein:

Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777652)

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE"

tessierashpool9 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:02:01 +0000

Seems like there's a pattern:

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/27/nx-s1-5689104/tiktok-epstein-...

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Most websites don't need cookie consent banners"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 10:57:28 +0000

wouldn't be so sure about that in Germany, even if technically and legally true. i've heard too many times about spamigation cases where shysters send mass cease and desist letters. even if those are complete bullshit and without substance you're well advised to respond and competent at that - which means you'll have to invest in a lawyer ... yadda yadda.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Repair a ship’s hull still in the river in -50˚C (2022)"

tessierashpool9 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:01:33 +0000

makes sense, doesn't it?

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

tessierashpool9 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:06:13 +0000

after uBlocking the feed on LinkedIn the Kool Aid slop is now here as well ...

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:26:12 +0000

I don't even know what to say anymore ... is their kool aid tainted with lead or something?

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:34:47 +0000

People get incredible creative about identifying problems they need to solve if they have too much free time :D

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Google Opal"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:32:47 +0000

"An app that writes blog posts" ... how about an app that reads blog posts? ^^

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:50:19 +0000

Overselling is only the tip of the iceberg. The real problem is that a lot of managers base their decision to introduce language models into business processes on cutting edge Pro edition demos, but what is, of course, actually used in production is some cheap Nano/Flash/Mini version.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:31:45 +0000

I mean, isn't that a little ridiculous? Aren't those language models already solving complicated exam questions and mathematical problems?

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Asking Gemini 3 to generate Brainfuck code results in an infinite loop"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:59:51 +0000

Asked for a solution of a photographed Ubongo puzzle: https://gemini.google.com/share/f2619eb3eaa1

Gemini Pro neither as is nor in Deep Research mode even got the number of pieces or relevant squares right. I didn't expect it to actually solve it. But I would have expected it to get the basics right and maybe hint that this is too difficult. Or pull up some solutions PDF, or some Python code to brute force search ... but just straight giving a totally wrong answer is like ... 2024 called, it wants its language model back.

Instead in Pro Simple it just gave a wrong solution and Deep Research wrote a whole lecture about it starting with "The Geometric and Cognitive Dynamics of Polyomino Systems: An Exhaustive Analysis of Ubongo Puzzle 151" ... that's just bullshit bingo. My prompt was a photo of the puzzle and "solve ubongo puzzle 151"; in my opinion you can't even argue that this lecture was to be expected given my very clear and simple task description.

My mental model for language models is: overconfident, eloquent assistant who talks a lot of bullshit but has some interesting ideas every now and then. For simple tasks it simply a summary of what I could google myself but asking an LLM saves some time. In that sense it's Google 2.0 (or 3.0 if you will)

Google's healthcare AI made up a body part – what if doctors don't notice?

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:00:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/health/718049/google-med-gemini-basilar-ganglia-paper-typo-hallucination

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46359643

Points: 29

# Comments: 11

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:09:03 +0000

Google pays Mozilla, Mozilla has more money, Mozilla spends more money (especially in compensations to a bloated C-level), Mozilla needs more money, Google threatens with paying less, Mozilla will lube up and bend over.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Thin desires are eating life"

tessierashpool9 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:53:10 +0000

"inkling of truth" != "infallible"

#strawmanning

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:52:06 +0000

If they keep their shit together and ride the surveillance wave then I don't see what should keep them from increasing 15fold by 2050. Their technology is not at all dependent on AGI, which is why I don't understand why they are always thrown in together with OpenAI et al.

New comment by tessierashpool9 in "Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed"

tessierashpool9 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:48:53 +0000

It seems like he is just trying to make a point with his moving around about being "annoying" - which is what he is talking about.