<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: therealpygon</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=therealpygon</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:50:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=therealpygon" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Jellyfin 12.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or if like PlayOn, they’ll simply replace your legacy lifetime license software with their new version that no longer does the core functionality that has to be kept up to date — recording different providers — without upgrading to their new extra-special monthly cloud licensing that replaces your “lifetime” license you bought to support their fledgling business. One thing is almost certain, any software claimed to be “Lifetime” will become a lie if given time and one should assume “lifetime” in software almost never means more than 5-10 years before a new executive has a bright idea to generate more revenue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:58:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609738</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You’re still taking? Literally no one cares about your opinion in this entire thread, but uh, go ahead and keep making your idiot point.<p>Here you can have the last word since you apparently need it so bad for “just” saying something:</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:54:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580555</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580555</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, you’ve been trolling everyone in this thread about how they are traitors in response to them questioning someone who stated that anyone who disagreed with pausing AI are traitors because they support “super intelligence”, not even “uncontrolled”. You didn’t “just” do anything, and you should probably try reading your comments and the context again rather than whatever obvious point you thought you were “just” making. I mean that is why you just made an observation and moved on? Right?<p>Nah, it was this instead:<p>“I was just saying they didn’t need to include some text, repeatedly, 28 times while saying people are traitors. But then I’m gonna try to say I wasn’t actually doing that even though I did it repeatedly, because obviously everyone else was just too stupid to understand my absolutely useless observation that I felt I needed to defend repeatedly because obviously everyone is too dumb to understand my incredible observatory powers, and people couldn’t possibly be disagreeing because I look like an idiot repeatedly trolling about people being traitors.”<p>Did you really think everyone was disagreeing that it wasn’t necessary? You really are something, fun times watching it though, but hey, you should definitely repeat that silly observation one more time.<p>“They included a provision to certify again that they agree with common sense, how unnecessary!” No kidding dumb-dumb… that’s why they do it…so people voting against it can be labeled traitors to humanity…like you’ve been doing…<p>Does it really need to be spelled out so plainly how useless your observation is and the net effect of your incessant replying to people who disagree with the person you decided to defend with your “observation”? Nevermind, apparently it does since your 6 defensive comments deep “just” making an observation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 12:58:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576093</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand that you don’t understand. Reiterating that doesn’t help.<p>No one, at all, at any point “supported” uncontrollable super-intelligence. They questioned your idiotic reasoning of how not believing in your ASSumed outcome makes them traitorous. Which you’ve still failed to be capable of recognizing, thus making it all the more humorous to read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571985</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Can and will”<p>Yeah bud, you definitely aren’t saying the outcome is automatic. Or maybe you are, and the low IQ take is in not recognizing it?</p>
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<p>> I don’t take your opinions seriously<p>In fairness, I personally believe anyone who thinks that uncontrolled super-intelligence will be the automatic outcome is an absolute idiot likely to have a below-average IQ, but that probably leaves me and most people on equal footing with you in the “no one actually cares what your opinion is” race.<p>Apparently, some people lack the technical understanding that an AI, by itself, literally can’t do anything at all and that it is the tools and harnessing provided to an AI that allows it to perform any type of action. Given this is such basic and fundamental knowledge to anyone who even attempts to understand how they work, I can only assume they are incapable of understanding. I would love to hear the intelligent basis for your ideas on how disagreeing with stupidity makes them a traitor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:07:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564106</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49564106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“Opt-in” means to agree to something. If something is “opt-in by default”, it means that it is opt-out and someone is using weasel wording and contract inducements to force you into something you didn’t actually agree to. Any “disagreement” is just people trying to advocate for what they wished it meant.</p>
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<p>I find it interesting that you were perfectly happy with it, enjoying it even, but it was only at the point you noticed a minor word pronounced incorrectly that you flip to the extreme, hate it and want to block it to never see it again?<p>I’ve started calling this “AI Bipolar”, and I find it fascinating. It seems like people are offended that they were “duped” into enjoying AI generated content, but will continue on to the next lower-quality human-made content with all sorts of issues that they will completely forgive solely out of comfort that it is a human doing it.</p>
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<p>> Somewhere, you need aluminum smelters, steel mills, and copper mines.<p>Why? We already have plenty of materials that can, are close, or have potential pathways for functional substitutes depending on the application? We are already pretty reliably able to print metal with machines no bigger than a fridge.<p>What happens when a curable resin or impregnated plastic can sufficiently replace steel/aluminum/copper for functions? Why would  a steel foundry be needed for the desktop then? There are more theoretical materials that haven’t been discovered than there are atoms in the universe or something crazy like that, so it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility or even likelihood. Especially if AI helps accelerate that discovery, as it seems to be doing already according to a recent Faraday talk in a Royal Institution video —  "How AI is Reinventing the Battery".<p>It also used to be that you needed a large machine to make a plastic part…now I print some in 20 minutes with something that sits on my desk. If one thing is true, it’s that materials and technology constantly change and (generally) improve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:29:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494840</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49494840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actual real people think the world is flat, Elvis is alive, and aliens are regularly flying around the planet. Is preventing peoples unimportant personal beliefs really an important goal or is this just more warning label culture?</p>
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<p>In fairness, people also don’t say “let me ask llama” or “llama told me…” like they do with “GPT”.<p>Colloquialisms don’t establish importance, just popularity.</p>
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<p>Plus, many people also seem to not realize that our baseline is needing to create around 150k jobs a month just to keep the same unemployment rate. So in this current version of paper reality we lost 20k jobs and also failed to employ another 150k new workers, increasing unemployment by 170k. And I suspect those numbers are generously offset by people who have been forced to take significantly lower wages just to find work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:23:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222075</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this combined with a bit of memory and something like the “high-bandwidth flash” they just announced (if it works out), could be an interesting thing for some resident (burned) experts + active moe streamed from HBF.<p>I expect one day having small lower power demand  drive sized devices with proprietary burned-in models that are quite fast running on-device in robotics and such. Commoditizing LLMs via burned and locked hardware seems likely when LLMs have stabilized (when we reach a year between releases again) and the hardware is capable and “disposable” enough. “Buy a robot and upgrade it forever* (5 years) with newer models (sold separately)”, at least until the planned hardware obsolescence that the “interface has changed to support newer hardware, so you’ll need to upgrade (again) to use the latest features”.<p>The plans basically write themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:27:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216427</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Land disturbance and rainfall/runoff/watershed considerations are literally part of the permit processes for any building?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:17:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210831</link><dc:creator>therealpygon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by therealpygon in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My 2 cents is that it’s more about market manipulation  (by proxy) than anything. What happens if you convince consumers AI is bad and they shouldn’t approve small datacenters, is the next step regulations? Businesses (primary target) will still use it, people probably will too despite calling datacenters and AI bad. Then model regulations are the next logical target. And who will be regulated? The effect is exactly what OpenAI and Anthropic have been looking for.<p>How many of X/Amazon/Google/Anthropic/OpenAI data centers have been blocked? I’m going to bet that number is close to zero for any important projects they were planning, likely because they were approved before the real regulation pushes started.<p>Both sides are getting played with the same song that ends in AI regulations, which is bad for people and good for profits.<p>It’s all strategy and theater so people can find alternative cause to latch onto that can be steered so it doesn’t really hurt the big players but will ultimately lead to more regulations (and thus more profits).</p>
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<p>The copyright office’s guidance is that prompts are covered by copyright, it is the output of an LLM that one cannot claim ownership of.</p>
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<p>They are meant to be sharp like an axe (high angle), not sharp like a knife (low angle). They aren’t supposed to be blunt like a butter knife. Dull blades damage the grass.</p>
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<p>Exactly. If someone says, “I’m running to the grocery and McDonald’s drive-thru,” no one assumes they are sharing a drive-thru…</p>
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<p>I have to agree in that, generally, people care in the same way they care on TT/Insta/etc, which is to say that any time they don’t know it’s AI they simply don’t care and will view/be amazed/laugh/share it. Until someone says “AI”, and then suddenly all those things they like magically become negative for some people.<p>It often has less to do with the content, and more to do with personal preferences. As one person told me, “Why do I care? I still thought it was funny.”<p>The difference is those types of communities tend to share similarly strong personal preferences about AI. It’s a bit like saying, “I joined a math community but no one wanted to talk about my diet and workout routines.”</p>
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<p>Wouldn’t work for me for about a couple weeks so I just stopped using reddit. Worked today when I tried again. I always use private tabs because I don’t like cookies/tracking across sites.</p>
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