Hacker News: thot_experiment

New comment by thot_experiment in "I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes"

thot_experiment — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:13:06 +0000

I don't know that you can be absolutist about these things, we cede a lot of power to the government because it actually does make more sense to pay for and manage some things collectively. I'm deeply against surveillance like this but I don't think practically speaking we can get rid of it entirely. I think we should do our best to dismantle it as much as we can but enforcing the great responsibility part of great power on what's left is also a useful strategy.

New comment by thot_experiment in "I Reported on Flock's Cameras. Now I'm One of the System's Mistakes"

thot_experiment — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:34:28 +0000

Systems like flock cannot by their nature be good for the average person unless maybe they are democratically controlled with strict oversight and transparency. Tools to concentrate power are, and will always be used to oppress. Flock is not popular anywhere and that it's being implemented upon us rather than by us should have all of us smashing flock cameras whenever we see them. 1312

New comment by thot_experiment in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

thot_experiment — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:36:55 +0000

Not in the current context no, opportunity costs exist.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

thot_experiment — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:31:38 +0000

A. That's not a useful thing I care about nor should you (in the context of the current state of things) and B. I don't oppose AI as a concept. I oppose it as an emblem of the failure of our systems of governance to serve the common man. I oppose the implementation that people colloquially mean when they say AI, I have nothing against tensor blobs and I more or less wish intellectual property was abolished.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

thot_experiment — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:05:07 +0000

All my homies hate AI.

It has really given us a perfect emblem of the worst capitalism has to offer, I'm not holding my breath but perhaps this backlash will precipitate further change to drive us toward a flatter economy and a society that does a better job of rejecting exploitation and concentration of power. One that more effectively serves humanity and allows us to find a much better global optimum.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Ollama: All Aboard Open Models"

thot_experiment — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:58:59 +0000

Came here to post an anti-ollama rant, real glad this is already the top comment. Nature is healing.

It's not my favorite but we do have to be aggressive in fighting these gross attempts for vc-backed silicon valley non-contributors to exploit open source labor.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves"

thot_experiment — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:43:46 +0000

I very much don't trust that article as a baseline. YMMV but I measured with a 240hz camera with a mid-high tier computer and a 144hz monitor in 2018 and a nice computer w/ 165hz in 2025 and I never got the huge latencies he experienced, I had click to photon of something like 10 frames max, so 42ms, with the average IIRC being closer to 5 frames.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Solod: Go can be a better C"

thot_experiment — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 03:41:56 +0000

It cannot. C is a wonderful language that makes me smile every time I pick it up. A truly universal tool that lets you go wherever your heart desires. Go is a prison designed to enforce a bleak uniformity on all of it's users. For only by painting everything a uniform gray can we ensure we are all equal.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

thot_experiment — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:36:36 +0000

I'm using Gemma 31b to build tools for myself to optimize my WoW TBC play to an absurdist level. I'm hoping to have world top 10 parses across the board in a few months, loot gods willing.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Hy3"

thot_experiment — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:11:59 +0000

There are extreme diminishing returns in real world performance as models get bigger. 10x bigger might mean 5-10% better on benchmarks, a margin that can easily mean it's functionally equivalent in real world use or even a worse performer depending on the context it's being used in, and how good you are at providing meaningful context.

Of course the bigger model embeds more knowledge, but when neither model has the knowledge necessary to perform the task, hy3 makes idiotic decisions all the time whereas gemma 31b has a decent hit rate.

hy3 feels like someone who's read a lot of books and says the right words but has nothing of substance between their ears, gemma feels like a reasonably intelligent person who doesn't understand the domain, the latter is muuuch easier to work with than the former.

New comment by thot_experiment in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

thot_experiment — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:10:20 +0000

I imagine it's cheaper not to support Israeli aggression or to fuck with Iran over oil. Lessons we should have learned in 1973 and 1953.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Hy3"

thot_experiment — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:58:14 +0000

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills with hy3, it's either benchmaxxed to hell and back or skill issue on my part but I'd rather use dense gemma. I don't think there's a single model that's wasted more of my time in recent memory.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years"

thot_experiment — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:16:57 +0000

Half way to utopia.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

thot_experiment — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:15:35 +0000

It's $29, this is a fun gimmick to take pictures of your friends doing bullshit this summer. It's obviously far worse than your phone, the point is that it's fun.

New comment by thot_experiment in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

thot_experiment — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:59:19 +0000

All the people with zero sum jobs that serve to shuffle money to those with leverage.

New comment by thot_experiment in "AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers"

thot_experiment — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:53:44 +0000

Surely this time we'll learn our lesson and disempower the parasites that create these situations, right? Right guys?

New comment by thot_experiment in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

thot_experiment — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:57:38 +0000

Managers believe in the fungibility of engineers and do not understand the concept of institutional knowledge. Always has been.

New comment by thot_experiment in "Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models"

thot_experiment — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:57:22 +0000

Not true, aggressive post training makes models notably dumber.

New comment by thot_experiment in "A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting"

thot_experiment — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:03:39 +0000

Billionaires are providing much less value than we would have if random kids who lost the birth lottery were empowered to reach their potential to help society. We should not allow them to exist.

New comment by thot_experiment in "A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting"

thot_experiment — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:38:24 +0000

They are also noisy, polluting, and first and foremost we should endeavor to respect the will of the people in a democracy. Of course on some level it is a proxy against AI, but more importantly it's a proxy against the stratification of society. The problem is the gap between rich and poor.