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New comment by tiberius_p in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

tiberius_p — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:25:07 +0000

That's exactly what they're saying.

SystemLisp – an HDL simulator written in Common Lisp

tiberius_p — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:33:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/systemlisp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534658

Points: 15

# Comments: 0

New comment by tiberius_p in "We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"

tiberius_p — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:57:30 +0000

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'

tiberius_p — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:57:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-talk-about-how-we-talk-about-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566752

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Could an electric blanket save you £4k this winter?

tiberius_p — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:31:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.freelanceinformer.com/cost-of-living/could-an-electric-blanket-really-save-you-4000-this-winter-the-heating-alternatives-that-cost-98-less-than-central-heating/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363816

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by tiberius_p in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"

tiberius_p — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:36:02 +0000

Starship will never get to the moon.

New comment by tiberius_p in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

tiberius_p — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:33:05 +0000

Any treaty joined by Russia is compromised from the start.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

tiberius_p — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:37:45 +0000

An HDL simulator written in Common Lisp.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Safe C++ proposal is not being continued"

tiberius_p — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:12:20 +0000

I'm not up to date with the latest developments in C++ but would't it be straightforward to do something like "#pragma pointer_safety strong" which would force the compiler to only accept the use of smart pointers or something along those lines. Was anything like this proposed so far?

New comment by tiberius_p in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

tiberius_p — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:59:12 +0000

I think human actions are easier to predict and prevent than natural disasters. Earthquakes are the biggest deal breakers.

New comment by tiberius_p in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

tiberius_p — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 09:43:43 +0000

I remember the anti-nuclear fever went viral in 2011 after the Fukushima nuclear accident caused by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. I think the correct lesson to be learned from that experience is not to built nuclear power plants in places where they can be damaged by natural disasters...and not to call for all nuclear power plants around the world to be shut down.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech"

tiberius_p — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:28:14 +0000

Can it be made to work on Android from Termux or Userland?

New comment by tiberius_p in "Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?"

tiberius_p — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 05:55:36 +0000

I work in hardware design and verification. I've seen many AI-based EDA tools proposed at conferences but in the team that I'm working now I haven't seen AI being adopted at all. Among the proposed tools that caught my attention: generating SystemVerilog assertions from natural language prompts, generating code fixes from lint errors, generating requirements, vplans and verification metrics from specifications written in natural language, using LLMs inside IDE's as coding agents and chat bots to query the code. I think the hardware industry will be harder to penetrate by AI because hardware companies are more secretive about their HDL code and they go to great lengths to avoid leaks. That's why most of them have an in-house IT infrastructure and they avoid the cloud as much as possible especially when it comes to storing HDL code, running HDL simulations, formal verification tools and synthesis. Even if they were to employ locally hosted AI solutions that would require big investments in expensive GPUs and expensive electricity bills: the industry giants will afford it while the little players won't. The ultimate goal is to tapeout bug-free chips and AI can be a great source of bugs if not properly supervised. So humans are still the main cogs in the machine here. LLMs and coding agents can make our jobs a whole lot easier and pleasant by taking care of the boring tasks and leaving us with the higher level decisions, but they won't replace us any time soon.

New comment by tiberius_p in "GPT-5: "How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry?""

tiberius_p — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 23:18:00 +0000

How can you count on someone who can't count?

New comment by tiberius_p in "The internet wants to check your ID"

tiberius_p — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:43:25 +0000

Will we have to share our ID when we connect to Tor too?

New comment by tiberius_p in "Tell HN: uBlock Origin on Chrome is finally gone"

tiberius_p — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 07:23:30 +0000

Librewolf works fine for me. Comes with uBlock Origin installed.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Show HN: Lazy Tetris"

tiberius_p — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:55:48 +0000

I still suck at this game, even with all the help.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Which year: guess which year each photo was taken"

tiberius_p — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 08:52:00 +0000

This is a great way to gather labeled training data for a neural network that can guess in which year a photo was taken.

New comment by tiberius_p in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

tiberius_p — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:55:58 +0000

Mine is 12 years old, battery is dead but I use it as a server.

New comment by tiberius_p in "Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped"

tiberius_p — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:56:59 +0000

Timestamps are very underrated. There's so much useful information stored in them. It can help you remember what other things you did that day around that time, in what order some events happened, what were your initial plans and how they changed. These things can be so easily forgotten.