Hacker News: timcobb

New comment by timcobb in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

timcobb — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:05:17 +0000

> Optimizing a OS build? -> block

Why would fable block optimizing an OS build

New comment by timcobb in "Roget's Thesaurus"

timcobb — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:12:24 +0000

A click downstream: https://micra.com

New comment by timcobb in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"

timcobb — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:49:19 +0000

All the people you know, or claw users?

New comment by timcobb in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

timcobb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:37:28 +0000

Not here pls

New comment by timcobb in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

timcobb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:28:31 +0000

it's self-regulating don't worry

New comment by timcobb in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

timcobb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:27:45 +0000

What's the point of Texas, then? Maybe Florida?

New comment by timcobb in "EVE Online moves to Python 3"

timcobb — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:56:44 +0000

This works every time just do it in a loop

New comment by timcobb in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:45:13 +0000

I bet education will be more important than ever. Prestige, status etc to distinguish yourself. "Taste is all that's left," as someone said here.

New comment by timcobb in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:29:51 +0000

Pixel is nice, in my opinion better than iOS, and more open for now

New comment by timcobb in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:22:35 +0000

We're only a few years into this whole thing...

In any case you can say the exact same thing about reading. Take the book away and bam, you know nothing. A person who memorized the book is not dependent on an expensive, heavy thing like a book.

New comment by timcobb in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:13:00 +0000

It's my understanding that this same debate raged when writing became a thing. Many viewed it with suspicious, or derision, as memorization was the big intellectual thing. So writing and reading back to remember was terrible. It's true it was a dependence, but the value was too high. With reading and writing a person could work on and synthesize from a far wider range of concurrent materials than one could with just memorization and recitation. Yeah, it's lame cheating, but writing enables a lot and so it won out.

New comment by timcobb in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:52:42 +0000

I dunno, Nixon, :thumbsdown:

New comment by timcobb in "Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math"

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:08:55 +0000

Eh it's okay. It's just that, man, computers were already so well along by 1998, when I hear "age-old" I think like the 60s, 70s, _maybe_ 80s--but 90s?! oh well! I did a few double takes assuming my mind had flipped the 9 and 8 in 98, but no :D.

New comment by timcobb in "Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math"

timcobb — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:30:46 +0000

Age-old... 1998... :grimace:

New comment by timcobb in "Engineered yeast for converting plastic and biomass compounds to food additives"

timcobb — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:23:01 +0000

Just because two substances are made of a similar distribution of atoms it doesn't mean much in terms of how one can be transformed effectively into the other...

New comment by timcobb in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

timcobb — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:18:50 +0000

I miss the Biden administration

New comment by timcobb in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

timcobb — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:36:56 +0000

How could it come around again?

New comment by timcobb in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"

timcobb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:41:20 +0000

This is a clear explanation, thank you

New comment by timcobb in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

timcobb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:39:16 +0000

Huge freak

New comment by timcobb in "C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality"

timcobb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:24:25 +0000

Yeah we live in the era of alternative facts and this is just more, at best, "fact checking"