Hacker News: topato

New comment by topato in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

topato — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:05:20 +0000

They have a stupid plan to buy ten to fifty percent of all the SOTA AI companies, and giving us all a fraction of the money.

Trump keeps calling his enemies “communists”… then turns around and ‘seizes the means of production’ himself.

New comment by topato in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

topato — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:55 +0000

Yes buuuut…. I do quite a bit of day trading (maybe closer to scalping) for the first few hours the market is open, everyday. Anecdotally: despite everyone knowing its valuation was ridiculous, I rode that SpaceX train pretty hard and made a pretty penny.

I close-out all my positions by end-of-trading everyday… so when the day came when there was a very clear and very scary indicator during early trading hours, quickly followed by SpaceX’s catastrophic fall right after opening bell, that was the end of my involvement….

And I fully expect oAI and anthro to be the same way. They’re being propped up with private loans, subsidies, and other tricky bookkeeping techniques. You would think their CEOs would pivot away from their current public personas. Ironically, they are like a poor man’s Elon Musk… and that doesn’t bode well for their companies

New comment by topato in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

topato — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:40:23 +0000

I think its way different in the EU vs the USA. In the United States, the number of people with passports HAS dramatically increased in the past 30 years, going from ~5% to a little more than 50%; but we mainly use them for traveling once or twice / getting into bars when you’re a 22yo with a misplaced driver’s license.

More relevant to the topic at hand, it’s extremely rare to receive an unsolicited call to an American phone number from a number outside the +1 country code. So I’m sure when an immigrant in the US gets an unknown call from their home country code, they can be pretty sure the call’s intentional and worth answering

New comment by topato in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

topato — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:46:12 +0000

Mechanical Woodpecker? I thought they were called drinking birds….

New comment by topato in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

topato — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:32:48 +0000

lol, if you bothered to check the reference your “article” stole from, you’d find a medium post that includes ANOTHER link to a follow up medium post entitled, “I was wrong about data center water consumption”

It’s not 6 billion per day. It’s 650 billion per day. In the United States alone.

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-dat...

lol

New comment by topato in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

topato — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:16:40 +0000

Yeah, I could imagine golf being a sore spot for Indians. I never imagined India would even be a hotspot for golf, but given the amount of corruption going on, it would make sense that golf courses would be foisted upon the public. It’s always discouraging to see the amount of upper class Indians who, despite colonial times being long gone, are still very willing to sell out their countrymen to appease whites or to fit a British/white ideal. I hope I’m wrong about this impression, and I’m just seeing cherry picked news articles, but your reaction makes me think otherwise….

New comment by topato in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

topato — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:31:09 +0000

1. Can we stack two lanes on top of each other, please? Make homemade bunklanes?

2. Something about preventing people from rubbing the bowling balls on your precious lanes.

3. Laser light shows + Liquor license = Bowling Alley Wine Mixer

Sorry, I got overly excited by your reference. I say that so GD much, at least once a month, for nearly 20 years now haha. SOOO much room for activities!

New comment by topato in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

topato — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:24:44 +0000

Welcome to a glimpse into the pathetic life [if one can even call it a life…] of a sad and wretched creature — the poor humans born with a deficiency of attention and an abundance of activity. This is a universal experience for the lost souls who stumble through life, burdened with a despicable and perverted simulacrum of a normal human’s brain, condemned with a condition more commonly known as…

The Dangerously Corrupted and Criminally Insane Mind of the ADHD Afflicted!

New comment by topato in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

topato — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:33:47 +0000

I’ve always been amazed at how differently the PHEV, HFC, and standard EV market ended up (well, until recently) playing out, in Japan Vs The Rest of the World. I always found the hydrogen stations here in California to be an interesting anomaly — but once you learn about the infrastructure and vehicles forced on the Japanese by gov/corp alliance, you really get a fascinating ‘alternate reality/history’ localized entirely on the island of Japan lol

New comment by topato in "Claude Sonnet 5"

topato — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:49:02 +0000

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New comment by topato in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

topato — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:53:01 +0000

Not to mention, the person who brought this quote unquote jailbreak to the Trump Administration was Amazon’s new CEO. They know their IPOs are coming up, so locking their competitors out of the U.S. (even if just for the weeks surrounding the IPO date) would be a major boon. The White House seems to love making announcements just for the sake of making the market move…. Coincidentally, right after POTUS buys a massive amount of the benefactory company’s stock (Buy Dell Computers, lol)

New comment by topato in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

topato — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:48:48 +0000

“DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA OF THE PRICE FOR THE PARTS AND LABOR TO REPLACE A SINGLE, GENUINE, APPLE-BRAND, 2021, MACBOOK PRO KEYCAP?!?! CALL THE ACCOUNTANTS, WE WONT BE PAYING TAXES FOR A FEW YEARS!!!”

New comment by topato in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

topato — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:39:50 +0000

DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS. WHOOOOOOOOOO!!!

also, where is the new version of Visual Basic, Ballmer? Your sweaty chants can only distract me for so long…. Wait….. ITS BEEN TWENTY YEARS!?!?

New comment by topato in "GPT-5.2"

topato — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:50:48 +0000

yeah, the best Ive seen is like 1.99 for two months, then back to normal pricing....

New comment by topato in "GPT-5.2"

topato — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:47:43 +0000

now I kind of HAVE to know... what was the aforementioned bad advice was?! So mysterious!

New comment by topato in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

topato — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:14:19 +0000

I'D love to be paying $2/minute!

New comment by topato in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"

topato — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:07:26 +0000

pretty accurate username

New comment by topato in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

topato — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:19:43 +0000

That's a pretty hefty accusation to level at one of the most prolific Ai/LLM bloggers on HN lol

New comment by topato in "Compiling Ruby to machine language"

topato — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 02:14:06 +0000

whoa, the man himself! I second the praise, an all around excellent writer!

New comment by topato in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

topato — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:38:58 +0000

Its scary how many things Trump says, claims that are roughly equivalent to, "1 + 2 = 4", which people just eat up as truth!

It feels like all the deficets in our education system (going back decades) are finally coming to roost... so many people lack critical thinking skills and media savvy/awareness. I think its too late to fix it, now that a sufficient majority of people are susceptible to this deception, and a sufficient chunk of politicians are willing to deceive them... there is too much motivation to keep them dumb. The hatred towards the "Intellectual Elite" is scary, and really is reminicent of Pol Pot.