Hacker News: totetsu

New comment by totetsu in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

totetsu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:30:29 +0000

I think this was featured on the Ubuntu software manager at some point and that’s how I discovered it. It was one of the few games on Linux that’s was genuinely fun to play

New comment by totetsu in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

totetsu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:25:39 +0000

I have been looking at ARGmax https://www.argmaxinc.com/#SDK for running on apple devices, but not sure yet at whats involved in porting a model to work with their sdk

New comment by totetsu in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

totetsu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:12:49 +0000

https://bbycroft.net/llm has 3d Visualization of tiny example LLM layers that do a very good job at showing what is going on (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505211)

New comment by totetsu in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

totetsu — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:44:40 +0000

This is explicitly part of the discourse, but I think it means robotics companies continuing to receive government grants while not actually delivering any labor saving technology, and immigration policy being held back. The industries needing labor will not get a suitable solution, the economy will continue to suffer, but the psychology of those around the world who believe in racial order, and correct positions of alleles on geography, will remain soothed.

Japan to require language proficiency proof for engineer, specialist visa

totetsu — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/73562

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635522

Points: 32

# Comments: 15

New comment by totetsu in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

totetsu — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:26:45 +0000

Aren't most exploits that get used, shared through black markets anyway? So Saying Xcountry-linked hackers, is just saying who ponied up the bitcoin to pay for the attack?

New comment by totetsu in "Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes"

totetsu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:27:01 +0000

ASR models can output a confidence score along with the text, but it is rarely used in the UI to display the results.. or maybe lost entirely in a subsequent LLM layer.

New comment by totetsu in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

totetsu — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:53:35 +0000

Is api access really really so extreme that it's italics worthy? Technology should be available to us in other roles than just passive consumer using front ends that might not suit what we need, or work against us in some way. Already I am giving a credit card to openai to use the service, but in addition now I have to hand my government ID over to withpersona.com. who are they? who are their investors? will the leak my information accidentally/accidentally-on-purpose/on-purpose? Okay maybe Rick Song and Persona Identities are genuinely trustworthy, but what happens when someone wants an exit in the future and they merge with palantir and now when i generate a picture i have to worry about being added to a target list for some automated kamakazi drone kill-chain a-la black mirror. Or if this becomes standard practice .. maybe its not Persona Inc. but i have to vet dozens of these companies and it becomes too hard. Rather than guns, this is more like Identity verification for pipe purchases from the hardware store because one could use it got build a rocket.

New comment by totetsu in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

totetsu — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:09:20 +0000

It’s not very soon, it’s already the case that if one wants to enable the latest models in the OpenAI api you have to submit your details to their “identity provider”.

New comment by totetsu in "I Simulated 38,612 Countryle Games to Find the Best Strategy"

totetsu — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:52:04 +0000

I wonder how the possible positions of this game would look graphed like this .. https://2swap.github.io/Klotski-Webpage/

New comment by totetsu in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

totetsu — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:58:26 +0000

This seems to be a core of the problem with trying to leave things to autonomous agents .. The response to Amazons agents deleting prod was to implement review stages

https://blog.barrack.ai/amazon-ai-agents-deleting-production...

New comment by totetsu in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

totetsu — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 02:17:32 +0000

Trump also made a great contribution to corruption around the world, by pausing enforcement of anti-corruption laws with the EO "Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement" https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/paus...

New comment by totetsu in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

totetsu — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:01:20 +0000

Seeming as this affect everyone .. Is there anything like and Open Collective .. grassroots consortium, to put together strong sensible zero-knowledge proof based policy examples that could be given to law-makers instead of this shadowy surveillance Trojan horse nonsense?

New comment by totetsu in "The AI coding divide: craft lovers vs. result chasers"

totetsu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:35:12 +0000

This reminds me of the divide between Role-players and Number-chasers in the once-upon-a-time MUD players communities.

Microsoft's growing control of Linux (2022)

totetsu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsofts-growing-control-of-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345369

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by totetsu in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

totetsu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:38:43 +0000

Nothing is inherently “wrong” with Windows. When practiced with informed consent, technical knowledge, and safety awareness, it is considered by many communities to be a legitimate form of intimate expression between a company and its employees.

New comment by totetsu in "A useless infinite scroll experiment"

totetsu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:38:23 +0000

iOS health app could track this like steps. Total distance scrolled on your phone.

New comment by totetsu in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

totetsu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:23:58 +0000

Is this kind of Hyper-awareness of data you can't actually do anything about even a desirable thing, or just a pathway into a hole of hyper-alert stress and low Self-efficacy?

New comment by totetsu in "Blacksky AppView"

totetsu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:14:36 +0000

Censorship here is specifically moderation of discussion of political assassinations, and NSFW fetish art work? I think its good to have a space for people to do "shadow work", but also I'm terrified by the path that neo-facist idiology took from 4chan /pol -> gaming culture -> the white house.

New comment by totetsu in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

totetsu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 05:17:17 +0000

“The first Matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime; a triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being. Thus I redesigned it, based on your history, to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. ”