Hacker News: tough

New comment by tough in "Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents"

tough — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:33:48 +0000

on twitter I read data will be fully anonymized and scrubbed for PII before handover by a third party.

supposedly google intended purpose is to train LLM's for enterprise/office work etc

New comment by tough in "Show HN: I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI"

tough — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:28:08 +0000

This looks great! will try it out

New comment by tough in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

tough — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:30:06 +0000

I think the problem is "how it technically works" to "how it feels" are different things in this case

New comment by tough in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

tough — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:29:24 +0000

As long as you are consciously aware you're not really talking to another human but just entertaining yourself I don't see the harm tbqh.

Anything can become addictive, also i'd say given the costs of operating llm inference the labs themselves when offering the products try to limit your usage at different levels, ChatGPT for example will recommend you take a break and chill if you go hours with it (even with a 200 plan)

I don't see how using an LLM is that different from surfing Wikipedia or Google, in all cases the computer is just giving me outputs i demand it from, in some or other shape, and can be abused etc

New comment by tough in "Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots"

tough — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:47:35 +0000

confidently stating that the confidence is right seems like a big claim

New comment by tough in "Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots"

tough — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:35:55 +0000

> set lights on

{ "function_calls": [ { "name": "set_lights", "arguments": { "room": "bedroom", "state": "on" } } ], "confidence": 0 }

is confidence 0 that its confident?

New comment by tough in "Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models"

tough — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:30:36 +0000

that's interesting i usually ask my llm to "Infer my theory of mind" and give me what i really need not what i prompt

or some sort of the above

New comment by tough in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:07:25 +0000

Sounds like a weird way to phrase collateral damage?

New comment by tough in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:39:22 +0000

I'm pretty sure its a meme by now https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tob6q5/that_is_l...

New comment by tough in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:19:37 +0000

what if you put a screen so it has a full simulator in the wheel

New comment by tough in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:18:38 +0000

I thought in papers the majestic we was just a given even for solo writers I guess depends on the OCD of one if thats acceptable

New comment by tough in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:17:12 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

New comment by tough in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:14:25 +0000

I wonder if a motion sensor detector would make the last mile of it more precise, as soon as a chicken wakes up just open the doors idk (if on timeframe)

New comment by tough in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:26:34 +0000

I like to think the brain is doing its work and just trashing info it doesnt need and making space for new info when i forget stuff... I guess if it was truly important i'd be worried, but work stuff usually isnt important once its done, emotional/personal stuff would be more worrisome, like alzheimer and others, but work stuff? Im happy to forget it if its done lol

New comment by tough in "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:20:18 +0000

playwriter.dev will reuse your existing session or cookies I really like it over cdp when its stuff i need done from my regular chrome profile (you can also make separate profiles on chrome so the agent uses only that or smt like that)

New comment by tough in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

tough — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:13:17 +0000

ai art usage isn't a binary black or white thing as most imply

New comment by tough in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

tough — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:39:17 +0000

hmm not really, and it probably isnt the origin, but im glad to see him vindicated by having both C-level google leadership people who targeted to try and either stop google from doing the pentagon deal, both stepping down the same day.

At least it makes me feel like he reaching out might have made a difference on remembering this people killer robots are bad, and being part of it might not be on the best of their interests to go down on history for

New comment by tough in "Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet"

tough — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:28:43 +0000

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left...

New comment by tough in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

tough — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:26:22 +0000

Oh wow demis and Jeff, that Ethics engineer who left GDM, and reached to both and posted on lesswrong a couple weeks [1] ago did make a difference?

1. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iKm2FhpWkuuBojm82/why-i-left...

New comment by tough in "Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction"

tough — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:43:02 +0000

Google's TabFM [1] (and its previous TimesFM) seem the best approach so far on this area

1. https://research.google/blog/introducing-tabfm-a-zero-shot-f...