Hacker News: toxic72

New comment by toxic72 in "Opinion: I Was Not Allowed to Type Prompts into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk"

toxic72 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:25:45 +0000

woosh indeed

New comment by toxic72 in "Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work"

toxic72 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:27:55 +0000

Financial wfh disadvantages?

New comment by toxic72 in "Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand"

toxic72 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:00:10 +0000

The IRS wanted a full 3d scan of my face to prove identity AFTER I already had a working account used every year for the past 3+ years.

They asked for feedback after I canceled the login, I gave very candid feedback in a form.

Then they asked if I would give an interview.

You know why I wanted to log in? To claim a $7 refund.

They ended up mailing it.

New comment by toxic72 in "Google Gemini Is Down"

toxic72 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:09:53 +0000

Dropped my Gemini pro sub yesterday, the new quotas make antigravity unusable.

New comment by toxic72 in "Startup replaced $14K/mo cloud GPUs with 1000 M4 Mac Minis"

toxic72 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:21:33 +0000

I'm curious why they wouldn't opt for Mac studios -

Smaller size = more efficient cluster layout?

RAM is the only care so skip the beefy studio CPUS and max ram on something cheaper?

Perhaps someone closer to this space could illuminate me

New comment by toxic72 in "Steve Bannon Proposes Using ICE in Elections"

toxic72 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:02:16 +0000

It'd be cool to fork HN and show only the flagged posts

New comment by toxic72 in "Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights"

toxic72 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:13:50 +0000

Which rights, you may ask?

Don't worry, Palantir will decide for you

New comment by toxic72 in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

toxic72 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:16:51 +0000

I REALLY struggle with Gemini 3 Pro refusing to perform web searches / getting combative with the current date. Ironically their flash model seems much more likely to opt for web search for info validation.

Not sure if others have seen this...

I could attribute it to:

1. It's known quantity with the pro models (I recall that the pro/thinking models from most providers were not immediately equipped with web search tools when they were released originally)

2. Google wants you to pay more for grounding via their API offerings vs. including it out of the box

New comment by toxic72 in "Tell HN: I cut Claude API costs from $70/month to pennies"

toxic72 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:19:01 +0000

consider this for addtl cost savings if local doesnt interest you - https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/m...

New comment by toxic72 in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

toxic72 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:40:56 +0000

Because they have the right to

New comment by toxic72 in "SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others"

toxic72 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:35:43 +0000

These aren't telescopes, but it is quite similar to what you're describing otherwise:

https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalabl...

New comment by toxic72 in "Meta signs 6+ GW of nuclear with 3 companies"

toxic72 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:34:36 +0000

Since you're in industry, any thoughts on the Rellis "test bench" at Texas A&M?

"SMR Four" Consortium:

    In early 2025, Texas A&M selected four other major SMR companies to deploy reactors at RELLIS:

        Kairos Power: Developing fluoride salt-cooled high-temperature reactors.

        Natura Resources: Working on liquid-fueled molten salt reactors (MSRs).

        Aalo Atomics: Focused on factory-fabricated microreactors (the "Aalo-1").

        Terrestrial Energy: Developing the Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR).

New comment by toxic72 in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

toxic72 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:42:09 +0000

Source?

New comment by toxic72 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

toxic72 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:17:10 +0000

Public ownership of public services hmm?

New comment by toxic72 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

toxic72 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:11:08 +0000

To my knowledge Amazon never debt financed their ops like this

New comment by toxic72 in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

toxic72 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:38:55 +0000

It's more like you're installing the dishwasher and the dishwasher itself yells at you "I told you so" ;)

New comment by toxic72 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

toxic72 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:16:06 +0000

I'm surprised this hasn't been been automated yet but I'm pretty naive to the space - the problem of "when?"/"how often?" seems like a fun one to chew on

New comment by toxic72 in "Microsoft needs to open up more about its OpenAI dealings"

toxic72 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:15:09 +0000

I always chuckle when tech writers take a stab at financial statements

New comment by toxic72 in "'Attention is all you need' coauthor says he's 'sick' of transformers"

toxic72 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:10:27 +0000

Its also plausible that the research field attracts people who want to explore the cutting edge and now that transformers are no longer "that"... he wants to find something novel.

New comment by toxic72 in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

toxic72 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 13:00:43 +0000

It becomes more important with each repost