Hacker News: tyjen

New comment by tyjen in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

tyjen — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:42:04 +0000

Yes and people who use it for dominating industries and markets out of pure greed have the potential displace and disenfranchise large swaths of the population. The possibility to tier society into people with full access to AI and people with severely limited access binding them with significant permanent disadvantages.

You don't have to agree with everything to Pope stands for to understand the potential dark paths AI could lead humanity to.

New comment by tyjen in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

tyjen — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:34:56 +0000

There's no shortage of people willing to make extremely poor financial decisions on games of chance, it's why gambling was heavily regulated. Visit a casino and witness addiction in-person, it's a sad sight.

New comment by tyjen in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

tyjen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:16:53 +0000

Egalitarianism for Twitch, nice project.

A friend of mine who has streamed for years, maybe garners 3 viewers at the most, but he's absolutely terrible at viewer engagement. Despite having a dual monitor setup, it often takes him 5 minutes to recognize a single line in his chat and respond.

Growing a base followership on Twitch seems like it'd be an interesting challenge considering how saturated the market is.

New comment by tyjen in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

tyjen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:01:48 +0000

I was waiting too, but the one game I play often that requires FPS performance decided to ruin their game with poor development direction. Now, I'm planning to buy for local llm hosting.

Here's hoping to more developments like TurboQuant to improve LLM memory efficiency.

New comment by tyjen in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

tyjen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:20:34 +0000

Corruption is worsening and never attenuates on its own. We need a third party devoted to indiscriminately tackling the problem. Problem is, the people who pick and choose which politicians win will never allow it, because they are significant benefactors and fostered this duopoly to begin with.

New comment by tyjen in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

tyjen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:11:47 +0000

Khan Academy was free and used to obtain 99th percentile SAT scores. Academic resources for success are abundantly available, but they require discipline, time, and effort.

New comment by tyjen in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

tyjen — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:33:57 +0000

The last movie we attended people were incredibly disruptive throughout the film, to the point that it was difficult to focus on the film. Some people enjoy screaming, laughing, and talking as part of the experience, but it's apparently been normalized beyond my tolerance threshold. Add in the cost and overall movie quality decrease of Hollywood productions, and it's difficult to justify.

Presently, we watch foreign movies at home 95% of the time and maybe a Hollywood production when they manage to find their roots and create something worth watching.

New comment by tyjen in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

tyjen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:07:39 +0000

Once you figured out a training system, it was easy to pump out 7x GMs. UOAssist was incredibly helpful to reduce the tedium and automate it.

New comment by tyjen in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

tyjen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:06:48 +0000

My preferred methods at the time, sneaking/breaking into houses, stealing, and ganking/PKing unsuspecting souls (emphasis on graveyards, dungeons, and miners). Stealing items, often the offensive spell reagents, out of someone's bag before a fight made for no shortage of quality interactions.

It was a sad day when UO introduced Trammel.

New comment by tyjen in "How will OpenAI compete?"

tyjen — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:47:42 +0000

My nontechnical friends only know about ChatGPT, all other LLMs are a complete and total mystery to them outside of what is built into Google's search engine and Copilot. I imagine they represent the majority of consumers. It'd require significant marketing campaign for most of them to switch or for OpenAI to make a substantial mistake.

New comment by tyjen in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

tyjen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:17:58 +0000

It's worse than that, Condé Nast is owned by Advance Publications.

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

They own a depressing number of "local" newspapers to project excessive influence.

ChatGPT promised to help her find her soulmate. Then it betrayed her

tyjen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:40:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/14/nx-s1-5711441/ai-chatgpt-openai-love-betrayal-delusion-chatbot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47014125

Points: 3

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New comment by tyjen in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

tyjen — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:41:10 +0000

The only game I regularly play refuses to pay their anti-cheat for Linux support. After Windows 10 support ends, my gaming days are probably over.

New comment by tyjen in "Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home"

tyjen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:16:14 +0000

It's rare to find local newspapers owned locally, and even rarer to find a local newspaper that's a fair representation of the local population instead of an insulated clique with heavy handed control over what's represented.

Local online forums dedicated to a locality produce more representative content and everyone can participate as long as their isn't a similar controlling clique in charge of moderation. See /r/Seattle and /r/SeattleWA for how moderation manipulates outcomes. Both perspectives are important, but each clique tends to omit what others deem important; leading to topic over-representation/under-representation problems.

There's clearly a loss on long forum informational pieces, but your community is misinformed or misrepresented if those pieces only support the motives of the clique.

New comment by tyjen in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

tyjen — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:27:59 +0000

The overall food quality in Germany is significantly higher than in the US. Visit an Aldi or Lidl in Germany, then visit one in the US; night and day difference in food quality.

You can tell Germany cares for its population via food regulation and from what's offered; whereas, it's a toxic trash heap in America solved with drugs or paying a higher premium for healthier items. The healthier items in America should be a baseline instead of pricing out people. Feels like Americans are paying for a premium upfront or downstream via pharmaceutical/healthcare solutions.

New comment by tyjen in "Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools"

tyjen — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:25:44 +0000

This, and most law schools are businesses capturing student debt and too many law students foster a flawed perception of legal practice. There's a surplus of debt-laden law graduates who are unemployed, underemployed, or working in completely different fields. Transitioning to an apprenticeship styled career path would help solve the significant mismatching that's occurring. Too many people misspending their youth and incurring debt by falling for law school marketing ploys.

Turn Tier-1 law schools and state flagship law schools into legal scholarship graduate studies for people interested in pursuing highbrow judicial work.

New comment by tyjen in "How wolves became dogs"

tyjen — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:15:17 +0000

I've never seen it in a tree, but I do see some owners leaving their crap bags on hiking trails and often forgetting about them on the return trip. I'd rather they let the dog poop in the forest instead of encapsulating it in a plastic bag until a Good Samaritan picks it up.

New comment by tyjen in "Texas first state to end American bar association oversight of law schools"

tyjen — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:13:27 +0000

Texas and most other states should push for additional freedom in this space. Anyone who can pass the state's bar exam, should be allowed to practice law. Let the legal market sort out the rest from there.

California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington already allow people to practice law within their states without attending law school, but via "reading the law" type apprenticeships. Extending this nationally would benefit lawyers and the people who need them.

New comment by tyjen in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

tyjen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:17:49 +0000

I sincerely hope it works out this way instead of pricing out open sourced development. A couple open sourced projects changed their licensing to help mitigate the increased cost burden from skyrocketing hardware costs. It'll be a sad and potentially dangerous day if most people are permanently priced out.

New comment by tyjen in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

tyjen — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:02:39 +0000

It's absurd, I've blocked outgoing connections for all home devices and appliances by default. The printer and TV were some of the worst culprits.