Hacker News: unpwn

New comment by unpwn in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

unpwn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:17:32 +0000

Very unlikely that the article is wrong. the 4.7 intelligence bump is not that big, plus most of the token spend is in inputs/tool calls etc, much of which won't change even with this bump.

New comment by unpwn in "I’m joining OpenAI"

unpwn — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:30:15 +0000

i dont think so, its trivial to spin up an openclaw clone. the only value here is the brand

New comment by unpwn in "Twin – The AI Company Builder"

unpwn — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:59:20 +0000

What are the chances they actually have the license to use that Justice song for their trailer?

New comment by unpwn in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

unpwn — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:55:06 +0000

I feel like instead of constantly releasing these preview versions with different dates attached they should just add a patch version and bump that.

New comment by unpwn in "Amazon to force 'voluntary resignation' on workers who don't relocate"

unpwn — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:50:27 +0000

Whether they have violated the contract, like all of law is up to interpretation; Most likely, given Amazon's large team of lawyers, I'm sure they could get away with almost anything.

New comment by unpwn in "Amazon to force 'voluntary resignation' on workers who don't relocate"

unpwn — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:10:17 +0000

Employment relationships and tradeoffs are negotiated at the time of hiring. Abruptly changing the terms in the middle with no re-negotiation is unfair. Sure, employees are free to leave and find another job, but with a layoff an employee has many benefits such as severance that are offered, where as in this case there are none. Instead of laying off people, should Amazon be able to just reduce their salary to 0, then say they're free to resign if they're not happy with it?

New comment by unpwn in "Amazon to force 'voluntary resignation' on workers who don't relocate"

unpwn — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:46:17 +0000

As if RTO solves this at all. Lots of teams are distributed across the many hubs. Amazon is basically asking a large number of its employees to commute hours into the office, or move across the country, just to sit on chime/slack all day anyway.

New comment by unpwn in "US may default on debt as soon as June 1, Yellen reaffirms"

unpwn — Mon, 15 May 2023 21:53:38 +0000

Yes. I would prefer gov. shutdown over republicans getting to have any say in anything.

New comment by unpwn in "The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine"

unpwn — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 18:04:58 +0000

Lmao this engine is down 6.9% for the year, when literally it's as simple as just buying some puts.

IRS Was Wrong to Give in to Hysteria and Drop Use of Facial Verification

unpwn — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 20:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://itif.org/publications/2022/02/08/irs-was-wrong-give-hysteria-and-drop-use-facial-verification-fight-fraud-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30263792

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New comment by unpwn in "Apple still planning return to in-person work despite complaints"

unpwn — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:15:49 +0000

probably lack of intelligence

New comment by unpwn in "Twitter to ban political advertising"

unpwn — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:38:07 +0000

Every time I see someone complaining about bots, its because there are a lot of likes for something they personally dislike. Not saying bots on the internet are not a problem, but I think lots of people are quick to blame bots instead of conceding that others may disagree with them. Its also virtually impossible to prove accounts as "real" or "bots" without some ID verification in place. People kinda do it via clustering/graph analysis, but I think even those are iffy at best.

New comment by unpwn in "Blogging Like a Hacker (2008)"

unpwn — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 21:17:43 +0000

Recently set up a static gen blog. I went with Hugo over Jekyll. I think its a bit personal preference tbh, but I really liked Hugo's layout, speed, and kinda prefer hacking with Go over Ruby if it comes to that.

New comment by unpwn in "Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan"

unpwn — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:09:13 +0000

Well I was thinking investing more into something like this: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/carbon-engineering-co2-captu... which captures co2 out of the air, rather than retrofitting stationary co2 emitters...

New comment by unpwn in "Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan"

unpwn — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:50:44 +0000

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/nuclear-energy/ https://www.yang2020.com/policies/climate-change/

New comment by unpwn in "Bernie Sanders unveils $16T 'Green new deal' plan"

unpwn — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:46:32 +0000

why do you say that?

New comment by unpwn in "16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines"

unpwn — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 21:33:16 +0000

You say that, but this still relies on trust of the institution. If you can't verify that your recorded vote matches what you put in, how can you trust it? All the ballots could've been switched out, or something. You are choosing to trust the institution.

Everyone has different levels of trust, and I'm sure generally the chance of some grand voting conspiracy is very low; however, for me to fully trust the system I would need to be able to verify the count myself, and verify that my own vote was recorded correctly.

Personally this feels more important than some issue around buying votes etc. That is mostly illegal, and plenty of people find ways to indirectly achieve the same effect anyway...

New comment by unpwn in "16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines"

unpwn — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 20:23:46 +0000

I feel like if you can't verify your own vote was marked down correctly, and the overall data is not publicly auditable, then it is impossible to trust the election process...

New comment by unpwn in "“The books will stop working.”"

unpwn — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:31:42 +0000

Piracy sucks for creators, but I also don't think it's fair that poor people should have less access to text books.

New comment by unpwn in "YouTube’s Product Chief on Online Radicalization and Algorithmic Rabbit Holes"

unpwn — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:04:59 +0000

Inviting a variety of guests, with a variety of viewpoints is what makes podcasts like his interesting and informative.