Hacker News: user2722

New comment by user2722 in "Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency"

user2722 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:36:57 +0000

There is tinfoil.sh as well but honestly running this stuff on an airgapped server allows a better peace of mind about the data being used for something else.

New comment by user2722 in "A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began"

user2722 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:06:36 +0000

The half of the story which was available was indeed fascinating.

Dates I'll retain, 1.7 million years and 5000 years. Two different, if associated, marks of civilization.

New comment by user2722 in "The Road to a Billion-Token Context"

user2722 — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:23:11 +0000

Two ideas: grounding the LLM between different chats and researching politicians and their friends through mutual associations.

New comment by user2722 in "The Road to a Billion-Token Context"

user2722 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:18:39 +0000

I usually ask it to give me two batches of answer: 1) normal; 2) not sycophantic.

New comment by user2722 in "The Road to a Billion-Token Context"

user2722 — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:16:18 +0000

I have a simple and brittle system to track people and facts and associations on Newspapers, which is basically: "LLM extract people, places/projects/structure/places and save them as an Obsidian compatible graph network."

For 2 or 3 newspapers it works; my idea was to use it as grounding to discover relationships between people, companies and jobs.

As for the "everyone's life", I have always assumed that there would be a graph system to point to "forgotten" documents.

Gemini said my idea was amazing and new in its implementation, even if not in spirit, but I'm assuming it was being sycophantic as usual.

New comment by user2722 in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

user2722 — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:09:04 +0000

You clearly haven't read articles where they said they were pondering all their employees in those bunkers to have explosives in their neck...

New comment by user2722 in "The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code"

user2722 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:47:11 +0000

If the system treats you as a number, you should become a mercenary.

I love this articles who all the coders read but none of the management.

If possible, be a mercenary and put a high number on your expertise, so we can solve this management blind spot faster.

If you can't, let your life/work's passion be "not starving to death", and try to change it politics-side.

New comment by user2722 in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

user2722 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:45:08 +0000

Agents will allow human programmers to get what they've been begging for decades now: proper requirements and flexible, logical, tooling.

New comment by user2722 in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:09:45 +0000

Agree. But according to Gemini [for what's worth] the final 1990 Mashmallow's study [since first versions were cautious] did indeed jump to conclusions to point there was a causation to a better later life. The media might have amplified, but the wrong (or misleading) conclusion was already present in the _scientific_ paper.

New comment by user2722 in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:13:41 +0000

It really calls into questions the conclusions drawn from the last 50 years. Here's the ones disproven I remember:

* kids grow to be rich because they accept delayed gratification

* alpha males are the leader of the pack and all other males are useless

* people accept violence if there is a higher authority which justifies it with a reason

How many people suffered or delivered suffering because of their beliefs in the above?

New comment by user2722 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

user2722 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:24:19 +0000

NASA operates as a terminal, bloated monopoly that has completely severed its feedback loops with physical reality in favor of preserving a 25-year-old architectural fantasy. The Orion heat shield is essentially a buggy hardware release being pushed into a mission-critical production environment despite the fact that its own internal telemetry is screaming about a catastrophic failure. By choosing to ignore the spalling and the melted structural bolts, the agency is deliberately discarding the engineering equivalent of core dump data to maintain a schedule that satisfies political optics rather than Newtonian physics.

New comment by user2722 in "Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access"

user2722 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:28:14 +0000

I like Cryptomator's solution: donate to get a pretty banner.

Also, it didn't work -- Mountain Duck is closed source.

Personally I donate €50 every now and then when the average of the donation goes below a certain value (varies by project) but it requires tracking in a Spreadsheet.

New comment by user2722 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

user2722 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:05:07 +0000

Ya but in this case, it _is_ AI. It was just an experiment though -- most market absolutists talk like this.

New comment by user2722 in "Hawaii's worst flooding in 20 years threatens dam, prompts evacuations"

user2722 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:21:21 +0000

You are right. However I've found most market absolutists write similar to this. The fault is always someone else's. I had thought I had gotten the contents humanly sociopathic enough to go below the LLM radar.

I actually intended to leave a comment explaining but I started to lose points and deleted the explanation; I was however unable to delete the main comment.

New comment by user2722 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

user2722 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:07:10 +0000

Is it? My IT forces a reboot every weekend.

Windows has some apparel to hot-patch functions. A regular reboot is recommended just for higienic purposes but should be possible to reduce them.

New comment by user2722 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

user2722 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:06:58 +0000

Actually it's the wrong question. Implement rebootless updates is the right ask. You'll have to reboot like once a month still but it's better than how it is now.

New comment by user2722 in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

user2722 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:38:25 +0000

I get really annoyed at those articles which advocate the developer to sacrifice themselves towards a better future.

Companies externalize costs. I refuse to be the one, as an individual, with the burden of fixing society ills to my own detriment.

Tell me to get into politics, join an association, whatever. Now, as an individual, lose money for morals? No thank you. I may, and probably will, do it -- but don't expect I do it. I have no business, in a society with less and less public services, to harm myself and my family for refusing to do well paying jobs.

I will externalise those costs as much as possible. I will bring awareness. I will write letters. But don't ask me to leave a well paying job -- that's someone else job to fix.

New comment by user2722 in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

user2722 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:52:00 +0000

Do you have privatized healthcare in your country?

New comment by user2722 in "Maybe there's a pattern here?"

user2722 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:51:16 +0000

That has probably more to do with you bank account digits.

I'm on the inverse moral ladder currently, specially as more and more services are privatized (public health here is on fast-track to be americanized).

New comment by user2722 in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

user2722 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:44:47 +0000

I'd posit the faster we feed LLM exhisting nuclear crisis and invented, dissimilar to its training corpus, nuclear scenarios, the better we will know how wrong they can be. Fear-mongering isn't lucrative, isn't dopamine triggering, isn't actionable, doesn't look good on the resume, so it's tipically ignored.