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Slower than an SD card under heavy load: iPhone 18 Pro Max's QLC storage tested

virgildotcodes — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:25:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Slower-than-an-SD-card-under-heavy-load-iPhone-18-Pro-Max-s-QLC-storage-gets-tested.1403886.0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783679

Points: 4

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New comment by virgildotcodes in "The Contract on America"

virgildotcodes — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:49:24 +0000

Ah yes, everything Trump does is actually other people's fault.

Take the criticism and pressure off the abuser, and point it at their opponents.

This talking point keeps getting pushed around on social media and I can't help but think it's manufactured and promulgated by right wing entities.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:12:45 +0000

I agree. It won’t stop us from othering the source of our demise as quickly as we are able.

There’s also the argument to be made that your child is their own person, and you only have so much responsibility/control over their actions.

Of course we have a good chunk of the world screaming that this child is obviously destined to be a homicidal psychopath, but what is a parent to do?

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:47:45 +0000

At least we’ll eventually have an entity other than ourselves to blame for our annihilation.

'This is crazy. This is insane': Bill Gates has changed his mind about AI, jobs

virgildotcodes — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:41:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/08/25/2026/this-is-crazy-this-is-insane-bill-gates-has-changed-his-mind-about-ai-and-jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456903

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by virgildotcodes in "GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction"

virgildotcodes — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:09:55 +0000

Does this mean a commensurate increase in subscription usage limits?

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:58:35 +0000

Hm, seems to be a bit of a contradiction between what you’re saying in terms of “insurers want to pay more” and the infamous tendency of insurers to deny claims as much as possible?

New comment by virgildotcodes in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

virgildotcodes — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:54:43 +0000

If you read up on the sequence of events posted above you’ll see that the admin exhausted every avenue available to them but was ultimately defeated in their efforts here.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

virgildotcodes — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:12:25 +0000

Why are we even playing games about implications when we can see the empirical fact that the admin’s policies on Palestine over the last years have been to carpet bomb people?

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

virgildotcodes — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:53:20 +0000

This apologia loses force when you can transparently see that Ben Gvir’s definition of terrorist and Palestinian are a single circle Venn diagram.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

virgildotcodes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:40:33 +0000

The funny thing is it doesn’t even code well. It’s still worse than OpenAI, Anthropic, and the leading open source models.

So you get worse outcomes while also financially supporting one of the most prolific pushers of race wars, the destruction of labor rights, environmental protections, and general misinformation.

Truly a win-win?

Contrary to your framing it seems to only reason to use Grok at this point would be ideological.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

virgildotcodes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:21:32 +0000

They may need approval from their employers.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE"

virgildotcodes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:37 +0000

I'm sold.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

virgildotcodes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:28:22 +0000

OpenAI and Anthropic need to just go ahead and give people access to the cyber models.

Otherwise we have a world of attackers using open and closed source models against a much smaller group of maintainers that are likely heavily dependent on Anthropic and OpenAI and for whom it may not be a simple matter to just get approval to start using the open model flavor of the month.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Grok Bot"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:31:58 +0000

Not that useful when large swathes of the population are unemployed, which is where this is all aiming.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:59:53 +0000

The project was originally called clawdbot as it was based on Claude. Pressure from Anthropic made Peter change the name to Moltbot, which everyone thought sounded gross, so he changed it again to openclaw, with a lobster mascot.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "Grok Bot"

virgildotcodes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:36:06 +0000

This is basically openclaw with browser access, or am I missing something?

New comment by virgildotcodes in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

virgildotcodes — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:34:59 +0000

The admin fought quite hard to destroy the electric conversion, not just cancelling future orders but scrapping existing trucks and infrastructure despite that being a major expense. It's in line with the way it's fighting against renewables and environmental protections on many fronts.

I would say it's obviously in service of the fossil fuel industry but it's gotten to the point of being so absurdly senseless and against our interests that it seems primarily ideological/emotional.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trump-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/senate...

New comment by virgildotcodes in "The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle"

virgildotcodes — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:45:18 +0000

Wow, a small glimmer of good news. I almost want to hide this comment over fear of drawing attention to this thing that got away from the powers that be.

New comment by virgildotcodes in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

virgildotcodes — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:44:41 +0000

Is the game you're playing "see if I can be subtle enough to get away with undermining renewables through misleading statements on social media without people calling me out on it"? If so I think you're down 1 - 0 so far in this thread.

Best of luck on the next round though, really cool and awesome game!