<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: willy_k</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=willy_k</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:32:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=willy_k" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willy_k in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was taking your comment to mean that the metaverse movement (as in the rebranding to Meta etc., rather than the specific concept itself) is dead, which apparently you did not mean so that’s on me.<p>They have two current Meta Ray Ban options, the “Gen 2” and the “Display”, the latter of which <i>does</i> have an AR component.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:14:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936457</link><dc:creator>willy_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willy_k in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s premature to say that the idea failed; The flashy controversial “metaverse” angle where you can live your whole life on the Quest or whatever isn’t happening, but their investment into AR/VR has definitely started to show real payoff potential with their glasses.<p>They address the friction of use issue being discussed, they’re even more discrete and available than a phone. And they are getting a lot of general public recognition, albeit not for the best reasons (people discretely filming, for genuine social media reactions but also for other reasons..).<p>Their tech is improving at a decent pace and they’ve recently put out a product that is both ready for consumer (at least with select use cases) adoption, and actually reasonably available to the public.</p>
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<p>Sounds normal to me!<p>i.e. it may be a step change and that could very well have distinct and noticeable real world effects, like other technologies have in the past, but it’s nothing fundamentally new.</p>
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<p>The point now isn’t having better rockets for (ballistic) missiles, since satellites became a thing the game has been infrastructure. Future (hypothetical) missions to the moon and mars might not be for military research purposes directly, but the infrastructure that both needs to be and now can be set up to support those missions will absolutely be co-opted for military purposes.<p>The race is now to bootstrap your nation’s permanent presence in space, because at the moment there is a first mover opportunity for what is slowly but surely becoming just another frontier for economics, geopolitics, etc. to play out over (granted this is already happening, I suppose I’m talking about a step change in scale).</p>
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<p>Needs to? Is there some new law mandating all landing pages must contain exclusively handwritten text that people haven’t heard of?<p>To your actual point, the people that would take the landing page being written by an LLM negatively tend to be able to evaluate the project on its true merits, while another substantial portion of the demographic for this tool would actually take that (unfortunately, imo) as a <i>positive</i> signal.<p>Lastly, given the care taken for the docs, it’s pretty likely that any real issues with the language have been caught and changed.</p>
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<p>This alone obviously doesn’t put Windows in danger, but if it does go over well then it’ll mark a turning point; A large non-techy institution getting away from Microsoft’s castle and being better off for it would signal to the world that it’s not only doable, but could even be worth it. It’ll take a while, but this could be the start of the end for Windows.</p>
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<p>I don’t agree that the word “pickle” has been reduced like you claim. Used as a noun, it is only applied to pickled cucumbers. But it’s used as a verb is still very common and the average person understands that many things can be pickled.<p>Although if you were to ask them to guess at the etymology, you probably would get a lot of disappointing answers.</p>
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<p>Seems like that only has the task improvement loop, no self-improvement improvement loop like this project.</p>
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<p>Thank you for sharing that, that was a valuable read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:06:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492224</link><dc:creator>willy_k</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by willy_k in "Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How much of this have you actually experienced yourself, as opposed to inferring it from things you’ve read online?</p>
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<p>Do you believe that they get an unadulterated perspective of both experiences? That they would be getting the experience of a woman rather than that of a trans woman?</p>
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<p>If you haven’t tried this out yet, you can also download terminal apps that let you ssh from your phone, and that’ll be easy to get going with Tailscale already set up.</p>
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<p>25k annually (before taxes) is $12/hour with a 40 hour work week, how many software developers in the first world are working for that? There are probably some, but I’d be surprised if there were “many”.</p>
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<p>> If shit ever did hit the proverbial fan, you can bet that any US military walking around an American city would be constantly worried about getting a lead injection from any Tom, Dick or Harry who's got a firearm.<p>And then in many scenarios, that Tom, Dick, or Harry gets returned the favor, except with a tank round or worse. If the military remained organized, or at least large factions of it did, it would considerably outclass the general population in both intelligence and firepower / strike capabilities.<p>Soldiers would be on edge and vulnerable, sure, just like in the conflicts of the past few decades, but overall the military would retain a significant advantage.</p>
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<p>And I’m going to be using Valgrind in a few weeks, writing C in university now.</p>
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<p>Ironically an AI written article.</p>
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<p>The router seems to only apply to the ChatGPT version, not the API, so it’s not really anything new. Gemini already has functionally dynamic reasoning effort.</p>
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<p>Yes they do, if the model size / vram requirement keeps shrinking for a given performance target, like has been happening, then it gets cheaper to run X level of model.</p>
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<p>For API users, yes, but for the average person with a subscription or using the free tier it’s the inverse.</p>
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<p>That doesn’t really matter for the point at hand, which is that Europe’s overregulation stifles innovation and international competition. Unless you’re arguing that the reason Europe hasn’t produced a SOTA LLM is <i>because</i> it’s not a net benefit, in which case that’s ignoring that it’s going to happen regardless and if Europe supposedly has its head on straighter than others, it would be most beneficial for the leading LLM to be European.</p>
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