Hacker News: winter_blue

New comment by winter_blue in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

winter_blue — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:17:37 +0000

This is on the dot. The entirety of their argument can be summed up as “I don’t want to give a shit about my neighbor”. And, “I don’t want to care for the hungry”. Or, “I don’t want to share medical costs with my neighbors”. Basically, “I don’t want to share anything”.

New comment by winter_blue in "Retire the Abstractions"

winter_blue — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:06:37 +0000

> I want to force AI to work within the confines of an abstraction, not independently of it.

Yes, this is the way. We need programming languages that make this easier.

New comment by winter_blue in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

winter_blue — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:06:51 +0000

I'm also surprised it's bigger by 20g, since obesity and being overweight wasn't quite as much common at the start of the 90s...

New comment by winter_blue in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

winter_blue — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:10:22 +0000

This is truly awesome and fantastic, and I hope it becomes a thing all around the world.

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

winter_blue — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:07:24 +0000

> The sweet spot is representative democracy with a tendency of socialism, to mildly distribute wealth and assure social coherence.

This would be perfect.

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

winter_blue — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:38:07 +0000

I do think authoritarianism on its own is bad. I want the freedom to criticize my government, and I want the freedom to run for elections or to advocate for changes I want to see. I think democracy and logical long-term thinking shouldn't be mutually exclusive. I feel democracy and sensible behavior are two not connected things.

You can have idiotic authoritarian governments that ruin the economy. China and Vietnam were exceptions among communist countries, who switched to a form of market economy, when they saw that central planning was poverty-inducing and nigh impossible to do.

The problems we're seeing in democracies might lie with the level of disinformation for electioneering purposes that is permitted under free speech today.

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

winter_blue — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:10:20 +0000

It’s kind of amazing and horrifying at the same time that a democratic country like the U.S. is doing all these shenanigans like blocking clean zero carbon energy, while a communist authoritarian country is massively moving towards clean energy.

Based on what our media and our education system teaches us, one would have assumed that common sense and sound logic would prevail in a democracy, but rather what we see is insane nonsense, paranoia, and misinformation (including about vaccines) prevail in the U.S., to the point of burning piles of money (including the 1.2B in this case) just to satisfy a childish and bully like need to spite and trigger the progressive side (like talking about causing more pollution with the goal of “owning the libs” or triggering “delicious liberal tears”). And we’re talking about massive negative externalities with increased pollution. This kind of childish bully behavior is as though you had a neighbor who cared about not littering in public and the streets being clean, and you just threw garbage on the streets to upset her. A ridiculous level of immaturity, truly.

Meanwhile, we have totalitarian dictatorships (like the Emirates which has heavily moved toward zero carbon electricity sources like solar and nuclear) behaving far more logically, rationally, and soundly with a view towards the long-term rather than the short-term.

New comment by winter_blue in "Why we write our own C and C++ inference engines"

winter_blue — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:34:18 +0000

I found the post insightful and interesting. I'm not sure it was written with AI assistance, but even if it was, I don't see that as a reason to dismiss it. For what it's worth, I spend hours everyday reading AI output and summaries.

New comment by winter_blue in "Qwen 3.8"

winter_blue — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:00:16 +0000

And it's animated!

The cost of AI-assisted development: cognitive fatigue

winter_blue — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:05:59 +0000

Article URL: https://warpedvisions.org/blog/2025/hitting-the-wall-at-ai-speed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48885784

Points: 3

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New comment by winter_blue in "A global workspace in language models"

winter_blue — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:56:48 +0000

There's a shockingly unfathomable level of data compression that these local LLMs are able to remember in an encyclopedic way, so many obscure little things.

New comment by winter_blue in "Reflections on the Guillotine (1957)"

winter_blue — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:04:12 +0000

There's a summary of this essay on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Guillotine

This is a 1957 essay by Algerian-French philosopher Albert Camus.

New comment by winter_blue in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

winter_blue — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:21:35 +0000

One way AI can help here is identifying prior art. Write a quick sketch of you idea, and ask an LLM with uncapped long-running web search capability to find if any prior art exists!

New comment by winter_blue in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

winter_blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:58:06 +0000

That revenue number is almost meaningless, since they give out tokens at a loss. Especially with Composer 2.5 tokens are sold at a steep loss. They could certainly grow to $8 billion/year, with this negative revenue / heavily subsidized subs, but what will happen if Cursor decide to be profitable, or maybe to even just break even?

New comment by winter_blue in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

winter_blue — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:54:56 +0000

Composer 2.5 is very heavily discounted with a Cursor subscription. You effectively pay 2% of the API price of Composer 2.5 Fast with a subscription.

Does Deepseek offer any discounted tokens subscription like that?

New comment by winter_blue in "Claude Fable 5"

winter_blue — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:27:38 +0000

Composer 2.5 Fast that Cursor is giving away for very little has been amazing.

New comment by winter_blue in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

winter_blue — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:56:59 +0000

Couldn't just a single Flatpak release be sufficient?

Flatpak can be set up on many/most distros.

New comment by winter_blue in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

winter_blue — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:23:23 +0000

What do you mean it's dead? It's up at: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r23 with the last benchmark having been in February 2025, but they don't run their benchmarks that often, only once a year or less as its rounds history indicates.

New comment by winter_blue in "Chuwi Minibook X"

winter_blue — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:51:16 +0000

Used laptops are such a good deal that you could something high quality in excellent condition for so little that I almost can't justify buying something like this. Like used Dell XPS laptops are ridiculously cheap and they're amazing for the used price.

Or really buy any laptop rated highly by Dave2D or other reviewers that's 4 to 5 years old.

G7 Agrees on Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI

winter_blue — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:49:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/G7-On-Open-Source-AI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350096

Points: 4

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