Hacker News: woah

New comment by woah in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

woah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:10:28 +0000

Lol I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not

New comment by woah in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

woah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:23:18 +0000

At the same time, the only things that get built and sold are the things that someone is capable of building and selling

New comment by woah in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

woah — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:28:33 +0000

I believe that the issue was that the EU wanted Apple to open up their new AI agent interface (the ability to control every app on your phone so Siri can call you an Uber or whatever), and Apple thought that it was too risky of a capability to give to any random AI app right out of the gate.

New comment by woah in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

woah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:11:43 +0000

> There are 2 potential outcomes: either the sky really does fall, and there's a meaningful uptick in bad things happening to iPhone users, in which Apple can easily point the finger at the EC and say "they made us do this". Apple looks like the good guys who put up a good fight for their users, but ultimately their hands were tied, and they'll probably get the revisions to EU law they're so desperately fighting for.

I'd prefer they focus on safeguarding my data instead of playing a ridiculous game of brinksmanship with regulators to make a point.

New comment by woah in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

woah — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:27:02 +0000

> I won’t deny they are useful tools, but the hyperbole from the tech CEOs about them replacing all white collar workers in 12-18 months set the expectation so high that I’m still in the “fancy auto-complete” camp.

Why would someone else's unrealistic assessment affect your assessment of the actual abilities you see?

Seems like your opinion is mostly politics-based

New comment by woah in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

woah — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:46:46 +0000

These guys may actually just be angling to sell off the training data. diverse training data is more valuable

New comment by woah in "Protestware for coding agents"

woah — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:28:50 +0000

does it even work?

New comment by woah in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

woah — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:16:11 +0000

From my back of the envelope analysis for my own projects, paying per token on OpenRouter is competitive if not cheaper than running the same open weight model on a rented GPU. Per-token pricing is in the same ballpark (although more expensive) for closed frontier models and open weight models (cents to dollars per million). To me this says that the pricing is somewhat grounded in reality.

New comment by woah in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

woah — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:15:55 +0000

"If all you are is a proxy to an AI, exactly what value are you adding to the organization?"

Prompt Engineering

New comment by woah in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

woah — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:14:47 +0000

Thanks for your response-- it's really load-bearing.

New comment by woah in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

woah — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:13:06 +0000

you can do this easily with the api or with codex

New comment by woah in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

woah — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:07:10 +0000

Where are you following the comings and goings of small no name product managers like it's a baseball team?

New comment by woah in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

woah — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:51:39 +0000

Analogous situation to self-hosted communication encryption keys, where criminals can host military-grade encryption keys on any common mobile device, allowing them to discuss child porn and terrorism in a way that the police cannot monitor

New comment by woah in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

woah — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:49:24 +0000

Iran's chief strategy in this war seems to be to harm Iraq and Saudi Arabia

New comment by woah in "Crypto industry lobbies to evade AML/CTF rules"

woah — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:34:23 +0000

This is a heavily editorialized and misleading submission title. The only thing on this page that could be construed to have anything to do with the submission title is that this organization appears to be lobbying the EU not to make self-hosted wallets (where you control your own keys) illegal.

New comment by woah in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

woah — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:58:33 +0000

They're always pressuring me into "shipping" "features"

New comment by woah in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

woah — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:32:52 +0000

This is like when Bob Dylan went electric

New comment by woah in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

woah — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:36:50 +0000

Can you make your own CPU, locally?

New comment by woah in "Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]"

woah — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:28:24 +0000

> they want the retail and institutional investor to be protected

That costs money, indirectly

New comment by woah in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

woah — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:23:05 +0000

Who's the whiny baby? The developer writing some code in their own repo, or the guy complaining about it on Hacker News?