Hacker News: x187463

New comment by x187463 in "ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies"

x187463 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:05:26 +0000

As for prosecution, none of the victims in this case have any interest in pressing charges.

New comment by x187463 in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

x187463 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:16:58 +0000

At this point, it's kind of a hackernews thing. Simon posts them as a single comment in the relevant thread. It's okay for this place to have a little bit of a sense of community, and you can just ignore the comment.

New comment by x187463 in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

x187463 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:41:16 +0000

Is that under-appreciated? It's kind of the whole deal aside from environmental concerns.

New comment by x187463 in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

x187463 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:35:14 +0000

These things remind me of my dad's 90's ford ranger. I would love a small functional pickup. I don't need to drive a battle-tank around town. If all works out for these trucks, it's a top contender for my money in the near future.

New comment by x187463 in "Will It Mythos?"

x187463 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:13:25 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, nobody is playing with the toys, now.

New comment by x187463 in "Nvidia Halos"

x187463 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:38:47 +0000

I'm very exciting for Nvidia to meaningfully enter this space. I know they've been working on autonomous vehicles for a while now, but it seems like they are approaching a real product. Hopefully, they produce something that can be used on consumer vehicles. We really need good competition in this space. The US market is limited to Tesla FSD and no other manufacturer is even close. I'm not confident individual manufacturers could meaningfully develop their own solutions. A strong third-party option is a great direction for the industry.

New comment by x187463 in "Midjourney Medical"

x187463 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:16:33 +0000

> Because if a "condition" doesn't impact you, will it help to be aware of it?

Fast and cheap full body scans could provide the data necessary to tune out the noise.

New comment by x187463 in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

x187463 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:47:36 +0000

HN has a huge user base. If the article is pro-AI, you'll see top comments praising AI. If the article is anti-AI, you'll see top comments deriding AI. The article and headline is just an attractor to those whose opinion is aligned. It's not unique to AI, basically every thread has your typical nerd-fights, but AI has been particularly polarizing for many reasons.

New comment by x187463 in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

x187463 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:20:56 +0000

Not only is this NOT the case, but all Tesla vehicles since something like 2021 have included matrix lights. They have adaptive beams to automatically darken sections of the headlight beam to avoid blinding other drivers.

New comment by x187463 in "Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster"

x187463 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:39:38 +0000

What's 'allowed' in a speed run is decided by the community who do the speed running. Further, run leaderboards are broken into categories based around defined parameters. So, perhaps there would be a category unique to hardware manipulation such as this. For major speed running games, the rules are often very well defined and enforced.

New comment by x187463 in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

x187463 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:59:42 +0000

On a Macbook, natural scrolling feels right on the touchpad. The real crime is not having a separate setting for a mouse. I had to use applescript tied to a keybind so I can use natural scrolling on the touchpad and toggle to regular scrolling when using a mouse wheel.

New comment by x187463 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

x187463 — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:24:51 +0000

I wonder how a focus on per-token API profits will impact the incentives to improve token efficiency and drive down costs through optimized compute. I suppose as long as a few leading labs are competing, we'll see progress in this regard, but it's certainly less in their interest than it is with a flat subscription pricing model.

New comment by x187463 in "Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family"

x187463 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:03:17 +0000

With iMessage, Discord, and Signal, I can't imagine a use case for me or anyone I know to use WhatsApp.

New comment by x187463 in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

x187463 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:16:19 +0000

> Without guidance, LLMs tend to paint themselves into a corner, because they’re generating code to solve individual prompts, not thinking holistically about an application’s architecture.

I've found I can prevent the LLM, in many cases, from thrashing on a bug/feature for long periods of time by switching into plan mode and, even in the middle of a conversation, having it reassess the structure around the problem, first. If you keep prompting about the same bug, it may keep producing variations of the problem code. But forcing it to stop and 'think' for a bit, has yielded much better results.

New comment by x187463 in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

x187463 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:16:00 +0000

The course has all the materials you need. The book itself is sufficient, but I think the course adds a bit more detail to the explanations.

New comment by x187463 in "Why is Google Maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?"

x187463 — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:32:31 +0000

I've been finding a lot of ~5 year old satellite and street view data. It's only anecdotal, but it seems like Google is not updating their imagery as often as they used to.

New comment by x187463 in "Claude for Legal"

x187463 — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:35:43 +0000

I must believe, as with the medical profession's uptake of AI tools, if these tools prove themselves to be reliable and meaningfully helpful, she will experience more than enough professional influence to learn the tools.

New comment by x187463 in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

x187463 — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:41:38 +0000

Measuring token usage as a productivity metric is like measuring keystrokes. Don't mind me, just over here rolling my face on the keyboard for an hour so I can take Friday off...

...except each keystroke has an associated cost, the sum of which may equal or exceed my salary.

New comment by x187463 in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

x187463 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:12 +0000

+1 for NAND-to-Tetris. I combined it with a visual logic simulator so I could actually see the structures beyond the VHDL. I would love to go back and do Part 2.

New comment by x187463 in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

x187463 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:08:33 +0000

Modern refreshed models use an eye tracking camera.