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New comment by yakbarber in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

yakbarber — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:38:42 +0000

If you miss it, maybe she does too. You can still do it even though she doesn’t need it

New comment by yakbarber in "Notes on DeepSeek"

yakbarber — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:42:37 +0000

This is just human behaviour though. We're wired for "a lot of people who do X, also do Y". "this person does X, therefore they must do Y". Obviously, not all brown things are cows, but that's how it be, it's got nothing to do with ai.

New comment by yakbarber in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

yakbarber — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:31:33 +0000

we first need to agree the definition of consciousness, before we can start trying to attribute it to various animals and machines.

New comment by yakbarber in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

yakbarber — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:17:48 +0000

yes

and it's not just the end product, it's the process. China has built almost entirely automated car factories. They're already 10+ years ahead of what's happening in the US/Europe.

New comment by yakbarber in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

yakbarber — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:55:32 +0000

Totally agree, this protectionism killed the Australian car industry because eventually you just can’t compete.

New comment by yakbarber in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

yakbarber — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:16:10 +0000

That's aweful, only senators should be allowed to do that!

New comment by yakbarber in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

yakbarber — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:12:57 +0000

it's a solution looking for a problem and google are desperate to stay relevant there.

We just don't need to search as much. But I _do_ still want to search sometimes, it's still a valid use case, just not as important as it used to be.

But when a do search, I want simple, relevant, external search results so that I can go straight to those good sources. Google isn't satisfied with their returns on that though.

New comment by yakbarber in "Google changes its search box"

yakbarber — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:34:55 +0000

the thing that bothers me is I don't usually want this mode. When I search, I am not looking for what google thinks, I am looking for what other sources think.

New comment by yakbarber in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

yakbarber — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:56:38 +0000

can you share that prompt?

New comment by yakbarber in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

yakbarber — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:27:43 +0000

this seems disingenuous. even if your premise is true (which i don't think it is), it only really holds for the first few endpoints. most systems have many, and the models are very good at copying established patterns to the point that you wouldn't normally have to re-explain every detail for every endpoint. so you might be right for the first (you're not), but you're definitely wrong for the next 50.

New comment by yakbarber in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

yakbarber — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:00:58 +0000

let's say aliens land. we learn to talk to them. they're super smart - smarter than us. would we say they're conscious? why? because they're organic. I think that's the root of the criteria many folk are trying to express.

1. passes turing test

2. is organic

I'm not saying it's correct or even that I agree with it, but that's what it boils down to.

New comment by yakbarber in "Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment"

yakbarber — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:38:23 +0000

In less than 10 years there’s going to be millions of bipedal robots everywhere, doing all sorts of chores for us. They’re going to need hands.

New comment by yakbarber in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

yakbarber — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:38:41 +0000

no it's not, it's always work hours somewhere

New comment by yakbarber in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

yakbarber — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:28:12 +0000

that's true in every country.

New comment by yakbarber in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

yakbarber — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:21:20 +0000

Book an appointment with a Psychiatrist, it’ll cost more than a months cc subscription for sure

New comment by yakbarber in "A Rave Review of Superpowers (For Claude Code)"

yakbarber — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:56:28 +0000

Croes, is that you?

New comment by yakbarber in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

yakbarber — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:55:05 +0000

AI would have a least worded your comment better

New comment by yakbarber in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

yakbarber — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:04:05 +0000

train on my private code? jokes on them

New comment by yakbarber in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

yakbarber — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:10:33 +0000

is the ASCII animation native to the project or is it using some library?

New comment by yakbarber in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

yakbarber — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:42:07 +0000

Opus 4.6 is so much better at building complex systems than 4.5 it's ridiculous.