Hacker News: yakbarber

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.

New comment by yakbarber in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

yakbarber — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:37:49 +0000

same things as the old, "what's heavier, a tonne of coal or a tonne of feathers". many, many people will say a ton a coal...

New comment by yakbarber in "House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs"

yakbarber — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:40:33 +0000

you pay them, isn't that already enough to identify any non-fraudulent account is needed?

New comment by yakbarber in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

yakbarber — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:18:42 +0000

there's a fair argument to make that a nation that drops a nuclear bomb on a city isn't "civilized"

New comment by yakbarber in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"

yakbarber — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:40:38 +0000

Reddit is significantly more popular/successful than HN even for tech.

HN is its own little world and that’s fine.

New comment by yakbarber in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

yakbarber — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:56:02 +0000

it's easy to comprehend actually. they're putting everything on "having the best model". It doesn't look like they're going to win, but that's still their bet/

New comment by yakbarber in "Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade"

yakbarber — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:44:48 +0000

"America can never win a war with Venezuela"

No, but they'll win all the battles.

New comment by yakbarber in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

yakbarber — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:35:24 +0000

it's in the eye of the beholder

New comment by yakbarber in "Periodic Spaces"

yakbarber — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:28:22 +0000

Huh

New comment by yakbarber in "Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams"

yakbarber — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:23:15 +0000

love it!

New comment by yakbarber in "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack"

yakbarber — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:27:51 +0000

that's basically saying "you can't process user input". sure you can take that line, but users wont find your product to be very useful