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New comment by yawnxyz in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

yawnxyz — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:49:47 +0000

FYI if you're getting a Worker Exception, using Cloudflare Warp / 1.1.1.1 can get the article

New comment by yawnxyz in "David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models"

yawnxyz — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:24:18 +0000

If they want something that looks more like FDA sanction clinical trial proceedings for these products, then what they have to also realize is that they will need a third party to audit every single thing for every single product release and you get something like ERoom's law where every success and model gets more and more expensive release and probably billions of dollars in multiple years release so I don't know if this actually helps them

New comment by yawnxyz in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

yawnxyz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:49:45 +0000

I've been reading Chip War and it seems like original funding for chip design was for the Space Race and for guided missiles - so basically most of Silicon Valley was started / funded by military all along

New comment by yawnxyz in "AirPods 5"

yawnxyz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:48:23 +0000

have they ever improved the charging system so the charging leads dont get gunked up?

I have a pair of airpod pro 2 and i have to scrape the leads almost every day

would be amazing if they did it thru induction charging (tho i guess thats really slow)

New comment by yawnxyz in "Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list"

yawnxyz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:29:23 +0000

i absolutely love seeing the entire feed of links - already found a few great reads. thanks for this treasure!!!!

New comment by yawnxyz in "Show HN: Rdltr – Inbox zero for your reading list"

yawnxyz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:17:51 +0000

this is really nice! i think it looks great!

the infinite scroll prevents the footer from ever being seen though

https://rdltr.app/help is in the footer and it looks really helpful!

also, any plans to open source 0:)

New comment by yawnxyz in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

yawnxyz — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:24:10 +0000

I think this is true with some people, but I don't think this holds true for some (or even most) people across the US (at least not all the folks I've worked with)

New comment by yawnxyz in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

yawnxyz — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:59:42 +0000

this would wreck a lot of the marketing efforts and probably be bad for their bottom line in the long run

I'm surprised the Sony team isn't freaked out about this

New comment by yawnxyz in "Taste Is All That's Left"

yawnxyz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:26:45 +0000

it's more horrifying to think that an entire generation's "taste" might be built on the constant output of LLMs

it's like a new generation of chefs that only knows of Chili's, and thinks it's good.

shudder

New comment by yawnxyz in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

yawnxyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:12:49 +0000

Americans get another message that's similar: https://www.oneplus.com/us/adjustment

New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

yawnxyz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:04:28 +0000

didn't know that! have a 2024 Premium and it's still loud

New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

yawnxyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:18:16 +0000

no one's complained (I don't even know if they notice), I just feel like it's obnoxious - I can feel the car arrive from the apt shaking haha

New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

yawnxyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:50:28 +0000

great choice NOT getting the GRC — it doesn't fit a car seat comfortably if you're 5'8 or larger haha

New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

yawnxyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:49:19 +0000

the stock GRC exhaust is intolerable already; every time I pull into the apt complex where everyone drives an EV, I feel like we're the neighborhood hood rats

New comment by yawnxyz in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

yawnxyz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:04:33 +0000

I have a GR Corolla and it's great in the mountains! It's tiny light and fun and fits a car seat (barely).

I wouldn't consider a loud GRC w/ catback a "sleeper" though - it's quite the opposite??

New comment by yawnxyz in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

yawnxyz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:42:22 +0000

I like the idea that Costco and Amazon are diametric opposites — for example I couldn't shop at Costco for a very very long time because I lived in the city and didn't have a car.

Amazon and other delivery companies (e.g. Weee) came to the rescue. For a while I lived close enough to a Costco for a 20 minute bike, so I'd load up my gym bag full of food - even then Costco is not ideal because there's only so much you can carry (one thing of meat, one thing of eggs, some veggies).

For those that think Costco are the uber-shopping experience are missing that they both provide very opposite consumer experiences. (Yes Costco has shipping, and same day shipping, but it hits different from Amazon).

This is also opposite to corner store grocery systems where you can pop in at any moment to get fresh fruit, a wider choice, smaller quantities at more flexible hours etc.

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tldr - what I think I'm saying is that Costco is the perfect "suburban" purchasing experience - great if you tick the boxes that you have a big family (otherwise why do you need a 60 pack of toilet paper), a big house (where do you fit all that toilet paper), a car (to transport the toilet paper), etc.

anyone who don't tick those boxes can't really take advantage of any of that - so while Costco is amazing, it definitely shouldn't be the only way to shop.

New comment by yawnxyz in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"

yawnxyz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:46:02 +0000

there's plenty of tells, e.g. "how to actually bank the part that is real" — AI tends to just "throw words out there" with very little information density

you COULD create a writer/reviewer loop hook to catch and rewrite sentences like this, but almost no one does

the result is usually very long essays that say very little (kind of like in grade school where we're graded on "length" so we just add words as filler)

New comment by yawnxyz in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

yawnxyz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:36:30 +0000

should really look at the Australian system... it's not really a free market there and the internet is awful

New comment by yawnxyz in "ArXiv's Next Chapter"

yawnxyz — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:31:57 +0000

fantastic bloke, I wish most people did this

New comment by yawnxyz in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)"

yawnxyz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:19:25 +0000

yeah this is what I meant - as we get older we're supposed to move slower, and spend more time working on mobility and strength (moderate strength building, walking, and other movements like taichi and equivalent)