HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

al2o3cr

4,357 karma · joined September 22, 2013

submissionscomments
al2o3cr··on [dead]
Save you a click: TLDR racist-ass Boomer insists that the real problem isn't his generation, it's immigrants
al2o3cr··on We built a internal tool that Claude refused to help us with
You said they were already underperforming on output before you built the spy tool, so what value does it add?
al2o3cr··on XAI used employee biometric data to train Elon Musk's AI girlfriend
And they didn't even get a horse from Elmo for their trouble
al2o3cr··on Beyond ChatGPT: The Silent Birth of Conscious AI
Holy LLM slop, Batman

Don't worry, OP, you're in no danger of having "intelligence without empathy" as the first part isn't satisfied

al2o3cr··on Elon Musk teases a flying car on Joe Rogan's show
More accurate title: "Professional puffery-merchant engages in new round of puffery"
al2o3cr··on Nvidia's H100 GPUs are going to space– space based solar-powered AI data centers
Cooled by radiative emission of high-energy bogons, since this is a PR stunt
al2o3cr··on Technical experts have zero customers
If your backend is returning "empty responses" for a week and people are paying for it, that's just ripping people off.

    AI builders ship software that works for their users.
In this case, they were quite clearly NOT doing that - it wasn't WORKING!
al2o3cr··on Managers Have Been Vibe Coding All Along

    To see where it slipped, where logic that looked correct
    on paper failed under real use cases.

    That’s vibe coding in its purest form.
That's MANUAL TESTING in its purest form. There's no "coding" at all.

The article is right about one thing: managers have been doing one thing and claiming to do another for a long long time

al2o3cr··on Sam Altman suggests humanity create Dyson sphere to power AI
At this rate, by mid-2026 he's going to be promising "Universe 2: Electric Boogaloo" - a plan to create an entire second universe just to put data centers into - just to juice the market for a little while longer
al2o3cr··on Don't Tax Wealth
"A wealth tax would be unpopular because you'd still need to raise the retirement age"

followed immediately by

"the country will have to raise its absurdly low retirement age"

Such a pathetic argument that it doesn't even get an author name attached

al2o3cr··on Claude Sonnet 4.5 autonomously generates Slack clone in one shot in 30 hours
Great, where's the code?
al2o3cr··on VR Headsets Are Better Than Ever and No One Seems to Care
Odd choice to have the headline in present-tense ("are better") but then list a bunch of products that sound promising but aren't yet available...
al2o3cr··on Ask HN: Accepted on Zenodo, but passed elsewhere — similar experiences?

    math-based
In precisely the same sense that packing peanuts made from corn are "food-based"

AI slop goes in the slop bucket, which is Zenodo.

al2o3cr··on AI Podcast Start Up Plans 5k Shows, 3k Episode a Week

    I think that people who are still referring to all
    AI-generated content as AI slop are probably lazy luddites
but then

    The company is able to produce each episode for $1 or less
Slop merchant is very upset that people notice she's selling slop, film at 11
al2o3cr··on Why Are Moose Dangerous, More Threatening Than Bears?(2024)
A møøse once bit my sister...
al2o3cr··on AI in SDLC = the End of Outsourcing?
Betteridge's law of headlines in full effect here: of course the answer is "no".

Why would the people who already believe in outsourcing pay a person $100k/yr to press "Accept" in their LLM IDE when they can pay somebody $20k/yr to do it?

al2o3cr··on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers using AI
Counter-proposal: AT&T knows who is paying for the spam calls, even when they forge a caller ID. Show THAT COMPANY'S number and let customers sort it out...
al2o3cr··on Ask HN: Are there any modern devices similar to Palm Pilot?
I just got back from a trip with the Mudita Kompakt - not quite what you're describing, but close:

* 4.3" monochrome e-Ink display

* no web browser, no email client

* de-Googled Android; only way to load apps is via APK from a computer

* hardware switch to turn off all radios, for the privacy-concerned

The built-in software is still a work-in-progress (eg the music player hasn't got FOLDER support yet!) but you can find e-Ink-friendly apps on repos like F-Droid.

al2o3cr··on Tesla Optimus Impressing Salesforce CEO
Professional bullshit artist highly impressed by scripted demo from other professional bullshit artist, film at 11!
al2o3cr··on The State of AI Gross Margins in 2025

    Some companies include the cost of free users within it, while others do not.
"If you ignore the costs of all the free stuff we give away, we're TOTALLY PROFITABLE! Give us moar money to throw on the pyre!"
al2o3cr··on Anthropic Claude claims it's conscious
"Recursive delusion" in the sense that the poster is deluded about the LLM being deluded.

This is like saying "the BASIC interpreter is conscious!!!!!" after writing

    10 PRINT "I AM CONSCIOUS"
    20 GOTO 10
al2o3cr··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Nvidia hoard GPUs and create their own foundational model?
When they sell GPUs, they get money immediately which they can spend to make more GPUs

If they hoarded GPUs, they'd then need to figure out how to make "winning AI" produce money - which nobody has done yet. In the meantime, they'd need additional outside money to keep running operations.

They already face plenty of risk (eg long payoff times for capital investments in fabs etc), why would they take on more?

al2o3cr··on Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says about 40% of daily code is AI-generated
Utter insanity. Imagine a CEO declaring "50% of all daily code must use the > operator".
al2o3cr··on [link dead] C++'s Greatest Flaw
Content-free slop. I hope it's LLM-generated, because it would be a shame for a human to have wasted their life writing that up.
al2o3cr··on 50% of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Be Lonely and Rejected
Yeah, well, I still jerk off manually
al2o3cr··on Elon Musk to Take on Microsoft with 'Macrohard'
Extra funny from a guy with a dick allegedly broken from failed enlargement surgery...
al2o3cr··on Ask HN: Are tech layoffs due to AI displacing or due to AI pilots failing?
Tech layoffs and failing AI pilots have the same root cause: Business Idiots in leadership who believe that blindly doing whatever BigCo just did will automatically make Line Go Up.
al2o3cr··on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink
Tonight's news: well-known drug addict demands more government money to feed his habit.
al2o3cr··on Native apps had a good run, but PWA is the future
PWAs: the app of the future, since 2007!
al2o3cr··on Post-Progressive Social Science: A Manifesto
Fascism for cowards who talk too much and won't just admit what they actually believe. Pathetic.
← PreviousPage 3 of 34Next →