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clueless··on Classified Estimates Show the NSA Is Paying Billions to Test AI Models
My guess is, the US government (aka DJT) won't really acknowledge AI risks until folks at NSA start to freak out while using latest models for various tasks...
clueless··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
same, I saw the exact same weird transition from 27 -> 26.7... def seems like a bug
clueless··on Things That Annoy Me About Cars
This is the most important reason not to have them...
clueless··on Things That Annoy Me About Cars
One Pedal Drive Option tends to cause motion sickness.
clueless··on Claude is a Contrarian
sounds on point since most LLMs have been MBTI tested as INTJ (and derivatives)

source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscie...

clueless··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
I might be missing something but conceptually, “safe, battle-tested, stable” vs “could be amazing future-tech” IS about conservative vs progressive... am I missing something?
clueless··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
I remember reading this back in 2015, but how is this not just the age old conservative (don't do more than needed) vs progressives (lets try some new risk things) debate? As much as I can relate to a more conservative choice when choosing tech that might power a giant consumer company, sometimes using riskier tech in a startup makes more sense to get the real innovation flowing... and the idea of "Choose New Technology, Sometimes" just feels like a little cheat to get away from the bigger issue with the overall thesis. In this way, the idea in this blog just feels so out of touch.
clueless··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
it's a new venture that he can then sell back to google, and continue his ongoing loop
clueless··on Squillions: How money laundering won
see the show Ozark on Netflix
clueless··on The Ask
This is unrelated to this article, but I see such simple titles posted on HN often and given how many articles I read per day on HN, I don't know if it's worth me reading or not until I click it. I wish we had a feature on HN that semantically defined who the intended audience for an article is, specially for such opaque titles. Something like the following (used gemini for this):

Here are the 1-2 tags defining the intended audience for each article on the front page:

Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims Tags: AI Researchers, Machine Learning Engineers

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos Tags: Digital Content Creators, General Tech Consumers

A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot Tags: Computer Scientists, AI Researchers

AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes Tags: Linux Users, Hardware Engineers

I analysed 20 years of my chats Tags: Data Enthusiasts, Hobbyist Programmers

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit Tags: Tech Entrepreneurs, Product Managers

Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave Tags: Gamers, Creative Coders

AI sticker shock hits corporate America Tags: Corporate Executives, IT Managers

SimCity 3k in 4k (2025) Tags: Retro Gamers, Game Developers

Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter Tags: Programming Historians, Language Enthusiasts

What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications Tags: Mobile Developers, Privacy Advocates

Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act Tags: E-commerce Professionals, Tech Policy Analysts

Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin Tags: Software Engineers, Web Developers

I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum) Tags: Network Enthusiasts, Maker/DIY Community

More Whimsical OEIS Sequences Tags: Mathematicians, Recreational Math Enthusiasts

Libwce: The entropy layer of a wavelet codec, on its own Tags: Compression Engineers, Systems Programmers

The Ask (the article you previously asked about) Tags: Engineering Managers, Tech Leaders

Seeing Around Corners Using Smartphone-Grade Lidar Tags: Computer Vision Researchers, Optics Engineers

Rust (and Slint) on a Jailbroken Kindle Tags: Hardware Hackers, Rust Developers

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode Tags: Search Engine Marketers, Privacy Advocates

Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025) Tags: AI Prompt Engineers, NLP Researchers

Go: Support for Generic Methods Tags: Go Developers, Systems Programmers

Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife Tags: System Administrators, CLI Power Users

FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home Tags: General Audience, Intelligence Buffs

RamAIn (YC W26) Is Hiring Tags: Job Seekers, AI Engineers

Warm up your MacBook (2019) Tags: Mac Users, Hardware Hobbyists

Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests (GitHub) Tags: DevOps Engineers, Software Developers

A New Typst Template for Pandoc (2025) Tags: Academic Writers, Technical Writers

Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference Tags: Neuroscientists, Psychology Researchers

Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term Tags: Tech Finance Enthusiasts, General Tech Consumers

clueless··on Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)
This sounds like a great capability to be added to immich
clueless··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
Super confusing... seems like some sort of in with the VCs that can pull this program's guests was enough to create a new podcast that is now seen as influential. My best is, this was a side liquidity event for the openAI VCs that had somehow invested into the podcast, looking to get some money out of openAI stake.
clueless··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
60K followers on youtube for low hundreds of millions? seems steep
clueless··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
> It's only true in a universe where Iran would have collapsed from within before the expiration of the sunset clause, and that clearly was not going to happen.

No one can know this hypothetical, but some def bet their entire futures/careers on this: that an Iran with a more prosperous middle class (as a result of JCPOA) might have had a better chance for social/internal reform, i.e. regime change.

clueless··on Let yourself fall down more
> If you take a lot of chances, that adds up eventually and you'll have some big wins. Just do it safely, so that they don't add up to a lot of big losses, too.

And here is great contradiction in this whole essay. You can't "safely" take a lot of chances and not lose big, when in most cases to have big wins, one has to do unsafe things...

This is also why folks who have a safety net (in terms of family wealth, etc) tend to do better as entrepreneurs. Not sure this essay is helpful.

clueless··on Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide
What are some sample real world cases folks are using to fine tune their own small/medium models?
clueless··on MIT Living Wage Calculator
This whole dataset needs to be downloadable, instead of being behind their UI..
clueless··on Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future
> When the system rewards cheating, the rational choice is to cheat—or be disadvantaged.

Doesn't the current president of the U.S. and indeed his posse sorta of espouse this when you look at their backgrounds? This feels like a bigger cultural issue around what the advantaged folks have been doing all along

clueless··on Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai
Could Q.ai be commercializing the AlterEgo tech coming out of MIT Lab? i.e. "detects faint neuromuscular signals in the face and throat when a person internally verbalizes words"

Yep, looks like that is it. Recent patent from one of the founders: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

clueless··on Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews
I'd wonder if you'd ever consider putting up a downloadable mirror of their full-text search db?
clueless··on STFU
The fact that we can't just spin up a Claude code on our iPhones and have it program and run the end result right there in iOS should be chargeable offense by apple (and Android). Looking forward to the day that this capability exists.
clueless··on Intellectual Junkyards
Have you seen any good open source projects using llms to do the scutwork for this kind of PKMs?
clueless··on Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
Same reasons there is no competition to facebook either (even though google tried and failed)
clueless··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
yeah, translation, article summarization, asking questions from a long wiki page... and maybe with some agents built-in as well: parallelizing a form filling/ecom task, having the agent transcribe/translate an audio/video in real time, etc

All this would allow for a further breakdown of language barriers, and maybe the communities of various languages around the world could interact with each other much more on the same platforms/posts

clueless··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
This whole backlash to firefox wanting to introduce AI feels a little knee-jerky. We don't know if firefox might want to roll out their own locally hosted LLM model that then they plug into.. and if so, if would cut down on the majority of the knee jerk complaints. I think people want AI in the browser, they just don't want it to be the big-corp hosted AI...

[Update]: as I posted below, sample use cases would include translation, article summarization, asking questions from a long wiki page... and maybe with some agents built-in as well: parallelizing a form filling/ecom task, having the agent transcribe/translate an audio/video in real time, etc

clueless··on Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
could this be a used a bluetooth microphone, so I could use it with a laptop as a quick voice dictation/input for various uses? I'm thinking like a simple microphone for an localy hosted app like Hex: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex
clueless··on We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start
that is true
clueless··on We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a financial head start
exactly, based on this:

  There is a political benefit for Trump and fellow Republicans. The accounts will become available in the midst of a midterm election, providing money to millions of voters — and a campaign talking point to GOP candidates — at a critical time politically. The $1,000 deposits are slated to end just after the 2028 presidential election.
They are obviously trying to buy the vote, so they can keep benefiting from the various tax breaks this admin is giving the wealthy...
clueless··on Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs
> Not sure the full motivation behind this

This feature was one of the main reasons how Netflix movies/shows could be captured/uploaded to piracy sites in full quality as soon as they were released. People recorded the video output and uploaded them. This is to remove that path. Kinda obvious if you ask.

clueless··on How to repurpose your old phone into a web server
Title should be updated to include "unused android phone"
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