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genxyon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

First AI came for the parrots and I did nothing, at least I can stand for the neanderthals.

There are so many parallels between what TV could have become and the progression of AI, a nearly free conveyance for culture, education, art and discourse. Yet, we allowed it spiral in a positive feedback loop, creating a cognitive gyre that now razes society.

At least the youngest now use "that's AI" as a pejorative, as in that is bullshit.

genxyon Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

My favorite quip in response to asking for something to get improved inside of Google is, "no one ever asked for this", knowing full well the opportunity to ask was near zero and no one ever looked.

Google is a crazy town, data driven by cherry picked post-hoc rationalizations driven by perf. The user never enters the equation.

genxyon AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise

> We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

If we want to ensure that we stay true to Amara's Law, we will need to spend the next 10 years ensuring that we use AI across all of civilization to enshittify everything and prevent young people from meaningfully entering society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Amara

genxyon Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?

> I know I am a jackass who usually vibecodes my way through assignments but even I don't want to write a cookie-cutter intro for my paper.

+1 point for honesty.

-100 for being pathetically pathetic

genxyon Plan mode is dead

Plan forced the model to write down and outline what it was going to do before writing the code. As Boris said up thread, he created it to prevent it from just rushing into writing code. So that regard, it did act like a permission system.

It helps to think more abstractly when approaching problems like this.

genxyon We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

> neanderthal levels of intelligence

were gonna need a citation on this one.

genxyon Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers

But they confidently dismissed the research and said don't worry.

genxyon Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

Which is why we should target VMs directly. Then that VM can be brought forward to new platforms rather than emulating the entire machine, not that emulating the entire machine is bad. One could argue that the emulation stack you outline was made possible by putting in the work to make simple, fully specified and documented hardware.

genxyon Platform-independent SIMD in Go

I like Linus's work, but that post smells of rotting strawmen. All the examples look manipulated into throwing the opposition under the bus.

genxyon Platform-independent SIMD in Go

https://github.com/google/highway

genxyon Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

Who is the editor on this article? Why would they expect the reader to know what the SAVE database is and what its original purpose was for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_Alien_Verification_...

> Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) is a program managed by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a branch of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). SAVE was created in 1986 and facilitates lookups on the immigration and nationality status of individuals in the United States.

The wikipedia article is written ambiguously, or they bury the actual purpose of the SAVE database

> a system for verifying the immigration status of non-citizen applicants applying for (medicad, food stamps, unemployment, student loans and housing assistance)

It wasn't designed to be a citizenship database.

https://apnews.com/article/save-database-noncitizen-voters-t...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-save-system...

genxyon Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

Then say what you mean, instead of having coy false confusion and this addled manic line of conversation.

Very little was gained.

genxyon Jevmem – automatic project memory for Claude Code, built on Jev

I don't understand people leveling criticisms at the output of AI, when that is exactly how you program them. Have people all forgotten the "prompt engineer" phase of our roles?

Give them 2 positive examples. A list of things to do, a list of things not to do and you have them giving you the exact output you want.

"Write a readme make no misteaks" is not deft usage.

genxyon Toyota is taking the Corolla electric

If they would bring a barebones electric station wagon to the US that would be heavenly.

genxyon Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

When the refcount goes to zero the knowledge is consumed. Your take is overlay pedantic without benefit.

Both definitions of knowledge creation can used. If one creates a book and it is never read, has it been produced? Isn't knowledge also its access and how widely it is disseminated?

genxyon Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton

It doesn't matter what language the tokens are in, now Eye of Sauron seeks to consume all knowledge.

genxyon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

War would be so much harder w/o oil, yet we fight wars for oil. Hmmm.

genxyon Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

There should be a shared EU nuclear consortium, a public version of Airbus but for nuclear energy spearheaded by France.

genxyon The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

Nice hazing ritual, I hope that behavior extended to other parts of the organization.

genxyon Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

If we do it, it must be right.

Our population is so emotionally stunted that we mature on things like 24 and Game of Thrones, so killing the children of the enemy isn't just a normalized thing, it is a good idea.

genxyon The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)

How large is large? What does large mean? More than 100GB? 2TB?

genxyon Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

Double-tap is part of our doctrine and rules of engagement https://www.military.com/feature/2025/12/08/denial-defiance-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igGYzVDKi2k

Before, it was "dead checking". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_checking

genxyon Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

It is already built into the damn car. Everyone already paid for it.

genxyon Xiaomi MiMo v2.6

How about I draw you a picture instead. Mowing a lawn is a priceable service.

genxyon Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

Anyone can work on an inference serving stack using easily acquirable resources.