llm_nerd

You've left some 36 comments on this submission (which is honestly weird as HN usually rate limits to avoid that sort of aggressive participation), and your comments seem extremely...cherry picked. In another comment you dismissed the bandwidth savings of JXL because connections are so fast that eh, who cares, and in this case you herald the importance of progressive rendering because connections are so slow.

Are you the author of the submission? Literally never seen someone so motivated in a conversation before.

These sorts of things always talk about progressive rendering. Who actually likes progressive decoding? Like...what year is it?

I don't want an image to appear in any form until its loaded. I never need to see a blurry placeholder, and there is zero value in that even with bad connections, but the situation is farcical when everyone has ultra-fast connections everywhere.

This is similar to pages that use custom fonts but will happily show the text as quickly as it can, and then suddenly restyle/relayout the page when the custom font loads (Flash of Unstyled Text - FOUT). It looks terrible and is jarring. Progressive rendered images are the same.

> Vizio's numbers are famously public due to its recent sale.

Vizio's numbers were public because they went public in 2021 and like every public corporation they have to report numbers. The sale to Walmart actually made their numbers private again because while they're a part of public company still, it's now thoroughly washed in such a mass of numbers it disappears in any quantifiable way.

> It doesn't prove that LG loses money on its TVs, but it's clearly not as clear cut as you make it out to be

How clear cut do you think I made it? You seem to be claiming my comment said something it didn't.

TVs are being subsidized by secondary businesses for some vendors, to some degree, but that isn't why TVs are cheap. If you completely removed that factor, some makers would be slightly more expensive...but not by that much at all.

Like people do a lot of clever positioning to grossly overstate how much they make from this. And it's worth noting that much if not most of the revenue people ascribe to "ads" or privacy invasion on Vizio, actually came from their Connected+ platform. Vizio had a platform, just like Apple does, and just like Apple they took a cut of every subscription signed up for, or piece of media purchased.

I remember back in the day when laptops had a bunch of pre-installed junk and stupid stickers all over them -- at least in the Windows world -- and people would claim this "subsidized" the laptop. That it made it much less expensive. Some people ran the numbers and it was utterly marginal, but they did it because the average person simply didn't care. If they just increased the price the tiny amount and removed that shit the product would be better, but if most people don't care and you can eek out a tiny bit more, they do it.

Because when people cry wolf, and then there is no wolf, it actually harms the consumer by lowering everyone's guard. Have people not learned this yet?

Gamers Nexus discovered recently, through their "AMD blacklisting" bit (when some relatively minor mid-lifecycle refresh of a product they didn't get a demo unit, so it turned into some "we are the truthsayers!" bit), that doing the Louis Rossmann routine earns them loads of links and clicks. So they're firmly in the cry wolf territory now, and it makes me more dubious of their claims that the people they are questioning.

This whole space is filled with bullshit now. Saw another video where a big channel talks about why TVs are so cheap now, and they then explain it that it's because they sell your data. In the real world, the selling data bit, ACR, and so on, is absolutely tiny dollars business. TVs are cheap because massive factories are pumping out these almost entirely plastic products in enormous numbers, and they're extremely cheap to make, and the IP has all been long amortized out.

> That...doesn't seem plausible.

In what way? Dramatically lower processing and signature complexity. Audio signature matching is trivial and extremely well known. I see absolutely nothing implausible about this, and it seems a robust, viable solution.

> This paper from 2024 investigated both Samsung and LG and found that they both capture screen images for ACR, and send the resulting hash (not the raw content) back to the manufacturer for identification.

That paper found no such thing. That paper actually demonstrated that they have no clue how the ACR happened, they just demonstrated that playing content yielded content IDs. It is more likely they were witnessing audio ACR happening, exactly as LG described.

They explicitly state that the audio ACR is done through the "TV’s internal audio processor". e.g. rendered audio, not recorded audio. I mean, you could stretch the claim to have it internal include recorded audio, but that seems dubious.

Is this performance art? Utterly bizarre that you continue to state the same insanely detached nonsense that I directly and overtly addressed.

It actually doesn't matter what the linked site says about Cloudflare, which I made abundantly clear in my root post. People use Cloudflare for a given reason, and this site failed for exactly that reason, so when the root post whines and mopes about everyone pointing out the ironic failure of the site -- desperately clutching their pearls because people aren't getting in on their holy war -- well, it falls a little flat.

It makes for a very weak message. Nothing else matters if they couldn't show some fundamental, basic level of competency at precisely the thing that Cloudflare shines at.

Now I know you're going to post another asinine waste of bits about how in the linked site he said something or other, laughably demonstrate that you're just a weird zealot. Go nuts. I'm done with you.

Ah yes, I'm totally illiterate. You got me. I mean, if you didn't get everyone with the hilarious pearl clutching as you holier than thou'd everyone, the comical insults should really put it over the top.

Thanks for reminding me to flag the submission, though.

> In what way does their lack of traffic resilience demonstrate a counter to their position?

When 99.999% of sites utilize Cloudflare for "traffic resilience", as a caching facade that even happens to be geolocated to clients for even more benefit, falling over on exactly that issue kind of obliterates the sales pitch. Every single reasonable person on the planet sees that.

It looks farcically silly, regardless of whatever points it makes or however much I agree with them (yes, CF centralization is bad, it's a company with a mixed history and a lot of bad, it basically has a monopoly now, etc). And yes, there are other CDNs and load balancers and solutions. But presumably someone pushing a position on this has the problem solved beforehand, no?

As to your poor analogy, it's more akin to saying that you hate trucks while trying to drag a couch seven miles from the store.

> Incredibly disappointing just how many comments are making fun of the site for not handling the traffic

Why? It's a deserved, obvious observation. If you're advocating a position but then demonstrate exactly the thing that counters your position, isn't that a worthwhile point? Of course everyone is going to point it out.

An HN front page simply isn't much traffic at all. It really isn't. The fact that so many sites still fall over is simply crazy in 2026. I don't even know how it's possible this is still such an issue. A Raspberry Pi 5 can host an HNing.

The site finally loaded for me, and seriously publishing content is such a ridiculous pattern. It's actually kind of funny that the whole site is falling over because someone decided to publish an opinion in a README, instead of putting it on an infinitely more appropriate static host (which can be built from that git).

The US is the world's most vulnerable economy to oil shocks. I mean the real economy, not the farce that the markets currently are.

The Venezuela comment is extremely weird. You know Venezuela has negligible production, right, and that it would take 100s of billions of investments, over decades, to get reasonable production that would make a difference. That's ignoring that currently there is a laughably illegitimate puppet government -- literally just Madero's government minus him, as they did the coup with the US -- that has a 100% chance of a violent overthrow in the future. Which is exactly why all of the oil companies are shrugging and saying no thanks.

Venezuela is a farce -- much like $5000 "dividend" for a government literally on the precipice of bankruptcy, as Bessent runs around, near tears, trying to convince everyone that they're the house and he's the big dog German Shepherd instead of the face of a failing empire having its last pathetic gasp, to laughter all around -- that Trump thinks gives him leverage against Canada. It is unbelievably pathetic business, like renaming a 400+ year old name on a lake like a little bitch.

There is zero scenario where this has benefitted the US, but a drunkard incompetent secdef (sorry "secwar") convinced a foolish demented rapist, who already had Israel whispering in his ear, how easy and painless this foolish debacle will be.

ROFL.

No longer? That's an editorialized title, and it's super weird because this very article is from May, and this started back in April, and has been discussed numerous times on here.

e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775633

I'm not sure how valuable this advice is. From what I can see, Jeffries hasn't been involved in actual software development for decades (he is ~87 and has a lot of great accomplishments under his belt, but in the year 2026, 0% of his income relies upon him generating solutions for paying clients in a competitive space, and probably hasn't for a long, long time).

For some reason HN readers love this sort of content, largely by periphery players who mostly think it gives them an angle for clicks. And, I mean, as someone who uses lots of AI to delight clients and stay competitive, you be you. It leaves more for me.

They did reinforcement learning on Kimi K3, probably specifically targeting the benchmarks.

Eh, it isn't news. I mean, it's just an echo bit of news to the great K3 release.

This sort of critique could be made about almost any industry or individual business. The whole premise of almost any industry is lubricating some friction between the idealized and the reality.

Having said that, sure they were utterly doomed. For that matter, Shopify is utterly doomed as well. Businesses like that will continue to exist, but in no universe is it a $230B space.

It's a joke like the endless conservative dudes doing the "ordering coffee" joke is. It relies upon the ignorance of the viewer -- which is usually a fair assumption -- and basically that your understanding of something is based upon the prior accrued layers of "jokes".

Seriously, I use Claude Code all day and have zero issues with this.

To the people rather lamely doing the "it's satire/a joke", that would require this to be an exaggeration of a reality. But...it isn't.

Good, if brief, intro, however right at the outset this tripped me up-

"Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples"

Anycast has been around and in use since 1989 (finally becoming an RFC in 1993), and was widely used long before Cloudflare. On the CDN side some alternatives did it differently -- Akamai used DNS mapping, for instance, which has detriments and benefits -- but many large enterprises and services used Anycast long before.

Just not sure why they call that a "unique technology", and to a casual reader it implies invention.

Not sure what "same-IP access" is, though maybe they're just describing Anycast?

Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service was overwhelmingly a business model thing, as is usually the case. Everyone could put it in front of their site for free, in the vast majority of cases, completely obliterated overpriced and overwrought competitors like Akamai. Technical excellence came later, but if they pursued a traditional business model in the space they would have been just another CDN.

It's an interesting read and a wonderful experiment, but is this house still operational as a "LAN party" house? Humans in groups can be...exhausting...in very short order.

Like I notice zero food or drink in the pictures, and there's a very good reason for that when you have groups of people. So I guess they eliminated one of the primary friction sources early. Wonder how the bathroom situation is...

It would be interesting to see how this worked out.

The pair behind the house have two children, which I can't even envision combined with this. Yes, someone is going to romanticize how great it is for the kids...but it simply isn't.

Did Amadeo write this ridiculous nonsense?

>Cheap models capable of dangerous hacking are now available to anyone, without the normal safeguards for refusing malicious actions

Models capable of dangerous hacking have been available to the people who do most of the dangerous hacking for some time now, and they have infinite resources and infinite malice. I am talking about governments (the US, China, Israel, and others that have shown extraordinary avarice, malice and threat toward the citizens of the world), three letter agencies, even large enterprises. Random employees at the SOA model makers. And so on.

The idea that it's "random" people, or the farcical Mac under the bed nonsense, is not my concern. If anything that's finally some equalization.

It is 100% diminishing the concern. If someone were paid by LG to try to manage this revelation, they would post exactly what touwer posted. Like, there isn't a better way to try to normalize and excuse bad behaviour than doing the incredibly boorish tactic seen above. The "everyone is doing it" excuse is a go to.

I mean, LG would probably also pay someone to run around going "it's just funny, is all" in support if anyone noticed this pathetic astroturfing.

As always - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

There is a very I-am-very-smart aspect to these predictable sorts of comments. And weirdly they always seem oddly intended to diminish the core concern being addressed.

"Oh your TV is listening to you and mapping your network and exfiltrating your data? Yeah, well, look at that website that has some ads on it! Boom!

Give up. The future is lost. Don't sweat the wiretapping TV."

I mean, the Venezuela thing is just incredibly stupid. Yes, Trump is trying to pretend that's a big win, but even if the US spent hundreds of billions actually building infrastructure there, odds overwhelmingly favour it being lost in the next revolution. It turns out people don't like to be robbed.

But yeah, I 100% understand what they're really doing. But they keep up with this trade deficit farce, and when there was almost an agreement signed (which would have been a massive mistake on Canada's part), Trump immediately started celebrating even more oil capacity from Alberta and reviving Keystone XL...which...jesus christ, keep some sort of consistency.

Alberta separatism is hugely unpopular and will fail, and even better even this tepid one is "be in Canada but with more individual powers and all the benefits of Canada" -- to even get to double digits they have to push an absolute fantasy -- but when it's tied with becoming a part of the US it becomes amazingly unpopular. Even right wing Albertans look at the corrupt kleptocracy the US has become and say no thanks. I mean, there are the loudmouthed slobbering smooth-brain sorts that say their stupid nonsense online -- they should all be deported, fwiw -- but they're a tiny minority.

> Implicit in all the "we'll bring Canada to heel" and "we don't need anything from Canada" talk is an Alberta/Sask exception. They don't mean AB/SK. They mean the rest of Canada, which leans further to the left politically and has more of a manufacturing sector or agricultural / forestry focus.

The paradox is that if we take the US administration at their word, that it is the trade deficit that is the problem they need to solve, then Alberta is 100% of the problem. Ontario, BC, Quebec have basically equal trade with the US. We ship a lot to the US, but we ship a lot of things we could make domestically from the US, though that is rapidly changing (for instance a major rail car manufacturing process is spinning up to replace that as an import from the US).

Alberta is basically 100% exports to the US, with negligible imports from the US.

So it's hilarious when Alberta says this isn't their trade war. Again, if we take Trump and his crew of stunningly incompetent self-dealing grifters and rapists at their word, it is completely Alberta's trade war.

Apparently because the US buys Alberta oil, the rest of the Canada should be punished somehow? How spectacularly stupid.

But yes, Danielle Smith is a vile human and is a traitor to Canada. I get why Albertans elected her -- there are legitimate grievances and a better "deal" to be had -- but she is going to do spectacular damage to the province.

Random little sites that allow and auto-publish user submissions have gotten targeted with spambots for decades. And I mean in the AI era, using an LLM to generate even more capable spambots for every site is super doable.

This silly submission front-paged purely because of the title, and loads of lazy HNers who just upvote based on the title, not realizing this basically has nothing to do with gmail.

Some tiny blog allows comments (which is incredibly weird in 2026). Spambots fill in the email box with fake addresses. Blog lazily just sets up a filter to auto-kill all gmail tagged addresses.

This has nothing to do with Google, Gmail, spam coming from gmail, or using gmail addresses, outside of leaving a comment on this tiny blog. Yet all the other comments seem to presume they do. Are people just upvoting this thinking it says something it doesn't? (That was rhetorical, because of course this nonsense front-paged because of lazy people just voting on a title).

>Back in the day, your OCR would just OCR things. Now it has opinions, and you have to fight to convince it.

There are plenty of OCRs that just OCR things. GLM-OCR does much better than Claude, can be running on pretty miserly hardware locally, even laptops, and of course you aren't paying for token.

This is decidedly in the "using a wrench to turn a screw, and complaining that it warped the head" territory. Using Claude as your OCR is incredibly silly.

Are you new to English?

When people talk about "real-world" in this context, the contrast is to artificial situations contrived as tests (e.g. benchmarks). This is blatantly clear to anyone actually engaging their brain.

Opus 5 does very well at the coding LLM benchmarks. In some cases even better than Fable 5.x. Yet in practice, in loads of real world situations where I've applied it against coding problems, it is vastly inferior to Fable.

I did hear a lot of people claim this, and it seemed mostly like unqualified schadenfreude and fantasy.

In the most recent analysis, about 37% of Democrats use mail in voting, versus 24% of Republicans. This is why Republicans often take the lead in vote counting, and then because of Republican-imposed rules mail in ballots are counted later in the process, suddenly turning the tide. Which then yields lots of "the fix is in!" undermining of democracy -- at least in every race they don't win (the ones they win are 100% fair, of course) -- because the GOP of 2026 absolutely hates democracy, and they'll do everything they can to destroy it.

It isn't just injecting chaos, but instead is trying to engineer an outcome. Find every mechanism and group that is likely to vote against you, and do everything possible to disenfranchise those voters. They've already gotten a ruling that ballots received after a cutoff do not count, regardless of the reason, so now they're engineering assurances that they get to choose from where ballots can be selectively delayed.