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rajay99

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rajay99··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Looking at YouTube shorts on my cellphone (iPhone with hacked https://github.com/NeonKokoro/KiraTuno hacked yt client) was becoming a problem. So I got rid of the app. Too many shorts too much brain rot.
rajay99··on I said no and Apple said yes
This is why I sold my macbook and switched back to Linux. I don't want your stupid cloud/ai services. If I want to rm -rf / then the system better do that.
rajay99··on I think you should almost never use AI to write
I use AI to write all the time. It can write better than I can. This article is wayyy to pretentious.
rajay99··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
The real question is where is the Epstein link here?
rajay99··on Ask HN: Developers – Do you let agents write production code?
Automated testing, but yes it writes production code all the time. I review all the code.
rajay99··on Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?
Now: Fable 5.1 medium effort for heavy computational (evolutionary) biology and everything else on the $100/mo max plan. It's great. 6mo from now: deepseek assuming the US AI industry insists on self-pwning.
rajay99··on We must pace the frontier
Ok so Anthropic CEO will self-own themselves and surrender to the deepseek/kimi/glm models. Yet they are IPOing later this year.

Interesting times.

rajay99··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
If you want to make a child-safe website that is OK, it can go be in it's walled garden g-rated brand-safe reality. But that is retarded. The rest of the internet still exists, and will not stop existing. Porn/defense distributed/much more insidious things will still exist.

All the age verification is is creeping totalitarianism by governments.

rajay99··on Why doesn't a Cursor for Word exist?
The claude plugin with Opus 5 / Fable5.1 works well in my experience. Diffs are not supported yet but maybe in the future? Although the claude plugin does stage edits before applying them so you can selectively apply them and [hopefully] not get contextually overloaded.
rajay99··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
$1199 for a variable aperture camera + 12gb of ram. Why not add stylus support?

Wait, that is gated to the $1999 duo device, with untested reliability.

rajay99··on Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
These are the main scifi works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Phlebas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(novel).

But I do think we are not anywhere close to AI competency for fine motor skills, e.g. microinjection to make transgenic animals (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8361322/figure/fig2...)at scale is still really difficult.

It is also unlikely that AI will start a skynet-like scenario as those nuclear launch systems are air gapped and require multiple authorizations.

rajay99··on Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
It's like the sci-fi of my childhood dreams is coming true! So no, I feel the opposite. The government and the AI companies realize that it will drastically change the economy and society, and is not going to legislate it out of existence.

Instead of USA vs Russia, it is now USA vs PRC. SO if either slows down, the other will win by default. So no one is going to slow down.

This comment was written 100% without any AI.

rajay99··on MITx is ending access to its courses for learners in Iran on September 8
Can you use a VPN instead?