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spzb··on We must pace the frontier
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Windscale probably don’t qualify as “no reason “
spzb··on We must pace the frontier
There’s a lot of [citation needed] going on there
spzb··on Astra replicates Adobe Lightroom
Yeah right. I’m sure this is no way related to all the open source image processing programs in the training data.
spzb··on anystation: Calling any station A public board shaped like a tree. No account
You're lucky. It's ascii goatse now
spzb··on All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace (2011)
Probably not official opportunity to watch the documentary https://machines.cargo.site/
spzb··on Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design
A couple of sample chapters are available here https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/ddca/rvsocd.html
spzb··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Generally, people who want their pool cleaned do so when they are conscious and have their pool very close to their home address. People who need ambulances are usually in a very different condition. That makes it a different prospect trying to chase payment.
spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
> Can you define these in ways that aren't tautologically limited to humans?

No, because that’s the point. It’s not intelligent because intelligence is a human characteristic.

> Both because local models exist, can be run offline

It’s not that they search interactively, it’s that the whole internet has been sucked into the training set.

spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
And yet "slapping the keyboard faster" is all that AI does. It doesn't design architecture. It doesn't think. It doesn't reason. All it does is search for and copy-paste code from elsewhere on the internet. If you're lucky it might even be code that works and does what you want it to.
spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
Never claimed it did
spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
It can churn out boilerplate but we already had templates to do that.

It can translate one language into another but we already had transpilers for that.

It can find bugs quickly but we already had static analysis. It also generates many plausible looking false positives.

spzb··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Who is the “you” in this scenario?
spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
Faster != more productive.
spzb··on Ask HN: Do we need a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?
The 10x Centaur doesn't exist. They're just ten times as fast at creating tech debt.
spzb··on Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools
You want me to run a closed source, LLM agent inside my browser with access to authenticated API endpoints ?! Thanks but no thanks.
spzb··on Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
One thing that's often overlooked is the cost of administering a billing system. If you're going to distinguish between the insured and uninsured you need a system that keeps track of who has insurance. You need paperwork (or digital equivalent). You need accounts payable staff to send invoices and chase up unpaid bills. It can, counter-intuitively, work out cheaper just not to charge anyone.
spzb··on The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI
And they make me feel more like Marvin
spzb··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
You think two independent scans of the internet captured the same image with the same timestamp entirely by coincidence?

Edit: they're literally the same image

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 ipcrawl.jpg

2fc4ad21cfce564f7aa65942eae7d4529c8af3d7ffb6287aa1fd79ebb78eb648 shodan.jpg

spzb··on IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
This seems to just be a map interface to Shodan Images. I've found the exact same camera with the exact same snapshot on both sites.

https://images.shodan.io/?query=port%3A554+country%3A%22GB%2...

https://ipcrawl.com/imce?cam=069b2971c357edbd

spzb··on FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL
Doesn't run for me. Just I/O errors and quits.
spzb··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
Ed Zitron discusses this as part of his post on AI economics : https://www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/
spzb··on Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter
And ignore capital costs, depreciation, user churn etc
spzb··on Too dangerous or just too expensive? The real reason Anthropic is hiding Mythos
https://archive.is/31PFC
spzb··on Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
Not unless you invite the public in on a regular basis. Websites are available to the public - especially if you're trying to promote them on HN
spzb··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
You forget the "Show HN: Here's some crap I cobbled together with an LLM" x a million a day
spzb··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
AIUI one of the many quirks of the US health insurance system is that a lot of people have only minimal cover which doesn't include things like physiotherapy and rehabilitation treatment. That means that they often can't treat a painful condition at source so their only option is to mask the pain with painkillers.
spzb··on Banned by Anthropic?
It’s a real shame vibe coding hasn’t figured out colour contrast yet.
spzb··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
The people who are using it can't post here because OpenClaw deleted their HN account.
spzb··on Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years
I'd be interested in how it compares (in terms of time, money and false positives) with fuzzing.
spzb··on Woman who had sex with identical twins told it is 'not possible' to identify dad
Interesting bias to blame the woman. How do you know that the second twin wasn't taking advantage of their identical looks to convince the woman it was the same man she had slept with the first time? She may not even have been aware that he had an identical sibling.
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