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Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @04:08PM (#49277901)
nah, libertarian capitalists over here get annoyed anytime they have to think about people elsewhere who may be suffering because of their very actions

(don’t worry, said libertarian capitalists will be sure to discuss this during the next EA meetup)

Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:57AM (#49274474)
don't know why you're being downvoted... "hey, let's please just focus on how good the model is, ignore the politics, okay?" a lot of these HN users are fucking idiots
Re:The next chapter of our AI momentum on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @01:07PM (#49185719)
miss me with the AGI nonsense
as always lesswrong posters continue to be lost in the sauce
Re:Ask HN: Which AI subscription is worth paying for now? on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:40PM (#48572957)
I would love this tbh, but it's just that context window issue for me right now. For my personal use, I have a MacBook Air M5 (maxed out), but I don't think I can run anything decent with large context window (for longer chat sessions) on it. I should also mention that I'm still learning about LLMs, so if I've missed something please do let me know. Running local LLMs is something I'm very interested in.

Ask HN: Which AI subscription is worth paying for now?

Alternate title: Which AI subscription are you paying for right now, and why?Currently I'm not really paying for any AI subscription. I'm largely reliant on the company's Claude offering but I'd like to separate my personal stuff from work. I've checked out the following ~20$/month plans and have some thoughts:* Claude seems to be the most capable, but the app was pretty terrible when I tried...

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> Logseq is cool, but the desktop client is slow and keyboard usability is low.

this was my issue as well: both the desktop app and the ios app feel slow and clunky, and i don't think they have gotten any meaningful updates in a very long time... i do love logseq, but i have since built that workflow into obsidian through a bunch of templates and plugins.

Wish I could upvote this more!
I would love to be proven wrong, but if you ignore all the hype pieces and (from what I can tell) a TON of pseudo-scientific shit floating around, while it's possible to make these systems as accurate as possible, they would still be fundamentally unreliable since the systems aren't deterministic. Try asking the usual "is 9.11 greater than 9.9" question, on my last test with 3.7 Sonnet it first said "yes" and then eventually converged to "no". Quite hilarious at times.

Point being, LLMs don't really understand what they're saying; they're just predicting the next word. I'm not trying to downplay that, by the way - it's all very impressive. But it's not intelligent intelligent, and I think we should all be wary of comments like "oh we should just keep throwing more compute and data at it and consciousness/self awareness would eventually emerge". I think that's just fodder to raise/burn VC money (and the planet).

Re:Tracing the thoughts of a large language model on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:26PM (#43497135)
I would pay to watch James Mickens comment on this stuff.
Re:LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen on Friday February 14, 2025 @07:05PM (#43054454)
I fucking hate LinkedIn so much it's unreal. When it comes to that platform, I lose all rationality altogether. Perhaps I need to go to therapy, but not before LinkedIn influencers are all assembled in the town square and publicly executed for their crimes upon humanity.
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted on Monday January 20, 2025 @06:01AM (#42767384)
> Firstly I would not go back to London unless I had the protection level of a government Minister. My life is not worth any amount of money and violence is out of control.

I feel like there's heavy observation bias here. Maybe you had a bad experience or two, but I've been living in London for the past 4 years and haven't had any such encounter(s) so far. You make it sound like London's some third world warzone; I personally felt that New York, SF, and LA were far more unsafe when I was living there with the amount of homeless people and fentanyl addicts walking around.

Re:Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:28PM (#42733450)
Damn, can't wait to pay 500+ USD to play mobile games! :)
Re:You should make a new programming language on Thursday August 15, 2024 @04:49AM (#41254151)
Are you a summary bot?

Ask HN: Any successful transitions from a tech/IT career to working in the arts?

Asking this to read about some personal stories and/or advice. I read a lot about people transitioning from regular tech/programming jobs to maybe quants/finances etc., but rarely about arts (literature, music, sociology, history etc.).I got into a CS curriculum right after finishing my high school on a whim; I'd always wanted to pursue a career in literature/writing/journalism from a younger...

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Re:An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:32PM (#25270927)
A bit OT - how do I work on developing the skill set necessary to find vulnerabilities like these? Should I take some particular courses, or some other “track” of sorts? At the moment, I have an undergraduate in Computer Sciences, and I’d say I’m a fairly OK programmer.