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Re:Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:33AM (#50351229)
This keeps getting posted, but it doesn't seem interesting to discuss. Money is the way we decide how scare resources are allocated.
If Sam wants to buy 16GB of 6 year laptop RAM, he can send me a check for $2000.
Re:Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:29AM (#50351198)
Better analogy might be that instead of everyone having gas powered generators they run for 14 hours a day, we should put them all in one place and run extension cords to peoples homes.
Re:Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:27AM (#50351184)
I sell the GPUs I have now for $2B for the right to buy the same number of GPUs in 10 months for $1.6B when my datacenter is complete
Re:Sam Altman's Case Against Your RAM Is Efficient. That's the Problem
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:20AM (#50351101)
Is #3 true? This seems very inefficient. Aren't futures markets supposed to fix this type of thing?
Re:Vathographs: Photographic depth maps as creative expression
on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:05AM (#50350963)
Phones (Google Pixels at least) use sensor data from inertial sensors and slight hand movement as part of their depth calculation: https://research.google/pubs/depth-from-motion-for-smartphon...
Re:The Ford Privacy Promise: You're in Control of Your Data
on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:53PM (#50345995)
Don't let Ford PR crowd out the primary message that they collect and sell your data.
Re:AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System
on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:34PM (#50344978)
> AI Can Write More of the Code. We Still Have to Engineer the System
2 years ago AI could not write most code well. Today it definitely can.
AI will probably do just fine at "engineering the system" in another year or two.
Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:05PM (#50344540)
Sounds cool. Do you have patents on this?
Re:First response from the Project Suncatcher prototype satellite
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:42PM (#50344218)
Cool that Google did this so quick to take the wind out of the sails of other space datacenter hucksters.
Re:Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackst...
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:27PM (#50344020)
Also no telling that AI will be more lucrative than some "boring" industry like power generation.
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:32PM (#50342355)
The data sounds interesting, but the visualization is so bad that I one-slopped an alternative: https://www.alwaysleaveanote.com/gender-swapping-names/
Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:37PM (#50341431)
Came here to say the same. Anyone doing data visualization should think long and hard before using something beside a line or bar chart. Almost everything else is worse in multiple ways.
Ocarina of Time – Google Search
Re:Ocarina of Time – Google Search
on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:21PM (#50341171)
Click the sword to see what Google Search pages looked like 28 years ago.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News but for comments posted on HN
on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:03PM (#50339874)
You jest, but there is a report of most linked Hacker News items in comments: https://www.alwaysleaveanote.com/hacker-news/reports/comment...
Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault
on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:03AM (#50337761)
> Now this is how companies should be using AI. Not as an excuse to fire half the devs.
AI is getting so good, it will probably be both.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @01:11PM (#50328067)
Can we go back to calling thm sysadmins?
GM to pay $220M to settle allegations it violated drivers' privacy
Re:OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:47AM (#50313288)
The end state is OpenAI as a division of Microsoft.
Re:Show HN: I built a multiplayer game where you're an aerial fighter cat
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:19PM (#50308049)
I was never interested in gamedev, but I am interested in gameplay design.
GenAI lets me toy with gameplay design without having to first spend a lot of time mucking with code or assets.
Re:Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:24PM (#50307176)
Gemini 4 Argon was released in October. It was a big part of the PHP2Shell story.
Re:Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:04AM (#50304077)
People are desperately looking for signs here, but I just see Intel returning to historical levels. Intel is still up for the year.
Re:Intel plunges 25%, triggers global chip rout on bleak outlook
on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:02AM (#50304038)
Have safety maxxers had any effect on model releases? I see no slowdown caused by them.
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:47PM (#50299295)
Good point. I forgot about Gemini Nano too: https://developer.android.com/ai/gemini-nano
Re:Hermes and REA and GLM 5.3 = Reverse engineering TikTok app for les...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:11PM (#50296904)
What data does this method retrieve?
yt-dlp already gets a lot of metadata like: duration, title, description, timestamp, view_count, like_count, repost_count, comment_count, save_count, etc.
Re:Reddit will require an account to access
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:04PM (#50296810)
Reddit going the way of stackoverflow? Such a huge portion of posts on any city subreddit are direct or indirect content/submarine marketing.
This seems to kind of mirror the move by Discord to make public messages discoverable.
Re:Duet is the future of chatbot interaction
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:17PM (#50295214)
[Anthropic Claude] Duet is the future of chatbot interaction
Re:The first wired XR glasses powered by Android XR
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:20PM (#50293591)
Had to look up "DRM" to see you meant "Direct Rendering Manager" and not "Digital Rights Management".
Re:Mexico is a showroom for electric vehicles you can't buy in the U.S.
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @01:19PM (#50292650)
There are ways it could be handled. Waymo imports Chinese made Zeekr vans, but Waymo probably replaces all onboard software and hardware.