Silicon Valley bro explains sex work economics to a stripper (news.ycombinator.com)
https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/2e098148-53d1-47c8-ab23-5706362c4b23.jpeg...
Why has Emperor Zuck given us this bounty? (news.ycombinator.com)
In this big thread, over and over, people praise the Zuck-man for releasing Llama 3’s weights. How magnanimous! How courteous! How devious!...
The Bypass Firewalls Repository is Gone -> Go get your archived copy. (news.ycombinator.com)
Boo hiss. Hopefully it gets moved, but just in case, grab one of the forks.
When a black hole and a neutron star merge (news.ycombinator.com)
Or directly, news item link: mpg.de/…/0404-grav-mysterious-object-in-the-gap-1…
"The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I." - hackernews discussion (news.ycombinator.com)
HN reacts to a New Yorker piece on the “obscene energy demands of AI” with exactly the same arguments coiners use when confronted with the energy cost of blockchain - the product is valuable in of itself, demands for more energy will spur investment in energy generation, and what about the energy costs of painting oil on...
HN has no opinions on memetics (news.ycombinator.com)
Sometimes what is not said is as sneerworthy as what is said....
Show HN: Some blind hackers are bridging IRC to LMMs running locally (news.ycombinator.com)
Dystopian AI hellscape is when your image generator makes non-whites (news.ycombinator.com)
This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values...
It's not a death threat, you're just unfamiliar with 90s hip-hop (news.ycombinator.com)
Possibly the worst defense yet of Garry Tan’s tweeting of death threats towards San Francisco’s elected legislature. In yet more evidence for my “HN is a Nazi bar” thesis, this take is from an otherwise-respected cryptographer and security researcher. Choice quote:...
Hacker News now supports IPv6 (news.ycombinator.com)
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39099065
the orange site demonstrating its full bootlicking support for the 4th reich on a thread about openai selling to the pentagon (news.ycombinator.com)
some real great takes here bootlicker...
HN up in arms that you can't just give losers and moochers homes, it's cruel and unusual (news.ycombinator.com)
It’s just like communism in that it entirely ignores the needs and capacity of an individual and makes them slaves to the idealism of the state....
Open Source Macro Pad driver software written in golang (news.ycombinator.com)
Orange site angry at Arabic Wikipedia display of solidarity (news.ycombinator.com)
Typical orange site behavior but worth showing. There’s a couple commenters there trying to fight against Silicon CHUD consensus but the submission got flagged and removed from the front page
Overly libertarian crypto-bro vs AML regulations: EU edition (news.ycombinator.com)
Choice quote:...
Croquet: live, network-transparent 3D gaming (news.ycombinator.com)
Dropbox usunął możliwość wykluczenia się z udostępniania swoich plików do trenowania AI (news.ycombinator.com) Polish
Prawdopodobnie wiesz o zamieszaniu związanym z udostępnianiem przez Dropbox danych do trenowania AI firm zewnętrznych, o którym mówiliśmy w zeszłym tygodniu. Jeśli zalogujesz się dziś na swoje konto Dropbox, zobaczysz, że karta udostępniania AI w ustawieniach konta nie jest już widoczna....
23andMe Terms of Service Update | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
Following a major security breach that saw millions of users’ genetic information compromised, 23andMe has updated its terms of service to make it harder to sue. Users have been receiving emails forcing them to opt out of new arbitration rules:...
Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
I linked the discussion because I didn’t know enough about the content
Cruise AVs are being remotely assisted (RA) 2-4% of the time on average, in complex urban environments. (news.ycombinator.com)
Cruise CEO here. Some relevant context follows....
HN thinks it's wrong to imprison those that murder children if they're Captains of Industry, they have too much value to produce for society to let that happen (news.ycombinator.com)
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Intuit Is Closing Personal-Finance App Mint, Shifts Users to Credit Karma (news.ycombinator.com)
End of an era. I’m sure many people here started their personal finance tracking with Mint. I certainly did, and I was using it all the way up until switching to YNAB early this year....
Good Guy Orange Site refuses to believe rationalists/EAs can be as bad as we're describing and is sure we're just exaggerating (news.ycombinator.com)
Hacker News on Homeschooling quickly veers into transphobia (news.ycombinator.com)
Don’t mind me I’m just here to silently scream into the void...