HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

airstrike

18,951 karma · joined December 2, 2010

hn at andyterra dot com
submissionscomments
airstrike··on Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
I agree at a high level, but this then poses an even harder problem: choosing not to learn from something.

Humans, for example, can hear some advice, judge it to be unhelpful and dismiss it. LLMs can't learn let alone choose not to

airstrike··on Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

airstrike··on Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline
I'm not sure what you mean, so it's hard to agree someone would have laughed at it.

It is almost a perfect definition of sovereignty—to shape reality such that it fits what the state deems appropriate.

This by no means imply it's perfectly effective, but that's besides the point. We're debating what the state ought to do, not whether it succeeds.

airstrike··on Brazilian election filter in X For You timeline
They didn't ban recommendations because they thought it was a "good idea".

They banned it to have reality comply with Brazilian electoral law which is written so that every candidate has the same amount of airtime.

It is not the job of the judiciary to determine whether a law should or shouldn't exist, but to make sure all laws are correctly enforced. Remembering this fact isn't optional.

Said differently, arguments about such decisions should revolve around whether the law says what the courts say it does or whether it was applied correctly—not whether the law should exist.

airstrike··on k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number
And yet, if models could indeed reason, that would not be an issue. You're arguing my point.
airstrike··on k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number
You're picking on the specifics of the carwash problem rather than acknowledging countless other similar problems exist. The original one was strawberry, but that got RL'd away
airstrike··on k-Coloring is Faster than Computing the Chromatic Number
The real problem is that human mistakes generally occur more frequently given the difficulty of the task, whereas LLM mistakes are somewhat random, like the carwash problem, because LLMs cannot truly reason.

I'd rather have a human on my team for whom I can reasonably surmise what tasks they're good at than have a robot who randomly gets shit wrong.

airstrike··on NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year
This is literally triggering, and I don't say that lightly.
airstrike··on Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation
Here's a video in case anyone else is also curious about what the crystal puller part looks like:

https://youtu.be/zVq8o9mgugc?si=YouOXIbJEEsDJS4z&t=135

airstrike··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
Pretty hard to be criticizing someone severely if I'm not even speaking to them specifically, don't you think? You're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

I'm entitled to my opinion, which I self-described as a bad hot take.

Sounds like you're the one specifically reprimanding me here? Oops...

airstrike··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
You should really read the dictionary definition of the word "chastise".

https://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=chastise

airstrike··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
I'm not chastising anyone, I have no power over them
airstrike··on Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
The annoyance is real, and honestly? It's worth sitting with it.
airstrike··on Pareto Front
Ok, I'll make it!
airstrike··on Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak
I agree, it's cheating.

My bad hot take is if you're using a meat thermometer and reverse sear to cook steak, you're like a kid on training wheels.

airstrike··on Pareto Front
Yeah, those features are awesome! Sadly support for them is quite lacking in applications...

Tabular numbers are awesome!

airstrike··on Pareto Front
Inter with optional open type features turned on?

https://rsms.me/inter/

airstrike··on When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
It turns out being orders of magnitude faster at searching with the aid of a strong verifier is a great way to generate proofs
airstrike··on When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Shallow dismissals like this one are against HN guidelines because they make for very poor discourse.

We all learned more from the prior comment than we did from this one.

airstrike··on Waymo in Dallas
I love Waymo. The only problem I have with it is that it further siphons wages from local economies into Silicon Valley, beyond what Uber/Lyft already did.
airstrike··on A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
Unfortunately, both low education for the general public and low quality of the public discourse exist by design.

The only possible way to remedy this is to maximize your own ability to exert power, possibly by becoming massively rich, and then hope it doesn't corrupt you enough along the way such that you can still enact good in the end.

airstrike··on Superlogical
It's important to consider context when talking about people's moral positions over time.

We don't judge the founding fathers' morals by the same metrics we judge our contemporaries. That much should be obvious.

airstrike··on Superlogical
Good thesis. Bad form.

> We're building the multiplexer for all work.

Devs again thinking "work" is interchangeable with software engineering.

airstrike··on Show HN: XY – Fast, composable, GPU-accelerated Python charting library
> XY is an extremely fast, interactive, customizable Python charting library for the web
airstrike··on Design is compromise
I really like the article, as it resonates with me.

However, I also think it's a bit of a meta-commentary.

Ultimately it boils down to definition of the word "compromise", so a better article is one that establishes those semantics first.

airstrike··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
> I’m asking because i keep hearing that open weight models are cheap and efficient - is that really the case in practice?

I think that's the case for people who compare it to proprietary models paid via API—which I think is irrelevant given the majority of people daily driving AI coding are doing on a subscription plan.

The better analysis then is not about AI coding, since there's no subscription plan for Kimi K3.

Instead, compare the cost of running some agentic _task_ that isn't coding which can only be done via API. Think of all the startups wrapping around ChatGPT and Claude to provide some additional set of tools, context, data and hoping to turn it into a profitable service.

To those companies, which are many, open models are the difference between the math working out today vs. praygeing they can scale fast enough to find profitability.

airstrike··on Claude Opus 5
They cost the same if you're already at $200/mo
airstrike··on The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm
Yeah, I can see how some scenarios might want that behavior, but it sort of defeats the purpose of the demo. It wouldn't hurt to have the reset be cancelable too if you wanted to really showcase how it should work
airstrike··on Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web
This demo feels about as good as eating a spoonful of tiramisu
airstrike··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
they will likely suffer enormous real losses too, not just paper, though not as enormous

for VCs, breaking even is losing

← PreviousPage 5 of 34Next →