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mliker··on Meta Muse Glimmer – Open weights 30B local coding model
You’re conflating the release of a local dense model that can benefit the ecosystem with the adverse effects of a digital ad system.
mliker··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
You should work at these companies and understand they have good intentioned employees otherwise they’d rarely pass the cultural interviews plus background checks plus backchanneling. Have a bit more faith in the employees
mliker··on Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence
It’s quite good for multimodal cases that 3 billion people would use it for though it lags in scientific areas
mliker··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
Who is “us”? It does seem that some scientists prefer Codex for its math capabilities but when it comes to general frontend and backend construction, Claude Code is just as good and possibly made better with its extensive Skills library.

Both codex and Claude code fail when it comes to extremely sophisticated programming for distributed systems

mliker··on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990
would you prefer zero trees being added?
mliker··on Cursor CLI
He actually returned to Anthropic shortly after joining Cursor
mliker··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
It doesn't really affect the other frontier labs too much because OpenAI and Anthropic rely on multiple data vendors for their models so that no outside company is aware of how they train their proprietary models. Forbes reported the other day that OpenAI had been winding down their usage of Scale data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/12/scale-a...
mliker··on Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab
OpenAI and Anthropic rely on multiple data vendors for their models so that no outside company is aware of how they train their proprietary models. Forbes reported the other day that OpenAI had been winding down their usage of Scale data: https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/06/12/scale-a...
mliker··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
Where are you getting this information? What basis do you have for making this claim? OpenAI, despite its public drama, is still a massive brand and if this were exposed, would tank the company's reputation. I think making baseless claims like this is dangerous for HN
mliker··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
Windsurf works well with Claude and Gemini models, so if OpenAI forces Windsurf users to only use OpenAI models, then it wouldn't be as useful.
mliker··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
Agreed. Especially with tools like Claude Code, which can get better over time and remove the need to use Windsurf and Cursor.
mliker··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
The "video to learning app" feature is a cool concept (see it in AI Studio). I just passed in two separate Stanford lectures to see if it could come up with an interesting interactive app. The apps it generated weren't too useful, but I can see with more focus and development, it'd be a game changer for education.
mliker··on Introduction to Deep Learning (CMU)
> They don’t know what backpropagation is but by the end will understand a diffusion model?

That seems plausible to learn in a semester long course, especially at an institution like CMU

mliker··on Introduction to Deep Learning (CMU)
I recommend checking out this survey of free ML resources: https://www.trybackprop.com/blog/top_ml_learning_resources

No doubt CMU's intro to deep learning course is good, you might find some other goodies in that link too.

mliker··on Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads
> Meta has been fined because they employed tactics to undermine competition and persistently employ anti-competitive tactics.

If you could list out the "employed tactics" that "undermine competition", that would be helpful in understanding your case. Marketplace ads seems like a natural extension of the Meta ad product, so it's not clear how this is anti-competitive. Any other marketplace can also run ads on Meta as well if they wanted.

mliker··on Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers
Realtors do in fact list their fees. More and more of them are, especially after the August 2024 changes
mliker··on Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML – Dot Product, Embeddings
Any plans for future articles?
mliker··on Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML – Dot Product, Embeddings
This looks incredible! How did you create the interactive playgrounds and vectors plots?
mliker··on Linear Algebra 101 for AI/ML
This was a fantastic guide! Subscribed!
mliker··on Llama3 implemented from scratch
Agreed. For me, the anime character is not "creepy" at all. In fact, I've seen various ML blogs use manga characters to guide the reader.
mliker··on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
I wear it about 30 min at a time, 2 min breaks in between, 2-3 hours total daily.

Daily use case: portable Macbook monitor weekly use case: watching shows or a movie. I have to pause due to dry eyes, not due to the heaviness. After the first 2 days of using it, it's not actually that heavy afterward, but it is noticeable if you pay attention.

mliker··on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
I would encourage you to try out both the Quest 3 and the Apple Vision Pro for an extended period of time. If you had asked people during the advent of the television, they would have expressed the same opinion about people wanting social connection instead of sitting in front of a box.
mliker··on Vision Pro: What we got wrong at Oculus that Apple got right
Agreed, I've had my Vision Pro for a month, and I still use it to watch shows/movies and as my portable external display. It has its daily and weekly use cases
mliker··on Apple Vision Pro users reporting cracked outer surfaces
That's 5 Reddit posts about the crack. Probably a batch of defects
mliker··on Instagram Threads triples downloads in December, reaching top; X falls to #36
I literally don't know anyone who watches cricket, and yet it's a world famous sport beloved by many many people. Case in point, it's erroneous to judge an app by your local network.
mliker··on Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
Sure, but Nvidia wasn't just lucky. They invested heavily in R&D.
mliker··on Nvidia CEO: We bet the farm on AI and no one knew it
No, Nvidia decided to change their GPU architectures to be more suitable for neural networks, so they did have to bet that this shift would have to pay off. They spoke to many leading AI experts and came to this conclusion. They should be commended for the risk they took. If Nvidia solely ended up being "lucky", then how come AMD didn't take off?
mliker··on Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?
With chatgpt I’ve been able to generate math 2d and 3d animations in just 1-2hr with no background nor prior knowledge.

I was also able to use it to generate software to check the blockchain to gather data I needed, again with no experience using the blockchain client libraries

mliker··on EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram
I think this scenario can be described by how upper funnel advertising works, which is that you were exposed to those haircuts in the recent past through general advertising and your spouse, who has similar interests to you by virtue of being your spouse, would be a target for the same type of ad campaign.
mliker··on EU data regulator bans personalised advertising on Facebook and Instagram
Don’t forget Apple has a billion dollar ad business!
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