Hacker News: 0x70run

New comment by 0x70run in "AI helps unravel a cause of Alzheimer’s and identify a therapeutic candidate"

0x70run — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:59:11 +0000

Wish I could upvote this more!

New comment by 0x70run in "Is accuracy is the next big AI challenge? Why aren't companies focusing on this?"

0x70run — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:09:06 +0000

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).

New comment by 0x70run in "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"

0x70run — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:26:26 +0000

I would pay to watch James Mickens comment on this stuff.

New comment by 0x70run in "LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen"

0x70run — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:05:16 +0000

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.

New comment by 0x70run in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

0x70run — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:01:59 +0000

> 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.

New comment by 0x70run in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

0x70run — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 02:28:52 +0000

Damn, can't wait to pay 500+ USD to play mobile games! :)

New comment by 0x70run in "What you learn by making a new programming language"

0x70run — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 08:49:27 +0000

Are you a summary bot?

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

0x70run — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:11:51 +0000

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 age (but couldn't due to personal reasons). Now that I'm almost 27 and have been in the industry for ~5 years now, I'm wondering if I should decide on taking the plunge, or at least plan for it... since I do feel the friction in transitioning getting a bit higher as I spend more time in this field.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500457

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New comment by 0x70run in "An iOS zero-click radio proximity exploit odyssey"

0x70run — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 22:32:49 +0000

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.

Ask HN: Is Swift worth learning if I'm not into iOS development?

0x70run — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 13:17:44 +0000

Title.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496525

Points: 10

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