Hacker News: FL33TW00D

New comment by FL33TW00D in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

FL33TW00D — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:07:30 +0000

Consolidation != memorization.

Memorising some examples is a prerequisite to deep understanding. Anki and pen+ paper reasoning are complementary.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "On the non-use of AI in my writing process"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:04:16 +0000

Crazy how forward thinking this guy was in 2005 vs today.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:32:44 +0000

I remember the Saturn V being caught by chopsticks in mid air too.

Starship is fantastic value for money compared to Artemis!

New comment by FL33TW00D in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

FL33TW00D — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:23:32 +0000

Some of the talent at Cursor is second to none. E.g Less Wright, Sasha Rush, Stuart Sul.

Google paid 2.5B to bring Noam back into the fold in 2024 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by FL33TW00D in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

FL33TW00D — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:27:53 +0000

The guy who uncovered this, Sholto David, is basically just awesome?

Watch him cycle from Wales -> China in 90 days: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdgHZPfivVA

This isn't his first fraud rodeo either. For his discovery of serious fraud by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2024, he received $2.6 million.

Be more like Sholto, exercise your free will!

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Accelerando (2005)"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:04:47 +0000

Anyone have recommendations on books that can rival the first part of Accelerando in number of prescient ideas about how the near future, pre singularity might look?

My own list is:

  Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
  Counting Heads by David Marusek
  Nexus by Ramez Naam
  Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

But I'm always on the look out for more! The more predictive the better!

New comment by FL33TW00D in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:26:15 +0000

Hasn't fMRI as a whole been called into question? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02132-9

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

FL33TW00D — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:11:46 +0000

In a country with a national health system, why should you be able to internalize the benefit of smoking whilst externalizing the cost?

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Forcing Flash Attention onto a TPU and Learning the Hard Way"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:04:05 +0000

Why ruin good work by letting Claude write it all? Full of em dashes, riddled with Claudisms.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering"

FL33TW00D — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:50:01 +0000

Unreadable Claude slop

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

FL33TW00D — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:58:16 +0000

This was mostly down to enormous pressure from his father, causing him to have a breakdown in his early twenties.

Not to say the results weren't incredible, but certainly required sacrifice.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10378/10378-h/10378-h.htm#li...

New comment by FL33TW00D in "The Waymo World Model"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:56:30 +0000

Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:40:44 +0000

How many of these are due to going outside the normal envelope of what birds do?

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:39:42 +0000

It takes a different code path for efficiency.

e.g

if (batch_size > 1024): kernel_x else: kernel_y

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:10:55 +0000

But why is FSD "failing" is the key question.

Hint: it's not the sensor inputs that are the bottleneck!

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:28:58 +0000

I like the comparison, but with aviation on a fundamental level we made it simpler (removing actuation), not added more (senses we dont need)

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:07:42 +0000

How can you say camera only navigation won’t work with such finality when humans manage just fine every day! You literally have an existence proof of it working.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

FL33TW00D — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:07:58 +0000

I love this, the interday variability in my intelligence is extremely annoying.

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

FL33TW00D — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:43:13 +0000

Mr Kwok already analysed these deals and gave them a nice little acronym: HALO

https://kwokchain.com/2025/07/15/the-halo-effect/

New comment by FL33TW00D in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

FL33TW00D — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:17:46 +0000

He did not "create" the TPU. He contributed to the creation of the TPU.

There are 66 authors on the original TPU paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3079856.3080246