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New comment by Findeton in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Findeton — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:54:35 +0000

I know the Spanish case. The hotel lobby does not only push for airbnb restrictions but also for banning new hotels (so that they can push prices up). For example famously there are no new airbnb or hotel licenses since more than 10 years and obviously the problem has only worsened. Regardless, the problem is in general still a demand that grows roughly at 2.5x the supply growth rate.

New comment by Findeton in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Findeton — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:23:04 +0000

No, that problem was not generated by Airbnb. There’s growing demand and, because of regulation, not enough is built every year. For example, according to INE, 250k new families are formed in Spain (more than 500k people) and only 100k new houses/flats are built and the yearly deficit has been accumulating for 12 years. That is the real issue and blaming corporations is just the politicians’ easy path to deflect blame, which unfortunately too many citizens eagerly buy into.

New comment by Findeton in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

Findeton — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:53:05 +0000

Fable IS that good, I can tell you. At least, for physics.

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

Findeton — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:32:50 +0000

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Sequent builds cryptographically secure online voting infrastructure used in 200+ real elections across multiple countries. We're a fully remote team working on an open-source platform combining Rust, TypeScript, and modern DevOps. We handle End-to-end encrypted voting, cryptographic mixnets, and tamper-evident logging.

Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript/React, WebAssembly, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, ImmuDB

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New comment by Findeton in "Meshcore: Architecture for a Decentralized P2P LLM Inference Network"

Findeton — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:12:33 +0000

No link?

Weft: A Centroid Language for LLMs

Findeton — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:25:32 +0000

Article URL: https://roblesnotes.com/blog/weft-language-for-llms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801174

Points: 2

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New comment by Findeton in "Claude Opus 4.7"

Findeton — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:40:36 +0000

We all liked the Terminator movies. Hopefully the stay as movies.

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Findeton — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:36:43 +0000

Do you have a public repo for that? I'm also trying to do that although I'm using "replay"/distillation and hopfield memory banks.

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Findeton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:58:32 +0000

Thanks! I have other ideas, following Jeff Hawkins's Thousand Brains Project, but in this one I'm trying to get to cortical columns from the other side, from "standard" deep neural networks.

The short version: each layer trains itself independently using Hinton's Forward-Forward algorithm. Instead of propagating error gradients backward through the whole network, each layer has its own local objective: "real data should produce high activation norms, corrupted data should produce low ones." Gradients never cross layer boundaries. The human brain is massively parallel and part of that is not using backprop, so I'm trying to use that as inspiration.

You're right that the brain has backward-projecting circuits. But those are mostly thought to carry contextual/modulatory signals, not error gradients in the backprop sense. I'm handling cross-layer communication through attention residuals (each layer dynamically selects which prior layers to attend to) and Hopfield memory banks (per-layer associative memory written via Hebbian outer products, no gradients needed).

The part I'm most excited about is "sleep". During chat, user feedback drives reward-modulated Hebbian writes to the memory banks (instant, no gradients, like hippocampal episodic memory). Then a /sleep command consolidates those into weights by generating "dreams" from the bank-colored model and training on them with FF + distillation. No stored text needed, only the Hopfield state. The model literally dreams its memories into its weights.

Still early, training a 100M param model on TinyStories right now, loss is coming down but I don't have eval numbers yet.

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

Findeton — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:10:54 +0000

Continuous learning without backpropagation.

https://github.com/Findeton/hebbi

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

Findeton — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:43:18 +0000

Nowadays, apart from stockpicking as a value investor, I use LLMs to develop AIs that don’t use backpropagation and that support continuous learning.

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

Findeton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:55:13 +0000

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript/React, WebAssembly, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, ImmuDB

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New comment by Findeton in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

Findeton — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:01:29 +0000

I wonder how this work relates to Jacob Barandes’s indivisible stochastic processes.

Artificial Intelligence and the Economy. Myths, Realities and the Future of Work

Findeton — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:34:16 +0000

Article URL: https://roblesnotes.com/blog/ai-economy-future-of-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164646

Points: 2

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New comment by Findeton in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

Findeton — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:30:38 +0000

Do you acknowledge how much change was there in the XX century? How can you probably make such predictions with such confidence?

New comment by Findeton in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

Findeton — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:22:10 +0000

Maybe they should try to build it in the moon. Difficult, but perhaps not as difficult?

New comment by Findeton in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

Findeton — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:24:39 +0000

Sequent Tech | Senior Fullstack Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer | REMOTE (Global) | Full-time | sequentech.io

Tech Stack: Rust, TypeScript/React, WebAssembly, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Keycloak, ImmuDB

Open Roles:

Senior Fullstack Engineer (Rust + TypeScript/React) Senior DevOps Engineer (Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code)

Reach out: team@sequentech.io

New comment by Findeton in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

Findeton — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:27:58 +0000

Specifically the fractured track was a soldered joint that joined a track from 1989 with a new one from a few weeks ago.

New comment by Findeton in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

Findeton — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:20:36 +0000

It is more about government tax warfare. They fined CF because it didn’t censor what the italian government wanted them to censor, so they fined CF.

New comment by Findeton in "EU to weaken more environment reporting rules, draft document shows"

Findeton — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:41:14 +0000

Great.