Hacker News: MASNeo

New comment by MASNeo in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

MASNeo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:16:25 +0000

Yes. Made my day!

New comment by MASNeo in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

MASNeo — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:40:39 +0000

VCs have no money and few have the money to manage the money entrusted in them. The people that give the money have the money because they ask people to do more with less. In that pinch, one might understand how VCs look to proxies, and often fail to find great ones but at least then it wasn’t expense. Ever tried to sell something to a VC except equity - it’s an educating experience?

New comment by MASNeo in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

MASNeo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:32:49 +0000

Very curious about this as especially with more use of AI in the development process I have seen PR size has increased. So looking forward to general availability.

New comment by MASNeo in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

MASNeo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:28:37 +0000

“roll everyone over to os2”

The IBM crowd may feel vindicated at last.

New comment by MASNeo in "TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

MASNeo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:28:34 +0000

Is it an Aprils Fools publication?

New comment by MASNeo in "I made a programming language with M&Ms"

MASNeo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:30:06 +0000

Thank you.Awesome project!

Unfortunately I think you have given my kids one more hard to refuse reason to get more candy: I need more storage.

New comment by MASNeo in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

MASNeo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:12:32 +0000

I fail to see how RSS helps filter out AI slop. Started a business based in RSS 20 years ago but that failed against Social Media slop.

I believe human validation protocols might help, think captcha enabled ping backs, but RSS I believe may have very little impact on its own

New comment by MASNeo in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

MASNeo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:26:51 +0000

I am working to track and trace and time transactions and while this is possible when and if you know the identity of at least one participant it’s quite another thing when no identity is known at all. Criminals know that so it’s notoriously hard to pull off. Thanks to Daleware secrecy and lax Super PAC rules to disclose sources of funds it’s not going to get easier.

So either your friends are genius saucers or they have effective government intelligence that would be highly appreciated. I’d be interested.

You are spot on regarding the bedroom though. Exporting physical USD is far more lucrative, by the shipload, often by Chinese Money Laundering Organisations, for free.

New comment by MASNeo in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

MASNeo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:45:08 +0000

At risk to be unpopular Gemini 3.0 Pro made a huge difference for me when I moved some workflow to Antigravity, especially compared to ChatGPT.

The latest update? I simply don’t care. I am not paid to evaluate models, I am paid to build. Not sure 4 benchmark points are making the difference.

New comment by MASNeo in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

MASNeo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:32:40 +0000

Oh my, that is a depressing view on the human condition.

New comment by MASNeo in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

MASNeo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:22:50 +0000

Worse, half-truths and half-lies.

New comment by MASNeo in "Consistency diffusion language models: Up to 14x faster, no quality loss"

MASNeo — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 07:11:27 +0000

I wish there would be more of this research to speed things up rather than building ever larger models

New comment by MASNeo in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

MASNeo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:39:54 +0000

That’s such an amazing story. I ca relate to much of the emotional, time and financial commitment of a non-profit and keeping at it like you have is absolutely commendable. Seeing you succeed is an inspiration to continue doing the right thing for me and for many others!

New comment by MASNeo in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

MASNeo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:21:13 +0000

+1 canceled all OpenAI and switched to Gemini hours after it dropped. I was tired of vape AI, obfuscated facts in hallucinations and promises of future improvements.

And then there is pricing too…

New comment by MASNeo in "A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway"

MASNeo — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:42:21 +0000

Remarkably some claim AI has now discovered a new drug candidate on its own. Reading the prep-print (https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.14.648850v2....), it appears the model was targeted to just a very specific task and without evaluating other models on the same task. I know nothing about gens, and I can see that is an important advance. However, seems a bit headline grabbing when claiming victory for one model without comparing against others using the same process.

New comment by MASNeo in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

MASNeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:47:46 +0000

Try philosophy, you would need good logic to get the necessary peer reviewed publications ;-)

New comment by MASNeo in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

MASNeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:52:36 +0000

Would be great if more data were made available by OP to peer review some of this. That said, making money with failure starts looking like a business model - highly unethical. Why make customers succeed when you loose money doing so.

New comment by MASNeo in "Bots are getting good at mimicking engagement"

MASNeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:48:14 +0000

So are you saying it needs a an agent.txt along the robots.txt?

New comment by MASNeo in "Esports scholarship at Deutsche Bahn (German railways)"

MASNeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:19:53 +0000

Well, as it seems they have a hard time getting trains on time, perhaps stress resiliency practiced in gaming is a useful skill for customer service reps.

New comment by MASNeo in "Pixnapping Attack"

MASNeo — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:11:30 +0000

If genuine, this finger pointing is an interesting approach to a security vulnerability. Last time I read such arguments was 20 years ago from a different firm in California and it was not to their advantage.

P.S.: where did you see this discussion?