Hacker News: MASNeo

New comment by MASNeo in "Mistral Large 4"

MASNeo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:44:36 +0000

Seems some AI they did invent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243397

By your measure anyone unable to build EUV lithography machines without ASML help is doomed. EU could easily corner the market and shut them all off. No more NVIDIA.

Let’s grow the pie, shall we?!

New comment by MASNeo in "Mistral Large 4"

MASNeo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:32:52 +0000

Where to start?

Proud EU citizen here, but boy/gale/other, I have plenty to make fun of ;-)

New comment by MASNeo in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

MASNeo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:19:14 +0000

Clearly the culprit is the person missing supervisor duties. However, AI, or rather how we use AI may well have contributed to the disaster.

Lack of oversight, over reliance and insufficient critical review lead to poor outcomes in any decision making process. Problem is, with AI more people ill-prepared for decision-making make decisions.

I am convinced that this is precisely how AI will cause more and more harm and much earlier than we can imagine.

New comment by MASNeo in "Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds"

MASNeo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:56:56 +0000

Clearly well-defined must live in a probability bracket. Only humans demand exactitude.

New comment by MASNeo in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

MASNeo — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:10:40 +0000

Calls from law enforcement is laud and clear: BigTech is not doing enough to fight fraud, war and other crimes, they make money from criminals.

Nobody’s yet cared enough to sue them, or their managers at ICC yet. However, eventually an ambitious lawyer will try to make the case, especially if fraud and human trafficking continues to grow like it is.

New comment by MASNeo in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"

MASNeo — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:57:38 +0000

Hope they don’t rationalize that minimizing paper clips of others is easier and thus do that instead… A more carful person might be scared to even write this on the internet these days, not knowing if it would be the final pin to civilization.

New comment by MASNeo in "When Anyone Can Build Software, Who Decides What Not to Build?"

MASNeo — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:48:40 +0000

It seems like the author is pitching topological teams and responsible engineer concepts, sprinkled with decision governance.

None of that is really new, but it’s the chaos of silos, narrow decision frames and lack of detailed understanding by decision makers which probably accentuates the adoption of new concepts.

New comment by MASNeo in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

MASNeo — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:34:28 +0000

Maybe Musk was right about OpenAI after all?! The ethics are clearly troubling and where something like this pops up there is mich worse that did not made the light of day.

New comment by MASNeo in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

MASNeo — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:29:02 +0000

The one time I got to ask Bill a question was probably why Windows didn’t have a “make world” that just works like in FreeBSD. I wonder if he remembered that question during his ordeal.

New comment by MASNeo in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

MASNeo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:06:25 +0000

I wonder if this goes down as AgentGate because clearly HuggingFace was not an isolated incident.

Well worth a material business restriction until an investigation on the root cause by independent parties has concluded and remedial action taken - well, in any other industry but BigTech.

New comment by MASNeo in "GPT-6 Astra"

MASNeo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:54:53 +0000

Does anyone feel like everyone chasing the release of Anthropics Fabel 5.1 in a Mad Rush(tm)? In this situation it feels like tuning to benchmarks and other marketing devices feels like trusting Meta in mental health protection of users…

New comment by MASNeo in "Agents still can't automate Excel"

MASNeo — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:56:07 +0000

My agents can deal with Excel all right. What’s the story?

New comment by MASNeo in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

MASNeo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:58:36 +0000

For as long as criminals believe they can hide in relative anonymity (e-mail, stolen CC and burner phone being sufficient authorization) and high volume of transactions PayPal will remain with us. It’s a great way to do small cash like transactions without going to crypto. Some crimes still need to source cash.

New comment by MASNeo in "Small Models Have Arrived"

MASNeo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:44:58 +0000

We mostly use specialized small models because larger are to expensive/slow and are prone to hallucinating quite a bit. Not sure how this is a surprise, seems more like a best practice.

New comment by MASNeo in "Small Models Have Arrived"

MASNeo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:42:40 +0000

Sounds like mainframes. But then, these never quite disappeared to the date.

New comment by MASNeo in "The Water Footprint of AI"

MASNeo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:28:05 +0000

I stumbled on that as well. I thought that water is used to cool but not consumed such as oil is - even I see the ecosystem problem of warm waste water. However, what doesn’t remove drinking water, right?

Even if the water evaporates, it will enter the ecosystem as such and eventually end up as liquid water again. Or am I totally mistaken?

The Water Footprint of AI

MASNeo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 07:00:57 +0000

Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2026.125866

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49254351

Points: 48

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New comment by MASNeo in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

MASNeo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:24:54 +0000

I really do differentiate between fast & vast changes of commodity code and critical sections. For the latter I’d explore with AI and then rewrite, line by line, with deliberate concern for all aspects relevant.

This does retain the joy of coding for me and takes away the pain of what is commodity and hard to do without tiresome meetings (mostly UI/UX and API/MCP as my products don’t differentiate on these).

New comment by MASNeo in "The Economist Interviewed Elon Musk"

MASNeo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:34 +0000

Consciousness, Money and Politics

The Economist Interviewed Elon Musk

MASNeo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:58:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/an-interview-with-elon-musk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090473

Points: 3

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