Hacker News: N_A_T_E

New comment by N_A_T_E in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:52:58 +0000

I would assume this is a proxy for general intelligence. A model that can drive a car and do a bunch of other real world stuff is closer to a generalized intelligence that can reason through any task.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

N_A_T_E — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:01:15 +0000

Is there any solution? Can sites, apis or interfaces require AI agents to identify themselves as non-humans?

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

N_A_T_E — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:39:10 +0000

At this point it’s a well known secret that Apple has real rack mount servers for their internal processes. They actually have officially released video of their servers in the WSJ report on their chip supply chain.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/photos-of-apples-own-ne...

Dassault Systemes to Buy ArisGlobal for Up to $2B

N_A_T_E — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:10:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/health/dassault-systemes-to-buy-arisglobal-for-up-to-2-billion-82aecb9a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Amazon Cuts Jobs in Artificial General Intelligence Unit

N_A_T_E — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:11:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/amazon-cuts-jobs-in-artificial-general-intelligence-unit-fb86e2ba

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011018

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:06:01 +0000

Very cool, great job! Would love to know the stack and how the building data was processed to create these models.

Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet

N_A_T_E — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:54:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560182

Points: 31

# Comments: 8

RAG on Ruby on Rails

N_A_T_E — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:06:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jessewaites.com/blog/post/rag-on-rails/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46908104

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

N_A_T_E — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:56:07 +0000

It seems buffet has taken “the giving pledge” along with Bill Gates and others. “More than 99% of my wealth will go to philanthropy during my lifetime or at death.” - https://www.givingpledge.org/pledger/warren-buffett/

Apple Helped China Become a Tech Superpower

N_A_T_E — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:55:12 +0000

Article URL: https://prospect.org/culture/books/2025-08-01-how-apple-helped-china-become-tech-superpower/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010653

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Jim Boddie codeveloped the first successful DSP at Bell Labs"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:08:01 +0000

Sounds like an amazing guy. Bell labs had such engineering talent. I’m somewhat against breaking up Google (Alphabet) because it might be the the only company left with vaguely similar culture, capability and capital.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Backlash to artificial dye grows as Kraft ditches coloring for Kool-Aid, Jell-O"

N_A_T_E — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:07:58 +0000

I don’t think this is a science or safety issue, it’s an issue with bad ingredient labeling. They should name these numbered dyes something more understandable. “Red dye 4” sounds pretty sketchy when they could say “Cochineal extract for coloring”. People can reject the product because the ingredients include a bug derived coloring rather than fear of the unknown “red dye” invented by their imagined evil food scientists.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc"

N_A_T_E — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:36:32 +0000

> New Design with Liquid Glass Yes, bringing back aqua! I even see blue in their examples.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Fast Allocations in Ruby 3.5"

N_A_T_E — Fri, 23 May 2025 15:48:41 +0000

Ruby keeps on getting better. I wouldn't hesitate to start new projects in ruby.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Ask HN: How to make Friendster great?"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:56:45 +0000

My off the cuff opinion, find a way to verify the people on the site are not bots and actually real. This is a hard problem with some expensive solutions, privacy implications, significant trade offs and real cost, however it may be worth trying to address. Imagine twitter (X) or facebook without the noise.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies"

N_A_T_E — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:58:12 +0000

Is there any path forward to fixing the current reproducibility crisis in science? Individuals can do better, but that won't solve a problem at this scale. Could we make systemic changes to how papers are validated and approved for publication in major journals?

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Giant, fungus-like organism may be a completely unknown branch of life"

N_A_T_E — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 04:26:37 +0000

Pretty sure this was a major plot point of the latest resident evil game.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "AMD's CPU sales are miles better than Intel"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:08:03 +0000

I’ve had trouble verifying that these chips still have reliability problems after the microcode updates. There seem to be a lot of anecdotes, but pc manufacturers are reporting normal rates of warranty return. It’s possible long term reliability is worse but it’s pretty easy to stress test a CPU.

Anyway, would love to hear if anyone has some decent quality data about these chips reliability.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

N_A_T_E — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:51:06 +0000

Is the US health system free market? The government provides healthcare via Medicare and Medicaid for seniors, the people for whom life expectancy and healthcare quality have the highest correlation.

New comment by N_A_T_E in "OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog"

N_A_T_E — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:50:23 +0000

I just need their API to be faster. 15-30 seconds per request using 4o-mini isn't good enough for responsive applications.