Hacker News: Oarch

New comment by Oarch in "CS336: Language Modeling from Scratch"

Oarch — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:45:15 +0000

Oh this is brilliant, I've spent the last month doing something just like this. As a challenge, no libraries allowed besides Python standard libs (so no numpy).

Started with Word2Vec, built an RNN, then LSTM and am halfway through building transformer architecture.

New comment by Oarch in "The $500K AI Film That "Premiered at Cannes" Was Not in the Official Festival"

Oarch — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:45:49 +0000

Slop and fraud make the perfect pairing.

New comment by Oarch in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

Oarch — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:07:20 +0000

I reckon that in 50 years the very idea of code existing will be esoteric knowledge, a bit like binary. We simply won't care to think at that level of abstraction anymore.

New comment by Oarch in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

Oarch — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:40:17 +0000

Honestly, I'm biased but I think it's the best one.

New comment by Oarch in ".de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?"

Oarch — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:22:21 +0000

Germany has fallen.

New comment by Oarch in "The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls"

Oarch — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:18:07 +0000

From the title I'd assumed this was a mixed metaphor between boiling the frog and facing impending doom.

Maybe I need to stop AI doomscrolling for a bit.

New comment by Oarch in "If This Road"

Oarch — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:02:22 +0000

I think you've answered your own point convincingly! Glad you enjoyed it.

New comment by Oarch in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

Oarch — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:32:29 +0000

Didn't something like this already happen in the 1970/80s with pushback against synthesisers and electronic sounds?

New comment by Oarch in "Grok 4.3"

Oarch — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:15:46 +0000

I'd agree on the voice transcription; it seems so much more accurate than the other frontier models I've used. I often speak to Grok and paste the transcribed output to Claude!

New comment by Oarch in "Auto Polo"

Oarch — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:29:22 +0000

These days I have to check the upload date to see if I'm being duped. At 8 years ago this one passes!

New comment by Oarch in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

Oarch — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:04:29 +0000

We even weigh different kinds of drugs differently. So I'm told.

If This Road

Oarch — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://ifthisroad.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869686

Points: 16

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New comment by Oarch in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

Oarch — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:12:28 +0000

Every groundbreaking new AI release feels like a volley of cannonfire towards the soul. Oof.

New comment by Oarch in "Codex for almost everything"

Oarch — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:57:19 +0000

"You've hit the message limit, upgrade to Plus for more".

Ok. I upgrade.

"You've hit the message limit, upgrade to Plus for more".

Hmm. They've charged me. There's no meaningful support. I just got scammed, didn't I...

New comment by Oarch in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

Oarch — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:36:20 +0000

A few years ago I had a date with a backend engineer at Meta.

I asked if they'd ever considered the societal implications of the work they did. They said "Oh wow I've never even thought about it". Probably a solid hire from Meta's perspective.

New comment by Oarch in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

Oarch — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:18:10 +0000

I'd argue (simplistically) that AI is largely introspection.

New comment by Oarch in "Iran-linked hackers have breached FBI director's personal emails"

Oarch — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:21:43 +0000

How am I only finding out about this now... my sides

New comment by Oarch in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

Oarch — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:56:14 +0000

Thank you for a very detailed explanation.

The rich international student pipeline has always stood out to me – we've seen dozens of 30, 40 or even 50 storey skyscrapers built for students, enjoying lifestyles usually reserved for those in high finance.

It just seems very suspect to me.

New comment by Oarch in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

Oarch — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:52:03 +0000

I'm still sure we can do a little better though.

Maybe a personalised diet and exercise plan based on a huge range of information: preferences, biometrics, habit forming, disposable income, your local area etc

New comment by Oarch in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

Oarch — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:43:42 +0000

It would probably depend on the target audience.

I was very impressed by Anthropic's swarm of agents building a C compiler earlier this year with 1000 PRs per hour. Easy to nitpick that it wasn't perfect, but it sure was impressive.