Hacker News: RagnarD

New comment by RagnarD in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

RagnarD — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:27:11 +0000

No.

New comment by RagnarD in "Show HN: 30u30.fyi – Is your startup founder on Forbes' most fraudulent list?"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:59:41 +0000

Including "Dropout" as some significant metric is truly idiotic. Meekly going through a university degree isn't indicative of being a paragon of virtue or success, and it's a safe bet that most higher end convicted fraudsters had a degree, probably an advanced one (i.e. the large majority of politicians in that group.)

New comment by RagnarD in "Roulette Computers: Hidden Devices That Predict Spins"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:57:33 +0000

There's a classic book from 1985 about an early, successful attempt to make one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eudaemonic_Pie

New comment by RagnarD in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

RagnarD — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:44:54 +0000

She should sue the city controlling that police department, into oblivion. Or at least to the absolute max she can get.

New comment by RagnarD in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

RagnarD — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:39:02 +0000

Drop in the bucket for them. Giving Zuck some jail time would be the more appropriate message - there's no doubt he knows and approves of the kind of evil activity the New Mexico law enforcement dug up.

New comment by RagnarD in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:07:13 +0000

I didn't say they were. I feel it too.

New comment by RagnarD in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:10:13 +0000

I said better, not faster. Primarily, it writes better code, works more smoothly, is better at describing what it's doing and what it's done.

New comment by RagnarD in "Why craft-lovers are losing their craft"

RagnarD — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:03:20 +0000

One solution: do NOT just program for work. If it's not work related - where management can dictate how you work - you can whatever you want, and if what you want is to keep writing software and not outsource your brain to an AI, absolutely do so.

New comment by RagnarD in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

RagnarD — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:04:44 +0000

Totally agree. I'm baffled by those who don't clearly see that Codex works better than C.C. in many ways.

New comment by RagnarD in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

RagnarD — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 06:11:43 +0000

All lower case, instant won't read.

New comment by RagnarD in "Can I run AI locally?"

RagnarD — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:08:30 +0000

I have an RTX 6000 Pro Max-Q, which has 96GB VRAM. It identified the hardware correctly but incorrectly thought it had 4GB, at least if I interpret the RAM dropdown correctly.

Then it shows the full resolution models, which are completely unnecessary to run quality inference. Quantized models are routine for local inference and it should realize that.

Needs work.

New comment by RagnarD in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

RagnarD — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:05:25 +0000

This is really important work.

New comment by RagnarD in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

RagnarD — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:42:46 +0000

Try Meetup.com. It's unfortunately gone downhill in many ways, but there are still people using it. Search for in-person meetups in your area and if any look interesting, sign up and go to some events.

New comment by RagnarD in "Earth Garden: Field Recordings Around the World"

RagnarD — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:06:34 +0000

Curious why the large majority of the clips are about water. If that's spontaneous, maybe it's interesting psychologically.

New comment by RagnarD in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

RagnarD — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:48:47 +0000

You're both completely missing the point. It's important that an LLM be able to perform exact arithmetic reliably without a tool call. Of course the underlying hardware does so extremely rapidly, that's not the point.

New comment by RagnarD in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

RagnarD — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:11:17 +0000

Being able to perform precise math in an LLM is important, glad to see this.

New comment by RagnarD in "Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages"

RagnarD — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:10:28 +0000

The author confirms that they ARE, so what's your "of course they are not" about? You might have misunderstood my obvious meaning: is the output webpage fully generated without human tweaking just from the paper alone?

New comment by RagnarD in "Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages"

RagnarD — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:09:06 +0000

Yes, exactly what I mean. Thanks.

New comment by RagnarD in "The Future of AI"

RagnarD — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:34:15 +0000

"This AI child knows about the world more than we do since it has been trained on the whole internet, but it doesn’t have millions of years of evolution, genes, or a nervous system to back up its morality and empathy. This means we need to install morality in AI from scratch. But how do we install something in a software system that we can’t even define ourselves?"

Two things jump out to me. First, there's a vast amount of information about morality in that internet-scale data dump. It's not some mystical thing orthogonal to knowledge, which ties directly into the second thing: maybe the author can't define it, but many others can and do, especially philosophers, though YMMV given which philosophy and philosopher.

viz: "What is morality, or ethics? It is a code of values to guide man's choices and actions—the choices and actions that determine the purpose and the course of his life. Ethics, as a science, deals with discovering and defining such a code."

There are different systems of ethics, and those themselves can be reasoned about. We should want one that values rational human life. And among that vast data dump, there's no doubt that those ethical ideas have been extensively written about - so it can be used as a reference point to actively emphasize and select the ideas.

New comment by RagnarD in "Woxi: Wolfram Mathematica Reimplementation in Rust"

RagnarD — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:51:10 +0000

Have you gotten any nastygrams from Wolfram about this? They're pretty protective of their IP. Not saying I think that it's some violation of it, but I could see them being alarmed.