Hacker News: Reubend

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT8"

Reubend — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 18:10:47 +0000

Seconded, I'd like to see a head to head comparison to see how the quant loks vs the original

New comment by Reubend in "PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial"

Reubend — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:29:14 +0000

Question from a novice: does the broad protection offered by your vaccine imply that there would be less need for yearly boosters?

New comment by Reubend in "The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 7th Edition"

Reubend — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:51:48 +0000

This is already so out of date!

New comment by Reubend in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

Reubend — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:14:09 +0000

The internet has made it easier than ever to learn new skills. You don't need college unless you're targeting a career that requires, or expects, a degree.

New comment by Reubend in "Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support"

Reubend — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:11:02 +0000

Very cool! I'd love to see a prominent section on their website explaining what does work and what doesn't work at the moment. I'm assuming there are probably quite a few things which aren't functional.

New comment by Reubend in "Tinfield 1 is an open weight coding model from Nigeria that beats Opus 4.8"

Reubend — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:09:55 +0000

It's a Qwen fine tune that's benchmaxxing a few sets of question types, and it's obviously nowhere near beating Opus 3.8 in real usage. Nothing to see here.

Normally, I'd give them a pass because at least it's open source, but then I read

> Raising pre-seed. So we welcome all angels and vcs

Which basically gives away that they're trying to fool investors into giving them money by exaggerating their results.

New comment by Reubend in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

Reubend — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:21:24 +0000

Oh, I missed that! So the Doom demo was potentially just "harnessmaxxing"?

New comment by Reubend in "Executive order on H-1B nonimmigrant visa administration"

Reubend — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:40:12 +0000

> ...the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into account in any labor condition application... whether the employer sponsor directly or indirectly engaged in layoffs within the previous year or plans future layoffs...

Unfortunately, as a 2nd order effect, I wonder if we'll see fewer layoffs and more outright firing to balance it out.

New comment by Reubend in "Vial contains a new drug called PAC-3310"

Reubend — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:20:59 +0000

Wow, he did this all himself? Very impressive, and I'd love to see what comes of this. Does he have any plans for how he would fund clinical trials in the event that the preliminary results are promising enough for that?

New comment by Reubend in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

Reubend — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:37:22 +0000

It's great that important discoveries like this can now routinely be accompanies by formalized proofs. The fact that it's being released alongside a Lean proof from Day 1, rather than the Lean proof being released months or years later, is super helpful for verifying that it's correct.

New comment by Reubend in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

Reubend — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:36:47 +0000

Is there any competitor in the USA? The idea of roof tiles which are themselves solar panels seems sensible to me, and it's more aesthetically pleasing than putting panels on top of normal tiles.

New comment by Reubend in "Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s"

Reubend — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:58:03 +0000

You manufacture the drugs yourself? That's impressive, and it feels like an interesting company.

Your website sucks though. We can tell you vibe coded it quickly and didn't put much thought into it.

New comment by Reubend in "AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them"

Reubend — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:02:31 +0000

For that particular example, it's now been proved that Mochizuki's proof is incomplete: https://zeli.app/en/story/48963019

I guess whether he will eventually fix those gaps and resolve the issues remains to be seen.

New comment by Reubend in "WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale"

Reubend — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:36:58 +0000

The assets look good, but for some reason the terrain looks too cartoonish to me.

New comment by Reubend in "[dead]"

Reubend — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:58:17 +0000

This article is from May of 2025.

New comment by Reubend in "Incentives Are for Losers"

Reubend — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:09:48 +0000

I think you've written a good counterargument, but I disagree with your claim that "morality is really just yet another incentive". Incentives must be external.

New comment by Reubend in "Seedance 2.5"

Reubend — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:12:06 +0000

It's just you. Any director, storyteller, or filmmaker can see the potential here to realize scenes that simply wouldn't be possible otherwise. But indeed there's plenty of slop coming out too.

New comment by Reubend in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

Reubend — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:57:22 +0000

They're always very understated in their update descriptions. This is actually a HUGE improvement in the model's capabilities rather than just a small tweak.

New comment by Reubend in "Our position on open-weights models"

Reubend — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:35:42 +0000

This seems hypocritical, out of touch, and hollow. "Safety testing" is just a hair away from censorship when it comes to government control.

New comment by Reubend in "Show HN: Optimize and serve models with Fable quality at half the cost"

Reubend — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:19:36 +0000

Yeah, this is just slop. No benchmarks, no concrete case studies, just some vibecoded "platform" to finetune models on your own traces.

Which is an idea that has some value, but also some weaknesses. And this implementation of it isn't forthcoming with that concept. You have to really dig in to understand what they're even talking about.