<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RockyMcNuts</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RockyMcNuts</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:05:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RockyMcNuts" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're the man now, dog!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:44:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746679</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Enabling Codex to Analyze Two Decades of Hacker News Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could be interesting to chart quality of responses,  toxicity/health of conversations, sentiment over time, impact of release of ChatGPT.<p>(since AI can now answer many questions that might have been topics of conversation; people can use AI to participate; people may be reluctant to participate if AI can data mine everything and link it back to them, etc. similar to Stack Overflow)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:13:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618878</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>there is light alignment, like throwing nasty things out of the training data, and there is strong alignment, like China providing a test with 2000 questions that an AI must answer non-problematically 95% of the time.<p>there is no such thing as an AI that is not somehow implicitly aligned with the values of its creator, that is completely objective, unbiased in any way. there is no perfect view from nowhere. if you take a perfectly accurate photo, you have still chosen how to compose it and which  photo to put in your record.<p>are you going to decide to 'censor' responses to kids, or about real people who might have libel interests, or abusive deepfake videos of real women?<p>if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.<p>ofc it's obvious that Musk's 'maximally truth-seeking AI' is bad faith buffoonery, but at some level everyone is going to tilt their AI.<p>the distinction is between people who are self-aware and go out of their way to tilt it as little as possible, and as mindfully, deliberately, intentionally and methodically as possible and only when they have to, vs. people who lie about it or pretend tilting it is not actually a thing.<p>contra Feynman, you are always going to fool yourself a little but there is a duty to try to do it as little as possible, and not make a complete fool of yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:31:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397050</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI should probably consider:<p>- enabling local MCP in Desktop like Claude Desktop, not just server-side remote. (I don't think you can run a local server unless you expose it to their IP)<p>- having an MCP store where you can click on e.g. Figma to connect your account and start talking to it<p>- letting you easily connect to your own Agents SDK MCP servers deployed in their cloud<p>ChatGPT MCP support is underwhelming compared to Claude Desktop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:35:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202543</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45202543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ok, that makes sense.<p>not indicated, and the general idea of dataviz is to communicate clearly. when you have a number, what it represents should be noted, and the units. if I see a number in that context, I assume it's calling out the value displayed.<p>the x axis is also a bit off, would ideally plot the date of the release and use a proper time axis.<p>a title is also good to have, maybe a data table.<p>sorry to be cranky but those who are downvoting , try to be clear, learn some standards, or stay away from publishing charts. you can even ask AI to clean up your code to conform to a standard. Soft skills are important for an engineer. You need to explain the work in clear, persuasive language and dataviz. or you can be, I'm a super-smart engineer, you figure out what I'm trying to say, I don't need to worry about making your eyes bleed. crikey.<p><a href="https://www.datavizstyleguide.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.datavizstyleguide.com/</a><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Better-Data-Visualizations-Scholars-Researchers/dp/0231193114" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Better-Data-Visualizations-Scholars-R...</a><p><a href="https://guides.library.jhu.edu/datavisualization/scientific" rel="nofollow">https://guides.library.jhu.edu/datavisualization/scientific</a><p><a href="https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-book</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:16:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014797</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why don't the labels on the points match the scale?<p>Looks like a chart crime scene</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:10:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014050</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014050</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45014050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Beyond Attention: Toward Machines with Intrinsic Higher Mental States"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you stack transformers, don't you get meta-attention and higher mental states?</p>
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<p>they seem to still exist but have pivoted from AI safety, fairness, responsible AI etc., to reducing ideological bias<p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directiv...</a><p>(oh yay, government is keeping us safe from woke AI...eye roll)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:43:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376985</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>interesting! have PP but haven't flown really last couple of decades.<p>I feel like, with proper UX in the cockpit and on the controller console, making it easy to send/acknowledge the clearance, and intrusively demanding immediate acknowledgment for important messages, with the controller able to talk to the pilot if it isn't immediately acknowledged, structured messages would save time, be more accurate, allow automated checks, i.e. be a superior substitute.<p>UX needs a ton of work and human factors validation, and would take 20 years to implement. But if you were starting from a blank slate it seems like the way to go!</p>
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<p>Maybe the future is structured electronic messaging with the humans in the loop.<p>Like, check in with the controller but most messages are sent electronically and acknowledged manually.<p>I have your clearance, advise when ready to copy, then you write everything down on kneeboard with a pencil and then manually put it in the navigation system, is a little archaic.<p>certainly speech to text is a useful transition but in the long run the controller could click on an aircraft and issue the next clearance with a keyboard shortcut. then the pilot would get a visual and auditory alert in the cockpit and click to acknowledge.<p>I would hope someone at NASA or DARPA or somewhere is working on it. And then of course the system can detect conflicts, an aircraft not following the clearance etc.</p>
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<p>man of his word, ok. <a href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/660639" rel="nofollow">https://www.azquotes.com/quote/660639</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2025 04:26:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788997</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Notes on the New Deepseek v3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>exactly ... Gemini 2.0 Flash ranks better on quality, is faster, and cheaper if you assume same pricing as 1.5 (might go down).<p>these models are being commoditized.<p><a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:02:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577543</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>more as hoverboard, onewheel etc. the e-bikes and e-scooters don't really have similar balancing mechanisms</p>
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<p>they didn't pull it<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 04:02:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952445</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Why Llama 3.1 is Important"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does the community license let companies fine-tune it or retrain it for their use cases?<p>There are significant restrictions on it so it's not fully open-source, but maybe it's only a real problem for Google and OpenAI and Microsoft.<p>Open source has turned into a game of, what's the most commercial value I can retain, while still calling it open-source and benefiting from the trust and marketing value of the 'open source' branding.</p>
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<p>You will need enough VRAM, 1080ti is not going to work very well, maybe get a 3090 with 24GB VRAM.<p>I think it should also run well on a 36GB MacBook Pro or probably a 24GB Macbook Air</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996831</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Every Way to Get Structured Output from LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the right question, and the OpenAI API supports requesting JSON with e.g.<p>client.chat.completions.create(..., response_format={"type": "json_object"})<p>But the nature of LLMs is stochastic, nothing is 100%. The LLM vendors aren't dummies and train hard for this use case. But you still need a prompt that OpenAI can handle, and validating / fixing the output with an output parser, and retrying.<p>In my experience asking for simple stuff, requesting json_object is reliable.<p>with LangChain even! eye-roll, you can't really title the post 'every way' and omit possibly the most popular way with a weak dig. I have literally no idea why they would omit it, it's just a thin wrapper over the LLM APIs and has a JSON output parser. Of course people do use LangChain in production, although there is merit to the idea of using it for research, trying different LLMs and patterns where LangChain makes it easy to try different things, and then using the underlying LLM directly in prod which will have a more stable API and fewer hinky layers.<p>this post is a little frustrating since it doesn't explain things that a dev would want to know, and omits the popular modules. the comment by resiros offers some good additional info.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:53:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717249</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "The fishy death of Red Lobster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's a bust-out, you identify a patsy and you stick it to them.<p>sometimes the company is worth more dead than alive, the parts are worth more the whole, especially when you can leave someone holding the bag, and the PE company gets paid to make them dead.<p>in any event the company is worth more to an extremely unscrupulous buyer than as a going concern in public markets.<p><a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4348lj" rel="nofollow">https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4348lj</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2024 00:44:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471772</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40471772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "Ex-Googler – AI work is driven by 'a stone cold panic'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He's a UI strategist, from a UI perspective some of these AI things are a mess.<p>But Google says that their mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. A technology that understands and generates human language, with all its idiosyncrasies and connotations, is probably pretty important to that mission. And OpenAI stole a march on Google in commercializing it.<p>Maybe they justifiably panicked a little because they were starting to miss the boat.<p>It's a fine line between running around with your head cut off, and entering terminal decline due to too little too late.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 14:48:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429210</link><dc:creator>RockyMcNuts</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RockyMcNuts in "OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I heard it, I thought, wow, they licensed Scarlett Johansson, what an amazing Easter egg.<p>If they didn't and just cloned her voice, it's more disregard for creators and artists than I would have thought possible. What were they thinking?<p>Edit after reading the official story... not sure I believe it, seems disingenuous, at best they chose someone because they really really sounded like Scarlett Johansson, and no one said, it might be a problem.<p><a href="https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-chosen/" rel="nofollow">https://openai.com/index/how-the-voices-for-chatgpt-were-cho...</a></p>
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