Hacker News: SilverSlash

New comment by SilverSlash in "Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network"

SilverSlash — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:55:15 +0000

Haha I immediately looked for this comment and wondered if the name was inspired by Anathem.

New comment by SilverSlash in "JetZero"

SilverSlash — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:02:46 +0000

Yes it's interesting and I'm by no means certain how I will feel inside one either. But people are also highly adaptable so we'll see how it goes.

Edit: also this older concept image shows windows: https://www.jetzero.aero/hs-fs/hubfs/JetZero-Z4-left.png?wid...

New comment by SilverSlash in "JetZero"

SilverSlash — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:29:09 +0000

I don't mind no windows at all if they have "digital windows" as substitutes. You're already 40,000ft in the air I think windows aren't really gonna help your claustrophobia. Not like you can open the door and walk out for a bit.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

SilverSlash — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:43:38 +0000

Yes, but open weights means you don't have to use their cloud providers. Someone in the US can host the model on their own infra.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

SilverSlash — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:34:40 +0000

I wonder if Anthropic just has better drafter models for speculative decoding and more efficient prompt caching in their agent harness.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

SilverSlash — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:59:45 +0000

Do you think the barbarians are at the gates of OpenAI and Anthropic? If cheaper, open weights models can seriously take revenue away from those two labs for (frontier - 1) model use cases (which are the models most enterprises will choose) then OpenAI and Anthropic are left only with users using their latest and greatest model AND who will keep upgrading to the newer ones?

New comment by SilverSlash in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

SilverSlash — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:48:43 +0000

Why will they have to raise prices eventually?

New comment by SilverSlash in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

SilverSlash — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:44:44 +0000

> Fwiw I find social media scores corny

I agree. We've had large and thriving online forums for at least a decade before upvote systems became ubiquitous and things were just fine.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem"

SilverSlash — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:07:02 +0000

Is that impressive? If an LLM is just spewing out code which it has been trained on extensively then to me it's not that impressive at all. I want to see individual developers creating new software which previously took a whole team. Things not done previously. I am very pro AI btw, but the constant barrage of false hype is really tiresome.

New comment by SilverSlash in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

SilverSlash — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:07:42 +0000

One place where fiber cables cannot reach would be... way up in the air. Think about how many people fly each day and then remember how poor internet connectivity and speeds are at 40,000 ft.

So Starlink in flights seems like a perfect fit.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Half-Baked Product"

SilverSlash — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:07 +0000

This was such a great read! Thank you! Too bad Oven Inc never got more headcount. Otherwise the engineers could've had a day hackathon week while the managers and founder went to a retreat for a strategy offsite.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

SilverSlash — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:28:56 +0000

Nah, it's a guy named Matt Deitke and he was 24 at the time.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity"

SilverSlash — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:26:03 +0000

So have they just given up on llama then? What happened to the 25 year old Zuck paid $250M for?

New comment by SilverSlash in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

SilverSlash — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:39:38 +0000

This is extremely misleading and not very useful. It makes little sense to use pricing per GB during decades when RAM was at most in MBs. In that case, why not talk about price per TB or PB? Then the line will look pretty much flat and horizontal.

New comment by SilverSlash in "My Mathematical Regression"

SilverSlash — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:08:59 +0000

I can definitely relate. My brain also wants to take the path of least effort now, even for simple things like adding two numbers which I could do very quickly in my head in my college days.

And with AI the path of least (initial) effort seems to be to just ask the model to solve it. It might get it wrong and then I'll prompt it again and again. But each individual prompt is fairly low effort on my part. Whereas coming up with the right solution myself might've taken less time but the initial effort is a lot more.

Last year I used to romanticize about building at least 1 thing each month completely by hand without any LLM coding help. The last such project I worked on was 6 months ago so sadly it's not going so well.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

SilverSlash — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:05:10 +0000

> Difference is, humans learn from their mistakes.

Great! So next time the human will prompt the agent to watch out for and avoid this bug.

New comment by SilverSlash in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

SilverSlash — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:22:37 +0000

lol the new "swiss banks". store all your dirty data in digital swiss lockers

New comment by SilverSlash in "Leaving Mozilla"

SilverSlash — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:43:31 +0000

damn! then what's happens at the EU where the "goals of the organization" are themselves to increase and champion bureaucracy?

New comment by SilverSlash in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

SilverSlash — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:48:36 +0000

they already firmly in irrelevant territory

New comment by SilverSlash in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

SilverSlash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:15:33 +0000

Very good. Just look at Gemma 4.