Hacker News: SteveMqz

New comment by SteveMqz in "Pong in S Favicon"

SteveMqz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:40:06 +0000

Alright that's actually pretty cool. I would've never guessed you're able to update the tab icon that quickly

New comment by SteveMqz in "Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast?"

SteveMqz — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:39:31 +0000

It sounds to me like the science is actually pretty inconclusive on whether eating burnt toast is bad for you.

At the same time unneeded worrying and stress is definitely bad for your health.

New comment by SteveMqz in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

SteveMqz — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:32:35 +0000

The margins on inference definetly aren’t negative. An easy way to check this is by looking at the costs of using cloud hosted open source models, which necessarily are served at a positive margin, and are much lower $/token than what you get from the labs.

New comment by SteveMqz in "UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children"

SteveMqz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:07:45 +0000

Apple does run software for detecting CSAM on pictures users store to the cloud.

New comment by SteveMqz in "Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)"

SteveMqz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:11:37 +0000

Well the simplest thing would be to have test/benchmarks you do at the start and end of each “chapter” (however you define that).

You fail miserably at the test at the start of each chapter, and crush it at the end.

The difficult part is deciding how the tests are spread out.

New comment by SteveMqz in "Lithium vs. Lettuce"

SteveMqz — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:36:57 +0000

They’ve been saying this for years. Every few months you’ll see an article about IV having the biggest store of lithium in the US, but nothing ever comes of it.

New comment by SteveMqz in "Perverse incentives of vibe coding"

SteveMqz — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:55:19 +0000

The study the article cited is specifically about when asking the LLMs about misinformation. I think on coding tasks and such shorter answers are usually more accurate.