Hacker News: UncleOxidant

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Typst 0.15.0"

UncleOxidant — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:06 +0000

Interesting career path from developer -> theology student -> pastor. Probably a more stable career choice these days.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:16:43 +0000

I'm going to guess they'll go after sites like Huggingface that host downloads. I suspect we'll be torrenting Chinese models in the not-too-distant future. Or we'll have to geo-spoof with VPN to download from other countries.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:00:20 +0000

After this action, I have no doubt that this administration will try to ban Chinese models. Of course, doing so will be futile, we'll figure out ways to get around it, but now I'm pretty sure they're going to try.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:55:06 +0000

Agreed. The timing here is interesting as well. 5:21PM ET on a Friday. Like they know this could roil markets and they're trying to buffer that a bit (and maybe they're really hoping this deal with Iran is actually real this time and figure that will help offset the effects?)

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:28:50 +0000

A compiler that takes C code (a subset of C with some extensions) and compiles it to microcode for a type of microcoded, algorithmic state machine that we're developing.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

UncleOxidant — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:40:02 +0000

I unleashed it on a compiler codebase that I've been developing for several months now using Claude Sonnet 4.5/6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek V4 Pro(recent), and a bit of Qwen3.6-27B. Right away Fable found several longstanding bugs in our compiler that we hadn't found before. It found that there was a critical part of our design that needed to be mostly redesigned/rewritten and gave a very well-reasoned rationale for doing so.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:27:00 +0000

or 3) start running local models that are competent for most tasks now like Qwen3.6-27B and only use frontier models when the local model gets stuck.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:01:46 +0000

I haven't read anything from Peter Watts, but I have read Cormac McCarthy and what you're describing sounds like that.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:36:33 +0000

They're even apparently able to pass their grudges along to other crows who did not have first-hand experience with the subject of the grudge.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Ultrafast machine learning on FPGAs via Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks"

UncleOxidant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:24:55 +0000

Searching around github and found someone has put up a github repo with a Julia implementation of the article here including FPGA implementation of a KAN MNIST classifier in Verilog. https://github.com/philtomson/KAN_LUT

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Claude Fable 5"

UncleOxidant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:57:43 +0000

Can we get a Qwen3.7-122B, please? Thank you.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

UncleOxidant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:36 +0000

I'm old enough to remember a war on sugar in the 70s. My mom took us off of Lucky Charms/Fruit Loops for breakfast and starting making her own granola circa 1974. She was reading/hearing lots of stuff about the dangers of sugar in the diet.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Claude Fable 5"

UncleOxidant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:31:55 +0000

> During early testing, Stripe reported that Fable 5 compressed months of engineering into days. In a 50-million-line Ruby codebase, the model performed a codebase-wide migration in a day that would otherwise have taken a whole team over two months by hand.

How in blazes do you end up with a 50M line Ruby codebase? WTF?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

UncleOxidant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:18:07 +0000

But I kind of doubt there's more sugar in food than there was in the 70s.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

UncleOxidant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:49:44 +0000

> Obesity. Being overweight is directly correlated with an increased risk for over a dozen cancers. And people are fatter than ever.

Doesn't that just move the question to: why are so many people obese now? Including more obese younger people.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

UncleOxidant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:45:21 +0000

Any idea what the percentage of teenagers who are getting the HPV vaccine is? I'm going to guess it's fairly low at this point given that there tend to be religious objections and also given the growing antivaxx sentiments.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

UncleOxidant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:26:43 +0000

Have you tried Gemini 3.5 Flash? It's quite fast. Amazing how fast it finishes tasks. Much faster than Claude.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:49:35 +0000

Wait, so if one were to order a Sipeed NanoKVM there's a chance they could be visited by the FBI?

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

UncleOxidant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:41:34 +0000

I guess I've had several of those moments over the last year and a half. But a recent one was that I was working with Claude to create a spiking neural net MNIST classifier in an FPGA for a demo. Claude took it from concept to PyTorch, to training (training a Spiking neural net isn't necessarily straightforward - that's a whole post in itself, but Claude came up with a working solution), and then to implementation in Verilog and through synthesis into the FPGA. I asked Claude to create a drawing app to run on the PC side that would allow the user to draw a digit with a mouse and then click a classify button. The data from the digit drawing app was to be transferred via USB to SPI to the FPGA. I didn't have a SPI adapter yet (it was on order from Adafruit) so I asked claude to let me communicate with the simulated verilog code running in the Verilator simulator, through a virtual SPI interface. Then I went to lunch. I came back to see the digit drawing app displayed on the monitor. I drew a '2' and it classified it as a 2. In another window I could see the Verilator simulator running and the data being passed. Chills.

New comment by UncleOxidant in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

UncleOxidant — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:25:22 +0000

Who knew that Trump was going to speedrun The Green New Deal?... just for every other country except the US.