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New comment by abc_lisper in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

abc_lisper — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:40:23 +0000

Careful with using these small models. The other day, I asked it "Can dogs eat avocado" and answer was emphatic Yes.

This is not meant as a criticism, but people should be aware of their limitations.

New comment by abc_lisper in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

abc_lisper — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:55:59 +0000

Why is the system "card" 140 pages long! Was it generated by LLM too?

New comment by abc_lisper in "Fossils reveal anacondas have been giants for over 12 million years"

abc_lisper — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:46:36 +0000

Reference?

New comment by abc_lisper in "What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?"

abc_lisper — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:34:57 +0000

Was it written by one person?

New comment by abc_lisper in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

abc_lisper — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:23:31 +0000

I thought about this first when chatgpt 3.5 came on the scene. Yes, you _can_ at some time in the future, replace programs with AI which would be slow to an extent - if AI can write and manage the code, it _could_ be even faster.

But there is a kicker here. It is upto LLM to discover the right abstractions for “thinking” while serving the requests directly or in the code .

Coming up with the right abstraction is not a small thing. Just see what git is over cvs - without git no one would have even imagined micro services. The right abstraction cuts through the problem, not just now, but in the future too. And that can only happen if the LLM/AI managing the app is really smart and deal with real world for a long time and make the right connection - these insights don’t even come to really smart people that easily!

New comment by abc_lisper in "Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?"

abc_lisper — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:27:46 +0000

Yep, Apple was a significant early investor in ARM. https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/09/05/apple-arm-have-be...

New comment by abc_lisper in "Deeper Than Deep: David Reich's genetics lab unveils our prehistoric past (2017)"

abc_lisper — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:22:23 +0000

Highly recommend watching Dwarakesh interviewing Reich: https://youtu.be/Uj6skZIxPuI

You will learn more about human prehistory in that 2 hours than anything else.

New comment by abc_lisper in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

abc_lisper — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:30:46 +0000

What do you call GPT 3.5?

New comment by abc_lisper in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

abc_lisper — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:12:20 +0000

Which one did you use and when was this? I mean, no body gets anything working right the first time. You got to spend a few days atleast trying to understand the tool

New comment by abc_lisper in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

abc_lisper — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:08:43 +0000

I doubt there is much art to getting LLM work for you, despite all the hoopla. Any competent engineer can figure that much out.

The real dichotomy is this. If you are aware of the tools/APIs and the Domain, you are better off writing the code on your own, except may be shallow changes like refactorings. OTOH, if you are not familiar with the domain/tools, using a LLM gives you a huge legup by preventing you from getting stuck and providing intial momentum.

New comment by abc_lisper in "Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America"

abc_lisper — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:12:47 +0000

Yep. It is a [Keystone species](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species)

New comment by abc_lisper in "When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?"

abc_lisper — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:42:50 +0000

Does it mean repeated scans of the same objects show different bumps?

New comment by abc_lisper in "When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?"

abc_lisper — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:30:34 +0000

Did they purposely ignore dinosaurs? Feathered dinosaurs are known to be colorful

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/chinese-rainbow-dinosa...

Hard to believe their claim fish are the first to evolve color for mating displays 100 million years ago.

New comment by abc_lisper in "Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team"

abc_lisper — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:13:38 +0000

Well said. Though 20 year old me would have judged you on this comment for being "greedy" ;) Such is the cycle of life - you think you are beyond earthly affairs only to discover earthly affairs matter until you are above the earth

New comment by abc_lisper in "It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System"

abc_lisper — Tue, 20 May 2025 04:40:04 +0000

True - but you learn better when young and make use of it longer than if you learnt it later

New comment by abc_lisper in "Apple Card Disabled My iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID Accounts (2021)"

abc_lisper — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:50:50 +0000

Article from 2021

New comment by abc_lisper in "The People Refusing to Use AI"

abc_lisper — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:18:49 +0000

Idk. Outsource thinking to bots - we become its senses - even if only it is only about interacting with other people. There are things about humanity and ourselves we don't know much about, and I doubt machines do either, because all its "knowledge" comes curated from humans. I guess we become only the knowledge creators for a while, or guide knowledge creation with machines, have machines put guard rails around the knowledge creation, so we don't chase dead-ends as often, take care of ourselves better, health and relationships wise. We can now dream bigger, address intractable problems like recycling trash 100%, because we have little agents with intelligence that do our thinking for us. May be one day, we can edit DNA to have our own little bees with programmed intelligence flying around, pollinating flowers in the winter, making the earth truly human serving (and any animals we like - don't hate me, that's humanity as it acts). May be then we reach for the stars and go on doing more stuff. Its the beginning of infinity, dammit ;)

New comment by abc_lisper in "How to vibe code for free: Running Qwen3 on your Mac, using MLX"

abc_lisper — Thu, 01 May 2025 20:32:20 +0000

lol

New comment by abc_lisper in "LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future"

abc_lisper — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:37:21 +0000

Hahaha

New comment by abc_lisper in "I Met Paul Graham Once"

abc_lisper — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:13:04 +0000

Yeah, I don't think people understand what transgender person is. They understand being born like that, but not why someone chooses to change their gender. It simply is not in anyone's experience nor there is any analogous thing to bridge understanding. It is NOT like being GAY, because I know and read about gay animals, and say ok, this is not specific to humans. There isn't anything like that for TGs, because animals obviously don't dress. They just are.

I also understood one thing. Most people were paying lip service to TGs. This includes people like Mark and PG. And we like, good employees, are just following what HR says without rocking the boat. I now doubt head of HR knows or understands what this is about.

Also, there are not many people who are TG. Should society adjust itself for everyone on the margin is a question one should ask themselves? Does it adjust for everyone who has kidney disease, or other ailments? I know western countries do a good job of addressing handicapped people in several ways, but the last 1% is very hard and expensive to reach. And I feel we are paying the price. Is TG issue big enough to put Climate Change activism at risk, which it is now? I am not against TG, I am against not prioritizing what's more important.