<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: abdullahkhalids</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=abdullahkhalids</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:55:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=abdullahkhalids" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there currently a lot of difference between deepseek's own prices and other provider's prices of deepseek models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:59:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197654</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197654</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Goodhart's Law Comes for Every Benchmark You Trust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is correct. It's just that in most cases in the real world, there is a complex casual network, and many of those variables are not even measurable. So you have to pick a proxy for one or more of the variables and make a metric out of this.<p>The other problem is that in the real world, we want to make decisions, and the easiest way to make decisions is to have a single metric to judge everything by. With multiple metrics, you get into these debates about subjectivity.<p>You can get around Goodhart's law if you are able to pick multiple proxy variables and demand that the user optimize them all. And you pick these variables in a way that it's really hard to cheat (i.e. deoptimize the actual intended variable while optimizing the proxy variables). Game designers do this all the time for example, because the system is clean and simple enough to do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189146</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189146</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't you what you mean. People have used the above harness (or similar) to prove significant results. See this recent paper [1], which claims<p>> The human authors take full responsibility for the claims and proofs contained
in this paper, and have carefully refined and verified them. The construction and main ideas of the proof were generated entirely by Codex using GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra, using harness ideas generated by the authors based on the UCLA Moonshot Harness [ZHC+26] and [Ope26].<p>[1] <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21551" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21551</a> (Statement on AI usage is at the bottom of page 3).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:18:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185903</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Building an Advanced Agentic Harness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A harness [1] was developed by Terrence Tao and some collaborators to prove mathematical results. It has since then been used by others with positive effect. Can someone critique the structure of this harness? I don't know anything about this stuff.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/1stproof/batch-2/tree/main/batch-2-submissions/ucla" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/1stproof/batch-2/tree/main/batch-2-submis...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:58:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184666</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> is there a real benefit for a Sandstorm grain over a docker style Linux container?<p>Linux containers are meant to be used by those with significant software engineering skills. Sandstorm was designed to be used, once installed by someone else, by grandma.</p>
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<p>Both Germany and Pakistan installed roughly 17 GW of new solar in 2025 [1,2]. Pakistan's GDP per capita is about €1500.<p>[1] <a href="https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolution-nobody" rel="nofollow">https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-the-solar-revolut...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://eu.globalsolar.store/news/78/germany-installs-175-gw-of-new-solar-capacity-in-2025" rel="nofollow">https://eu.globalsolar.store/news/78/germany-installs-175-gw...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:46:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173095</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you increase the date range to 12 months, you see that (with "likely human"), linux usage jumped from 3-4% to 5%-6% in the last 1.5 months. Something changed.<p>ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141191</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Toot.community is shutting down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> how then to previous other posts that point at them, or reply to them, get updated?<p>You have outlined two scenarios. One where the old posts are deleted, and in the old posts are moved to the new host.<p>In the former case, the "referencing posts" start pointing to 404. Maybe in the latter case, we can also just have the referencing posts also point to 404.<p>A partial solution is better than a full solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118151</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What languages does it support?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:48:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100691</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "ReFrame – The EPaper Camera"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Restriction is a widely used technique in both art, and life. Consider black and white paintings, or generally paintings which only use shades of a single color? Why are they not using all the colors when they exist?<p>What about people who do challenging athletic endeavors with limitations? The ice guy climbed up to the base camp of Everest in just his shorts and slippers. Why not wear more?<p>What about minimalism as a way of life? Why not buy more if you have money?<p>This is just how humans are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:00:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092587</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "AI companies are shredding rare books"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Large publishers are optimizing their overall revenue/profit, not the revenue/profit per book. Given that large publishers dictate a significant fraction of what appears on bookstore shelves, how concentrated publicity drives of new books/authors drives their sales at the expense of old books/authors, and how the emergence of second hand books outside their control drives sales in different categories, its extremely likely that the advantageous strategy often is to not print older titles even when there is demand for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:22:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077609</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Modern email can be built from borrowed parts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is an easy way to mostly replace email over a decade, with the NewEmail protocol<p>NewEmailServers are able to send and receive messages using either the Email or the NewEmail protocol.<p>Before sending a message, the NewEmailServer checks a directory (similar to DNS) to see if any of the recipients are on another NewEmailServer. If so, the message is sent to those recipients via NewEmail. Others get it by Email.<p>Completely backward compatible. Once google/microsoft shift to NewEmail, the rest will follow quickly except some legacy servers. All that is needed is a standards body.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:40:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073893</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Astronomers may have found the first exomoon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are three clear benefits.<p>1. Answering where humans come from is probably one of the the oldest question we have had. All religions try to answer this in one way or the other. I say, trying to come up with scientific answers is extremely valuable.<p>2. We feel awe at the wonders of nature, not much different from the awe that we feel when we see great human art. Tax dollars as well as charity are used to subsidize art often. This is similar, though there is more money involved here.<p>3. The problems one sees in different domains are always different. Funding agencies give money to the "directly economically useless domains" because the workforce that is trained and technology that is developed can then be applied to the "directly economically useful domains". The support money to the former is much smaller than the support money to the latter, but just enough to inject fresh ideas and creativity to the latter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:13:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025847</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Writing fingerprint analysis of responses reveals Kimi's similarity to Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's important to note that even if these open models are distilled, they are showing genuine improvements in their architecture, which enables inference costs to be several factors below what equivalent closed models have.<p>The interesting question is: will Anthropic release a Fable like model with an architecture similar to Kimi, and get the inference cost gains? They should surely beat Kimi because they can internally distill as much as they want.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:19:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025094</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doors aren't humans either, yet we design their handles and locks to be graspable and manipulable by humans.<p>The purpose of technology is to serve humans. Therefore, technology must conform as much as possible to human sensibilities rather than vice versa.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:58:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001696</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I will accept a 5% drop in benchmarks for a model that talks to me like a human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:06:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001346</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001346</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mistakes in proofs are relatively common, but such a mistake doesn't automatically mean that the proof is entirely wrong. Many times, the mistake is just in the exposition, and can be fixed easily. Other times, the mistake is fixable and the fix is apparent. Perhaps the author forget to treat a relatively trivial edge case. In the first two cases, the student would likely just pass with minor corrections to be submitted soon.<p>Sometimes, of course, the proof is just wrong. That is the dangerous case, which will cause either major corrections or failure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986024</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Kimi Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Funnily enough, you will have to pretty accurately copy the laws of our universe to make an Apple pie. Even small changes will change the properties of atoms, and hence all of chemistry and biology. And there won't be any apples or wheat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:27:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985101</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Kimi Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"How does Kimi Work protect my privacy" can be interpreted in two ways. The first is "How does Kimi Work protect my privacy from Moonshot?" They did not answer this question. The second is "How does Kimi Work protect my privacy from other third parties?" They are answering this question by saying, we won't upload your files to some third party server without your consent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:23:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985047</link><dc:creator>abdullahkhalids</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48985047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by abdullahkhalids in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many free hosts from 20 years are still alive? Not many.</p>
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