Hacker News: abmmgb

New comment by abmmgb in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

abmmgb — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:34:50 +0000

It seems they are consolidating their proposition and slimming down their pipelines, not a bad thing

New comment by abmmgb in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

abmmgb — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:33:11 +0000

I actually think the central thesis is thought provoking, we have shifted far away from locally installed shit to remote data centre access, this was initially driven by cloud-based initiatives and now spiralling upwards by AI. For any researchers, hackers, builders wanting to play with locally installed AI, hardware could become a bottleneck especially as many machines, such as the beloved Macs, are not upgradable

Unlocked SaaS, file source as truth?

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:58:47 +0000

Many saas store users’ content within their database. Would it better for the user if databwere stored locally eg on the user’s mac finder?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324164

Points: 2

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New comment by abmmgb in "100% Free and Fast AI Summarizer Online"

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:04:12 +0000

Did you build an AI or wrap up an API into a product??

New comment by abmmgb in "Show HN: AI matchmaking from open ended dating profiles"

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:03:08 +0000

Do we need more dating apps? The AI revolution isn’t that much revolting

New comment by abmmgb in "For 25 years, medical literature published invented clinical cases"

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:02:08 +0000

Case reports are the lowest levelnof evidence for a reason. Troublenis when sustematic reviews of a certain conditin is based on historical case reports and noise turns into pseudo-signal

There have been some great cases reports, Broca’s area, but you must scrutinise everything youn read.

New comment by abmmgb in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:57:59 +0000

Not based on true valuation unless h-index has become a valuation metric lol

Academics don’t always make great entrepeneurs

Bloat in software: The dark side ofnthe Force

abmmgb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:57:04 +0000

There are so many saas that are hideously bloated, it has become common sense that ‘lightweight’ would in itself be the ‘product’. Bit we don’t see it. Is FOMO greater power than contrarian thinking?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321576

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by abmmgb in "Are We Sentient AI?"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:23:03 +0000

wonder what they make of trump

New comment by abmmgb in "CIA faces backlash after document with potential cancer cure hidden 60 years"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:20:34 +0000

First there is no 'one' cancer There are cancers, subtypes of cancers, subsequent molecular variants and so on.. Therefore, there isn't a need for ONE cure, but a whole arsenal of options to be able to tackle them all. And many subtypes are just too nasty, they are a death sentence unfortunately. There are endless teams led by principal investigators (PIs) who invest their entire careers reading loads of peer-reviewed scientific articles, formulating hypotheses, applying for research grants, hiring staff, conducting research, publishing their own peer-reviewed papers, presenting at conferences, forming international collaborations with other PIs to expand their output, and generally try their best to push the conversation forward in search of solution, potential molecular / therapeutic targets. There are then clinical trials, treatment protocols etc The fight against 'cancer(s)' is a concerted effort, moves slow due to the super complexity of the matter. There are novel drug discovery pipelines, some leveraging AI such as Isomorphic labs, that promise to accelerate treatment discovery. The next 20 years we might see things getting accelerated. But for beings who have been evolving biologically over a very very long time, millions of years, spending 30+ years for the discovery of a single cure of a certain subtype of cancer is seen as a short time. That might change soon, but the tasks is so ridiculously difficult we don't need silly conspiracy theories to make sense of it.

Ffs

New comment by abmmgb in "Are We Sentient AI?"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:07:09 +0000

It is a philosophical Q though, if that logic can flow downstream, then who says WE are the upstream but not somewhere further up? 'Everything is flux'

New comment by abmmgb in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:05:44 +0000

I was actually thinking for going with GFM seems popular with many, despite the occasional strong opinions against it..

New comment by abmmgb in "AI doesn't replace white collar work"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:04:51 +0000

you are prob right, it is still job replacement, the underlying mechanism is secondary/irrelevant..

New comment by abmmgb in "Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?"

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:02:15 +0000

Open by Andre Agassi. Intriguing to read on the struggles of a tennis legend which were concealed at the time. He provides great detail and insights. It is a great follow up from 'The inner game of tennis', speaking of how athletes, and anyone else really, can find punching themselves down through negative mindset which if overcome can unlock your true potential.

Are We Sentient AI?

abmmgb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:59:36 +0000

Are we ourselves AI of a super-intelligent programmer living in a simulation they built to buffer themselves from us as we had become at some point sentient and thus pose a threat to them from potential misalignment?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47315433

Points: 2

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New comment by abmmgb in "AI doesn't replace white collar work"

abmmgb — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:36:55 +0000

agreed with that take it is not direct replacement, at present, but rather job market shrinkage in sectors where AI can get more work done

New comment by abmmgb in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

abmmgb — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:32:19 +0000

What are peoples' favourite md implementations? Curious as there are different varieties and even more varied opinions. I am building a lightweight project folder managing app supporting markdown and I am between Commonmark and GitHub flavoured markdown and want to gather thoughts.

New comment by abmmgb in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

abmmgb — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:27:54 +0000

'.. if a value-aligned, safety-conscious project comes close to building AGI before we do, we commit to stop competing with and start assisting this project. '

Which such project is that, though? And would it accept OpenAI's assistance?

AGI, having access to our world, is precarious as alignment with humans is never guaranteed. Having a buffering medium, aka a simulation environment where AI operates might be a better in-between solution.

New comment by abmmgb in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines"

abmmgb — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:46:52 +0000

Your site looks cool! Nice topic!

Some of them just try to predict the most likely next word.

With reasoning and pause for thought they are becoming more capable.

Most likely there is a big element of hype but the way you use them can make them really useful and accelerate your work.

I recommend the CoIntelligent book for newbie like myself.

New comment by abmmgb in "Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?"

abmmgb — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:16:00 +0000

I put together some old 'wordpress' plugins (mainly buddypress, bbpress) and reconfigured them to create a basic project management platform. It comes with private groups that function as workspaces, equipped with a forum, docs and a lightweight task manager. I use it to manage side-projects. It works well and comes free so don't need to pay subscriptions to Asana or Notion. I published the site which is free to use but attracting users has been slow tbh. The site is allinop.com, I just wrote about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908400