<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: aimanbenbaha</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aimanbenbaha</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:14:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aimanbenbaha" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aimanbenbaha in "Chuck Norris has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Grim Reaper requested permissions from Chuck Norris to take his soul.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455480</link><dc:creator>aimanbenbaha</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455480</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aimanbenbaha in "Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mistral seems to focus on some niche LLM model tooling that are somehow very needed in certain cases. Can't forget their OCR multimodal embedding model!</p>
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<p>Surprised this flew under the radar here. Was expecting thoughts from people who used this and compares it with OpenClaw.</p>
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<p>The biggest drawback is no Thunderbolt. The biggest sell for Macs right now is the ability to daisy chain them with the new RDMA update. A used M1 Mac Mini is more valuable than this.</p>
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<p>Ehh, Iran funds Hezbollah which routinely threatened Cyprus with war if it didn't concede maritime boundaries with reserves of natural gas.</p>
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<p>What about a better deal: Scientific knowledge shouldn't be a for-profit venture to pursue.</p>
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<p>Exo-Labs is an open source project that allows this too, pipeline parallelism I mean not the latter, and it's device agnostic meaning you can daisy-chain anything you have that has memory and the implementation will intelligently shard model layers across them, though its slow but scales linearly with concurrent requests.<p>Exo-Labs: <a href="https://github.com/exo-explore/exo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/exo-explore/exo</a></p>
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<p>Last year o3 high did 88% on ARC-AGI 1 at more than $4,000/task. This model at its X high configuration scores 90.5% at just $11,64 per task.<p>General intelligence has ridiculously gotten less expensive. I don't know if it's because of compute and energy abundance,or attention mechanisms improving in efficiency or both but we have to acknowledge the bigger picture and relative prices.</p>
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<p>Deepseek v3.2 is that cheap because its attention mechanism is ridiculously efficient.</p>
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<p>If Arabic had to cater to afro-asiatic dialects phonemes then the script would have been even more messier. I'm a speaker of one, and my dialect is heavily influenced by the indigenous Tamazight language. and I think this is why many of the Amazigh community were and some still disappointed with the neo-Tifinagh script. While it carries symbolic weight, it doesn’t offer practical readability, phonemic clarity and tech accessibility of a modern script that Tamazight deserves. Latin script, ironically, fits Tamazight much more naturally.</p>
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<p>I don't think RAG will survive this time</p>
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<p>Unlike WebMD, Healthline doesn't seem to be losing traffic: <a href="https://www.semrush.com/website/healthline.com/overview/" rel="nofollow">https://www.semrush.com/website/healthline.com/overview/</a><p>I don't know what differentiates them since the content is apparently similar but I suspect a lot of websites like this will diversify their distribution channels and pivot accordingly.</p>
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<p>Honestly I don't think I can see China taking Taiwan militarily. They witnessed how the world isolated Russia economically after the aggression on Ukraine and especially since their economy relies on exports. They don't have much to win other than some geopolitical credit at the expense of their manufacturing and technology sector.
China is conducting a policy where they'll cripple Taiwan's will to seek independence from just sheer soft and economic power. They offer fantastic perks to Taiwanese from the oppurtinity to work visa free, access to credit/mortgage with no social credit screening and ability to invest with no usual red tape.<p>The Taiwanese are being told China is an aggressor but nowadays they see the opposite. Also if China invades it'll destroy every goodwill they had built to win over Taiwanese hearts and won't get control over TSMC supply chain market since the latter promised to torpefy their fabs before China gets its hand on them.</p>
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<p>><i>China is not the threat to Europe that Russia is. A wedge between China and Russia would weaken Russia and help the EU</i><p>It gets interesting when you realize that Russia is also a rival to China in Northeast Asia. A balkanized Russia, like the one the EU could have manifested had it took Russia warnings seriously and brought about decisive action after troops were invading Crimea. But no they lived in their "End of History" fantasy and that virtuous liberties will magically be spread if we just trade goods and ideas between spheres of influence.<p>Of course this reality will be bad for our allies in Asia (ie. Japan, SK, Taiwan). But maybe this time it'll wake up some in America from becoming isolationist again.</p>
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<p>>In 20, 15, or 7 years from now when terrorists are sending drones into medium-sized cities in Alabama to kill indiscriminately, it would have been better for the USA to have been on Ukraine's side.<p>Spot on. This is what Zelenskyy implied when he said "now you have an ocean but one day you'll know how it feels". But the dumb kakistocrat commander-in-chief took it personally.<p>By the way remember the New Jersey drone sightings that spooked the East Coast for a week? That was likely the government secretly testing defense deployement against a hypothetical drone swarms attack.</p>
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<p>Yeah that would be a factor but there's more to that. For example the Japanese are so crafty with land use they even allow an odd type of development called Zakkyo. Which are multi-storey buildings wherein each floor is owned and managed independently. The foot traffic isn't restricted to the ground floor to enjoy these "third places".<p>IMO geographical constraints should not be the all-in justification for a certain land-use/housing policy. I hear a lot chalk up the fact Barcelona stopped building since the 1980s because they're surrounded by mountains and the sea. Or recently with the LA fires people look at these wrong answers. There's no reason for things being like that other than NIMBYism and lack of long-term political will from local councils.</p>
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<p>IMO if there is any model to follow to solve the housing crisis it should be Japan/Singapore. Vienna is too unique of a case and its housing market still suffers from negative externalities.<p>Singapore is also hard to achieve but the HDB mandate made it that the government own monopoly on land so they're incentivized to provide maximum land utility to its population.<p>Japan has the best land use zoning in a way it makes it so easy to build and develop. They also have a very practical view on housing and do not see it as an appreciating asset critical to accumulating wealth.</p>
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<p>>For example: more supply can generate more demand. Demand can be inflexible with respect to supply. Supply and demand are unstable and can change unpredictably. In a monopoly situation price can be manipulated. Short term large supply can hamper long term.<p>What you're describing here is jevon's paradox and it particularly works on unfulfilled markets with high price elasticity. Additionally the field of economics deals a lot of what you're describing in the contexts of monopolies/monopsonies.<p>But as a general rule of thumb, if something has an inelastic demand (as in housing) the law of supply and demand will always be the guiding concept to explain the shortage and high prices.</p>
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<p>Amazing project! I always get excited when I hear new innovative ideas to improve ecosystems/businesses that are taught of as "traditional". There's this My First Million podcast episode with Justin Mares (DTC Food entrepreneur) where they talk about boostrapping alternative food biz ideas and are very bullish on these verticals and they also talk about various types of birds breeds and how cornish cross became the predominantly type of chicken raised.<p>Regarding this smart poultry startup, where I'm from I often hear from poulty farmers chicken should be able to roam free and have a wide space to lay around eggs and reproduce. I'm curious how this limitation is addressed to backyard herders?</p>
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<p>This is what Palmer Luckey criticizes in how the DoD do procurement. The way contracts are signed makes it that contractors are only incentivized to provide solutions that maximize the budgets set by higher management in government focusing on filling out those reimbursements rather than delivering effective warfighters that the military needs.<p>It seems that all this layoff discussions should shed light to the blight of managerialism that permeated modern business culture. It’s this system that encourages managers to obfuscate accountability for their high-stakes decisions, and while the low-level employees shy away from suggesting solutions that solve problems or identify bottlenecks because at the end of the day they're just part of the budget in an excel sheet table. It feels like a betrayal to the promises of capitalism.</p>
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