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New comment by aitchnyu in "Why didn't we get GPT-2 in 2005?"

aitchnyu — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:45:25 +0000

Around 2011, my exposure to AI was like Drools planner, the predecessor of Timefold. It was to generate an ideal timetable. It used an n^2 memory heavy Rete algorithm, a scripting language in JVM to write rules with a terser syntax and simulated annealing to explore/choose states that obeyed constraints. In college AI was fancy algorithms and languages with terse syntax.

A few years later I saw - neural network projects which can do basic image recognition - a paid smartphone app that can count objects instantly - determine the mood of an online comment after you trained on a sample

I never imagined a tool that packages all knowledge and requires no training on my part.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Pi 1.0"

aitchnyu — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:24:45 +0000

What kind of software?

New comment by aitchnyu in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

aitchnyu — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:21:09 +0000

My sleep tracker registers terrible deep sleep and sometimes I jolk awake after the buzz wears off.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Alberta's image as world's only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rat"

aitchnyu — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:47:17 +0000

I have a feeling cats are evolving to avoid mice in this corner of India. I had a stray mother cat who kept kittens on the roof. The mother weighed 3-4kg and two kittens weighed 750g each. The prey skeletons around them were mostly reptiles and birds. The cats catching mice for their kittens give them an infection that kills within days.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

aitchnyu — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:10:05 +0000

I took Grammarly's side, since we used a few SaaS and the CFO (small company for context) revoked access and we had to beg him. Reading the comments about multiple SaaS annoying end users changed my mind.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices"

aitchnyu — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:54:27 +0000

Don't pensions have to take on riskier investments because of increased life expectancy?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him"

aitchnyu — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:24:56 +0000

Heard that proverb. I'm more inclined to believe rich families from 1400s are rich now. Family wealth can be preserved by sending spare sons and daughters to monastic life.

https://qz.com/694340/the-richest-families-in-florence-in-14...

New comment by aitchnyu in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

aitchnyu — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:52:34 +0000

A targetted attack will be easy to do with an AI.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards"

aitchnyu — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:24:08 +0000

Why would somebody ever use a hosted version? I see "One-click gerber, DXF/STEP, render and BOM export" and "Altium support beyond KiCad" in cloud plans, dunno if they are compelling.

New comment by aitchnyu in "AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200"

aitchnyu — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:59:26 +0000

I thought meow.com is a fictional bank in this fiction. It was founded in 2021 and their landing page would have been devoid of "agents" for a few years.

New comment by aitchnyu in "D2 Is Non-Profit"

aitchnyu — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:35:25 +0000

Tangential, do LLMs generate D2 code as easily as Mermaid and do tools like Github and Confluence render them?

New comment by aitchnyu in "WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine"

aitchnyu — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:28:55 +0000

Is there any use case/demo of lighter models like using embeddings for full text search, STT, OCR etc?

New comment by aitchnyu in "We are rebuilding Monica"

aitchnyu — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:06:05 +0000

Good ol days. I bought the book about the project's failure in 2012. They mentioned Python-Wx wrapper they created and I used it for a Python project.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

aitchnyu — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:09:49 +0000

Which language and agent? I used Aider on a Python project which had string references (as opposed to module tree) and cross-repo references. LSP lookups were fast and I hated it when Aider used 2M tokens a day, but grep was more complete.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Malleable software = solid bases and custom code"

aitchnyu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:53:34 +0000

Is there a big distinction between "Build from scratch (Claude Code, Codex)" and "Vibe-code (Lovable, v0)", if an agent can set up hosting, database, deploy etc?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Dropbox Data Breach"

aitchnyu — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:32:54 +0000

What is Lenovo doing here? Were they bundling Dropbox with their devices?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Amazon now hides all customer reviews on products"

aitchnyu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:45:04 +0000

It used to be the case with Amazon India. Now my Gmail shows my fish food will arrive in 2 days.

New comment by aitchnyu in "RAG Is Simpler Than You Think"

aitchnyu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:12:14 +0000

How is pgvector with Sentence Transformers, a CPU-only embedding model, compared to a model hosted by OpenAI?

New comment by aitchnyu in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

aitchnyu — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:54:34 +0000

You too can add footnotes to your presentations and documents stating all emdashes have been typed by a human.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane"

aitchnyu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:24:11 +0000

Umm, we have a full opensource Tailscale stack now?