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New comment by aizk in "Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model"

aizk — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:59:08 +0000

Yes it's (hopefully) not distilled from every single major American provider.

New comment by aizk in "Gemini 4 Argon"

aizk — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:58:33 +0000

I think this is just the price of admission to being a dev in 2026.

New comment by aizk in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

aizk — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:26:29 +0000

At least for me, the enumerated svg-like icons give it away, but that's merely a prompt fix.

New comment by aizk in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

aizk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:28:34 +0000

I think the AI writing disclaimer was a decent touch.

New comment by aizk in "Pangram – AI detector for text and images"

aizk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:00:59 +0000

I don't work for Pangram, but I do a lot of writing at work. API docs, blogs, code, tweets, linkedin, all that.

If you've tried AI detectors a couple years ago, they're basically in the same position that coding agents were a few years ago, where everyone was skeptical at first, but the tech has gotten a lot better. Give it a shot, it's quite good. They are slightly tuned a bit towards classifying things as AI, but I imagine that's deliberate.

The only thing is that their models are pricey, but, very useful.

New comment by aizk in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

aizk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:44:53 +0000

I don't necessarily know if I see it this way.

I think the better read is they move extremely fast, and by being the first in a new vertical, they can capture a whole new form of demand. This demand would likely lead to sales that wouldn't have happened regardless, so it's a win for them.

New comment by aizk in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

aizk — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:35:35 +0000

I was chatting about something similar to this with coworkers. When the doordash cli got announced I thought "Wow, that's amazing!" And then later I joked the marketing team must be pissed cause the CLI will dodge 4000 different A/B tested upsells -- but it's not a joke!

New comment by aizk in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

aizk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:47:18 +0000

Did you just happen to have all those comments saved? Quite the timing.

New comment by aizk in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

aizk — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:13:59 +0000

Tokens all the way down

New comment by aizk in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

aizk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:07:58 +0000

Well, how do we know there aren't errors in their construction within the lean code? Does it just "not compile" or something, or is it deeper / more fundemental than that.

New comment by aizk in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

aizk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:35:36 +0000

People had joked a couple years ago "Well if they solve a Millenium problem it's AGI"... Well here we are.

New comment by aizk in "DaVinci Resolve 21.1"

aizk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:50:33 +0000

No no, if you've ever spent serious time editing, it's a big deal -- if they pull this off correctly, it will be a game changer. Editing has so much grunt work, where you just have to spending time organizing, collecting files, renaming things, finding missing files... Just tedious project management stuff that is excellent for an AI to do.

New comment by aizk in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

aizk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:57:10 +0000

I wonder how they'd ever cash out.

GPT-6 Astra beats portal [video]

aizk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5u2y0BwRJ0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592437

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by aizk in "Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark"

aizk — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:27:17 +0000

I partially owe my career to benchmarking AI with Minecraft, so, I'm going to disagree with the author on this one. Games are a great way to test a model, it's not that deep.

New comment by aizk in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

aizk — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:25:12 +0000

You missed a critical detail. They couldn't defend themselves with closed source American models so they had to investigate with Chinese models that had less restrictions. Great optics for hosting open source models!

New comment by aizk in "Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s"

aizk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:25:50 +0000

Is there an equivalent but for 4090s?

New comment by aizk in "GPT-6 Astra"

aizk — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:00:07 +0000

I still use Opus 4.8 for a lot of tasks because I can't stand the way it talks.

New comment by aizk in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

aizk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:36:39 +0000

???

New comment by aizk in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

aizk — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:11:06 +0000

On this topic I'd like to give a big kudos to the devs at https://decomp.dev/ who are tirelessly working to decompile old video games for fun, preserving it for future generations.