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New comment by akritrime in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

akritrime — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 06:39:17 +0000

Reading that article was a wild ride because internally I was like 'haha, stupid AI can't even find the light blue colored sea horse emoji' but then the author casually revealed that there is no seahorse emoji.

New comment by akritrime in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

akritrime — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 08:39:11 +0000

As it is with cash.

New comment by akritrime in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

akritrime — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:14:09 +0000

In a few years as image generation consistency improves, any video game artist can go from just creating characters for some other game dev to creating full-on animated sprites directly. Instead of having to depend on someone else to code their ideas, they can directly create that game. And the inverse will also be true, game devs can use AI to create generic arts for their game and work faster, create games that depends more on tech than art. Both flavors of games will bring something unique and doesn't invalidate the work of the other as useless.

New comment by akritrime in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

akritrime — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:09:47 +0000

The point isn't about comparing teaching and training. The point is about how humans use tool to improve and advance. It is more about comparing AI to books as an aggregate of knowledge. Just like how humans uses recorded writing in the form of books to analyze and adapt better ways of communication, humans can also use AI to be productive in fields that was previous out of their reach.

New comment by akritrime in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

akritrime — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:32:54 +0000

Is this using OpenAI's GPT-image or something different?

New comment by akritrime in "Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator"

akritrime — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 15:30:31 +0000

Imagine if writers complained that stuff they wrote were being used in literature classes that teaches people how to read and write because how sentences they once toiled over for hours would now be used in mundane letters.

AI can't take away an artists creativity, just like how photography didn't kill painting. Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by making them more productive.

New comment by akritrime in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

akritrime — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 06:22:27 +0000

From their LTT video, it looked like they chose to do Desktop because of the AMD platform (and not the either way around, where they planned a desktop product and then chose AMD strix halo). Apparently setting up the manufacturing pipeline for laptops built on strix halo is expensive as of now and there are only two laptops in the whole market using it. So Frame.work choose to go the desktop route to save on cost while still making the platform available for everyone.

New comment by akritrime in "Bybit CEO Confirms Exchange Was Hacked for $1.46B"

akritrime — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:19:03 +0000

To be honest, a distributed logic execution engine is an interesting tech, it just isn't something to build any high value economy on top of.

New comment by akritrime in "Servo's progress in 2024"

akritrime — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:17:24 +0000

Yeah I was going to comment the same thing. A very big reason why we are even having this conversation about a browser engine powering native apps is because electron exists. Yes it's sub-optimal but that hasn't impeded its conquest in the slightest.

New comment by akritrime in "You don't need Next.js – Why we migrated from Next to React"

akritrime — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 18:54:30 +0000

I am more surprised at how the general notion has shifted towards the idea that Next.js is the default starting option now. It just feels like such a drastic change to me, compared to even 2 or 3 years back (last when I paid enough attention to frontend stuff).

New comment by akritrime in "Niantic announces “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data"

akritrime — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 06:25:41 +0000

and who is funding them? how are they paying for their servers? a product can't be free, someone somewhere is paying for it. the main question is why are they paying for it.

New comment by akritrime in "Show HN: Find AI – Perplexity Meets LinkedIn"

akritrime — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:47:39 +0000

So what's the AI part in this? (And I am not being snarky or condescending here, everyone assumes that's the default on internet. I have more or less missed the AI wave and just playing catchup.) Are you indexing LinkedIn API and feeding it to an algorithm? Or are you converting a natural language query to a database query using an LLM?

New comment by akritrime in "React 19 Breaks Async Composability"

akritrime — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:58:21 +0000

You could already use functional components before. The main issue with React now is all these hooks and effects.

New comment by akritrime in "Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout"

akritrime — Fri, 31 May 2024 17:48:17 +0000

That also begs the question how much of that value is substantial and how much of that is just narrative froth from speculation.

New comment by akritrime in "Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers"

akritrime — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:20:14 +0000

Didn't they cancel Counterpart? I watched the first season but never watched the second one when I learnt that it was canceled.

New comment by akritrime in "Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again"

akritrime — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:59:47 +0000

There are two things. First, a distributed exchange can be built around an AMM, so match making is essentially lazy because you are selling into and buying from an automated liquidity pool, instead of depending on market makers and matching orders. Second, there are order book based protocols that implement order matching as a decentralized consensus mechanism. So the blockchain itself can be a matching engine, provided that's what it's execution environment is built to do.

Underlying all the buzzwords, blockchains are about distributed communications with economic incentives attached to them and a more complex leader election mechanism. So there can be many things that can have the term blockchain slapped on them with a bit of tweaking.

New comment by akritrime in "Make Ethereum Cypherpunk Again"

akritrime — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 07:35:47 +0000

A truly distributed exchange is a protocol and a protocol doesn't really need to make money though. Atleast not in the same way as an exchange needs to. It's only cost is R&D. The users of the protocol pays the fee for both execution and storage, so there is no cost on the exchange side. Ofcourse there is the cost of running a frontend or providing your powerusers easy access to trading data, but that could be a paid service.

New comment by akritrime in "Titanic director James Cameron accuses OceanGate of cutting corners"

akritrime — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 18:59:48 +0000

which is why you most probably can't play with plutonium in your backyard

New comment by akritrime in "WhatsApp corrupts DB, breaks App"

akritrime — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:35:04 +0000

yep pretty much. you will call someone but they won't solve the issue, rather just keep you pointing to someone else. ultimately they will just follow their own timeline. they are being built and managed by similar faceless corporations. their scale may not be massive in the same way of Meta/FB but their profit driven structure is not much different.

edit: not saying your point is wrong and people should ask these questions. just pointing that large corporations are treating their customers pretty much the same.

New comment by akritrime in "WhatsApp corrupts DB, breaks App"

akritrime — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:32:48 +0000

> how many people would knowingly buy a house if it came with an expectation that only one specific megacompany with pretty much nonexistant support could ever do repairs/rework/updates/changes to their house?

a solid chunk, most people that are buying any condos in bigger cities