Hacker News: aktuel

A.I. and the Crisis of Capitalism: A Historical Approach – John Cassidy [video]

aktuel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:18:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gb0UC1zLU4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757287

Points: 1

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New comment by aktuel in "Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database"

aktuel — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:19:25 +0000

I recently discovered https://www.cozodb.org/ which also vector search built-in. I just started some experiments with it but so far I'm quite impressed. It's not in active development atm but it seems already well rounded for what it is so depending on the use-case it does not matter or may even be an advantage. Also with today's coding agent it shouldn't be too hard to scratch your own itch if needed.

New comment by aktuel in "Sandboxing AI Agents in Linux"

aktuel — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:22:54 +0000

I like this approach for Nix: https://dev.to/andersonjoseph/how-i-run-llm-agents-in-a-secu... It makes it also easy to give the agent only access to the tools it actually needs.

New comment by aktuel in "Dynamic Pong Wars"

aktuel — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:26:12 +0000

It would be even better if the day/night counter would be visualized as a colored shifting slider.

New comment by aktuel in "We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments"

aktuel — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:14:33 +0000

Are there any current language REPLs that have save/restore session state commands?

New comment by aktuel in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

aktuel — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:20:10 +0000

> cleared of inflation energy costs are lower than 2013, 12 years ago

Dude, soaring energy prices are driving inflation. That's like saying the prices are lower if you just keep ignoring everything that actually makes them more expensive. Duh.

New comment by aktuel in "Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning"

aktuel — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:48:19 +0000

There is also a related youtube video online: Ali Behrouz of Google Research explaining his poster paper entitled "Nested Learning: The Illusion of Deep Learning Architecture" at NeurIPS 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX12aCdni9Q

New comment by aktuel in "Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)"

aktuel — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:48:23 +0000

This is really cool! If I were to work on it, I would make the light source a bouncing ball or something similar (maybe even a fish or a bird) via some 2D physics next.

Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look

aktuel — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/podcasts/hardfork-gemini-3.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46003664

Points: 3

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New comment by aktuel in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

aktuel — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:03:45 +0000

Same as rat poison, coming 2026...

Boffins: Cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us

aktuel — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:14:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/06/cloud_models_failing_scientists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45859134

Points: 3

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New comment by aktuel in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

aktuel — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 17:28:15 +0000

This is all very interesting, but far too detailed and technical for 99% of people. The TLDR should include an easy to understand summary without jargon like "VO2" and "a set of HIIT at Zone 4".

New comment by aktuel in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

aktuel — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:50:56 +0000

Depends on the region. Often there are smaller regional companies providing fiber internet. Prices for these fiber connections a still somewhat higher than the cheapest vodafone tier, but you also get better service for your money.

New comment by aktuel in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

aktuel — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 06:56:42 +0000

If you believe that price equals quality, the fact that Switzerland is an order of magnitude richer than Peru - and considerably richer than the US - might make all the difference.

New comment by aktuel in "A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway"

aktuel — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:37:42 +0000

I am all for crediting humans and I don't particularly fancy all the anthropomorphising myself. However rubbing it in now feels similarly pointless as suggesting the US should switch to metric.

New comment by aktuel in "A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway"

aktuel — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:03:00 +0000

Both is equally important, just in another dimension.

New comment by aktuel in "A Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway"

aktuel — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:01:09 +0000

If someone discovers anything, it does not change anything if someone else could have discovered it theoretically as well?

Symposium: Exploring New AI Workflows

aktuel — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 05:38:48 +0000

Article URL: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/09/24/symposium/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555566

Points: 2

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Bank of England warns AI stock bubble rivals 2000 dotcom peak

aktuel — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/bank-of-england-warns-ai-stock-bubble-rivals-2000-dotcom-peak/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523914

Points: 8

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New comment by aktuel in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

aktuel — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:02:57 +0000

My brain now reads Sam's face as an "AI generated" watermark.