Hacker News: alcasa

New comment by alcasa in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

alcasa — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:25:43 +0000

They should have used Figher Jet codenames instead. The MiG-15 one has a nice ring to it.

New comment by alcasa in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

alcasa — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:24:27 +0000

They forgot how to do pretraining.

New comment by alcasa in "Jolla Phone (October 2026)"

alcasa — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:45:38 +0000

I used it as a daily driver back in 2014/15 and it worked ok from what I remember.

New comment by alcasa in "Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies"

alcasa — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:08:28 +0000

Clinical research is in a weird spot, where you need both clinical experience and research experience. Getting the former already requires long hours and you are swamped with work. The latter is highly age gated and if you want to pursue research you often need to achieve specific milestones before a certain age, e.g. to be considered for tenure etc.

New comment by alcasa in "Show HN: Rmux – A programmable terminal multiplexer with a Playwright-style SDK"

alcasa — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:08:42 +0000

Isn't lisp getting advertisement every couple months here or so. After so many decades I don't believe the reason lisp doesn't have traction is just marketing.

New comment by alcasa in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

alcasa — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:55:33 +0000

You can still get your Radium Spa treatment in the Czech Republic: https://www.axxoshotels.com/radium-palace-spa

New comment by alcasa in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

alcasa — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:37:10 +0000

Employer cost is not 2x, more like 1.2x, employer overhead is mostly insurance related stuff. We had salaray to employer cost tables at my previous job.

What true though is that after taxes you might just receive 60% of your total salary once you deduct taxes and insurances.

New comment by alcasa in "Goodbye to Sora"

alcasa — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:22:05 +0000

I fear people will just get used to it. Nobody gets tailored clothing anyhmore and people don't question that we have standardized sizes that don't really fit anyone properly. People commonly buy standardized furniture and rarely get something to a specific for their room. If cheaper software (I mean thats mostly what it is) gets the job done, we will probably just keep doing that, even if that means we lose something in the process.

New comment by alcasa in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

alcasa — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:19:00 +0000

Obligatory Simpsons reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqb-VzkfRrY

New comment by alcasa in "Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs"

alcasa — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:17:07 +0000

Maybe controversial, but I believe a lot of OOP/Clean Code patterns are the software equivalent of corporate BS.

New comment by alcasa in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

alcasa — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:00:34 +0000

Frankly the most critical question is if they can really take shortcuts on DV etc, which are the main reasons nobody else tapes out new chips for every model. Note that their current architecture only allows some LORA-Adapter based fine-tuning, even a model with an updated cutoff date would require new masks etc. Which is kind of insane, but props to them if they can make it work.

From some announcements 2 years ago, it seems like they missed their initial schedule by a year, if that's indicative of anything.

For their hardware to make sense a couple of things would need to be true: 1. A model is good enough for a given usecase that there is no need to update/change it for 3-5 years. Note they need to redo their HW-Pipeline if even the weights change. 2. This application is also highly latency-sensitive and benefits from power efficiency. 3. That application is large enough in scale to warrant doing all this instead of running on last-gen hardware.

Maybe some edge-computing and non-civilian use-cases might fit that, but given the lifespan of models, I wonder if most companies wouldn't consider something like this too high-risk.

But maybe some non-text applications, like TTS, audio/video gen, might actually be a good fit.

New comment by alcasa in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

alcasa — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:49:43 +0000

Didn't know the L in Samuel L Jackson was for LeCun.

Ask HN: Why don't tech companies provide housing?

alcasa — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:58:39 +0000

Given most tech companies don't hire locally and people have to move into often quite HCOL areas for them, why don't large tech companies provide company housing? It could be a quite attractive option, especially for young graduates. Factories with large migrant workforces do it and it seems like large tech campuses could fit quite a bit of housing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46704429

Points: 7

# Comments: 10

New comment by alcasa in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

alcasa — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:54:59 +0000

Fair enough. I feel like designing AI-proof take-homes is getting ever more futile. Given the questions need to be sufficiently low context to be human-doable in a short time and timespans for AI tasks increasing, I'm not sure take homes can actually serve any filtering function whatsoever, besides checking if applicants are willing to put in a minimal amount of effort.

New comment by alcasa in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

alcasa — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:33:35 +0000

No the 2 hours is their time limit for candidates. The thing is that you are allowed to use any non-human help for their take homes (open book), so if AI can solve it in below 2 hours, it's not very good at assessing the human.

New comment by alcasa in "OpenAI is partnering with Cerebras to add 750MW of compute in 10B USD deal"

alcasa — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:42:05 +0000

Source for the 10B amount: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/14/cerebras-scores-openai-deal-...

OpenAI is partnering with Cerebras to add 750MW of compute in 10B USD deal

alcasa — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:32:49 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/cerebras-partnership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46622763

Points: 25

# Comments: 9

New comment by alcasa in "ChatGPT Health"

alcasa — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:57:52 +0000

Having worked in rare disease diagnostics in a non-US country with good public healthcare, most patients had to fight their way to the correct speciality to get their diagnosis. Without the persistence of family/specific doctors, its not possible.

AI might provide the most scalable way to give this level of access/quality to a much wider range of people. If we integrate it well and provide easy ways for doctors to interface with this type of systems, it should be much more scalable, as verification should be faster.

New comment by alcasa in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

alcasa — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:11:10 +0000

I think there might be a culture divide here. That person is very likely from Germany/Berlin based on their attitudes and descriptions and I feel like the hacker/tech scene is very different from bay area vibes.

FAANG is not really a thing here and people are much more tech-luddite, privacy paranoid.

New comment by alcasa in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

alcasa — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:08:48 +0000

I feel like the hacker response would be to roll your own models and move away from commercial offerings. Stuff like eleuther.ai is pretty inspirational, but that movements seems to have died down a bit. At least we still have a couple companies believing in doing open-weight stuff.