Hacker News: amelius

New comment by amelius in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

amelius — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:46:17 +0000

Isn't there some kind of three-strikes approach which judges can use against repeat offenders?

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: We built a camera only robot vacuum for less than 300$ (Well almost)"

amelius — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:52:10 +0000

The trick is to make a robot that has a Lidar and a camera, then train a model that can replace the Lidar.

(Lidar can of course also be echolocation).

New comment by amelius in "Protect your shed"

amelius — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:24:22 +0000

Most real projects are skyscrapers built on the foundations of a shed.

New comment by amelius in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

amelius — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:12:27 +0000

Can it render SVG with all of its features? (Does it support all modern 2D drawing primitives)

New comment by amelius in "Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor: This receiver chip can take it"

amelius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:04:39 +0000

But can it withstand Qualcomm's patent lawyers?

New comment by amelius in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

amelius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:23:10 +0000

Just crank up the temperature.

New comment by amelius in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

amelius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:30:59 +0000

We need a Moore's law for tokens, and energy.

New comment by amelius in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

amelius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:27:46 +0000

It's pretty weird that on the one hand they don't acknowledge that propaganda actually works, yet on the other hand let ad-tech exist because "where would we be without it?"

New comment by amelius in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

amelius — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:37:24 +0000

I think it is great that these videos are teaching people not to trust random (viral) videos. We need more of these blatant lies, so people wake up everywhere.

New comment by amelius in "More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:55:09 +0000

> The subtitle specifically says 'the lower rungs of middle class have shrunk'?

Yes, perhaps because they are now in the class below that?

New comment by amelius in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:43:27 +0000

No kidding. If you allow a population to gamble online, with prediction markets, derivatives, etc. don't be surprised if you widen the wealth gap.

More winners, but even more losers.

But hey, you only ever hear about the winners, so it's great for the image. America is doing great!

New comment by amelius in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:31:22 +0000

Can't they just throttle Claw usage if they are so worried that it may use up all their resources?

New comment by amelius in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:23:40 +0000

Can't we run Android inside a browser these days?

WASM should be able to handle it now, I suppose.

New comment by amelius in "Number in man page titles e.g. sleep(3)"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:57:08 +0000

My experience with LLMs is that they often give me different angles that I didn't think of.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:39:19 +0000

Ok. This makes me wonder about a broader question. Is there a scientific approach showing a pyramid of cognitive functions, and how many parameters are (minimally) required for each layer in this pyramid?

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:31:25 +0000

https://medium.com/change-your-mind/the-meaning-of-life-is-4...

New comment by amelius in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:22:14 +0000

Gold prices probably went up due to turmoil in middle east.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:07:32 +0000

Then why are reproductive rates so low in western countries?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fer...

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:19:18 +0000

It's arguably even better than the most famous answer to that question.

New comment by amelius in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

amelius — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:18:04 +0000

> A 9M model can't conditionally follow instructions

How many parameters would you need for that?