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New comment by aubanel in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

aubanel — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:23:19 +0000

Feed algorithms are far from sorting videos only by strict decreasing order of trending factor. One example of that is that feeds are randomized: refresh the page, it changes completely. Another example is how it optimizes for bait content.

New comment by aubanel in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

aubanel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:01:59 +0000

Probably a great decision, but why/how can it be decided at a local level by a mayor, instead of a federal level?

New comment by aubanel in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

aubanel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:16:12 +0000

This is the absolutely horrific next stage for social media platforms:

- They're already well able to surface the most addictive short video for a specific user out of millions of real videos.

- But these millions of real videos are just darts thrown into the space of "videos that could hook the user", in the end even the best-selected of them is not perfect.

- Now, behold! AI allows to generate the perfect video to surgically hit all the switches in the viewer's brain and turn it into a zombie hooked for days on end.

Let's hope our regulations hit these "social networks" hard enough so that never dare deploy this kind of technology.

New comment by aubanel in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

aubanel — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:56:13 +0000

Garry Tan's point still stands: he never pretended to be building nice software. But his point was that he can now build AT ALL! Shipping a webpage at all is the firs step ; making it load under 7 Mo is just a refinement, an important one of course (who tf wants bloated webpages) but still only a refinement. Tan is right to be amazed and to be shipping.

The Math Behind Harmony – why a fifth sounds sweet and a piano is tuned wrong

aubanel — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://m-ric.com/blog/math-of-harmony/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802571

Points: 2

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New comment by aubanel in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

aubanel — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:44:20 +0000

There's no question to me, after trying both, that Fable is much better than GLM-5.2 when left alone in front of hard coding tasks Now maybe what plateaus is the human collaboration efficiency, because at some point it will be bottlenecked by the human

Thus companies who still try to have humans perform intertwined work with their AI won't see an improvement, while the ones who fin the right conditions to give their AI more free rein will see it.

Kind of like it's no use having a workhorse pull a combine harvester : at some point, when machines reach sufficient efficiency, you just give wheels to the harvester and let it run.

New comment by aubanel in "Model Training as Code"

aubanel — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:11:22 +0000

This is actually a good idea! And still looking forward for aleph alpha to release new models, after the Previa ones a while ago!

A playbook to rank #1 of the day on ProductHunt

aubanel — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:39:20 +0000

Article URL: https://m-ric.com/blog/how-to-get-number-1-on-producthunt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719154

Points: 1

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New comment by aubanel in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

aubanel — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:08:44 +0000

> Bigger is not better

The article uses the example of GLM being smaller than DeepSeek, yet better on hallucinations as "smaller can be good too"

But the GLM family itself is scaling up fast: GLM-5.x family is 754B, double the previous generation of GLM-4.x

> comes within just 4 points of GPT-5.5 and 9 points of Fable 5

9 percentage points IS a big difference

New comment by aubanel in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

aubanel — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:10:59 +0000

Gotta love how Apple cares (or used to care) about making their products a holistically good user experience

New comment by aubanel in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

aubanel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:08:50 +0000

Raw feedback to the team: 1-model looks awesome, 2-The artificially smoothed scrolling on your page feels really bad!

New comment by aubanel in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

aubanel — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:02:26 +0000

Cheat code to get >5 stars in GTA6 instantly: type "sizes the means of production" in chat

New comment by aubanel in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

aubanel — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:32:39 +0000

"United Launch Alliance (ULA) is an American launch service provider formed in December 2006 as a joint venture between Lockheed Martin Space and Boeing Defense, Space & Security."

for those who wondered like me!

New comment by aubanel in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:25:33 +0000

With what would I be coping? I'd much prefer (probably like most people) if AI were not that powerful. The harsh reality, and the stuff of cope, is that it's (too) powerful.

New comment by aubanel in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:23:35 +0000

This is AI-generated, but people upvote it despite its low quality because it generally rubs in the sense of "AI will lose"

New comment by aubanel in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

aubanel — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:00:09 +0000

This contrast is a bit sad. When Eric Schmidt told students the truth about the importance that AI will take in the future ("It will touch every profession, every lab..."), students booked him But the takes like "AI is not real/powerful, human intelligence is better", which are basically pleasant myopic lies, are cheered. Cope bias is powerful.

New comment by aubanel in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

aubanel — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:01:39 +0000

> And what was your contribution to those achievements to justify this pride?

Of course personal contribution is a factor of pride, and arguably the most justified one.

But it's far from the only one. - fan clubs - a child marvelling on how strong/cool their parents are - US citizens on 4th of July (I'm not American btw)

All of these contributed ~nothing in the phenomenon; their pride comes from the wonders worked by the group they belong to. One does not need to _earn_ pride.

Think it the other way : if you don't think legitimate for the receivers of wonders to feel pride, think of it from the side of the providers of wonders. Parents who toiled for their children, great statespeople who worked hard to improve their country: they intentionally directed their efforts towards someone (descendants, citizens). I think pride is sort of gratitude of receivers for the fruits of a common group's efforts. And it's completely justified IMO to feel un-earned pride.

New comment by aubanel in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

aubanel — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:44:59 +0000

Looks like the author wants to put on trial all of Railway, Cursor, and even their LLM.

At some point, the responsibility for approving actions made by autoregressive token generations has to belong to the person heading the engineering org... that's you, author.

New comment by aubanel in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

aubanel — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:12:34 +0000

Does jj work well with parallel agents?

The current problem that I often have is that I want to work on several things in parallel through several agents, always forget to do worktrees, then the different branches of work tend to step on each other Does JJ make it simpler?

ProductHunt Botched Our Launch

aubanel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:17:46 +0000

Article URL: https://m-ric.com/blog/how-producthunt-botched-our-launch/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768417

Points: 4

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