<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: awei</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=awei</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 09:42:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=awei" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If we agree that consciousness is a physical process part of our universe, I think the better and simpler question is whether or not computers can simulate any physical process. Currently quantum processes might still be a frontier but quantum computers and their hardware should allow us to simulate them.<p>If we can simulate any physical process, it then becomes more philosophical in my opinion. Whether the simulation is the same as the real thing even though it is exactly the same. It becomes the same kind of question then for example whether or not your teleported self is still you after having been dematerialized and rematerialized from different atoms. The answer might be no, but you rematerialized self still definitely thinks it is yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952168</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>would encrypting sms and using some kind of authorized certificate authorities, maybe the ones from the country's phone carriers, alleviate this issue?</p>
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<p>Another good book exploring this idea of not dying is Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. Only in this book almost everyone has access to the technology by paying into a rejuvenation fund instead of a retirement one as we have today. It is a pretty realistic exploration of the consequences and benefits of such technology. Good food for thoughts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:24:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889907</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Open-source real-time interactive world model (LingBot-World)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It got me super excited!</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.lingbot-world.org/">https://www.lingbot-world.org/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845255">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845255</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.lingbot-world.org/</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "A spider web unlike any seen before"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strangely reminiscent of "Children of Time"'s beginnings of spider intelligence</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500628</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46500628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you can do that with an iframe, but it always makes me nervous</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:03:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291887</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's what I thought too skimming through the documentation, my thinking is that since it does that, which makes sense to avoid script injection, why not do it with "jsonized" html.</p>
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<p>Right this makes sense, I wonder if it would then be a good idea to abstract html to JSON, making it impossible to include css and js into it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:08:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290295</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see how useful a universal UI language working across platforms is, but when I look at some examples from this protocol, I have the feeling it will eventually converge to what we already have, html. Instead of making all platforms support this new universal markup language, why not make them support html, which some already do, and which llms are already trained on.<p>Some examples from the documentation:
{
  "id": "settings-tabs",
  "component": {
    "Tabs": {
      "tabItems": [
        {"title": {"literalString": "General"}, "child": "general-settings"},
        {"title": {"literalString": "Privacy"}, "child": "privacy-settings"},
        {"title": {"literalString": "Advanced"}, "child": "advanced-settings"}
      ]
    }
  }
}<p>{
  "id": "email-input",
  "component": {
    "TextField": {
      "label": {"literalString": "Email Address"},
      "text": {"path": "/user/email"},
      "textFieldType": "shortText"
    }
  }
}</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:53:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290082</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Is your AI system illegal in the EU?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The EU represents about 24% of the global Saas market for example. (95 billion in 2024 / global SaaS market in 2025 is ~ $408 billion). For comparison, North America leads globally at around 43-50% market share)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206806</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It makes sense, I would be curious to see the price computations done by the different space GPUs startups and Big Tech, I wonder how they are getting a cheaper cost, or maybe it is marketing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:28:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088247</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We also have to build a lot more solar and nuclear in addition of the datacenters themselves, which we need to do anyway but it would compound the land we use for energy production.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:12:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088130</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the underwater idea did not think of that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:10:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088107</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The one thing that space has going for itself is space. You could have way bigger datacenters than on Earth and just leave them there, assuming Starship makes it cheap enough to get them there. I think it would maybe make sense if 2 things:
- We are sure we will need a lot of gpus for the next 30-40 years.
- We can make the solar panels + cooling + GPUs have a great life expectancy, so that we can just leave them up there and accumulate them.<p>Latency wise it seems okay for llm training to put them higher than Starlink to make them last longer and avoid decelerating because of the atmosphere. And for inference, well, if the infra can be amortized over decades than it might make the inference price cheap enough to endure additional latencies.<p>Concerning communication, SpaceX I think already has inter-starlinks laser comms, at least a prototype.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:05:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088072</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46088072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks to everyone who replied, I understand it better now!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:59:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077244</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Something weird here, why is it so hard to have a deterministic program capable of checking a proof or anything math related, aren't maths super deterministic when natural language is not. From first principles, it should be possible to do this without a llm verifier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073084</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46073084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So AWS S3 Glacier might actually be cold</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:33:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047504</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46047504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>one issue I see is when steps in a plan depend on one another, when you cannot know all the next steps exactly before seeing the results of the previous ones, when you may have to backtrack sometimes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:00:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969769</link><dc:creator>awei</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by awei in "Side-Effects Are the Complexity Iceberg [video] (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right, a pure functional program can be composed of many things, so it can be complex even without side effects. Only a program with side effects is necessarily complex, as it includes at least two components if not more. Another interesting thought is that you can always encapsulate a purely functional program in a black box with an input and an output. Doing so with a program with side effects that themselves might be programs with side effects and their own interface is probably much more difficult.</p>
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