Hacker News: beklein

New comment by beklein in "Solaris, Our Interface World Models"

beklein — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:45:14 +0000

I don't know what kind of experiences and apps this UI/UX mode will enable but it's one of the most innovative and coolest AI model demos I've seen this year.

New comment by beklein in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

beklein — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:26:29 +0000

"In fact there are only two things universities need to change to be perfect at preparing founders: they need to make students feel that starting a startup is something they can do, and they need to encourage them to work on their own projects."

I'd argue that both of these would be highly beneficial for all kinds of students, founders and non-founders alike.

Starting a startup could be generalized for all students to having a dream or goal, taking ownership of it, and making it happen. A startup is just one possible path, pg is probably too specific here, I would agree.

Having more free time to work on my own projects is probably the freedom I missed most at university. I think learning to choose what to work on and making something happen would benefit future workers, teachers, doctors, and engineers just as much as entrepreneurs.

It's a trade-off in terms of time and other resources, since parts of the existing curriculum would have to fade away. But I think it's a good starting point for change and a good direction to move in.

New comment by beklein in "Don't paste the AI, please"

beklein — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:44:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. One of the best frameworks I have encountered, and one I point people to whenever I can, is the AI Fluency framework by Anthropic, Prof. Joseph Feller (University College Cork), and Prof. Rick Dakan (Ringling College):

https://www.anthropic.com/learn/claude-for-you

This framework provides a more abstract way of thinking when working with AI systems. Especially valuable to me is the pattern of the 4 D's: Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence, which I have now internalized whenever I use AI systems. It helps me understand my own and others' (mis)use of AI systems a bit better.

GEN-1.5, a one-shot learner

beklein — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:36:00 +0000

Article URL: https://generalistai.com/blog/gen-1.5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367510

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by beklein in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning"

beklein — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:03:01 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out!

I actually copied the link from NVIDIA's Technical Blog post:

- https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightn...

You can also try the model via a free API endpoint from Openrouter, would be interesting to see if it's the BF16 or NVFP4 version:

- https://openrouter.ai/nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

beklein — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257947

Points: 122

# Comments: 32

New comment by beklein in "Mario Meets Pareto"

beklein — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:26:30 +0000

I guess the author used a different framework but I like this one: https://animejs.com/

New comment by beklein in "Claude Cookbook"

beklein — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:50:22 +0000

Thanks! I also like the OpenAI Cookbook: https://developers.openai.com/cookbook

Other AI labs also tend to publish examples and cookbooks on GitHub and Hugging Face, so it's always worth keeping an eye on those as well.

New comment by beklein in "Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase"

beklein — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:31:22 +0000

Details about the methods can be found here: https://artificialanalysis.ai/methodology/intelligence-bench...

Specifically they use this harness: https://github.com/ArtificialAnalysis/Stirrup

Bunker Boyz [video]

beklein — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:22:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJuqBlamd6o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984375

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by beklein in "German AI consortium releases Soofi S, an open 30B model that tops benchmarks"

beklein — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:35:33 +0000

Some other (as in better) sources I found:

- https://huggingface.co/spaces/Soofi-Project/Pretraining-Tech...

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.09424

New comment by beklein in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

beklein — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:34:03 +0000

Thanks for sharing the paper, it seems my intuition on size was bad but also my intuition on max satellite density for LEO was wrong.

The Most Human Technology Ever Made

beklein — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-most-human-technology-ever-made

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48910547

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by beklein in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

beklein — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:24:03 +0000

To get a better sense of the scale, if you are viewing this app on a 4K display, with the planet measuring about 2,000 pixels across Earth’s diameter is approximately 12,742 km (7,918 miles), so each pixel represents about 6.37 km (3.96 miles).

A Starlink satellite is roughly 6 m (20 ft) wide without its solar panels. This means a one-pixel satellite marker is shown at roughly 1,000 times its true size. So even if this image already looks extremely crowded, the dots are still massively exaggerated. Visually, there would be roughly another factor of 1,000 before the satellites themselves were shown at their true scale—although this does not mean that orbit could easily accommodate 1,000 times more satellites but I guess there is still some space in space.

New comment by beklein in "Mistral OCR 4"

beklein — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:04:02 +0000

All AI labs really need to stop using truncated y-axes for benchmark bar charts...

https://mistral.ai/_astro/cm-engish_ZhlvoT.webp?dpl=6a3a94bd...

Enpire: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World

beklein — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:40:06 +0000

Article URL: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/enpire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573847

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by beklein in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

beklein — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:46:26 +0000

A good visual explanation of how text diffusion models like DiffusionGemma work: https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-...

New comment by beklein in "Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer"

beklein — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:22:23 +0000

Principles of programming:

1. Break things down into small units

2. Think about sequence

3. Find patterns

4. Focus on the important things

5. Visualize sequences in your mind

Love the silly music and the way they teach, thanks for sharing this!

New comment by beklein in "A Steerable Model with Emergent Capabilities"

beklein — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:28:59 +0000

Also relevant to this is the newest episode of The Lightcone Podcast with Quan Vuong, co-founder of PI and, one of many co-authors of that paper.

New comment by beklein in "Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos [video]"

beklein — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:35:32 +0000

Thanks for sharing this here, it's a beautiful video. The images are linked in the description but if anybody is reading this, check: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/