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Earliest Uses of Symbols of Calculus

bemmu — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:59:06 +0000

Article URL: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathsym/calculus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46600983

Points: 1

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New comment by bemmu in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

bemmu — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:20:35 +0000

I saw this on Reddit earlier today. Over there the source of this file was given as: https://web.archive.org/web/20251118111103/https://storage.g...

The bucket name "deepmind-media" has been used in the past on the deepmind official site, so it seems legit.

The Startup Launching AI Data Centers into Space [video]

bemmu — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:17:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKw6cRKcqzY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928317

Points: 2

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New comment by bemmu in "NY school phone ban has made lunch loud again"

bemmu — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:59:33 +0000

  Senior Raya Osagie, 16, said she has to “think more in class” because she used to Google answers or use artificial intelligence. “Now when we get computers, I actually have to [do] deep research instead of going straight to AI,” she said.

This kind of blew my mind a bit, as I had always imagined AI being used to do homework, hadn't occurred to me it could be used during a class as well.

New comment by bemmu in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

bemmu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:11:55 +0000

The one I use the most is "cdn". It cds to the newest subdirectory.

So if you're in your projects folder and want to keep working on your latest project, I just type "cdn" to go there.

New comment by bemmu in "Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?"

bemmu — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:24:42 +0000

I find Sora refreshing in that I don't have to worry about being tricked by something fake. It's just a fun multiplayer slopfest.

Conversation with Alibaba Cloud

bemmu — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://boilingsteam.com/tgs2025-a-talk-with-alibaba-cloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45633176

Points: 2

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New comment by bemmu in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

bemmu — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:05:45 +0000

I wonder what would be a good counter-investment if one thinks AI is in a bubble which is just about to burst.

Maybe consumer staples (Walmart, Pepsi etc.)? Dollar stores?

Show HN: Multiple choice video webgame experiment

bemmu — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:09:52 +0000

Hey all, just wanted to share a little game experiment. It's a rooms & keys kind of adventure with a lot of random deaths. It plays a Veo3-generated video in response to clicks, with Gemini used for coding.

Prompting the videos was fun, but trying to vibe code everything was not. In the future I'll go back to using LLMs more sparingly for isolated functions, or at least try not to have it create anything that requires seeing the output to debug.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45541253

Points: 11

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New comment by bemmu in "Self-supervised learning, JEPA, world models, and the future of AI [video]"

bemmu — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 12:34:19 +0000

> That's not the only way to one could encode innate knowledge.

Maybe sections could be read from DNA and broadcast as action potentials?

There's already ribosomes that go over RNA. You'd need a variant which instead of making amino acids, would read out the base pairs and make something that causes action potentials to happen based on the contents.

New comment by bemmu in "Don't Become a Scientist (1999)"

bemmu — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:58:46 +0000

Sorry for possibly an ignorant question as I don't know much about research.

Do you think if you manage to have an exit from a startup, you might be able to return to research (at a university) but then be your own funder, so that you could then research whatever you want?

New comment by bemmu in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

bemmu — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:42:35 +0000

Exactly, felt like the wristband was the big thing. I don't want the glasses, but I'm somewhat curious if it'd be useful as an extra input device when using a computer.

New comment by bemmu in "How do I get into the game industry"

bemmu — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:45:06 +0000

For Roblox I haven't seen the returns getting smaller. I've had a bunch of smallish games there for a few years, and it has been stable.

While there is a ridiculous amount of competition, so far it has been offset by platform expansion. When I started in 2020 the whole platform had about 30M daily active users. Now over 110M. Maybe my share of plays has shrunk, but it's now from a much bigger pie.

(I don't know if this holds true generally or if my games have somehow persisted better than the average game)

The Submarine (2005)

bemmu — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:25:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038136

Points: 1

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New comment by bemmu in "Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears"

bemmu — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:28:45 +0000

They're still on it though. The new headset prototypes with high FOV sound amazing, and they are iterating on many designs.

They're already doing something like ~$500M/year in Meta Quest app sales. Granted not huge yet after their 30% cut, but sales should keep increasing as the headsets get better.

OpenAI logged its first $1B month

bemmu — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963395

Points: 3

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New comment by bemmu in "The value of hitting the HN front page"

bemmu — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:26:18 +0000

I used to run a subscription box called "Candy Japan", and got #1 on Google for "japanese candy" for after posting about it on HN. The position lasted for years AFAIK.

New comment by bemmu in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

bemmu — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:45:10 +0000

Or maybe he knows that he sometimes has weird ideas, but pursues them anyway, because it's kind of neat.

For how much would you only kill seals on a deserted island for 1.5 years?

bemmu — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:16:49 +0000

Article URL: https://mattlakeman.org/2020/07/10/how-much-would-you-need-to-be-paid-to-live-on-a-deserted-island-for-1-5-years-and-do-nothing-but-kill-seals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44647189

Points: 1

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New comment by bemmu in "LLM Inevitabilism"

bemmu — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:26:29 +0000

I was going to make an argument that it's inevitable, because at some point compute will get so cheap that someone could just train one at home, and since the knowledge of how to do it is out there, people will do it.

But seeing that a company like Meta is using >100k GPUs to train these models, even at 25% yearly improvement it would still take until the year ~2060 before someone could buy 50 GPUs and have the equivalent power to train one privately. So I suppose if society decided to outlaw LLM training, or a market crash put off companies from continuing to do it, it might be possible to put the genie back in the bottle for a few decades.

I wouldn't be surprised however if there are still 10x algorithmic improvements to be found too...