<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: benliong78</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benliong78</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:06:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=benliong78" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that animation of Altman with a thousand faces is oddly unsettling. Good job, new yorker.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:52:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677216</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "I don't read your email threads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A email thread, to me, is much preferable to any IM, unless participants knows to send those IMs in a thread as well.<p>All the context are in there in the rawest of forms, you a run through them with your eyeballs or have your tools do the summarisation there and then.  Most of the IMs I received didn't even quote the original message they were responding to, and I end up spending time jumping up and down the channel or group to get the whole context.  Not to mention folks sending me link to a slack, which, depending on the mood of the almighty slack god, can or cannot be opened in the app / current slack session.<p>But you do you. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:04:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836022</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836022</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44836022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Show HN: I built a deep learning engine from scratch in Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s fantastic.  In your opinion what are some of the best books / resources you use to have this kind of understanding of LLM and the underlying deep learning algorithm?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:04:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723158</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43723158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m building a on-device AI App that supports a good variety of open-weight LLM Models.  It’s mostly so that I can gain an intuition on what goes on when we do inferencing, but my longer term plan is<p>1. Support on-device RAG to allow chatting with your own documents on mobile offline
2. Support MCP on-device, taking advantage of information that’s (only) available on your phone, like calendar events, health data, etc.  These shouldn’t need to be anywhere but on-device. 
3. Allow on-device AI to use shortcuts(?)<p>I think most of the functionality are well served on desktop front with Ollama and LM Studio, but moving these functionality to mobile offers a great learning opportunity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 09:28:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532938</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43532938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "China's biggest AI model is challenging American dominance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sadly that may not be far from the truth.<p>China folks are more hungry than most in the west, with the exception of Silicon Valley and New York, and China isn't "burdened" by quality of life, and work life balance, which isn't healthy, but that's one of their edge.<p>Even for U.S. AI Startups, asian makes up a majority of the research + technical staff.  I think the incentive to go into PhD in the west has been gradually declining for years, while PhD programmes have been flooded with Chinese Students. I think it's something that the U.S. government needs to address to try to remain competitive in the longer term.<p>Manufacturing is something that the west actively gave up and migrated the skillset to Asia, notably China and Taiwan.</p>
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<p>I think while technically they differ mostly only in terms of the training materials thrown into it, the outcome is that each model is good at something and bad at others, just like human being.  Soon you'll need standardized tests and HR department to evaluate individual LLM performance. :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 09:36:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606925</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40606925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Hong Kong arrests six for publishing social media posts under new sedition law"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sigh. But honestly, it just felt like people getting used to China doing outrageous things like these to the point where it's no longer interesting for a comment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 16:34:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513857</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40513857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>dude, that’s freaking nuts. It’s amazing and terrifying at the same time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 13:46:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355190</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355190</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40355190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "ByteDance is using OpenAI's tech to build a competitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t know man.  I mean, google indexes the open web to create a search engine and we all seem to be fine with it.  I do draw the line that if you want to build a LLM, there’s the internet for you, train your own damn model and stop piggybacking on someone else’s, or in China’s case, at least don’t get caught.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688828</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Best Programming Language – John Carmack and Lex Fridman"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember, "A little bit beyond Hello World" in Carmack's mind is Video Decompression code. Brings a little bit of perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:08:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32467828</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32467828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32467828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We in Hong Kong are all assuming that TikTok is CCP-owned at this point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:17:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755943</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Young children are obsessed about TikTok, even in Hong Kong, and parents are just too happy to let their kids melt in front of a mobile screen all day just to get some rest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 05:16:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755939</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But then there's also Zero chance that the CCP is telling them to leave Hong Kong.  TikTok imho is a spying and influence tool for the CCP anyway.<p>This move feels very very weird.</p>
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<p>You're right that correlation does not equal causation, but it doesn't have to be for those folks to not care.<p>Having lived in Singapore, Hong Kong (current) and China, I can tell you that in Singapore's case, folks are aware that they live under a semi-dictatorship, that their government controls all media (radio, tv, everything is state-owned).  But they always say "but I guess the government is doing a good job".<p>One has nothing to do with the other.  The government can do a good job without the dictatorship, but it's the way folks rationalize their helplessness, their sense of lack of control over their fate.<p>This is also why we in Hong Kong ARE fighting against these kind of controls, probably in vein, but I for one do NOT want to resign in rationalizing for the government's over-control without a fight.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 08:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112796</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23112796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Tesla implements innovative way to avoid gas cars 'ICEing' Superchargers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks like something that's implemented in China, and we don't have problem with Ice drivers spitefully taking out multiple spots.  What we have problem with is Ice drivers parking in Tesla Charging Spots (and this applies to other EV spots as well), just because they need a space to park.  This system would solve that problem pretty well.<p>I drive a BYD in Hong Kong and we see Tesla drivers taking up charging spots just because it's marked "EV only", but they can't use BYD chargers <shrug></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2019 03:51:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918106</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18918106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "Botrnot: an R package for detecting Twitter bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kinda wish you named it: 'Robot or not' <a href="https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theincomparable.com/robot/</a></p>
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<p>Audible has something similar: they require that you use up all your credits before cancellation is even possible, so that is obstacle #1. Then they ask for reason and sub-reason, and give you either a $20 coupon if you say the reason is because it's too expensive, or a 3 months praise on your account if you say you can't catch up to one book a month.<p>Pretty clever. But having to choose 6 books immediately at the point of cancellation sucks</p>
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<p>Thanks for the recommendation.  Fantastic looking software that provides a far better visualization of the repo than anything else I have used.  Bravo.<p>I use CLI for almost everything but sometimes it helps to have a visual representation of the repo.</p>
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<p>Living in another crowded city, Hong Kong, perhaps I can offer some perspective:  We have tons of elevated tools highways and bypasses aimed at reducing traffic, the problem is all these elevated roads needs to go around a lot of tall buildings.  Going underground with subway already provides us with better solution to a lot more of our traffic problem.  What the boring company's proposing isn't all that different from the subway solution (we already have subway going three or four level deep), it simply allows cars to transported via subway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2017 05:05:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355784</link><dc:creator>benliong78</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14355784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by benliong78 in "“Ghost in the Shell - Remake”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Literally</p>
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