Hacker News: bguberfain

New comment by bguberfain in "Show HN: Watch a neural net learn to play Snake"

bguberfain — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:14:31 +0000

It seems to be something related the moving average calculation. So it is just a glitch on the chart.

New comment by bguberfain in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

bguberfain — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:47:07 +0000

This guy seems to be talking seriously.

New comment by bguberfain in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

bguberfain — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:22:42 +0000

Not to demerit the recording, but I felt more nostalgic for the last sentence of the article "Sometimes, the internet is good" than for the musics itself.

New comment by bguberfain in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

bguberfain — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:24:46 +0000

We all know it... but I think they were very bold in this warning about using your private messages to train public models. _Your messages with AIs will be used to improve AI at Meta. Don't share information, including sensitive topics, about others or yourself that you don't want the AI to retain and use_

New comment by bguberfain in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

bguberfain — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:38:17 +0000

"A watchdog kernel thread monitors RAM and NVMe pressure and signals userspace before things get dangerous." - which kind of danger this type of solution can have?

New comment by bguberfain in "Backing up Spotify"

bguberfain — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:55:28 +0000

We can finally search for playlists with a giving song! A basic feature that Spotify is missing!

Ask HN: Is it possible to implement this button on a browser?

bguberfain — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:50:27 +0000

I saw this video [0] of a virtual button, created with Houdini, and was wondering if it is possible to implement this behavior on a browser. Any suggestions? [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Simulated/s/stj4DVYm4g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45925945

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bguberfain in "TradeExpert, a trading framework that employs Mixture of Expert LLMs"

bguberfain — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:14:19 +0000

So they used a LLM with knowledge cut in mid 2023 to evaluate 2023? Seems like a classic leakage problem.

From paper: "testing set: January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023"

From the Llama 2 doc: "(...) some tuning data is more recent, up to July 2023."

New comment by bguberfain in "LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective"

bguberfain — Wed, 21 May 2025 20:41:37 +0000

I think that there may be another solution for this, that is the LLM write a valid code that calls the MCP's as functions. See it like a Python script, where each MCP is mapped to a function. A simple example:

  def process(param1, param2):
     my_data = mcp_get_data(param1)
     sorted_data = mcp_sort(my_data, by=param2)
     return sorted_data

Google bug blocked Miniforge on GitHub

bguberfain — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:02:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/issues/667

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054297

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bguberfain in "Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)"

bguberfain — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:15:48 +0000

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-wi...

New comment by bguberfain in "NASA keeps ancient Voyager 1 spacecraft alive with Hail Mary thruster fix"

bguberfain — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:17:33 +0000

Not available in my country :(

New comment by bguberfain in "Transformer Lab"

bguberfain — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 13:06:47 +0000

Unfortunately, it uses Miniconda, which does not allow usage in companies with more than 200 employees. I think it conflicts with AGPL license. I created a PR to fix that.

OpenAI contest on X is void in Brazil, Italy, Quebec and others

bguberfain — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openai.fm/contest.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43430569

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bguberfain in "Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]"

bguberfain — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:44:57 +0000

Can you provide more information about this “bigger teacher” model?

New comment by bguberfain in "GPT-4.5"

bguberfain — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:36:10 +0000

Until GPT-4.5, GPT-4 32K was certainly the most heavy model available at OpenAI. I can imagine the dilemma between to keep it running or stop it to free GPU for training new models. This time, OpenAI was clear whether to continue serving it in the API long-term.

New comment by bguberfain in "LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future"

bguberfain — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:56:15 +0000

Any chance you could release the dataset to the public? I imagine NewsCatcher and Polymarket might not agree..

New comment by bguberfain in "Catgrad: A categorical deep learning compiler"

bguberfain — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:14:25 +0000

It remembers me Theano [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theano_(software)

New comment by bguberfain in "Deformable Image Registration KU Repository"

bguberfain — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:01:14 +0000

I agree. One image of what it is doing would improve the comprehension of the algorithm.

New comment by bguberfain in "Show HN: Voice-Pro – AI Voice Cloning"

bguberfain — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:39:34 +0000

The file I mentioned is just the begining... there is a folder full of .dll files, renamed to .pyd. I understand that this is the proprietary part, that limits usage for 30 minutes, but I think it is too closed for a MIT license.