Hacker News: blovescoffee

New comment by blovescoffee in "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident"

blovescoffee — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:26:49 +0000

Did you read any of it? The investigators call this out

New comment by blovescoffee in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

blovescoffee — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:14:30 +0000

One anecdote for a datapoint: Not sure if it's better now but I've lost a phone in an InDrive and I've lost an expensive bag in an Uber and it was significantly easier and less sketchy to get the bag back. I'm not a price sensitive rider so the insurance of a reputable 'comfort' tier Uber driver paid off. The InDrive driver made me get another ride to him then demanded $1000mxn (~$55usd) to return my phone. The Uber app had me pay ~$250mxn if I remember correctly and the driver promptly returned the bag.

New comment by blovescoffee in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

blovescoffee — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:15:00 +0000

The laws should produce friction but the right friction in the right places. There are too many arbitrary and difficult processes in the US immigration system that keep great people out of the US.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Cerebras CS-4"

blovescoffee — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:04:51 +0000

TPUs and ASICs run in data centers too. Your argument only holds true if there's some satisfied limit to demand for inference. If not, data centers will continue to spring up to host more and more agents. Even if agents were running on hardware and software as efficient as the human brain, its conceivable we want trillions of them running at any given time which would require data center scale.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis"

blovescoffee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:26:28 +0000

they didn't plateau, the hardware was effectively saturated and it wasn't until later in 2026 that newer hardware came online to provide enough capacity to keep scaling up the models efficiently

New comment by blovescoffee in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

blovescoffee — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:15:30 +0000

As a company... but that includes things like research costs, model training etc. to determine if they're selling electricity at a loss you should look at inference costs bc that's the "thing" they're selling

New comment by blovescoffee in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

blovescoffee — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:51:42 +0000

what is it?

New comment by blovescoffee in "The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

blovescoffee — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:27:12 +0000

The underlying idea is that AI capabilities will become so advanced that only AI will enable us to monitor/correct/understand behavior. Obviously this is not without issue and I don't want to try to defend their position right now. But that's what they mean

New comment by blovescoffee in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

blovescoffee — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:05:57 +0000

You can drop react into an html page with a script tag. You don't need a build step. The build step is only requisite if you'd like the full benefits of react, which personally I find worth it. Cached builds are quite fast. All build steps/compilers/etc. exist to add some devex upgrade on top of some lighter-weight thing that many devs find useful.

New comment by blovescoffee in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

blovescoffee — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:23:28 +0000

a 15% improvement at a trillion dollar scale company is massive

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:59:14 +0000

mexican presidents serve a single term... I'm sure you mean well but you have lot of reading to do about mexican politics :)

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:33:53 +0000

no... Mexico is in north america

and if you follow Mexican politics, her politics are almost entirely a continuation of the last president who was her political mentor so it's reasonably well understood what trajectory her term is on

New comment by blovescoffee in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:33:24 +0000

it's kind of hard to save a company billions in operating costs via software without it being part of Silicon Valley (culture)...

New comment by blovescoffee in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:20:34 +0000

Absolutely true although at some point it's not just raw numbers but also the kernels that run matmuls and there seems (from outsider perspective) to have been more optimization in the cuda kernels

New comment by blovescoffee in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:15:16 +0000

what do you mean "if"? of course we will, and the models will be smarter as well

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:56:39 +0000

Thank you. Not to go against site rules and veer into meta-discussion on other posters but it strikes me as very odd that a foreigner is just repeating govt propaganda to people who live here.

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:51:56 +0000

More insidiously this infra work is being used by Morena to further militarize Mexico. The military is everywhere in this country and its power and reach continue to grow.

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:50:33 +0000

Not to make a weak appeal to authority but have you spent much time in Mexico and much time speaking with locals? Those initiative are widely viewed as either failures, DOA, or political chips to appeal to the Morena base (which even then fails).

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:34:03 +0000

Very very few taxi drivers in Mexico are financing a $9000 sedan. They're mostly driving some taxi service's car and paying the service for the car or they're paying cash for a used and much cheaper car. $9000 is a lot of money for a taxi driver in Mexico.

New comment by blovescoffee in "How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality"

blovescoffee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:25:40 +0000

This is going to go absolutely nowhere. There's really no market for these and the govt. would rather focus on something flashy like a new car instead of infrastructure or anything that could threaten Pemex (god forbid...)