Hacker News: bobosha

New comment by bobosha in "Ask HN: Are there AI models for generating sounds based on a text and reference?"

bobosha — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:21:52 +0000

Not exactly what you asked for, but are you aware of CLAP? https://github.com/LAION-AI/CLAP

This generates audio embeddings - much like CLIP does for visual inputs.

New comment by bobosha in "What Split-Brain Patients Reveal About Consciousness"

bobosha — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:55:26 +0000

Their lives and symptoms offer a rare window into how the brain binds experience into a single mind.

What Split-Brain Patients Reveal About Consciousness

bobosha — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/what-split-brain-patients-reveal-about-consciousness/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706237

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by bobosha in "Are H-1B Workers Displacing Americans with Cheaper Labor? [video]"

bobosha — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:08:10 +0000

Hoover Senior Fellow Paola Sapienza and Institute for Progress’ Distinguished Immigration Counsel Amy Nice examine recently obtained data and explain why the common claim—that immigrants are hired as a source of cheap labor—doesn't hold up under scrutiny. In fact, the opposite may be true…

Are H-1B Workers Displacing Americans with Cheaper Labor? [video]

bobosha — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:08:10 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543566

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by bobosha in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

bobosha — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:20:32 +0000

wouldn't LSH (Locality Sensitive Hashing) make more sense here?

Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

bobosha — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.is/HO86m#selection-2217.4-2217.64

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567370

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobosha in "ThalamusDB: Query text, tables, images, and audio"

bobosha — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:31:39 +0000

We use a vector db (Qdrant) to store embeddings of images and text and built a search UI atop it.

New comment by bobosha in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

bobosha — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:15:06 +0000

I’m working on a new vision-language model architecture called Onida. Our aim is to match—or surpass—the performance of leading VLMs like LLavA and CogVLM, while operating at a fraction of the cost. Unlike most existing VLMs, which layer vision components onto a language model as an afterthought, Onida is designed from first principles with a truly integrated approach.

This document [1] outlines our key differentiators, and we’re now inviting beta participants to explore and test the technology.

[1] https://healthio.notion.site/Onida-Efficient-VLM-Architectur...

New comment by bobosha in "Does anyone think the current AI approach will hit a dead end?"

bobosha — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:14:24 +0000

I largely share Yann LeCun’s perspective that scaling LLM-based approaches will eventually hit a plateau, and that a paradigm shift will be necessary. While there is ongoing debate about what that next paradigm should be, I outline my own views on the subject in this paper [1].

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381009719_Hydra_Enh...

New comment by bobosha in "SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python"

bobosha — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:35:35 +0000

SpaCy is awesome - we have used it in a number of enterprise-grade applications and found it to hold up well.

New comment by bobosha in "Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email"

bobosha — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:55:15 +0000

Nice work! will give it a try...

New comment by bobosha in "AI Is Wrecking Young Americans' Job Prospects"

bobosha — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:37:22 +0000

IMO AI is going eat most jobs - including the experienced ones - it's just a matter of time. There is no sugar coating this unfortunately.

New comment by bobosha in "Hierarchical Reasoning Model"

bobosha — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 10:41:36 +0000

But symbolic != hierarchical

New comment by bobosha in "ISRO successfully conducts hot tests of Gaganyaan propulsion system"

bobosha — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:49:14 +0000

congrats ISRO

New comment by bobosha in "AI is turning Apple into a "loser""

bobosha — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:32:17 +0000

So did everyone and their grandma also have blackberries.

New comment by bobosha in "Ask HN: Why there is no demand for my SaaS when competition is killing it?"

bobosha — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:27:34 +0000

exceptions maketh the rule.

New comment by bobosha in "Ask HN: Why there is no demand for my SaaS when competition is killing it?"

bobosha — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:23:26 +0000

5 to 10 is reportedly the magic number

New comment by bobosha in "When Did Nature Burst into Vivid Color?"

bobosha — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:31:45 +0000

>Video on the internet was not a popular thing until we had broadband internet.

I think it's an example of a post hoc fallacy. The popularity of video was in large part responsible for the investment into broadband in the first place.

New comment by bobosha in "Muvera: Making multi-vector retrieval as fast as single-vector search"

bobosha — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:46:35 +0000

how is this different from generating a feature hash of the embeddings i.e reduce from many to one embedding reduction? Could a UMAP or such technique be helpful in reducing to a single vector?