Hacker News: bpiche

New comment by bpiche in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

bpiche — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:35:36 +0000

This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..

New comment by bpiche in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

bpiche — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:36:09 +0000

IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting

New comment by bpiche in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

bpiche — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:49:12 +0000

Kirlian Selections rocks

New comment by bpiche in "Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow any laws'"

bpiche — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:13:28 +0000

I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies

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

bpiche — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:10:10 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago

where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please"

bpiche — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:36:18 +0000

After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.

New comment by bpiche in "Best Pens for 2025"

bpiche — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:21:13 +0000

I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?"

bpiche — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:13:07 +0000

https://www.kavitareader.com

Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN

New comment by bpiche in "That dark matter video aged like milk"

bpiche — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:36:36 +0000

Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting

New comment by bpiche in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:20:28 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing

Active Mass Balance Auto-Control (Gundam)

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Active_Mass_Balance_Auto-Control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710965

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bpiche in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:20:32 +0000

I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.

edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization

New comment by bpiche in "3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts' Bodies and Minds"

bpiche — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:08:28 +0000

Spacenoid and newtype neonates

New comment by bpiche in "Is Apple about to launch the real Siri?"

bpiche — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 18:50:59 +0000

People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this

New comment by bpiche in "Hudson Yards Video Game"

bpiche — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:41:39 +0000

Ahh yes the early beta version of endorphin port

New comment by bpiche in "Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents"

bpiche — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:26:03 +0000

Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny

Nikon FA

bpiche — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:47:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/fa.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40445476

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?"

bpiche — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:17:38 +0000

As a Gibson fan: this sounds like his robot avatars from The Peripheral and the VR glasses from Virtual Light.

In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.

Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: So.. what's next after LLMs?"

bpiche — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:11:58 +0000

I agree with your assessment that a lot of this stuff is BPO. There is only so much customer service that can be automated. That being said, AI is a big tent and has been around for decades, despite the media claiming that OpenAI has been the first company to take it into the mainstream. AI flies fighter jets without any human pilots. I personally think there is already a lot of impressive stuff happening with reinforcement learning and am excited to see where large action models go, despite rabbit's failures.

New comment by bpiche in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

bpiche — Tue, 21 May 2024 02:13:20 +0000

Luke skywalker shooting torpedoes into the Death Star vibes. Burn it down.