Hacker News: cdata

New comment by cdata in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

cdata — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:34:02 +0000

If our strategy to avoid "slavery" involves "normal people" taking the local-vs-managed choice seriously, we have already lost.

This choice is made for us. The deciding factors will be convenience and economics.

My sense is that just like Web 2.0 SaaS we are destined for servitude.

A better strategy is to play an assymetrical game IMO. Don't let your would-be master write the rules by which you play.

New comment by cdata in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

cdata — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:35:00 +0000

We are living in a ZIRP-like era where builders at the fastest pace layer have misattributed their velocity to exponential gains in model capability. In fact, they are surfing on decades of careful effort to build a robust foundation of highly reusable software libraries.

This strategy will seem to work really well until the economy that enabled that foundation to form is hollowed out. Then, there will be a reckoning (but we will have no choice but to march forth from there).

New comment by cdata in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

cdata — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:44:12 +0000

For everyone claiming that this is a trope of LLM text because it is a trope in the training data: how do you know this trope doesn't emerge during RLHF?

New comment by cdata in "The dead economy theory"

cdata — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:39:20 +0000

> What is reality? Obviously, no one can say, because it isn’t words. It isn’t material—that’s just an idea. It isn’t spiritual—that’s also an idea; a symbol. Reality is this: [GONG]. You see? We all know what reality is, but we can’t describe it. Just as we all know how to beat our hearts and shape our bones, but cannot say how it is done. - Alan Watts

https://organism.earth/library/document/art-of-meditation

New comment by cdata in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

cdata — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:55:55 +0000

> There's enough evidence for the counter argument that this is essentially misinformation.

> No evidence is shared

Help an open-minded critic out.

New comment by cdata in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

cdata — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:18:05 +0000

With respect, you were manipulated (either by founders or by investors). Startups leverage employees' pro-social leanings to make them feel good about a fundamentally anti-social enterprise.

New comment by cdata in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

cdata — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:44:49 +0000

> Man, I really feel like they want us to hate them

Man, I feel old.

New comment by cdata in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

cdata — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:33:09 +0000

The influence of cartoon foxes on business strategies in tech has a long history and cannot be overstated.

https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html

International Agreement to Prevent Premature Creation of ASI

cdata — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:45:53 +0000

Article URL: https://techgov.intelligence.org/blog/new-report-an-international-agreement-to-prevent-the-premature-creation-of-artificial-superintelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768793

Points: 2

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New comment by cdata in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

cdata — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:48:05 +0000

This appears to be dated 2016. Did the preliminary results amount to anything?

New comment by cdata in "AI Tribalism"

cdata — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:08:20 +0000

I read a lot of AI generated code these days. It makes really bad mistakes (even when the nature of the change is a refactor). I've tried out a few different tools and methodologies, but I haven't escaped the need to babysit the "agent." If I stepped aside, it would create more work for me and others on the backend of our workflow.

I read anecdotes of teams that push through AI-driven changes as fast as possible with awe. Surely their AIs are no more capable than the ones I'm familiar with.

New comment by cdata in "AI Tribalism"

cdata — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:57:55 +0000

AI has pushed me to arrive at an epiphany: new technology is good if it helps me spend more time doing things that I enjoy doing; it's bad if it doesn't; it's worse if I end up spending more time doing things that I don't enjoy.

AI has increased the sheer volume of code we are producing per hour (and probably also the amount of energy spent per unit of code). But, it hasn't spared me or anyone I know the cost of testing, reviewing or refining that code.

Speaking for myself, writing code was always the most fun part of the job. I get a dopamine hit when CI is green, sure, but my heart sinks a bit every time I'm assigned to review a 5K+ loc mountain of AI slop (and it has been happening a lot lately).

New comment by cdata in "Google Opal"

cdata — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:04:03 +0000

Arguably the ad business is to blame. It created a perverse incentive. They maximized pay-to-play. The losers were authors that previously published on a passion budget (and would/could never pay for ads). AI is just the last nail in the coffin.

New comment by cdata in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

cdata — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:51:31 +0000

The foresters refusing to plant vast tracts of Norway Spruce aren't protecting themselves; quite the opposite, they’re falling behind. The gap is widening between states who've replaced mixed forests with a flawless mono-crop and those who haven't. The first states are growing forests faster, and harvesting a more desirable wood. The second group is... not.

New comment by cdata in "Doo: A Simple, Fast Programming Language Built on Rust and LLVM"

cdata — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:55:06 +0000

Very cool. I'm always on the lookout for languages - especially beginner-friendly ones - that are good candidates for building Wasm Components (my use case is a fantasy console with Wasm game cartridges).

Have you given any thought to supporting Wasm Components as a build target?

Guillermo del Toro: 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

cdata — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687464

Points: 15

# Comments: 7

New comment by cdata in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

cdata — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:23:53 +0000

Don't sleep on the Rust toolchain for this! You can have DOM-via-Wasm today, the tools generate all the glue for you and the overhead isn't that bad, either.

Slow AGI

cdata — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://x.com/cramforce/article/1947108831596777976

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636815

Points: 1

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New comment by cdata in "Mikeal Rogers has died"

cdata — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:22:34 +0000

I had the pleasure of meeting Mikeal on a few occasions, but mainly I've benefited from his work over the years (initially via the JavaScript ecosystem, and later through the Protocol Labs community).

PouchDB was way ahead of its time, and I'm just now coming around to how crazy cool it was and is compared to most other tech in its space.

He made a great deal of positive impact on technical areas I care about. Rest in peace.

New comment by cdata in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

cdata — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:19:09 +0000

I entered the workforce in 08/09. At that time things seemed really dire. It felt to me like the whole house of cards was coming down, and I told myself that I would take any job that I could get.

I ultimately landed a job with an odd startup, eccentric founders, working out of an attic. In hindsight I couldn't have asked for a better start to my career. But, my expectations were rock bottom at the time.

Anyway, keep your mind open to all possibilities. You never know where an unlikely choice may take you. And, good luck!