Hacker News: cellis

New comment by cellis in "The sigmoids won't save you"

cellis — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:49:31 +0000

Not to argue your broader point, but how, exactly would predicting this, in a macro sense, make you the “richest person on the planet”? A very uninformed person could tell you that “Cerebras will be the next NVIDIA”, put their life savings into it and in 10 years have 100 million. Thats not going to make them anywhere close to the richest person on the planet. Unless you can do it on a micro sense, merely having the ability to “predict” the way the wind is blowing is meaningless.

New comment by cellis in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

cellis — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:53:30 +0000

Obviously an M1 chip is “smarter” in terms of raw accuracy for eg matrix computations than any equivalent wetware despite being much? smaller. Performance per watt at least at that task has to be an ocean of a difference.

New comment by cellis in "Microgpt"

cellis — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:49:38 +0000

A 16 year old has been training for almost 16 years to drive a car. I would argue the opposite: Waymo’s / Specific AIs need far less data than humans. Humans can generalize their training, but they definitely need a LOT of training!

New comment by cellis in "Show HN: How to Verify USDC Payments on Base Without a Payment Processor"

cellis — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:19:33 +0000

Do you only support USDC?

New comment by cellis in "List animals until failure"

cellis — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:53:38 +0000

79. I feel like i should have done better but got stuck in a local minima of "farm animals, which obvious farm animals haven't I said??", then tried thinking of names of fish which worked until it didn't.

New comment by cellis in "The coming industrialisation of exploit generation with LLMs"

cellis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 04:28:42 +0000

The “hard enough” tasks are all behind IP walls. If it’s a “hard enough” that generally means it’s a commercial problem likely involving disparate workflows and requiring a real human who probably isn’t a) inclined and/or b) permitted, to publish the task. The incentives are aligned to capture all value from solving that task as long as possible and only then publish.

New comment by cellis in "Dead Internet Theory"

cellis — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:06:17 +0000

I've also used em-dashes since before chatgpt but not on HN -- because a double dash is easier to type. However in my notes app they're everywhere, because Mac autoconverts double dashes to em-dashes.

New comment by cellis in "High-Level Is the Goal"

cellis — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:38:46 +0000

While directionally correct, the article spends a lot of time glorifying jquery and not enough on what a horrible, no good, unoptimized mess of a framework jquery was, and by extension what kinds of websites were built back then. I remember those times well. The reason to use React isn't because it was new, far from it. It was because it won vs. Ember, Angular, et. al. in 2014-2015? as the best abstraction because it was easiest to reason about. It still wasn't great. In fact, still isn't great. But it's the best blend of many leaky abstractions we use to code against the browser apis.

The New Generation Won't Type for You

cellis — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:21:36 +0000

As a very old millennial back in town for the Holidays, I recently watched my 8,9 and 10 year old nephews/nieces use TikTok in between saying "six seven" or "six seven four one". Every search was done using a voice command. They didn't type one time. Even for very very simple searches, they still chose to voice them, even when they could get much more precise by typing. If they didn't get the videos they wanted, they simply re-rolled until TikTok spat out something acceptable, at which point they proceeded with pressing it and then thumb-upping scrolling.

Make of this what you will.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412638

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by cellis in "Why Speed Matters"

cellis — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:09:08 +0000

Reminded me of this: https://jsomers.net/blog/speed-matters

New comment by cellis in "Louvre to hike ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%"

cellis — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:58:59 +0000

Go back far enough and everything was stolen from someone

New comment by cellis in "I can build enterprise software but I can't charge for it"

cellis — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:07:12 +0000

ChatGPT does not offer a clear indication that it is blatantly illegal, though the amount of legal risk is high enough that it might as well be.

New comment by cellis in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

cellis — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 01:18:20 +0000

Electricians in data-center states are eating; elsewhere they are scraping by due to macro-economics.

New comment by cellis in "Show HN: Geofenced chat communities anyone can create"

cellis — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:33:10 +0000

On chrome iOS I’m physically unable to press the three checkboxes on the terms which means I can’t try your app. They appear to be overlapped by the terms themselves and thus never received click events.

New comment by cellis in "Poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players"

cellis — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 01:03:58 +0000

Whenever some group is said to have made/fined 1M out of their likely billions in revenue, someone will chime and say “that’s nothing”. But From a “department P&L perspective” yes, it is a lot of money!

Think about the crime families as making e.g. 50% money from construction corruption, 40% from drug sales, 5% from extortion… someone has to run the other smaller departments and that is a lot of money for that “Dept Head”. Also from the FBIs perspective they want to unravel conspiracies, often by yanking on one piece of yarn like this one.

New comment by cellis in "Show HN: I invented a new generative model and got accepted to ICLR"

cellis — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:39:16 +0000

Could this be used to train a text -> audio model? I'm thinking of an architecture that uses RVQ. Would RVQ still be necessary?

New comment by cellis in "High-fat diet impairs memory by autophagic-lysosomal dysfunction in Drosophila"

cellis — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 04:36:00 +0000

Are they trying to imply that high fat diets in humans similarly affect brain autophagy? That seems like quite the causal stretch given the vastly more complex metabolic architecture of humans.

New comment by cellis in "SF police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn"

cellis — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:36:58 +0000

What if the car is stolen?

New comment by cellis in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

cellis — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:13:14 +0000

Opposite for me…5-codex high ran out of tokens extremely quickly and didn’t adhere as well to the agents.md as Claude did to the Claude.md, perhaps because it insists on writing extremely complicated bash scripts or whole python programs to execute what should be simple commands.

New comment by cellis in "UK Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards"

cellis — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:45:09 +0000

Can you come be president of the USA instead / too?