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New comment by chad1n in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

chad1n — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:42:45 +0000

Anyone who has some experience with native apis knows that a standard library should never rely on unstable apis. Ntdll is not "stable" as in Microsoft can change it at any time since they expect anyone to use kernel32. It's questionable that they referenced a random book on this top claiming that ntdll is more performant than kernel32 which is doubtful. There are some specific cases where this is true (the ntfs stuff), but, in general, it's not, at least not in a significant matter. A standard library should never do this, it might break binaries for no reason, other than making a cool blog post. I, as a developer, can choose to use ntfs, but a standard library should never.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997506 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/68678

New comment by chad1n in "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again"

chad1n — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:07:44 +0000

So the author is in a clear conflict of interest with the contents of the blog because he's an employee of Anthropic. But regarding this "blog", showing the graph where OpenAI compares "frontier" models and shows gpt-4o vs o3-high is just disingenuous, o1 vs o3 would have been a closer fight between "frontier" models. Also today I learned that there are people paid to benchmark AI models in terms of how close they are to "human" level, apparently even "expert" level whatever that means. I'm not a LLM hater by any means, but I can confidently say that they aren't experts in any fields.

New comment by chad1n in "OpenAI o3-pro"

chad1n — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:03:49 +0000

The guys in the other thread who said that OpenAI might have quantized o3 and that's how they reduced the price might be right. This o3-pro might be the actual o3-preview from the beginning and the o3 might be just a quantized version. I wish someone benchmarks all of these models to check for drops in quality.

New comment by chad1n in "The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder"

chad1n — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:43:52 +0000

To be honest, checking if there is a path between two nodes is a better example of NP-Hard, because it's obvious why you can't verify a solution in polynomial time. Sure the problem isn't decidable, but it's hard to give problems are decidable and explain why the proof can't be verified in P time. Only problems that involve playing optimally a game (with more than one player) that can have cycles come to mind. These are the "easiest" to grasp.

New comment by chad1n in "OpenAI releasing new open model in coming months, seeks community feedback"

chad1n — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:59:26 +0000

Considering how much they trust their LLMs, why don't they just run o1-pro to make a summary of the responses given in the feedback

New comment by chad1n in "Intel AVX10 Drops Optional 512-Bit: No AVX10 256-Bit Only E-Cores in the Future"

chad1n — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:55:51 +0000

It will support both, but considering the previous experiences with avx 512 on intel, I wouldn't that excited

New comment by chad1n in "Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser"

chad1n — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:25:14 +0000

I wonder how much LimeWire pays to buy all of these foss projects, must be a decent amount if everyone is selling his solution

New comment by chad1n in "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes"

chad1n — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 22:34:23 +0000

The idea is correct, a lot of people (including myself sometimes) just let an "agent" run and do some stuff and then check later if it finished. This is obviously more dangerous than just the LLM hallucinating functions, since at least you can catch the latter, but the first one depends on the tests of the project or your reviewer skills.

The real problem with hallucination is that we started using LLMs as search engines, so when it invents a function, you have to go and actually search the API on a real search engine.

New comment by chad1n in "OlmOCR: Open-source tool to extract plain text from PDFs"

chad1n — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:00:10 +0000

These "OCR" tools who are actually multimodals are interesting because they can do more than just text abstraction, but their biggest flaw is hallucinations and overall the nondeterministic nature. Lately, I've been using Gemini to turn my notebooks into Latex documents, so I can see a pretty nice usecase for this project, but it's not for "important" papers or papers that need 100% accuracy.

New comment by chad1n in "Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger"

chad1n — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:41:21 +0000

It's not really a hot take, considering the price, they probably released it to scam some people when they to `benchmark` it or to buy the `pro` version. You must be completely in denial to think that gpt4.5 had a successful launch, considering that 3 days before, a real and useful model was released by their competitor.

New comment by chad1n in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

chad1n — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:22:15 +0000

I quit the original l"Firefox" a long time ago, I've been using librewolf since its release and now zen (also a firefox fork) and I keep ungoogled chromium in case a site is broken on firefox.

New comment by chad1n in "Putting Andrew Ng's OCR models to the test"

chad1n — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:10:35 +0000

I don't think that's the case, when a model is reasoning, it sometimes starts gaslighting itself and "solving" other problems completely than the one you've shown. Reasoning can help "in general", but very frequently, reasoning also makes it more "nondetermistic". Without reasoning, usually it ends up just writing some code from its training data, but with reasoning, it can end up hallucinating hard. Yesterday, I asked Claude thinking to solve me a problem in c++ and it showed the result in python.

New comment by chad1n in "Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”"

chad1n — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 12:59:34 +0000

Same happened to an app that I published on Play Store, I don't even care that much, I only feel bad for the people that bought the premium version of it. Overall the takeway is that your product is never safe and you shouldn't only rely on these big platforms for marketing/distribution.

New comment by chad1n in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

chad1n — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 20:22:08 +0000

For example, `https://deepinfra.com/` which asks for $2.5 per million on output or https://nebius.com which asks for $2.4 per million output tokens.

New comment by chad1n in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

chad1n — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:59:14 +0000

I think that OpenAI should reduce the prices even further to be competitive with Qwen or Deepseek. There are a lot of vendors offering Deepseek R1 for $2-2.5 per 1 million tokens output.

New comment by chad1n in "An update on Dart macros and data serialization"

chad1n — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:13:55 +0000

Sounds like a good thing overall, my biggest annoyance when I was writing a flutter app was the codegen for annotations (which sure it's better iteratively, but the first one was taking minutes), but if you move these seconds that happen once in a while to seconds during "hot" reload, you're just losing. Honestly, I think they should try to come with a faster codegen, maybe write it in c++ or rust and fix these problems, because macros aren't a silver bullet. They introduce complexity, a new "thing to learn" and sometimes lead to Turing complete machines.

New comment by chad1n in "Nvidia’s $589B DeepSeek rout"

chad1n — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 11:33:50 +0000

This is not exactly right, they said they spent $6M on training V3, there aren't numbers out there related to the training of R1, I can feel it will be cheaper than o1, but it's hard to tell how much cheaper. I can guess that overall deepseek spent way less than openai to release the model, because I have the feeling that the R&D part was cheaper too, but we don't have the numbers yet. Anyway, we can assume that deepseek and Alibaba will try to get the most out of their current GPUs however.

New comment by chad1n in "We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky"

chad1n — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:15:57 +0000

Who's this "we"? Is there anything that runs on the Bluesky protocol outside of the Bluesky itself which has its own extensions which can't be federated. Also, when I opened this site, all the posts were from a certain political ideology. The algorithm is probably more or less the same as Twitter in pushing contents loved by their creators.

New comment by chad1n in "Dell will no longer make XPS computers"

chad1n — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:32:31 +0000

So when I buy a Dell laptop now (won't happen), I need to ask for Dell Pro Premium package and make sure that the seller doesn't mistake it for Plus version or Base. Why would you go for "easier" names and go for 3 subcategories with the same name within 3 other categories. Just sell Dell/Dell Pro/Dell Pro Max (even the names are copied from Apple) with different specs, why give them subcategories

New comment by chad1n in "3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation"

chad1n — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:39:34 +0000

It truly protected web3 from the "normies" that could have learned about crypto from this video. AI moderation is such a joke, every reupload (or a completely different video on the same subject) can take a video down because they look "similar" enough for the AI and no person would bother checking it. I expected a different treatment of their bigger creators, but that's what it is.