Hacker News: christina97

New comment by christina97 in "Claude Fable 5"

christina97 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:17:57 +0000

They do not claim to have migrated 50 million lines of Ruby. Simply that some migration took place in such a codebase.

New comment by christina97 in "I Think Rutger Bregman and the School for Moral Ambition Are Full of Shit"

christina97 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:52:59 +0000

The basic message is sound. Bregman himself seems a bit more confused than the (moral) clarity he attempts to project. This is fine.

New comment by christina97 in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

christina97 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:55:37 +0000

As others pointed out, it only sucks for the buying side. The actual customers instead get price gouging and taking-the-blame as a service.

New comment by christina97 in "Dopamine Fracking"

christina97 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:05:50 +0000

Right but that’s not what the article argues. The article argues that strawberries have been destroyed and now you only get the synthetic flavor and no grandma nostalgia.

New comment by christina97 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

christina97 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:45:29 +0000

The point is that that’s a valuation on paper, made up by a small group of investors that have a strong incentive to have the number be high. Would the number have gone up like this if it were a public company?

New comment by christina97 in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

christina97 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:06:58 +0000

It seems worse in all aspects to the 26B A4B? I would have thought dense models beat MoE still on many benchmarks?

Is the entire point of this model then that it runs if you don’t have enough GPU memory to load the 26B? That one runs faster anyway due to lower active params.

New comment by christina97 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

christina97 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:18:17 +0000

I think the key thing that depreciates is all their models. You train one at crazy cost and 6 months later it’s worth $0. If you ignore that depreciation you look much more profitable.

New comment by christina97 in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

christina97 — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:56:28 +0000

The SSD would wear out in days while the laptop generates two responses a day. This is like saying you could power your home with AA batteries, yes technically you could but in practice entirely infeasible.

New comment by christina97 in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

christina97 — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:06:51 +0000

My earlier research suggests NVIDIA does not actually cap spikes, it caps the average over short periods of time. So setting the power limit is no guarantee.

New comment by christina97 in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – resolved"

christina97 — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:45:37 +0000

But it’s okay to be down when the whole internet is down.

New comment by christina97 in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

christina97 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:21:48 +0000

While I’m sympathetic to this argument (it would be great if the internet were a safe place), in practice this thinking leads to governments trying to impose legislation that hurts legitimate uses but does little to protect from the long tail of harm. There’s little that can be done about North Korean state sanctioned cybercrime without a great firewall.

If the perpetrators of this hack were caught and in a developed country, they would certainly be prosecuted for their crimes and not get off light (especially if any data is actually leaked).

New comment by christina97 in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

christina97 — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:31:51 +0000

I recently set up the 26B A4B model up on vLLM on an RTX3090 (4-bit) after a hiatus from local models. Just completely blown away by the speed and quality you can get now for sub-$1k investment.

I tried first with Qwen but it was unstable and had ridiculously long thinning traces!

New comment by christina97 in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

christina97 — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:53:02 +0000

You’re absolutely right!

New comment by christina97 in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

christina97 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:44:19 +0000

By and large cooling, just like a data center.

New comment by christina97 in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

christina97 — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:16:25 +0000

If it’s so easy then why don’t we have a high quality classifier?

New comment by christina97 in "Why Japan has such good railways"

christina97 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:26:48 +0000

So in other words… they internalized a number of heavily subsidized externalities of individual transportation by car?

New comment by christina97 in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

christina97 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:24:18 +0000

This is frankly one of the most frustrating things about LLMs: sometimes I just want to drive it into a corner. “Why the f** did you do X when I specifically told you not to?”

It never leads to anything helpful. I don’t generally find it necessary to drive humans into a corner. I’m not sure it’s because it’s explicitly not a human so I don’t feel bad for it, though I think it’s more the fact that it’s always so bland and is entirely unable to respond to a slight bit of negative sentiment (both in terms of genuinely not being able to exert more effort into getting it right when someone is frustrated with it, but also in that it is always equally nonchalant and inflexible).

New comment by christina97 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

christina97 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:17:51 +0000

Right, but the question is whether the companies producing foundation models will capture that value or not. Right now it seems like tokens might end up just being a commodity sold at cost plus, and companies higher up in the supply chain will make the money. Electricity changed the world but electricity companies capture very little of that value.

New comment by christina97 in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

christina97 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:53:52 +0000

No the US government legitimately sells this kind of insurance (and reinsurance):

https://www.dfc.gov/what-we-offer/our-products/political-ris...

New comment by christina97 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

christina97 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:12:13 +0000

I mean they are “startups” on the way to mega-companies. They need internal tooling to match.