<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cma</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cma</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:53:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cma" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A little over a year ago they were winning their first gold in an elite high school math competition. Have you not seen what they are doing in math now?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074319</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't believe that changes asymptotic worst case order complexity for multiplication of arbitrary sized integers on its own, naively applied.  That's not the same as saying it doesn't provide any speedup to them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:41:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070087</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070087</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are going to be things like fully connected 4 machine 512GB Mac studio clusters outside of datacenters in less than a month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:35:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070033</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Auto Research: Integer multiplication below n log n"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wouldn't it take an infinite lookup table to do this satisfying any two integers and still get an order-complexity speedup?  The integers can be any size.  You can't specify an arbitrarily variable sized lookup table in the normal formulation of these problems without computing the lookup table as part of the computation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:16:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066174</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are chemical based emp bombs,  NNEMPs, if the penetrate through to the inside and set that off it seems like it would be pretty effective on datacenters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:45:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022209</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50022209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "What should we tell our students?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone else <i>want</i> their doctor to have access to LLMs? They need to verify, but to just cut them off from something with that much breadth seems insane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:49:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019179</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019179</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50019179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But you can't do it with their internal model that is the same or a successor to the one that solved the navier stokes millenium prize problem.<p>With 40% formalized they probably have a good idea of how many were found to have fatal issues in the formalization attempt, and they hired some mathematicians to verify some of them, especially the big headline ones.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005973</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many of the statements were already there and looked over by the community in lean prior to the work though, the statement can get formalized before the proof of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005930</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the subscription plans Claude code consumes the same usage as the chat, and offers the same unsubsidized usage credits, which is close to billing per token.<p>If you read the model specs, they have a maximum output length. If you are running into that it might simply be that you are seeing the difference with a harness that can allow it to take another turn automatically and build up the output in a file vs the chat which may not be able to, though they do get some tools there.<p>The response output length limit includes the thinking tokens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990430</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990430</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What if we just discovered an alien artifact with the next 200 years of math?  I can see arguments to throw it away for safety, who knows if the aliens are getting us to nuke ourselves or whatever, but throw it away so a few hundred/thousand of the most elite thinking humans can have the joy of credit for discovering each thing?</p>
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<p>Trying to slow down this for the joy of discovery is a deeply anti-intellectual position. I think that position is similar to when everyday people get mad about the minor spending on the NSF, picking apart people who study beetles on Fox News with no context etc.<p>There are real safety concerns with AI that can be made very convincingly though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:46:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988306</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49988306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spintronics<p>"Whereas traditional electronics are based on control of charge carriers (n- or p-type), practical magnetic semiconductors would also allow control of quantum spin state (up or down). "<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_semiconductor" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_semiconductor</a><p>That page lists a bunch of other stuff too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:11:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983398</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the setting to let it read your messages if you don't want to give it full disk access.  If you give it full disk access wouldn't that supersede it unless you don't store your messages on the disk?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:26:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982871</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49982871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Magnets out of multiple materials, or magnetic semiconductors at room temperature?<p>Wikipedia seems to say it is new, assuming this one has "robust" coexistence of the properties the framing would be important and not just thrown in there to trick people into thinking it was about superconductors:<p>> To date, GaMnAs remains the only semiconductor material with robust coexistence of ferromagnetism persisting up to rather high Curie temperatures around 100–200 K.<p>If there is an important combination of material properties that previously was only available at cryogenic temps, a room temp version is significant since you don't need cryogenic cooling to take advantage of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:46:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981002</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TPU v4: An Optically Reconfigurable Supercomputer for Machine Learning with Hardware Support for Embeddings<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01433</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:28:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964616</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "What's the future for pure math research in the age of AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For one thing, every topic can be explained with motion graphics offering another 1 or 2 dimensions (time and for the 3d stuff that is hard to see structure of in static 2d, plus things like vr will allow more direct depth perception and different views) than a typical blackboard lecture.<p>On Proof and Progress in Mathematics talks about how much gets lost of the geometric understanding when translated to a paper.  The kinds of things many mathematicians visualize in their head will be much easier to transmit.<p>I don't know if that is enough to offset the other affects, but learning and transmitting the understanding should be able to get much easier for a lot of people in principle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960726</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Source on first patients being WIV workers?  I think there was a US intelligence report that claimed several fell ill in Nov., some with incompatible symptoms, and with claims from WIV they didn't test positive for antibodies (not saying take those at face value).  There's also the wet market and the sampling done in gutters around the different stalls and a whole competing story there, which is also the kind of scenario in the 2002 SARS outbreak.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:06:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960559</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Homa: The end of TCP for AI clusters [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google TPUs use optically routable fibers like circuit switching to be able to change the whole topology of the setup depending on training load/matrix dimensions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:06:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959930</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When reading on Kindle for Android on a plane etc. I use Wear Mouse to do it from my watch. I'm not sure if it can pair to kindle devices though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 02:02:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959905</link><dc:creator>cma</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49959905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cma in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember the OSX animated wallpaper update (that updated lighting as the time of day changed or something) eating up like 10-15% of my macbook air's small drive.  After removal they would re-add themselves every update as important protected system files.</p>
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