Hacker News: daniel_iversen

Chinese Orgs Building AI Models of American Voters to Test Political Messages

daniel_iversen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:19:45 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/2090814996687237570

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406229

Points: 5

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Apple degrades privacy and encryption of iMessage with AI integrations

daniel_iversen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:41:02 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/stevemoraco/status/2091194172917338520

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405505

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

daniel_iversen — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:01:31 +0000

I hate people linking to paywalled articles, wish it was against the HN terms.

Here’s another link to an article about the acquisition; https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/16/stripe-reportedly-finali...

Kimi-k3-in-C, 2.78T-parameter model, one CPU, 8GB RAM

daniel_iversen — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/FareedKhan-dev/kimi-k3-in-c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167975

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:48:53 +0000

The ABC in Australia feels so opinionated and tilted to the “left” side of politics whenever I’ve watched it on the TV. And it may just have been that news show or the specific host but it makes it not enjoyable to watch when it seems there’s always an “angle” and negative undertones and people constantly having an axe to grind. I’d personally like a bit more neutral news that also leans a little more on the positive and inspiring side.

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

daniel_iversen — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:40:28 +0000

I'm from Asana so I'm probably biased too :) and I agree single-player agents are easier, but multi-player agents that understand end to end workflows etc. are very powerful. That's what we've built and yes it took a lot of thought and time to built it in a way that it would be privacy conscious and not leak the wrong thing to the wrong people etc. I haven't player with Buzz yet but signed up and admire them for thinking differently and trying to build something interesting.

New comment by daniel_iversen in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:53:17 +0000

But isn't there the raw intelligence of a smart model and then the practical intelligence fuelled by how many parameters it has? You probably will barely be able to fit a 70 billion parameter model on a phone in 3-4 years let alone a 2+ trillion parameter model... so it depends on what you call intelligence

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:06:31 +0000

How would it compare to Wispr Flow? I recently started using it and it feels so much more robust than anything out there (and in fact the one in iOS and MacOS 26 seemed pretty poor in comparison)... and do we know if Wispr Flow uses the Whisper tech behind the scenes or if they have their own model etc?

Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma

daniel_iversen — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:32:15 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/martha-lillard-us-polio-patient-iron-lung-dies-134668491

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48877178

Points: 96

# Comments: 35

New comment by daniel_iversen in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

daniel_iversen — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:25:47 +0000

Surely it’ll be an issue some day for other space activities with all the SpaceX kit up there? I know space is very large :) but surely it’d be hard to scan, calculate and control trajectories of millions of orbiting tiny things when you’re launching rockets and things? A spacex satellite almost crashed into the Chinese space station some years ago and the Chinese had to perform an evasive manoeuvre I believe

New comment by daniel_iversen in "AI Under Trump's Control: Can France Still Avoid Digital Dependence?"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:33:20 +0000

A cool detail in the article that you can look up in the news is the French government investing €650m in AI, including technology (not just implementation, training and licensing it seems). Hope some of it is for further funding and equity in Mistral, and that other European countries follow suit. Even better if there was a great non-profit or B-Corp European alternative to the US and Chinese frontier/SOTA labs.

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Commodore's New Flip Phone Focuses on Digital Detox"

daniel_iversen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:46:06 +0000

The actual phone https://commodore.net/callback/

Commodore's New Flip Phone Focuses on Digital Detox

daniel_iversen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:40:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/commodores-new-flip-phone-focuses-on-digital-detox-blocks-social-media-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583890

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Apple Foundation Models"

daniel_iversen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:33:13 +0000

Is this Apple encouraging developers to go through their api abstraction layer to use LLMs so that when they launch their own (which I think we’ve heard they’ve been spending lots of money on training and might be somehow involved with Siri or current Apple AI?) that they can easily help devs make a seamless transition? Or is it just a developer nicety or something else?

New comment by daniel_iversen in "GameBoy Workboy"

daniel_iversen — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:58:52 +0000

Here’s a nice YouTube video about GameBoy WorkBoy; a hardware addon and software productivity apps for the game boy,’unreleased and recently recovered https://youtu.be/1Y98jj3Kn84?si=dMII3mTmeDI0XrCn

Sorry if it’s in the article, I can’t access it either

The first-ever reverse-aging drug was just injected into a human

daniel_iversen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:55:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/first-ever-reverse-aging-treatment-injected-into-a-human-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488291

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:35:11 +0000

Doesn't inference have very good profit margins* but all the losses come from training?

* For now, when they don't have to compete much against companies like DeepSeek who supplies inference at 1/10th of the cost

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

daniel_iversen — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:28:36 +0000

I’ve used Claude for a couple of months now and didn’t know about the specific “plan mode” you can put it into!

New comment by daniel_iversen in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:33:43 +0000

I'm quite sure (and you could find it somewhere of course) that the Chinese models would've been fine-tuned for certain leanings and world views. Even so, at what point is even the quality risk (assuming your use case won't be affected by those adjustments) and any potential privacy concerns outweighed by the fact that it's literally an order of magnitude (and sometimes multiple, for output tokens etc!) cheaper than the US frontier models?

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:34:07 +0000

I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!