Hacker News: deflator

New comment by deflator in "Russia building large scale military infrastructure on European border"

deflator — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:40:27 +0000

Makes sense if they are planning to concede in Ukraine. The Russian economy is dependent on continued military buildup, so they will try to continue with that but go back to their cold war-era posturing with the forces and matériel produced.

New comment by deflator in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

deflator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:00:52 +0000

The problem of the hype-train starting to cool is the only real problem it solved or will ever solve

New comment by deflator in "MAI-Thinking-1"

deflator — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:38:21 +0000

Does this mean that work created with it can be copyrighted? Since the courts ruled that the inclusion of pilfered IP was the reason other model's work cannot be copyrighted, I would think so! In that case, this is a completely different beast. It can maybe be used for things that need a durable copyright.

New comment by deflator in "VW cuts owners' access to their own vehicle data with API change"

deflator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:52:04 +0000

Their board of directors are literally wanted by the US for crimes. What do people expect from such a company? I shake my head any time I see a VW.

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

deflator — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:02:01 +0000

This really makes it clear. Thank you!

New comment by deflator in "Hard-Won Lessons from a Year of Using AI"

deflator — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:45:01 +0000

I have always taken an untrusting approach to LLMs for coding, born out of them being absolute trash at first. They're 1000x better now, but I still guide it every step of the way. It limits my speed gains, but I got what I wanted: no more typing out code and looking up patterns to get the exact syntax.

New comment by deflator in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

deflator — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:30:24 +0000

It must not be that difficult since I have never used a Meta product in my life. I had a Livejournal, lol.

New comment by deflator in "Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request"

deflator — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:10:25 +0000

What a lot of use on here are salivating for is the ability to run these on prosumer hardware at home. So we tend to jump to the conclusion that "standard" means "consumer-grade" because that's what we want to see. Still, very cool work!

New comment by deflator in "Argonne flexes spare supercompute to build private AI inference service"

deflator — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:18:42 +0000

Mmmm, what I could do with a cluster of H100s like that. Tim Allen grunt

New comment by deflator in "Individuals living within 1 mi of golf course have 126% higher Parkinsons risk"

deflator — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:41:29 +0000

The caddyshack gophers must have moved on to chemical warfare

New comment by deflator in "Training our own AI models"

deflator — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:20:04 +0000

There's a helpful response. It could always be worse!

New comment by deflator in "Training our own AI models"

deflator — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:38:06 +0000

Very true. I was considering PostHog, but this sours them in my eyes. Very deceptive wording.

New comment by deflator in "Alternatives to HN for "tech outside of AI" discussion?"

deflator — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:07:29 +0000

I like it, thanks for recommending

New comment by deflator in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

deflator — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:33:39 +0000

Once a vice is taxed, it becomes a budget line item for the local government and is much harder to get rid of

New comment by deflator in "A Master's Degree Isn't the Job Guarantee It Used to Be"

deflator — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:41:35 +0000

This has been my experience as well

New comment by deflator in "Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution"

deflator — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:43:18 +0000

I'm sure I don't understand all the technical aspects, but I do understand that this is frickin' cool. Nice work.

New comment by deflator in "Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas"

deflator — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:18:18 +0000

I would have thought Texas was the state least likely to hamper data center construction. Quite a bad sign for the bubble dwellers. All those Blackwells sitting in warehouses will sit even longer. Looks like its a pretty cosmopolitan area of Texas, though.

New comment by deflator in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

deflator — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:57:35 +0000

My understanding is that healthcare keeps growing because the large Boomer generation is aging. When they have passed though, then we should see a corresponding slide in healthcare growth

New comment by deflator in "xAI will be dissolved as a separate company"

deflator — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:29:12 +0000

I stopped listening to him when he said he wanted to die on mars. I think that was 10+ years ago.

New comment by deflator in "Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2"

deflator — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:19:26 +0000

This isn't a drug study. It's about food and nutrition, one of the most intentionally misled topics around. I put the blame for that squarely on those who sponsor studies like this that don't help anyone. They are just muddying the waters further. Any food you look at will have some good qualities, like being a good source of Vitamin C. It's like saying a block of calcium is a good source of vitamin C: of course it is! But that doesn't mean it's healthy to eat