Hacker News: diabllicseagull

New comment by diabllicseagull in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:08:44 +0000

so an on-premise and open-weight model was more useful than a commercial frontier model?

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:02:58 +0000

I get the consumers' ick when I see an AI-generated menu, logo, or sign as much as the next person. Beyond that, there is an argument to be made about the discrepancy between the pictorial depictions of a food item and what you are actually served in real life. I wish something akin to Japan's strict food packaging laws existed for restaurants.

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

diabllicseagull — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:53:55 +0000

we have already gone through multiple cycles of remote and edge compute (mainframe to pc, pc to cloud, cloud to phone). as the software/hardware landscape changes, the economics of what can be run on what device will change accordingly. I very much doubt that it will permanently go one way.

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

diabllicseagull — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:55:06 +0000

if you look at how GPU memory grew in the last 15 years, it's about 10x. Sadly, 10x from today doesn't get us to a typical frontier model size of today which is a quickly moving target. some other advancement needs to happen to get us another 10x both in memory/compute requirements, and also power requirements.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

diabllicseagull — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:21:37 +0000

I'd like to pick on the word 'invisible': if the user can get into a flow state with a tool where work becomes the major focus. I can argue that you can get into that state with any tool with enough practice. And sometimes that's only possible if the tool is actually visible to you as in all graphical UI bits you need are exactly where you remember them to be, exactly where your motor reflexes immediately seek and find.

So regarding proficiency. I bet you weren't as proficient with multiple cursors and all the things you can do with it when you first used it. (15 years is a long time to remember how it all started.) I could argue that all the key shortcuts and other bits you need to make multiple cursors work effectively doesn't come to everyone instantly. But with time you could and would hit that level.

Overall tho, vim is an interesting comparison to make also because sublime text also has a 'vintage mode'. I personally use it with vim shortcuts enabled. it lets me use vim motions on top of everything sublime offers. Does sublime + vim make it more 'invisible' to me than it is to you?

I generally have issues with arguments like this. It starts with a sexy phrase that projects some earned wisdom but then the rest of the supporting arguments are forced into the narrative most of the time by selectively ignoring important information. You could have just said I love sublime and I prefer it over vim because of this and that. or it could have been a direct critique of linux desktop. they would all stand on their own, even better I would argue, without being shoehorned into an overarching, simple, catchy phrase.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Grok 4.5"

diabllicseagull — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:30:32 +0000

politics being the inflammatory topic for you or not, you seem to seek a particular type of comment section that only includes the information you are personally interested in and nothing else (garbage as you put it). imho, it's an unrealistic expectation on your part.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

diabllicseagull — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:54:39 +0000

From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days."

it's not giving me any warm and fuzzy.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Printing Gaussian Splats"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:28:45 +0000

so they buy and operate the machine, the customer brings the splat. is this just a print lab?

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Midjourney Medical"

diabllicseagull — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:16:38 +0000

I'm just guessing here but similar to a CAT scan, having actuators/probes at all angles could mean you can get an image around such obstacles. skull is probably an exception and it's the reason why we don't see any head scans in any one of the videos.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:38:50 +0000

this is the take.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates"

diabllicseagull — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:02:11 +0000

Space key

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

diabllicseagull — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:51:45 +0000

I've been keeping an eye on the state of Linux on the first gen of X Elite and it's sad that the potential is not fully materialized outside WoA. Take a look at what peeps are going through:

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e...

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Every Byte Matters"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:11:27 +0000

We'll get there, bit by bit.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:11:06 +0000

Massive fumble imho. I'm still sad about the SGU cancellation. It had so much potential for the third season. If Amazon won't commit to a new Stargate show it should at least release it for others to do so. Currently, it's keeping the franchise hostage.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

diabllicseagull — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:05:35 +0000

Same. The third season was great and left me wanting for more. Alas.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Radxa Dragon Q8B: A Laptop Cosplaying as an SBC?"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:34:25 +0000

I have been tinkering with the Windows Dev Kit 2023 which shares the same SoC as this board. Linux support has been improving but with only third party kernel patches. GPU support has been okay but I have noticed oddities at higher resolutions. Speaking of, none of the display port options could provide 4K at 120Hz so maybe this is one area that the Q8B can prove to be more capable; it is supposed to have an HDMI 2.1 port and two DP 1.4 capable usb-c ports.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Ferrari Luce"

diabllicseagull — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:19:28 +0000

I guess Ferrari always preferred form-over-function to some extent. It was never the utilitarian's car but now you can't even get in a four door car at the same time. I'm really at a loss.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

diabllicseagull — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:55:24 +0000

I'm using uBlock's AI Blacklist. It doesn't remove AI generated pages from search results but when a page doesn't load, you know.

New comment by diabllicseagull in "Googlebook"

diabllicseagull — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:19:18 +0000

so Aluminum OS is finally here. it should be big enough of an announcement by itself but what we get is googlebook; hardware with an AI-tied value proposition. how do they think people would justify choosing a googlebook over everything else only to use gemini?

I wish it was framed around the OS and how it can run on a wide range of devices (similar to android and chrome os) and become something more in time (maybe with apps that can be developed outside the android ecosystem with a desktop experience in mind).

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

diabllicseagull — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:39:46 +0000

> Alas, despite modern technologies and institutions, our human societies, technology, and understanding ultimately rely on 50,000-year old hardware (our brains!), which evolves slowly and mysteriously. Unavoidably, we work with individual and collective neural hardware limits.

this bit especially tells me the reader needs a pile of salt.