Hacker News: doubtfuluser

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions"

doubtfuluser — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:15:05 +0000

But why using an encoder model instead of a BERT based model? For a pure classification that should be easier to train and work quite well

New comment by doubtfuluser in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

doubtfuluser — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:41:25 +0000

I hope Europe does this for real. I’m wondering how this privacy nightmare is eroding our standards so easily.

I certainly see the potential use of such - but the risks coming with such glasses at least in my opinion outweigh these uses..

Pleas, EU, ban this! Iirc there are already spy cams banned anyway in Germany, this should fall into the same category

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

doubtfuluser — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:05:18 +0000

I’m wondering if their internal name is “Sophon” for this “feature”…

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

doubtfuluser — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:23:50 +0000

This feels actually like a pretty safe bet for Google, they secure the compute in case it works (I doubt that the described volume will be available in the near future), while if SpaceX doesn’t manage to provide there is not much loss. I see it more as another way of blowing up SpaceX valuation on paper…

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Show HN: TRUST – Coding Rust like it's 1989"

doubtfuluser — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:45:22 +0000

Thank you for that - I’m definitely going to look into it. I realize that I lost the fun in coding. I’m in a different career stage now as well, but just seeing this reminded me of how I started a long time ago implementing snake, learning about graphics mode, double buffering / page flipping etc.

Everything felt exciting and so close to really understanding what’s going on. And just seeing the blue text interface reminded me of how much fun that was…

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

doubtfuluser — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:37:22 +0000

I think this is a super important point. Working on ai I’m really wondering where this will actually end in the case of our media consumption, AI is being used to generate more engaging content, this will imply ai will be almost a requirement to stay visible, so more ai will be used. In the end little to no “real content” will make it through.

Will there be a moment where people will leave social networks to get “real content” again? Will that be safe from AI optimization then?

Are we seeing the start of the demise of social media?

AI Allergy

doubtfuluser — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:48:45 +0000

Article URL: http://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/ai-allergy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44898249

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering"

doubtfuluser — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:34:43 +0000

I’m seriously getting worried that we use models without openly discussing any potential shortcomings they have. We should somewhere have a list of models and their issues.

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Qwen-Image: Crafting with native text rendering"

doubtfuluser — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:33:42 +0000

Can it generate images of a lone person standing in front of a column of tanks on Tiananmen Square?

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second"

doubtfuluser — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:04:07 +0000

Very impressive speed. A bit OT: what is the current verdict on Qwen, Kimi et al. When it comes to censorship / bias concerning narratives not allowed in the origin country?

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified"

doubtfuluser — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 04:40:46 +0000

Check out their product ;)

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Show HN: Semantic Calculator (king-man+woman=?)"

doubtfuluser — Thu, 15 May 2025 03:57:39 +0000

doctor - man + woman = medical practitioner

Good to understand this bias before blindly applying these models (Yes- doctor is gender neutral - even women can be doctors!!)

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Presentation Slides with Markdown"

doubtfuluser — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 05:36:42 +0000

What is the advantage over the reveal.js / quarto eco-system. I’m using that for my lectures, and am really happy about it (especially since it’s pretty easy to make an llm add automatic speaker notes and timing information)

New comment by doubtfuluser in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

doubtfuluser — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 06:42:36 +0000

> Intellectually many want this. But the feed shortcuts our reptile brain and gains more engagement minutes / day.

I’m not sure if that’s actually a “shortcut” to the reptile brain and it’s just about “I have to scroll more to get stuff I’m interested in. At least for me it feels like that and it causes me to use these social media things far less.

For me it feels more like intermittent rewards vs full rewards at once. Obviously for the ad-industry the intermittent rewards are more useful, that’s why we can’t have nice things

Alexa Plus starts rolling out

doubtfuluser — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 19:11:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/639697/amazon-alexa-plus-launch-early-access-missing-features

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550351

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Trump administration plans AI vetting of Social Media accounts

doubtfuluser — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:32:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/policy/624945/trump-uscis-social-media-review-policy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43308957

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Substance in broccoli, celery inhibits graying of black hair"

doubtfuluser — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:41:38 +0000

In mice

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Type 1 diabetes reversed by new cell transplantation technique"

doubtfuluser — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:25:11 +0000

in mice

New comment by doubtfuluser in "By the end of today, NASA's workforce will be about 10 percent smaller"

doubtfuluser — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:05:27 +0000

Not sure in how many countries it would be ok to slash NASA personnel while having your own space company.

New comment by doubtfuluser in "Amazon event on February 26th – new Alexa?"

doubtfuluser — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:06:47 +0000

It’s interesting that the wording is “see what’s coming next”… sounds to me like “we still don’t have it finished - but we are giving another preview after 1.5 years of no-show…”