Hacker News: dr_hooo

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

dr_hooo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:56:49 +0000

They do (it's just text), if they are there...

New comment by dr_hooo in "Android Developer Verification"

dr_hooo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:36:13 +0000

Likely true, but also many technically oriented people (myself included) would turn away from Android if f-droid stopped working. And I would actively start recommending friends and family against it. What is the benefit of Android at this point? an extended Ads platform, controlled by Google.

New comment by dr_hooo in "NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute"

dr_hooo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:48:13 +0000

On a much simpler level, llm frameworks could re-summarize their context to keep relevant, use-case-specific facts, cleanup and also organize long and short term memory on some local storage, etc. So kind of like sleep. I think these examples are low hanging fruit to improve the perceived intelligence of LLM systems (so probably they're already used somewhere).

New comment by dr_hooo in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

dr_hooo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:15:19 +0000

No true regarding the IDs, only PhD titles can be added. Not job descriptions. Source: academia person in Germany.

New comment by dr_hooo in "EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament"

dr_hooo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:44:42 +0000

Sadly, another attempt will likely be made at some point. At least the regulation is quite explicit:

> This Regulation shall not prohibit, make impossible, weaken, circumvent or otherwise undermine cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption, including end-to-end encryption, implemented by the relevant information society services or by the users. This Regulation shall not create any obligation that would require a provider of hosting services or a provider of interpersonal communications services to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data, or that would prevent providers from offering end-to-end encrypted services.

New comment by dr_hooo in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

dr_hooo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:26:57 +0000

> The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

Isn't the saying "Don't believe *everything* you read on the Internet."? Which is quite different (and still holds today).

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: TutaCrypt, post-quantum encryption protocols for securing emails [pdf]"

dr_hooo — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:22:56 +0000

I was all for post-quantum crypto until I heard the news about SIKE being broken with a simple computer.

How will you make sure this does not happen to the algorithms you chose?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Meta Thinks Your Privacy Is for Sale. Would You Pay 120 Euros a Year"

dr_hooo — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:23:19 +0000

Question is whether they will stop tracking you, even if you pay.

New comment by dr_hooo in "A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely"

dr_hooo — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:04:44 +0000

From my understanding, there is a strong assumption backed by observations that matter and physics work the same way everywhere in our universe.

New comment by dr_hooo in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

dr_hooo — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:44:07 +0000

Could you provide some information on the Victoria Neuland thing?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Coffee in a Can"

dr_hooo — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:50:48 +0000

Microwaving steel isn't really a problem, as long as it is not just a very thin layer (can confirm)

New comment by dr_hooo in "AI isn’t good enough"

dr_hooo — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 18:04:10 +0000

Sure, but how would the average guy fare at the same task?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Custom instructions for ChatGPT"

dr_hooo — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 23:55:06 +0000

This doesn't seem to be a very hard problem to me. In the sense that you don't need to invent any new tech to store personal info. I also don't see a reason why these models will not run locally on our devices in the future.

New comment by dr_hooo in "Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app"

dr_hooo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 21:13:12 +0000

It may very well be true that 3rd parties can easily connect my identities. However I still see no reason to share my private identity with Bob from accounting.

New comment by dr_hooo in "Instagram Threads hits 100M users, becoming the fastest growing app"

dr_hooo — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:30:04 +0000

Sorry I don't have a answer for your question. But wow, I was not aware of that quote. The audacity of Zuckerberg lecturing people on lack of integrity is amazing. Shaming customers to further tighten his companys lock-in strategy seems... fittingly dystopian.

New comment by dr_hooo in "The Lone Banana Problem in AI"

dr_hooo — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:20:12 +0000

You're just a statistical number generator...

New comment by dr_hooo in "China Has $3T of ‘Hidden’ Currency Reserves, Setser Says"

dr_hooo — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:46:10 +0000

Could you also just share which previous empire you believe has been more "friendly"?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem"

dr_hooo — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 12:52:40 +0000

HedgeDoc [0] allows you to collaborate in markdown, and also create slides.

[0] https://hedgedoc.org/ and https://demo.hedgedoc.org/slide-example?both

New comment by dr_hooo in "Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem"

dr_hooo — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 11:54:48 +0000

Does anyone care to highlight the main differences between this and pandoc for creating slides in markdown?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Issue dialing 911 on Google Pixel 6 cell phones"

dr_hooo — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 13:51:55 +0000

Of course it matters, why such a black and white statement? The assumption is that a well funded company should be able to finance a quality assurance team which fixes bugs the developers create