Hacker News: edgyquant

New comment by edgyquant in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

edgyquant — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:50:01 +0000

Can you give an example? For me I find that one shot prompts are pretty good it’s only when working with large codebases and complex, multi prompt workflows, that I find the real limitations of models

New comment by edgyquant in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

edgyquant — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:28:15 +0000

Previous administrations have yes.

New comment by edgyquant in "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"

edgyquant — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:27:36 +0000

Its a really weird use of the word government to not actually refer to the government but to the executive and saying the “courts are outside of the government” makes it seem like they aren’t a part of the state.

New comment by edgyquant in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

edgyquant — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:55:27 +0000

Hasn’t it already been ruled by a court that LLM outputs are not subject to copyright? It opens a can of worms to say that LLM companies can dictate what their outputs are used for.

New comment by edgyquant in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

edgyquant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:21:02 +0000

Every government has taxed its population, and past governments often used real violence to collect them. The level of taxes we see currently is abnormal and abusive imo, but taxing in general isn’t.

New comment by edgyquant in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

edgyquant — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:09:14 +0000

Houses have real value by themselves as you can live in one. But they have been treated like a Ponzi scheme recently which is why we are in such a mess with housing

New comment by edgyquant in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

edgyquant — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:39:56 +0000

I think Lina Khan said this first about AI companies and I agree with them both. Companies already have an obligation to make safe products and not commit crimes

New comment by edgyquant in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

edgyquant — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:32:00 +0000

You’ll be upvoted?

New comment by edgyquant in "Attention is all you have"

edgyquant — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:28:59 +0000

Frankly I just don’t care that much, I hate Google and llms have mostly replaced the search but after work I want to spend time with family and do hobbies and degoogling is a nice to have that is nowhere near the top of my priorities list.

New comment by edgyquant in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

edgyquant — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:08:57 +0000

Thank you for your site dude! I had so much fun and learned so much building my own toy OS over a decade ago.

New comment by edgyquant in "Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees"

edgyquant — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:20:33 +0000

Nobody is subsidizing anything. If damage occurs the tenant pays for it

New comment by edgyquant in "One-Electron Universe"

edgyquant — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:50:02 +0000

I think most mysticism from all various religions eventually arise at a similar conclusion, this leads me to believe it must be the truth.

New comment by edgyquant in "One-Electron Universe"

edgyquant — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:49:05 +0000

I always loved this as it seems to be a more modern way of interpreting the monad. Could it not be the case that all particles are actually just one thing that is not subject to time and that our reality is a snapshot of a matrix of its different potentials?

New comment by edgyquant in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

edgyquant — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:44:14 +0000

The AI revolution has led to everyone including US companies working to build their own GPUs there is zero proof or reason to think embargo’s are the cause. As I said, China was already working to build their own capacity

New comment by edgyquant in "If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right"

edgyquant — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:54:21 +0000

They’re not bots they are ai skeptics who want to prove that ai isn’t actually productive we all just think it is

New comment by edgyquant in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

edgyquant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:28:39 +0000

Yes it was a dumb thing to say and it doesn’t follow at all that restrictions on chips has “sped up” anything. China was always going to build their own chips and their pace is unrelated to a lack of nvidia chips.

New comment by edgyquant in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

edgyquant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:26:41 +0000

The idea that China wasn’t working hard to build their own chips is a political talking point period. Nothing has been sped up here, China was always going to do this and the backlash you see from people who are against it is only proof that restrictions do hurt them

New comment by edgyquant in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

edgyquant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:57:55 +0000

How much data is stored in the average aws data center? Assuming they do regularly back ups, it makes sense that recent data can’t be instantly backed up and so there will always be some data in transit or queued up no?

New comment by edgyquant in "One year of sponsored Servo development"

edgyquant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:17 +0000

Would also be interested to hear why. Personally I used to watch serenityOS and only recently relooked into it to see the main guy was no longer leading it but working on ladybird full time

New comment by edgyquant in "A rough guide for going back to the Moon"

edgyquant — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:58:12 +0000

We all pay taxes for things we don’t agree with, such has it always been