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New comment by elisbce in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7"

elisbce — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:25:03 +0000

That already happened many times in history to many civilizations. Knowledge was discovered and lost, and rediscovered years later or never.

New comment by elisbce in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7"

elisbce — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:20:19 +0000

I’m not sure where he got that idea. All I could learn about TP was like one book sold in one bookstore in my entire city. The barriers to entry back then were astronomically higher than they are today, especially given how AI has democratized access to information, knowledge, and expertise.

New comment by elisbce in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry"

elisbce — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:32:52 +0000

You didn't break embargo if you didn't know about it. Somewhere in the process things are broken. You are actually one of the better guys out there. There are people who actually knowingly broke the embargo, and there are even people who willingly developed PoCs just to brag on X. You are fine.

New comment by elisbce in "Tell HN: Codex Is Down"

elisbce — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:12:49 +0000

Somebody really wanted to cross one off the weekly TODO list :)

New comment by elisbce in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

elisbce — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:38:28 +0000

If artificial intelligence exceeds human intelligence, human beings will not do frontier math, or frontier anything for that matter. Why is this so hard to grasp? Monkeys don't understand or use calculus, but that's okay, they just continue to live like monkeys.

New comment by elisbce in "The Beauty of Roundabouts"

elisbce — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:08:05 +0000

It is so funny to read this because in reality, roundabouts are some of the worst traffic congestion makers :)

New comment by elisbce in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

elisbce — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:00:46 +0000

Why are all the seemingly smart people on HN so narrow-minded to the point of speaking idiotic nonsense? What do you think their 3.6B MAU are, all bots?

New comment by elisbce in "How Complex Systems Fail (1998)"

elisbce — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:57:59 +0000

"Catastrophe requires multiple failures – single point failures are not enough."

I disagree with this point. From what I have seen and experienced, there are so many SPOFs in the real-world complex systems that do not have adequate defense or even any defense at all. The only reason catastrophe didn't occur (often) is only because the natural failure rate is extremely low. Like the probability of air traffic controller making a critical mistake is very low, maybe once every few years, but when it happens, the SPOF will almost certainly cause a disaster, and the system (ie. the way air traffic is controlled today) has been around for decades and is so outdated but the cost of changing the entire process around the world is simply way too high so we just take this as "normal".

New comment by elisbce in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

elisbce — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:06:29 +0000

I tried it and it performed poorly on my private benchmark problems. The overthinking problem is real, it takes 5-10x the reasoning tokens than comparable models. It is a sign of inadequate training of the base model and it is using more reasoning tokens to compensate for that. I also noticed that it is likely to get into somewhat repetitive reasoning and forgetting about some user requirements, suggesting that it could be the side effects of using 3:1 linear attention vs full attention.

New comment by elisbce in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

elisbce — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:43:24 +0000

Considering the amount of AI slop being generated today and LOCs that no one actually reviewed, I doubt we will run out of vulnerabilities to exploit...

New comment by elisbce in "Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users"

elisbce — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:48:39 +0000

Shouldn't it be Google Plus? ;)

New comment by elisbce in "Elevators"

elisbce — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:22:32 +0000

This article didn't consider two very important optimizations: 1. Odd-even split with all-floor backup. 2. Low/High floor split.

New comment by elisbce in "Our position on open-weights models"

elisbce — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:40:13 +0000

What Dario said is half true. The untrue half is that the ship to stop China from overtaking the US in AI has sailed long ago. While China is busy getting their frontier models trained on smuggled chips using distilled data from millions of shell accounts, the US is busy debating whether to check voter IDs, or secure borders. It is just delusional to think the US is actually capable to stop China from getting the chips they want.

New comment by elisbce in "Our position on open-weights models"

elisbce — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:01:14 +0000

"Not interested in world domination" LOL. That's what Putin said 10 years ago.

New comment by elisbce in "ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges"

elisbce — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:31:27 +0000

The comments here are ridiculous. Do you know how much ChatGPT has helped families, esp. those without access to the top medical doctors and resources around the world? My own experience with it so far have been nothing but positive. It beat all the doctors in various hospitals that we have consulted so far on breadth and depth and the best thing is you can keep asking follow-up questions on anything and it gives you all the details you need without being rushed.

The fact that it is not 100% reliable shouldn't be basis for restrictions. Even top trained doctors are far from 100% reliable either.

New comment by elisbce in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

elisbce — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:32:22 +0000

I don't think you even understand the problem. The determinant needs to be a non-zero constant AND you need to prove that particular map is not globally injective, meaning you have to find at least two points mapping to the same value. Of course it looks easy when someone shows you the counterexample.

New comment by elisbce in "Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM"

elisbce — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 09:57:20 +0000

What a great bullshit detector signal it is if someone's involved in the DAOs and NFT stuff. Don't waste your time on a fake AI-generated one-man shell company. The company had like 3 investments since 2017, first $2.5k from school startup grant in 2017, and two more from incubator programs in 2023 and 2024, for "augmented reality". And now you are the most innovative chip designer in AI. Nowhere on Chenming Hu's Linkedin said anything about being an official advisor for this one-man company. I can take a photo with Messi, does that make me a top soccer player?

New comment by elisbce in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

elisbce — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:05:10 +0000

Chinese frontier models don't need to catch up in every category. They just need to win in coding and that's exactly where they are going. The gap went from 12+ months to 1-2 months with the latest release of GLM 5.2 and coding is a task that you don't need heroic efforts to find rare and long-tail training data, you can just outsmart your competitor by optimizing algorithms and training recipes. This is something they can do at scale with the money and talent pool.

New comment by elisbce in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

elisbce — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:30:51 +0000

Why doesn't the industry use something like transistor density per cubic cm? This would extend to 3d cases and impossible to fake

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

elisbce — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:39:26 +0000

Did Opus 4.8 just get a lot dumber because of this? My sessions are making so many dumb mistakes it wouldn't make before...