Hacker News: elorant

New comment by elorant in "The state of open source AI"

elorant — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:30:40 +0000

Eventually they will kill the hyperscalers too because of privacy issues. It's better for a company to pay an uprfont cost and then run everything on premise that uploading their entire codebase to a third party service.

The OpenAI Bubble

elorant — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-bubble/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924462

Points: 35

# Comments: 19

SK Hynix plunges after Nasdaq debut as memory chip euphoria cools

elorant — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-shares-fall-much-44-seoul-after-strong-nasdaq-debut-2026-07-13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896948

Points: 38

# Comments: 5

Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft

elorant — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secret-theft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865499

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by elorant in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

elorant — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:33:06 +0000

I removed the model and then removed Chrome too. Good effing riddance.

New comment by elorant in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"

elorant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:47:02 +0000

Around that time a lot of politicians in Greece had their phones hacked by Pegasus. It's an ongoing scandal in Greece that never got fully resolved, although all evidence indicate that it was an operation orchestrated by the office of the prime minister in coordination with the local intelligence service. So I wouldn't call that an attack against the European parliament.

New comment by elorant in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

elorant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:49:19 +0000

Sorry to break it to you, but those aren’t marketers. Marketers can’t build shit. Those are all savvy developers who realized that they can take their talents to less competitive markets and harvest at scale all the low hanging fruits.

New comment by elorant in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

elorant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:45:40 +0000

They bought at $1bn and made it an $80bn behemoth. Meanwhile, I don't understand why a company has to innovate all the time like it's a piece of cake.

New comment by elorant in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

elorant — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:58:33 +0000

Instagram is an $80bn company right now. I’d call that a success.

New comment by elorant in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

elorant — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:21:23 +0000

Do they have a CLI?

New comment by elorant in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

elorant — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:15:50 +0000

You can get an AMD Strix Halo with half that price even after hardware price adjustments. Besides you don't need 128GB of RAM to run a 27B model.

New comment by elorant in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

elorant — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:43:59 +0000

I’m more interested in how they do large scans without their ISP or hosting provider going bananas about it.

New comment by elorant in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

elorant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:55:32 +0000

Very few people, but quite a lot of companies especially after per token pricing took effect and companies see their invoices skyrocketing. You pay an upfront cost once and you’re done.

New comment by elorant in "Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom"

elorant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:02:32 +0000

I did that too. Ending up building my own reverse index with a fixed-size vocabulary. But that's my issue, you start building one product and you end-up building ten in the process to solve all edge cases because no one bothered to research how things scale.

New comment by elorant in "Munich 1991: The Roots of the Current AI Boom"

elorant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:41:09 +0000

I do a lot of work that is based on academic research, aka building a proprietary sparse embedding model. My issue with academia is that they don’t bother to solve the practical issues. They tell you how to build a PPMI model, but what about hitting a database that’s 500TB to find co-occurrence numbers? This isn’t even touched so you’d then have to go and invent a bazillion of algorithms yourself to make your life easier. So while the bedrock is based on academic research and we thank them for that, scaling anything requires a lot of work in uncharted territories.

New comment by elorant in "Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic"

elorant — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:21:33 +0000

That or uMatrix

New comment by elorant in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

elorant — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:15:20 +0000

How exactly is AI helping you with sports? Have you become a better athlete? Have you learned more about the strategy of each sport from the perspective of a coach for example? Care to elaborate?

New comment by elorant in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

elorant — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:15:08 +0000

Economist has drunk the AI koolaid. Pretty pathetic for a publication of their esteem.

New comment by elorant in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

elorant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:21:14 +0000

Search for one is absolutely horrendous. It used to be great, but not so in the last years. Nowadays it’s filled with spam sites that they don’t seem to be able to filter out. And don’t get me started on the crappy AI overview that hijacks all queries.

Just today I tried a query for water filters and 1/3 of the results were ads. The other third were product pictures, or businesses in close proximity based on my ip. Then there was a box with related products/services, which was completely irrelevant to my needs, a second box with places, yet more product images and so on and so forth. Practically 70% of the real estate of the page was occupied by things I didn’t ask for. All I want is a list of relevant sites to go there and judge for myself. I don’t want Google to spoon feed me.

New comment by elorant in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

elorant — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:50:03 +0000

Raspberries are basically for DIY projects. I have one on my router handling call blocking for my landline. If it was costing $300 I would rather get a mini PC or use one of my defunct phones with UserLand on it. I can't see any world where a comparison to an entry level laptop makes sense.