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New comment by elorant in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

elorant — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:41:06 +0000

Wow, this is fucking phenomenal. I fed it a long transcript asking it to create a summary and it executed it extremely well. For an 8B model this is quite impressive.

New comment by elorant in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

elorant — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:04:29 +0000

Tell me about it. I spent a week back and forth between four models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok) trying to enhance a PPMI algorithm. They couldn’t agree on anything. One was refuting what the other said. Eventually I decided to follow what Claude suggested because its explanations made the more sense.

New comment by elorant in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

elorant — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:05:18 +0000

What if their move is to make AI search horrible so that OpenAI has no moves left here because trust in the product collapses?

New comment by elorant in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

elorant — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:09:35 +0000

Give it a few years and the web will be AIs talking to other AIs ad infinitum

New comment by elorant in "Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance"

elorant — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:34:25 +0000

Mac ultras would be great if they offered pcie slots to put nvme drives on and ideally an infiniband network card.

New comment by elorant in "Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance"

elorant — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:47:15 +0000

I don't expect them to change their entire pipeline. But surely they could offer a unified RAM lineup that caters to specific needs. Not everyone needs that fast RAM access but for those who do it could be nice to have an option. The writing is on the wall for years now.

New comment by elorant in "Nvidia Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering Great Performance"

elorant — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:20:27 +0000

1.2TB/s memory bandwidth from a CPU. Oh boy. What the fuck is Intel doing all this time and can’t deliver equivalent performance?

OnlyFans owner in talks to sell to investor group at about $8B value

elorant — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/onlyfans-owner-talks-sell-investor-group-about-8-billion-value-sources-say-2025-05-22/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269304

Points: 3

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Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore

elorant — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/six-search-engines-worth-trying-now-that-google-isnt-really-google-anymore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266051

Points: 571

# Comments: 578

New comment by elorant in "Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)"

elorant — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:55:05 +0000

It is a thing and not only in U.S. I live in Greece and my girlfriend can’t sleep if she’s not covered by something even if it’s in the middle of August and it’s scorching Earth outside. She says she feels vulnerable without a cover. I on the other hand can’t sleep with a cover during summer.

New comment by elorant in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

elorant — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:36:11 +0000

They do require retooling and that's what's happening here. RAM manufacturers decided that it's way more lucrative to focus on HMB production than DDR 4/5 production. Capacity is the issue and that's capped unless you build new fabs but they won't do it because there's no guarantee that the demand will keep the same in the next years.

New comment by elorant in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

elorant — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:52:42 +0000

A fab costs $15-20bn and it takes at least five years to build. Plus it requires expertise that none of these companies have.

New comment by elorant in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

elorant — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:36:39 +0000

Because RAM isn’t in PCs only. It’s in tablets, phones, laptops, DIY computers like the Raspberry, mini PCs, watches, smart TVs, game consoles, cars, routers, cameras, all smart appliances from refrigerators to washing machines, fitness trackers, printers etc. Cloud services are irrelevant to most of these categories.

New comment by elorant in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

elorant — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:24:02 +0000

Bought a second hand Dell server a week ago. The entire rig with a 12-core CPU and 32GB DDR4 ecc RAM cost as much as I'd pay to buy 64 GB of DDR RAM alone. I hope there's an end to this absurdity soon enough otherwise the pain will affect other markets too. I read the other day that PC case sales have collapsed by more than 40%.

New comment by elorant in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

elorant — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:06:55 +0000

Half the results for me were the same as the mentioned article

New comment by elorant in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

elorant — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:10:28 +0000

Both parts seem pretty normal to me.

New comment by elorant in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

elorant — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:41:34 +0000

Sure, let's hide everything behind obscure schemes which will definitely serve the spirit of openness of the web.

New comment by elorant in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

elorant — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:05:58 +0000

Possible yes, probable not likely. The moment you're issued a certificate your domain will be shown in the Certificate Transparency logs which are constantly monitored from anyone who wants to find new sites.

New comment by elorant in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

elorant — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:53:50 +0000

Because their strategy wasn’t to become leaders but to be as good as it takes to erode the lead of others. They have the cash cow of search so they don’t rely on AI to succeed. All they need is to keep publishing new products/services to keep OpenAI from taking the initiative. Between that and the Chinese models all they have to do is wait for the bubble to burst at which point every major AI lab would go bust.

New comment by elorant in "Google changes its search box"

elorant — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:57:14 +0000

I wish they could remove the AI overview crap that's dysfunctional and kills the very spirit of a search engine's premise. You're not supposed to steal links from sites Google. That's a fucking dark pattern.