Hacker News: fgblanch

New comment by fgblanch in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

fgblanch — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:52:48 +0000

Commenting just to appreciate this analysis. I totally bought the marketing that this was a small phone, while it seems it just had a small screen.

New comment by fgblanch in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

fgblanch — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:08:10 +0000

Funny enough, in 2023, Asus released a good very close to iphone Mini-size android phone. The asus zenfone 10. https://www.asus.com/us/mobile-handhelds/phones/zenfone/zenf...

Alexa+

fgblanch — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/new-alexa-generative-artificial-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185446

Points: 222

# Comments: 339

Amazon launches Alexa+

fgblanch — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/amazon-2025-devices-alexa-event-live-updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43185296

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by fgblanch in "Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok"

fgblanch — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:47:37 +0000

I don't know if it would come with the deal, but Bytedance web crawler is known to be the one with top number of requests per day among AI crawlers (src: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-blo... ) I guess one of Perplexity challenges is to have their own web index and of course that starts with having a powerful crawler. Also having a powerful crawler is useful for capturing tokens to train models. If that technology comes with the deal, it makes perfect sense for Perplexity to acquire them.

New comment by fgblanch in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

fgblanch — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 23:00:59 +0000

It is painful to read. To me in retrospective the major mistake in the presentation is that it barely talks about end users and how the iPhone enabled a new world of use cases. It is only about business/corporate, features and specs. When analyzing the iphone on those dimensions all the reactive action items are doomed. They had not a chance to compete with that analysis.

New comment by fgblanch in "AI for Product Managers"

fgblanch — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:14:08 +0000

This is a very bad article, probably to attract traffic to their PM course. For me is very simple, there are AI Product Managers. But those are not PMS that use AI tools but rather those that manage AI products. And there is a difference between Software 1.0 and Software 2.0 (AI or ML model based) products. These products are not managed as engineering but science. These products are managed with experiments. These products are non-deterministic. These products have virtually infinite inputs and outputs. These products do not address one problem but many at the same time. So, if you ask me of course there is a thing such as AI Product Manager but not what the author, and many other PMs, think.

How to use ChatGPT advance voice mode on Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

fgblanch — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/fgblanch/status/1869511877723873301

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42456321

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Rabbit Lam Playground

fgblanch — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rabbit.tech/lam-playground

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800240

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Jim Simons has died

fgblanch — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:51:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/simons-foundation-co-founder-mathematician-and-investor-jim-simons-dies-at-86/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40320406

Points: 1143

# Comments: 320

OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity

fgblanch — Wed, 08 May 2024 06:40:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-07/openai-is-readying-an-ai-search-product-to-rival-google-perplexity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40295036

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Tiny GPU: A minimal GPU implementation in Verilog

fgblanch — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/adam-maj/tiny-gpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40153815

Points: 315

# Comments: 73

New comment by fgblanch in "Zooming User Interface (ZUI)"

fgblanch — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 23:47:48 +0000

I think the only proven use cases for ZUIs have been Maps, Calendars, and Photo apps (Apple Photos and Google Photos). The last two to switch between different time period views: Day->Month->Year for photos and Day>Week>Month for calendars.

New comment by fgblanch in "Building WOPR: A 7x4090 AI Server"

fgblanch — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:15:45 +0000

I love the name "WOPR" and the reference to Wargames film

New comment by fgblanch in "Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft"

fgblanch — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:24:46 +0000

I had the same question. I guess too is a common protocol. Any insights on why these flights are gears down?

New comment by fgblanch in "Compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT"

fgblanch — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 03:36:21 +0000

I would love to see Perplexity.ai in the benchmark. It has completely replaced Google/DDG for information questions for me. I still use DDG when I want to do a navigational query (e.g. find the URL for a blog i partially recall the name).

New comment by fgblanch in "Show HN: Hacky Meta Glasses GPT4 Vision Integration"

fgblanch — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:19:56 +0000

Very nice hack! I did a very similar project integrating ChatGPT bot but using WhatsApp business account instead of fake facebook contact. I got my account blocked when Meta discovered I'm not a business unfortunately. I'll retake the project with the FB account, it seems much easier.

Great job!

New comment by fgblanch in "AMD’s Phoenix SoC"

fgblanch — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 05:40:00 +0000

No, the reason macs are better on LLMs is memory bandwidth 800Gb/s on Ultra 2 . I couldn’t find a good source but it seems that Ally mem bandwidth is around 70GB/s

New comment by fgblanch in "The B Lane Swimmer (2009)"

fgblanch — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:26:58 +0000

I’ve observed the same pattern in corporate world with folks which are close to promotion stage. Nice people suddenly become bitter and very hard to work with. Only the best stay nice.

New comment by fgblanch in "VanMoof acquired by e-mobility company Lavoie"

fgblanch — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:06:18 +0000

100% Agree and unfortunately I don't have numbers. However, anecdotally I work for a big tech and I have one of the leases, and it is a very popular option across my colleagues. I'd probably never buy one, but with the lease I'm very happy customer. Also they gave the option to upgrade to newer models for $10 more dollars a month after a year which I think it helps them to fix operational issues. There is also in-campus maintenance which is very convenient. I think that if they operate/scale the lease business properly it could make a very good business in its own.