Hacker News: firebirdn99

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

firebirdn99 — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:54:42 +0000

you just need to look at Mythos to see the jump in performance from a 10T(?) model. As they scale, they get more capable. We might have an yearly release, but I believe the releases will continue, as long as scaling laws are in tact, and there's huge problems still need solving. (think cancer)

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Hacking Moltbook"

firebirdn99 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:54:05 +0000

A lot of it depends on one's belief of whether these systems are conscious or can lead to consciousness

New comment by firebirdn99 in "The Java Ring: A Wearable Computer (1998)"

firebirdn99 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:03:10 +0000

Still hard to fathom the exponential of Moore's law-

"took up an entire room and now I can carry more computer power on my finger"

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

firebirdn99 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:17:48 +0000

its a pretty great realization to come along. We are all stardust, but complicated bits and blobs of atoms and molecules.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube?"

firebirdn99 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 20:19:59 +0000

because no one watches them, so better be available, and in peoples minds, grab attention (which is the #1 commodity in the world) than fall to obscurity

New comment by firebirdn99 in "TouchArcade Is Shutting Down"

firebirdn99 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:44:05 +0000

i don't know if they were ever profitable. But certainly i think there's been a paradigm shift to commercializing everything (mostly through advertising) the last decade or two and if you fall behind, whatever growth you were aiming for goes away and revenues shrink.

And also almost all advertising revenues have probably become centralized with google search, social media by facebook, and youtube, etc. That combined with rising costs, and higher opportunity cost to instead do something else means these sites are biting the dust.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

firebirdn99 — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:14:06 +0000

almost every tech ceo is like that. Could list many examples. It's an effect of capitalism.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

firebirdn99 — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:47:20 +0000

James Somers is awesome. Every now and then, I see another of his articles that comes up here. Really great writer, who didn't set out to be one, but switched from a career in tech I believe.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN?"

firebirdn99 — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 00:14:25 +0000

This is super interesting. I've been visiting HN every day, multiple times a day for the past year. Over the last month, as I was preparing for interviews I removed the HN bookmark on my browser tab, and almost for weeks in between interviews I would go without checking it.

And honestly I think I was healthier, and happier. Reading, and bookmarking things on HN overflowed my brain with information, and created more anxiety in me I think. Just visiting back to see what I missed after not checking it the past week, and I was better off without it I feel.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"

firebirdn99 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:32:05 +0000

> lowest common denominator of shows this is a good description, they've gone the CBS route with cable TV type programming, and Reality TV. There's been a lot of documentation over this- https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/bela-bajaria-global-tv-netf... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/16/how-much-more-...

I guess it's sadly what brings most viewers. I think there's some truth in the overall dumbing down of society.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "What We Watched: A Netflix engagement report"

firebirdn99 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 21:18:17 +0000

Kinda sad that Netflix opted for quantity over quality. It shows with all the inane sequels like Murder mystery 2, Extraction 2 and with the idea of just filling an uninteresting script with some stars to make the numbers like Red Notice. And many of the top 50 shows reflect just that. The last Netflix original I watched and liked was The Queen's Gambit.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "The wealth of the 25 richest families in the world soared 43% in the last year"

firebirdn99 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 18:35:25 +0000

Wealth begets wealth. Capital compounds with no effort. A reminder for myself to revisit Capital by Thomas Piketty from 2013(!)

"When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility."

-Thomas Piketty

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Quad9 wins appeal against Sony"

firebirdn99 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:05:20 +0000

Funnily enough, I was watching the Spotify series on Netflix, The Playlist, and saw Sony Music Group's fight with the Pirate Bay(which covers similar themes) before Spotify exploded on to the scene. This was a real event too covered in the early episodes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay_trial

What happens if AI alignment goes wrong, Silicon Valley [video]

firebirdn99 — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:00:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWHTyeQg79A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38492307

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

firebirdn99 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:34:05 +0000

> Otherwise, to be relevant in guiding research towards AGI, they need to stay a going concern, and that means not running off 90% of the employee base.

That's why they presumably agreed to find a solution. But at the same time shows that in essence, entities with for-profit incentives find a way to get what they want. There certainly needs to be more thought and discussion about governance, and how we collectively as a species or each company individually governs AI.

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

firebirdn99 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 01:36:59 +0000

The board was a non profit board serving the mission. Mission was foremost. Employees are not. One of the comments a member made was, if the company was destroyed, it would still be consistent with serving the mission. Which is right.

The fallout showed non-profit missions can't co-exist with for-profit incentives. And the power that investors were exerting, and employees (who would also benefit from the recent 70B round they were going to have) was too much.

And any disclaimer the investors got when investing in OpenAI was meaningless. It reportedly stated they would be wise in viewing their investment as charity, and they can potentially lose everything. And there was an AGI clause that said it will reconsider all financial arrangements, that Microsoft and other investors had when investing in the company was all worthless. Link to Wired article with interesting details -https://www.wired.com/story/what-openai-really-wants/

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Person-in-WiFi: Fine-Grained Person Perception Using WiFi [pdf]"

firebirdn99 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:07:19 +0000

I remember seeing many posts about this in the last few yrs, one - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423395

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial"

firebirdn99 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 15:15:09 +0000

It's not necessarily consultants in these companies that are malicious. I find working with many to be honest, and deeply caring about their work. It's that some of the management in these companies are incentivized to engage in duplicitous behavior to gain clients one way or another.

Working for a tech consultancy before, they do have clear lines to distinguish for legal reasons and make you take courses. For e.g., you can't give or receive gifts of any monetary value, etc. But management find other ways, to gain client's trust and affection. One way is to overwork the consultants, and other is to share information that is privy sometimes.

Interview with Sameer Parekh, C2Net and Cypherpunk (1997)

firebirdn99 — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 05:39:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2342

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38419433

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by firebirdn99 in "Should the last in a queue be served first? (LIFO)"

firebirdn99 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 19:59:42 +0000

Related blog post with above link on FIFO vs LIFO queue management: https://www.qminder.com/blog/queue-management/first-in-first....