Hacker News: flakiness

New comment by flakiness in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

flakiness — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:07:59 +0000

Tell me more about the ideas behind Cordis the plugin system. The paper is a bit too mathy to consume and I think it deserves a more accessible post or something.

New comment by flakiness in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

flakiness — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:59:02 +0000

The post in question: https://openjdk.org/legal/ai

It is 'OpenJDK Interim Policy on Generative AI' and their lawyers are writing the final version, according to this page.

It sounds like a sensible action, given past scars around Java and copyright, plus this is from a big old corp.

That said I personally don't expect that final proposal will end up any better.

New comment by flakiness in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

flakiness — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:15:50 +0000

I felt the same before then realized that what I missed was my youth. Plenty of time to kill. No real privacy need. Being a night owl with little hangover, etc. etc.

Not saying that's you. Just cannot help going down the memory lane.

New comment by flakiness in "Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:22:03 +0000

Fair point. Their page doesn't list any investors.

New comment by flakiness in "Discovery Loop"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:58:53 +0000

> we have pioneered massive scale computing and led the creation of critical infrastructure, products, and foundational AI advances that the world relies on, including multiple generations of Google Search, Google Ads, Google News, Google Translate, Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Pathways, TPUs, AlphaChip, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, Gemini, model distillation, mixture-of-experts model architectures, word2vec, sequence-to-sequence models, chain of thought reasoning, neural architecture search, and multiple generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) among others.

holy shit. I've known this, but...

New comment by flakiness in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:49:14 +0000

Chairman is a stepping stone for a retirement/resignation. Apple's Tim Cook. Google's Eric Schmidt. The list goes on.

New comment by flakiness in "Discovery Loop"

flakiness — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:42:30 +0000

To be honest, this feels more like a lifestyle business (aka hobby) than a startup. They truly deserve it, but I don't expect a huge success as a business.

That said, I hope they write cool papers with various peers across the industry without worrying too much about the competing dynamics. That'd be a blessing for humanity, and good for their spirit.

New comment by flakiness in "Claude Opus 5"

flakiness — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:07:08 +0000

Maybe they don't want to say that to avoid the government scrutiny.

New comment by flakiness in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

flakiness — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:30:56 +0000

Is the GL driver any better? (It sounds like it is?) It's Direct3D on windows all over again :-(

New comment by flakiness in "Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL"

flakiness — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:43:50 +0000

A data point: "OpenGL ES is still supported on Android, but is no longer under active feature development. Vulkan offers the following advantages over OpenGL ES" "Vulkan is the preferred Android interface to the GPU. Android 15 and up includes ANGLE as an optional layer for running OpenGL ES on top of Vulkan."

https://developer.android.com/games/develop/vulkan/overview

New comment by flakiness in "Back to Kagi"

flakiness — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:10:48 +0000

This is such a you-must-be-an-iphone-user comment. Enjoy the good life.

New comment by flakiness in "OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident"

flakiness — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:47:20 +0000

> a mostly tech-free home.

sounds like a deliberate choice ;-)

New comment by flakiness in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

flakiness — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:52:09 +0000

It's a bit shocking to see them showing off blatantly disinformation-al examples. See the Japanese manga one. It says "原作監修三浦建太郎" which says its original is written by, and it is supervised the by, the famous author (who died a few years ago so who can he possibly supervise?) and "共同制作白泉社" saying: collaborated by a (famous Japanese) publisher.

I hope these stakeholders have good enough layers.

New comment by flakiness in "The Voice of Google"

flakiness — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:31:28 +0000

FYI: this is an excerpt from https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Evil-Bosses-Promises/dp/00634...

New comment by flakiness in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

flakiness — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:52:35 +0000

This sounds very American (in a good way to be clear). I wonder how this applies internationally.

New comment by flakiness in "Codex Micro"

flakiness — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:19:58 +0000

Maybe it's worth getting one just to cherish this crazy moment 10 years later. This does cost money but won't cost much of your drawer space.

New comment by flakiness in "A Love Letter to Flashcards"

flakiness — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:47:13 +0000

> How do I actually use flashcards? My software of choice is Anki. I am not completely satisfied with it. The UI looks dated, the WYSIWYG HTML editor is clunky, and the undocumented file format makes potential porting and interoperability tricky.

And we still love it. I'm on the same page. This phenomena feels oddly satisfying.

New comment by flakiness in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

flakiness — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:21:55 +0000

> that goes for like 90% of ARM hardware on Linux.

And that's where AMD CPU shines vs ARM.

New comment by flakiness in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

flakiness — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:20:38 +0000

If I were you, it'd be pretty much worth it when you had a conversation with Stallman.

New comment by flakiness in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

flakiness — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:17:29 +0000

The example comparisons made me smile. Well done!