Hacker News: flavio87

New comment by flavio87 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

flavio87 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:19:42 +0000

don’t know if this qualifies as big in your book, but there are some well marketed advances here:

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphaevolve-impact/

Poetiq shatters ARC-AGI 2 benchmark at half the cost

flavio87 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://poetiq.ai/posts/arcagi_verified/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46168295

Points: 25

# Comments: 3

New comment by flavio87 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

flavio87 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 09:20:58 +0000

Scientific search engine/agent to surface papers with commercial potential (patent, moats, etc.) - eventually wanna expand to cover any search query. Imagine having someone reading 1000s of science papers on your behalf, with your goals in mind, and then telling which papers to pay attention to and why

Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs

flavio87 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 19:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QAzSj24Fp0O6GfkskmnULmI1Hmx7k_EJ/view

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016933

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

EU allows importation of some GM crops

flavio87 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 20:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2022/08/09/viewpoint-eus-approval-to-import-genetically-engineered-corn-for-human-consumption-opens-door-for-africa-to-follow-suit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32403495

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Stanislav Petrov. The man who prevented a nuclear war in 1983

flavio87 — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 14:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30514212

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Attraction Inequality and the Dating Economy

flavio87 — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:45:33 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.com/2019/03/12/attraction-inequality-and-the-dating-economy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24277913

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Phage Therapy

flavio87 — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:16:12 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20929134

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to Make Meat Alternatives Consumers Want

flavio87 — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 19:25:13 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@flaviorump/how-to-make-meat-alternatives-consumers-want-long-post-lots-of-data-3d87244250c4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19791054

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

Why filing taxes isn‘t easy

flavio87 — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 03:41:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/07/18/tax-filing-congress-irs-000683

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17563797

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flavio87 in "Common Misconceptions about ICO Law"

flavio87 — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:30:37 +0000

How much time and $ would it cost to register your tokens as a security? Would it be possible without any financial history? I remember Lending Club was able to have them registered and offer securities with their peer to peer loans to unaccredited investors.

More Americans than ever are renouncing their US Citizenship

flavio87 — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:26:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/02/10/more-americans-give-up-citizenship-in-reverse-trump-bump/#145333be173a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13686428

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Israel’s huge binary options fraud

flavio87 — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 01:28:13 +0000

Article URL: http://www.timesofisrael.com/13-sickening-truths-about-israels-huge-binary-options-fraud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13640477

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by flavio87 in "Boom (YC W16) – Supersonic Passenger Airplanes"

flavio87 — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 17:41:50 +0000

This sounds awesome. However I'm a bit saddened that there is no mention of CO2 or climate change in this discussion. What about building solar planes vs just faster planes will do even more harm to the environment if people start flying more because time is now shorter?

New comment by flavio87 in "Planet Labs Raises $118M Series C to Cover the Earth in Tiny Satellites"

flavio87 — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:10:36 +0000

congrats to Will, Robbie, Chris and the entire team. to the moon and more :)

New comment by flavio87 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with professional jealousy and getting older?"

flavio87 — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 08:23:28 +0000

May I suggest the following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindfulness_(psychology)

Can you find a question (not an answer) that can help you look at things differently? Who is it who is jealous? How does it feel to be jealous? What's going on right now?

Elon Musk getting a new car after he sold Zip2

flavio87 — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:11:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSHUha9ABNY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9288038

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Dancing Mania

flavio87 — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 08:25:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8983221

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Bitstamp Hacked – Important Message to Customers

flavio87 — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 00:54:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitstamp.net/?hacked

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8842327

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by flavio87 in "Instacart Is Raising North of $100M at a $2B Valuation"

flavio87 — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:55:51 +0000

seems like their executing incredibly well and big congrats to the team. I do wonder a bit how defensible this model is - it seems to me that safeway already has most of the infrastructure available to do deliveries and then could significantly outperform instacart deliveries from safeway in terms of customer experience for example.

- they always know what's in stock in which facility when you order, no more replaced or missing items - they don't charge the high 20-30% markup that instacart charges to their customers

in terms of marketing, they could probably have lower cost of acquisition on scale as well. - they could market their app in-store very aggressively at every single checkout counter.

what Safeway is most obviously lacking is a frontend that's as good as instacarts, but now that instacart has shown how to build it, it should be easy for safeway to build this out.

maybe they don't have their distribution setup such that they could actually deliver within 1-2 hours? what else am I missing? how can this be a defensible business long term?