Hacker News: foruhar

New comment by foruhar in "Microsoft Israel chief leaves amid ethical controversy"

foruhar — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:18:45 +0000

Apple also seems to be stirring some controversy around it's operations in Israel.

https://openletter.earth/apple-cease-funding-for-illegal-set...

New comment by foruhar in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

foruhar — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:41:38 +0000

The recent bombing of the bridge in Iran was apparently a double-tap strike by the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Karaj_B1_bridge_attack

What hackers talk about when they talk about AI

foruhar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:13:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14783

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793267

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by foruhar in "Claude Code Routines"

foruhar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:28 +0000

That's a fairly decent defintion of vibecoding across multiple sessions.

New comment by foruhar in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

foruhar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:30:09 +0000

Hyperbolically, I think it's one of humanity's greatest resources. I can find anything from precision machining, LLM internals, historical footage of WWI, music performances from pretty much any era, and on, and on. There are so many things that I didn't know there was any footage of or that I didn't a single thing about that I find there pretty much daily.

I wish the BBC would publish their whole archive through YT. The few things that they do put up are often so mind expanding whether it's Berty Russel, The Beatles, or some cracking Scottish chap going for a bike ride with a bottle of whisky.

ASI-Evolve: AI Accelerates AI

foruhar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:49:01 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29640

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764382

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by foruhar in "MEMS Array Chip Can Project Video the Size of a Grain of Sand"

foruhar — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:14:18 +0000

Happy days at the ant colony.

New comment by foruhar in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

foruhar — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:49:57 +0000

Smalltalk too was originally a full OS running on bare metal back in the Xerox Alto days (1972-ish).

New comment by foruhar in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

foruhar — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:16:00 +0000

Tesla was the real power grid guy. The scope of his invention from the generators at Niagara Falls power generation to the transformers to the motors is pretty impressive. More so given that he was eventually given the patents (originally issued to Marconi) for radio transmission.

New comment by foruhar in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

foruhar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:11:14 +0000

My sense is that the Gemini models are very capable but the Gemini CLI experience is subpar compared to Claude Code and Codex. I'm guess that it's the harness but since it can get confused, fall into doom loops, and generally lose the plot in a way that the model does not in Gemini Studio or the Gemini app.

I think a bunch of these harnesses are open source so it surprises me that there can be such a gulf between them.

New comment by foruhar in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

foruhar — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:19:42 +0000

Gemini-3.0-flash-preview came out right away with the 3.0 release and I was expecting 3.0-flash-lite before a bump on the pro model. I wonder if they have abandoned that part of the Pareto/price-performance.

New comment by foruhar in "NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months"

foruhar — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:35:58 +0000

I couldn't find anything more recent that this but apparently it has made the streets safer for pedestrians too. "Traffic fatalities in the Congestion Pricing zone are down 40% from last year."

This is from July 2025: https://transalt.org/press-releases/new-data-from-transporta...

New comment by foruhar in "Nvidia is gearing up to sell servers instead of just GPUs and components"

foruhar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:42:11 +0000

This video shows the systems being built and shipped with cooling, cabling, etc.

It’s pretty mind blowing what this crisis shows from the manipulation of atoms and electrons all the way up to these clusters. Particularly mind blowing for me who has cable management issues with a ten port router.

https://youtu.be/1la6fMl7xNA?si=eWTVHeGThNgFKMVG

Glyph: Scaling Context Windows via Visual-Text Compression

foruhar — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 17:18:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thu-coai/Glyph

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713566

Points: 24

# Comments: 3

New comment by foruhar in "GenAI Processors: Build powerful and flexible Gemini applications"

foruhar — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:52:29 +0000

This interested me as a simple-ish approach to a tough-ish promblem. From the example Trip Planner file:

"""Command line interface to process a trip request.

We use Gemini flash-lite to formalize freeform trip request into the dates and destination. Then we use a second model to compose the trip itinerary.

* This simple example shows how we can reduce perceived latency by running a fast model to validate and acknowledge user request while the good but slow model is handling it.

The approach from this example also can be used as a defense mechanism against prompt injections. The first model without tool access formalizes the request into the TripRequest dataclass. The attack surface is significantly reduced by the narrowness of the output format and lack of tools. Then a second model is run on this cleanup up input. *

Before running this script, ensure the `GOOGLE_API_KEY` environment variable is set to the api-key you obtained from Google AI Studio.

Usage: python3 trip_request_cli.py """