Hacker News: fumblebee

New comment by fumblebee in "Introspective Diffusion Language Models"

fumblebee — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:30:50 +0000

I'm not in on the joke, can someone ELI5

Meta's new LLM 'Avocado' surpasses top models in pretraining alone

fumblebee — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:42:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kmjournal.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=8219

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947408

Points: 1

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New comment by fumblebee in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

fumblebee — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:32:20 +0000

You need both. My sense is that only a minority of people are hardwired to preferably live as hermits. And whilst it's an important life skill to be happy alone, everyone has their breaking point, it's no coincidence that one of the best predictors of longevity is how rich ones social life is.

New comment by fumblebee in "Apple picks Gemini to power Siri"

fumblebee — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:38:58 +0000

I believe both Nvidia and Google have higher market caps

New comment by fumblebee in "Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other"

fumblebee — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:37:53 +0000

this could make for an interesting new benchmark

New comment by fumblebee in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

fumblebee — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:45:20 +0000

> Surely Congress or the courts would have something to say about it?

my sense is that Trump feels to be above the law right now, having ordered the operation to seize Maduro without Congressional approval (illegal under U.S. constitutional law). Trump's reasoning was that "Congress has a tendency to leak", and so to him congress seems little more than background noise.

New comment by fumblebee in "Still using Firefox – but not because of its vision"

fumblebee — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:35:33 +0000

I switched to Firefox after Chrome stopped supporting uBlock Origin, for all the slights I've seen on HN lately with the direction of the product I've been very happy. No regrets.

New comment by fumblebee in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

fumblebee — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:35:56 +0000

My understanding is that agents are:

1) helping to saturate traditional SaaS because code is being commoditized / the effort to build is dropping significantly.

2) defining an adjacent sub-category of SaaS: "Service-as-a-Software" where the SaaS provides _outcomes_ instead of _tools_; this couldn't really exist at scale before recently.

New comment by fumblebee in "Feedback doesn't scale"

fumblebee — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:36:01 +0000

I recall in the first lecture of some Comp Sci class back at uni, our lecturer had learnt what felt like every student's name and face from their digital profile, some 100 people. Whenever a random student raised their hand to participate he would say say "yes, ". I'm still to this day in awe of that.

New comment by fumblebee in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

fumblebee — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:17:19 +0000

It’s not just irritating, it’s repetitive

Mysterious drones have been spotted at airports across Europe

fumblebee — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:38:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkl3d6pegpo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953051

Points: 55

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New comment by fumblebee in "Using street lamps as EV chargers"

fumblebee — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:21:25 +0000

Indeed, the several streets around me in London just had hundreds of EV chargers attached to lampposts.

Space DJ: Navigating a Musical Universe (DeepMind)

fumblebee — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 18:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://spacedj-363947264390.us-west1.run.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838279

Points: 2

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Tackling alcohol harm will take more than low-alcohol drinks

fumblebee — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 11:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://nowthatspublichealth.substack.com/p/tackling-alcohol-harm-will-take-more

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45809619

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time

fumblebee — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g2vyee0zlo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427152

Points: 7

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New comment by fumblebee in "People got together to stop a school shooting before it happened"

fumblebee — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:45:24 +0000

Curious! Can you share evidence to back up the claim that they are more likely to be bullies themselves?

New comment by fumblebee in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

fumblebee — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:45:55 +0000

Hm, impartial benchmarks are independent of Elon's claims?

New comment by fumblebee in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

fumblebee — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:51:32 +0000

If indeed, as the new benchmarks suggest, this is the new "top dog" of models, why is the launch feeling a little flat?

For comparison, the Claude 4 hacker news post received > 2k upvotes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44063703

New comment by fumblebee in "A secret poker game you can play on the subway"

fumblebee — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:23:30 +0000

I assumed that from the first picture this game would consist of counting the number of folks in a row looking at their phones at a given time.

Which, frankly, I quite prefer since there's less fuzziness about classification of age groups.

New comment by fumblebee in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

fumblebee — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:28:35 +0000

I've seen plenty of red light exposure masks / therapies / tools being sold for absurdly high prices. I'm pretty suspicious of them, not least because I don't know much of anything about this area.

Has anyone gone down the rabbit hole here and have genuine product recommendations that roughly satisfy the conditions laid out in the paper? * Wavelength: 650–900 nm red light * Power output: 8 mW/cm² * Misc design choices: e.g. light diffusers * what other considerations???