Hacker News: gavin_gee

New comment by gavin_gee in "Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop"

gavin_gee — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:13:51 +0000

the cope from authors.

New comment by gavin_gee in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

gavin_gee — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:12:31 +0000

i dont understand the concern. they are putting up great financials. you have to invest ahead of the outcome. this is just classic quarterly public company earnings BS, where public markets dont reward innovation investment. they just want crank the handle financials.

The bigger issue is on the model front, can Google compete; Gemini doesnt seem to be able to compete on the heavy expert end; they are doing well on lighter faster models.

New comment by gavin_gee in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

gavin_gee — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:32:52 +0000

seems to me that we are at the asymtote for most usage. sure run the prompts that need the frontier on generic silicon but burning the fable 5 model into silicon could be perfectly viable

New comment by gavin_gee in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

gavin_gee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:41:37 +0000

its the definition of a free market that RAM prices have increased. supply and demand.

New comment by gavin_gee in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

gavin_gee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:40:30 +0000

its all bullshit

New comment by gavin_gee in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

gavin_gee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:37:01 +0000

sorry but I dont think a private company should dictate country policy as set by elected leaders.

who the hell do you think you are virtue signalling your opinion on the world

New comment by gavin_gee in "Vodafone admits 'major outage' as more than 130,000 report problems"

gavin_gee — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:14:19 +0000

anything to do with the massive DDOS attacks that Krebs has been reporting against US carriers?

New comment by gavin_gee in "Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?"

gavin_gee — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:30:08 +0000

i swear the single best feature for me would be:

take my photo catalog stored in google photos, apple pictures, Onedrive, Amazon photos. collate into a single store, dedupe. Then build a proper timeline and geo/map view for all the photos.

New comment by gavin_gee in "A Love Letter to People Who Believe in People"

gavin_gee — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:07:17 +0000

so wholesome. what a great day to have found this blog.

New comment by gavin_gee in "I Went to SQL Injection Court"

gavin_gee — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:35:28 +0000

https://x.com/JackRhysider/status/1885732851779285184

New comment by gavin_gee in "Obscure islands I find interesting"

gavin_gee — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:29:42 +0000

well done

New comment by gavin_gee in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts"

gavin_gee — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 23:42:27 +0000

With the increased caliber of software folks in Trumps orbit, my sense is we will have a much more informed decision from the Whitehouse on this topic and whether the US should weigh into the fray with the UK.

as a side note, its really baffling what this capability would actually provide for? Any serious criminal isn't using icloud backup or even an iPhone in the first place. So this is just a shit outcome for the general population.

If this goes through, I look forward to the news of the world expose on some cabinet members personal details

New comment by gavin_gee in "I will never need to buy a new computer again"

gavin_gee — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 17:23:22 +0000

it's often a corporate's need for new revenue and security that causes the machine to march on. Just look at this TPM Win 10 upgrade issue.

My 2011 i5 desktop is still happily chugging away as a build server, home storage, and remote host. But oh yes, it will have to be nuked, thanks to MSFT policies.

New comment by gavin_gee in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

gavin_gee — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:20:35 +0000

cursor is kicking vscode's butt because it has multi models. also MS is hedging bets against OpenAI. that relationship is not easy

New comment by gavin_gee in "Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post"

gavin_gee — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:19:21 +0000

Take note HN, this is what great content marketing looks like.

New comment by gavin_gee in "Probably pay attention to tokenizers"

gavin_gee — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:38:30 +0000

do pictograms represent a way to reduce tokens?

New comment by gavin_gee in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

gavin_gee — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:45:21 +0000

LLM's are enabling a reimagination of UI. Wheres the biggest opportunity in UI that hasn't kept up to date? legacy and regulated software in the long tail. Thats the disruption opportunity for LLM's.

New comment by gavin_gee in "US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case"

gavin_gee — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:27:43 +0000

clearly, google hasn't paid enough campaign donations vis-a-vis Microsoft.

This is just political corruption feigning as doing the right thing for the country.

we are having the wrong debate and are being distracted by the sideshow.

in many ways this is a test balloon for public support to go after big tech as a narrative around censorship over misinformation that will explode over the next few years

New comment by gavin_gee in "Transformers in music recommendation"

gavin_gee — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 18:20:16 +0000

I suspect there is no available dataset that can teach the models to learn this. The enjoyment of music is entirely internalized. Skipping a track is an incredibly low fidelity data point.

I've often wondered if Spotify could capture volume control data as part of a track to see if that produces better training data. But again its still too low fidelity.

New comment by gavin_gee in "One Million Checkboxes"

gavin_gee — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:27:34 +0000

reminds me of http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/