Hacker News: gbnwl

New comment by gbnwl in "US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic"

gbnwl — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:08:09 +0000

Hm first Shazeer and now Jumper, DeepMind getting hollowed out this week.

New comment by gbnwl in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

gbnwl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:23:54 +0000

Don't forget that the denominator (total number of outstanding shares) will be increased by this as well. So even if the market cap reacted exactly one to one like you're proposing the per share price wouldn't stay constant necessarily.

New comment by gbnwl in "Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request"

gbnwl — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:01:45 +0000

No they didn't, they predict they'll get that much. Also worth noting the prediction assumes running at MXFP4/FP8 quantization.

New comment by gbnwl in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

gbnwl — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:06:49 +0000

Frontier as in "Frontier Model" is a legitimate vocabulary term you should probably be aware of in 2026. It's not something the author made up or chose randomly, it's common parlance in the space.

New comment by gbnwl in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

gbnwl — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:29:23 +0000

Can you really look yourself in the mirror and say with a straight face that fundamentally nothing has changed about the relationship between the US and its allies? Do you really think Europeans will be quick to forgive the wrongs of this administration? They’ve lost faith in our political system and will, rightfully so, do everything in their power to disentangle with us. The problem with your theory is that they know even if Trump is replaced by someone closer to European social values, our electorate could just as easily completely reverse course in 4 years. It literally already happened. Bush never threatened to annex European territory with military force as far as I can tell. But I understand why in these chaotic times you’d want to gravitate towards hopeful fictions.

New comment by gbnwl in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

gbnwl — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:23:36 +0000

Probably a better way to phrase it would be keeping “pace“. Yes, they are still behind but by about the same amount as they always have, they aren’t drifting further behind. Like two marathon runners, one a a mile ahead, but both maintaining the same mile time.

New comment by gbnwl in "SpaceXAI will provide Anthropic with access to Colossus 1"

gbnwl — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:42:35 +0000

I mean yes? Considering that we're here reading the news that they've agreed to this.

New comment by gbnwl in "I completed 100 Days of Java over 5 years and mapped the journey as a graph"

gbnwl — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:35:48 +0000

What exactly is the intuition behind taking something inherently linear like a sequence of 100 days and presenting it as a graph with no information given about the rationale or reasoning behind the edges.

New comment by gbnwl in "What can we gain by losing infinity?"

gbnwl — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:15:44 +0000

The symbol is not the thing. The map is not the territory. Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

New comment by gbnwl in "David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data"

gbnwl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:16:04 +0000

Of course the motivation makes sense on the surface. What I'm getting at is that the supply of capital vs the supply of potential "control of the future" plays feels incredibly imbalanced. Money seems to be so desperate to move into AI it's lost all prudence (the particular people and company mentioned in the OP nonwithstanding, maybe they do deserve 1B).

"not wanting to risk missing out" is essentially just FOMO right? "Smart" money has feels more like FOMO money these days. We literally have shoe companies savying they're going to pivot to AI and having their market cap increase in multiples as reward.

New comment by gbnwl in "David Silver of DeepMind raises $1B to build AI that learns without human data"

gbnwl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:02:25 +0000

Not the first to notice this I'm sure but it feels like there's an insane amount of pressure pushing capital towards anything with a hint of AI legitimacy. It's as if asset owners across the planet have come to a consensus that the only industry that will matter going forward is this one (fair enough I guess), but this intense systemic pressure squeezes insane amounts of money toward litearlly any AI shaped outlet that opens up. It's just starting to feel like "scared and desperate" money more than "smart money".

New comment by gbnwl in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gbnwl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:03:49 +0000

The entire post reads like it was generated via LLM as well.

New comment by gbnwl in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

gbnwl — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:55:53 +0000

Never thought I'd see the day ragebait made it to HN. Yes, let's pretend doing a long jump on the moon is comparable to running a marathon at its prescheduled time at its prescheduled location. Weather is always a factor in sports that take place outside. Might as well put asterisks on all accomplishments that took place on sunny days by your logic right?

New comment by gbnwl in "DeepSeek v4"

gbnwl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:03:52 +0000

I didn't express this well but my interest isn't "who is in the top spot", and is more _why and _how various labs get the results they do. This is also magnified by the fact that I'm not only interested in hosted providers of inference but local models as well. What's your take on the best model to run for coding on 24GB of VRAM locally after the last few weeks of releases? Which harness do you prefer? What quants do you think are best? To use your sports metaphor it's more than following the national leagues but also following college and even high school leagues as well. And the real interest isn't even who's doing well but WHY, at each level.

New comment by gbnwl in "DeepSeek v4"

gbnwl — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:49:24 +0000

I’m deeply interested and invested in the field but I could really use a support group for people burnt out from trying to keep up with everything. I feel like we’ve already long since passed the point where we need AI to help us keep up with advancements in AI.

New comment by gbnwl in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

gbnwl — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:57:16 +0000

I'd wager that being conscripted in Norwary carries a different level of risk of deployment than being conscripted in the US, given the fact that we've been essentially been nonstop involved in wars for my entire lifetime.

When you were conscripted did you fear you might be sent to Iraq or Afganistan? It just feels like given our history an American conscript will litearlly always have some active warzone to possibly be sent off to. Our contries and our armies are not the same. Is Norway today chomping at the bit to send its soldiers to Iran? Or, per Trump, "our next conquest" Cuba? I really don't think you can think of being drafted into the American army the same way you think of the compulsory service of countries like South Korea or your own.

Being conscripted in a defensive army is materially different than being conscripted into one that takes every opportunity to engage in conflicts across the globe.

New comment by gbnwl in "NASA Force"

gbnwl — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:44:54 +0000

Genuinely sorry he let you down and you're left holding the bag dude. But please understand people aren't going to accept your weak rationalizations anymore.

New comment by gbnwl in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"

gbnwl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:01:08 +0000

Why is anyone still using or even talking about Gas Town? Now that HN is largely onboard with agentic development and has at least tried it themselves who's still under the impression that it's useful?

New comment by gbnwl in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

gbnwl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:23:04 +0000

Have you considered not using copilot and using Claude Code or Codex directly?

New comment by gbnwl in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"

gbnwl — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:43:21 +0000

I’m newer to knowing and caring about what YC does at all in terms of the companies it funds. The fact that this is YC makes me think the org has forfeited any sense of “taste” at all. Complete scattershot from people who have money to scatter I guess.