Hacker News: gkolli

Dolly Parton, Queen of Country Music, Dies at 80

gkolli — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:17:32 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/dolly-parton-death-country-icon-87156f3e6a1547b88bf414529b644ad3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438280

Points: 5

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Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?

gkolli — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:02:52 +0000

With so many people vibe coding sites and full apps, I feel like there is much more AI slop shown to the user. What are your tell-tale signs? Black background, green and orange gradients, same font, etc. Would love to learn more!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290499

Points: 9

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New comment by gkolli in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

gkolli — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:19:45 +0000

As an aside, what is up with the design of clearly vibe-coded websites? You can tell it's AI from intuition, but is there a list of "tells"? Like black background, gradient text, font? Would love to learn more and how to combat

10x Is a Lot

gkolli — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:55:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quarter--mile.com/10x-Is-a-Lot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911758

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Watching a Robotics Startup Die from the Inside

gkolli — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:56:36 +0000

Article URL: https://ruixu.us/posts/six-things-robotics-startup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47156063

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Connectionism: Thinking Machines Lab's Research Blog

gkolli — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201032

Points: 3

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Ask HN: How Does OpenAI Chair Bred Taylor Not Have a Conflict of Interest?

gkolli — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:41:38 +0000

Bret Taylor is CEO of Sierra (an AI agent and application layer company) and the chairman of OpenAI. Does this not present a conflict of interest as the two businesses compete with each other?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041212

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How does Bret Taylor not have a conflict of interest?

gkolli — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 12:10:35 +0000

Bret Taylor is CEO of Sierra (an AI agent and application layer company) and the chairman of OpenAI. Does this not present a conflict of interest as the two businesses compete with each other?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45038568

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A New Kind of Computer (April 2025)

gkolli — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 03:27:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lightmatter.co/blog/a-new-kind-of-computer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44362628

Points: 62

# Comments: 25

New comment by gkolli in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting Statement Regarding Executive Order"

gkolli — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:48:27 +0000

This part of the EO is peculiar: “The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall determine whether “the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio (or any successor organization)” are complying with the statutory mandate that “no person shall be subjected to discrimination in employment . . . on the grounds of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.” 47 U.S.C. 397(15), 398(b). In the event of a finding of noncompliance, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall take appropriate corrective action.”

Why is the Secretary of Health and Human Services the one responsible for this?

New comment by gkolli in "How is π.com a valid domain name?"

gkolli — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:39:58 +0000

The startup Physical Intelligence has a domain of π.com, which redirects to/from https://www.xn--1xa.com

How is this character represented in the domain name?

How is π.com a valid domain name?

gkolli — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xn--1xa.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43776891

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by gkolli in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

gkolli — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:59:37 +0000

I'd say the 'nitpicking around the edges' is actually incredibly important, but as you also said, people don't care. Yes, all the attention is on the use of Signal, and not the bombing/killing innocent Yemenis to score some political points.

New comment by gkolli in "Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot"

gkolli — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:45:18 +0000

Hi! Looks pretty interesting - few questions/thoughts:

1. Could you talk a bit more about your behavioral-training? If ace-control is trained on behavioral recordings, would it choose the most efficient path for the agent to take to complete a task? I'm guessing humans choose naturally take less-optimal steps.

2. What causes the huge speed increase? I'm guessing there were a lot of optimizations made, especially since this behavioral-training seems very different from vision models. I'm guessing the model is smaller, so it's interesting that accuracy is highest. I'd be interested to see a comparison vs. 4o-mini

3. Would be neat for it to handle instructions offline/locally - like "connect me to wifi" ;)

4. Would be cool if agent could work in the background so I can do something else in the meantime. ;)

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

gkolli — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:26:02 +0000

thank you for sharing this, as someone going through a rough Q1 too, it's nice to hold this feeling with someone else across the universe as well. Onwards and upwards.

Jimmy Carter has died

gkolli — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-president-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543128

Points: 1183

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Ask HN: Is a subscription to The Information worth it?

gkolli — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:58:51 +0000

Thinking about getting a subscription to The Information, but it seems fairly expensive ($225+/year). Have you found the content useful and thoughtful? What do you primarily consume it for?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42425565

Points: 2

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Neural-Generated Botanical Prints (2022)

gkolli — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:23:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.claybavor.com/neural-generated-botanical-prints

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42090166

Points: 2

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New comment by gkolli in "[dead]"

gkolli — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:32:17 +0000

Or at least, I'm having trouble accessing LinkedIn and a few other Microsoft sites right now

New comment by gkolli in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

gkolli — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:50:04 +0000

is Petal open to having interns this summer and/or fall?