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New comment by hasteg in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

hasteg — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:50:47 +0000

So far this is some of the best uses of ML I've seen to date! This is one of the few things you can point at and say "AI made the world a better place" IMO (this and medical research).

New comment by hasteg in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

hasteg — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:21:14 +0000

Because the transformer, which all of these models are foundationally built off of and didn't invent themselves (bar google) wasn't invented? The amount of effort it took humanity to generate all the data that was required for the models to get to the point they're at now is absolutely not even comparable to how much effort it took to build the model code. Yeah, it's complicated, but if they didn't rip off all of humanities combined output it wouldn't even matter if the transformer got invented.

New comment by hasteg in "Running local models is good now"

hasteg — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:18:51 +0000

Just a heads up (you may already know this) -- In the local LLM community there's a pretty strong disdain for Ollama specifically due to numerous reasons provided in this blog post: https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/

New comment by hasteg in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

hasteg — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:39:08 +0000

What are some examples of features that they have added since December that you use? I originally had setup openclaw back in Jan(?) and had it generating some news summaries for me and stuff. But ran out of ideas... would like to try it out again.

New comment by hasteg in "Iroh 1.0"

hasteg — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:17:11 +0000

Agreed, I went through the blog post and a few other pages trying to figure out what the benefit of Iroh is since I have never heard of it... was struggling lol.

New comment by hasteg in "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"

hasteg — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:07:45 +0000

Earlier this year I had used it because I would rather have a IDE-like exp and be able to actually look at the code. However, recently switched to using claude code VS code extension and it's basically the same thing (plus at Amazon we can only use Claude Code)

New comment by hasteg in "πFS"

hasteg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:32:08 +0000

Here is a one page proof that pi is irrational - https://heuklyd.github.io/papers/pdf/Niven-1947.pdf

New comment by hasteg in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hasteg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:10 +0000

Wow that's actually sick as hell, somehow hadn't heard of this. maybe I will go and blow $700 on a new ram kit... thanks for sharing!

New comment by hasteg in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hasteg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:02:38 +0000

Wait so this makes it so I can use my DDR5 as well as my VRAM combined? This is actually sick if so. Maybe I will actually have to go out and buy some more DDR5 (currently only have 32GB...)

New comment by hasteg in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

hasteg — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:27:07 +0000

This seems really cool actually. Just read thru the README and watched the demo gif. Any examples of what you've built with it so far? Might have to play around with it tonight. I've been getting pretty heavy into local LLMs since getting my 5090. Amazing what Qwen can do given how small it is (running 35B at Q4 quant).

New comment by hasteg in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

hasteg — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:52:35 +0000

IIRC when they make a big enough architecture change to the model they will need to rerun pre training . So not like they’re feeding it more data (they will be but will be a drop in an s3 bucket compared to their dataset reserves) but rather training models with different architectures.

New comment by hasteg in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

hasteg — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:16:05 +0000

Lol ++. Although my local host for agent/codex stuff is a raspberry pi I connect to on LAN from my gaming/powerful desktop for sandboxing. However my use case seems to be the exact problem they are trying to solve! Might have to take a look into it at some point.

New comment by hasteg in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

hasteg — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:53:13 +0000

Maybe I'm in the minority but I still program with an IDE and a chat window in the side at work, as well as when I work on side projects. I do like to actually see the code that is getting produced.

New comment by hasteg in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

hasteg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:23:42 +0000

I think a lot of the time when this debate occurs (which, at this point, literally every single day I see something about this) UBI is almost always the contention point but I feel like that's really not the end-all... Like, sure, say there's a miracle and we have UBI get instituted. I think that is maybe 25% of the solution. The other problem is now you're going to have an entire class of people basically living without a purpose. Yeah, I get it, they can go and "explore their passions" and focus on "creative works" or whatever BS people persuade themselves into thinking the vast majority of society would want to do, but realistically I think there would be a huge psychological breakdown in people now living without a fundamental purpose in society.

Somewhat related to that -- I was just this weekend watching a YouTube essay about PTSD in knights back in the medieval times, and the main point made in the video is that the psychological impacts incurred by the knights after battle were not just from seeing fucked up shit... the most apparent and serious cases of "PTSD" occurred when a knight was injured enough on the battle field resulting in them no longer able to be soldiers. Their entire purpose in the world got stripped away resulting in serious psychological stress. I think that same issue would apply to many people today (lawyers, engineers, investment bankers, etc) who would no longer be able to practice their craft. (This is the video for reference, was a good watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=849dmdc-Qf8)

I understand the counter argument to this is going to be some anti-capitalist rhetoric like "Well people shouldn't live to be workers and that's fucked up that they have live that way!" but IMO, some people like what they do and don't want to be made useless. (Not implying that is what you were insinuating, but just in a broad sense I that genera of argument doesn't make sense to me)

New comment by hasteg in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

hasteg — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:44:16 +0000

There's a lot of speculation that it is indeed a marketing plot and the model is just a step improvement over current capabilities... and the real reason they aren't releasing the model is they are compute constrained and cannot serve the model. To my knowledge there's no proof of this however, but given the fact that literally 60 days ago they made Mythos out to be the end of the world and last Friday they announced that they will release the model in a few weeks, I feel like it was indeed something along those lines (marketing ploy).

New comment by hasteg in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

hasteg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:51:22 +0000

I wouldn't say it's Nvidia stepping back from open source... if anything this is doubling down on it, as one of the selling points of this is the 128GB of unified memory which will allow for hosting local models (i.e, nvidia's new open model they just released). I guess it's pretty cool, I'm a big supporter of local LLMs/open weight models so seems enticing to me, although I'm not sure this will be super applicable to a lot of regular consumers. Seems like a pretty niche product.

New comment by hasteg in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

hasteg — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:32 +0000

Just curious OP (if you're the one posting) -- what do you mean by independent researcher? What are you researching and are you making $$ from it or are you living off previous built up savings? Seems like an interesting path. What research have you looked into so far?

New comment by hasteg in "We let AIs run radio stations"

hasteg — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:19:13 +0000

Sounds like the premise of Portal 2.

New comment by hasteg in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

hasteg — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:13:14 +0000

Money?? Isn't that why we put up with any of this shit? The stress in this industry is intense, espically in big tech companies, and the only reason it's worth it is the extremely high salaries and stock vests.... I've been at Amazon for 4 years and if I didn't get paid like I do now there's no way I would stay.