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New comment by hnhn34 in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

hnhn34 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:36:32 +0000

> would that solve the problem for you?

not the person you replied to, but it mostly would for me. Factory farms are among the closest things to hell on earth.

New comment by hnhn34 in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

hnhn34 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:49:25 +0000

If you have an LLM that doesn't make errors ever, then you have an ASI, at which point the conversation is meaningless. In the meantime, having a lower error rate but more uncaught errors is less important than making incorrect code impossible to compile, and/or flagged by strict linters.

New comment by hnhn34 in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

hnhn34 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:28:43 +0000

Looks like there's a bug in WebKit-based browsers where clicking on something doesn't always work.

Nothing to add other than I really, really like this. Keep us posted on future updates!

New comment by hnhn34 in "Rich Hickey: Thanks AI"

hnhn34 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:24:44 +0000

slop is not, by definition, AI generated. The word slop is from the mid 16th century, and its modern colloquial/meme use originated in 4chan in 2016. That's why we call AI slop "AI slop", and not just "slop".

New comment by hnhn34 in "Ask HN: Pivot from SWE to What?"

hnhn34 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:00:37 +0000

> But since if you're so lazy/undisciplined to disregard skilling up (Leetcode, Coursera, Udemy, Pluralsight, etc)

What's with the hostility in these comments? OP straight up said he just doesn't like the damn job. Grinding leetcode is not gonna change that. Is everyone just choosing to ignore this?

New comment by hnhn34 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

hnhn34 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:51:01 +0000

> But there is a difference between Google, which is arguably a mixed bag, and the AI companies, which are unquestionably cancer

Google's DeepMind has been at the forefront of AI research for the past 11+ years. Even before that, Google Brain was making incredible contributions to the field since 2011, only two years after the release of Go.

OpenAI was founded in response to Google's AI dominance. The transformer architecture is a Google invention. It's not an exaggeration to claim Google is one of the main contributors to the insanely fast-paced advancements of LLMs.

With all due respect, you need some insane mental gymnastics to claim AI companies are "unquestionably cancer" while an adtech/analytics borderline monopoly giant is merely a "mixed bag".

New comment by hnhn34 in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

hnhn34 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:57:45 +0000

> It's in Thiel's nature to distance himself from Altman

This is way off base. Altman is basically a mentee of his, like Zuckerberg. They go way back, and they've both publicly praised each other quite recently. They're very close friends.

New comment by hnhn34 in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

hnhn34 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:59:18 +0000

> Moonshot AI is such an overused generic name that I had to ask an LLM which company this is

I just googled "Moonshot AI" and got the information right away. Not sure what's confusing about it, the only other "Moonshot" I know of is Alphabet's Moonshot Factory.

> This company is far from "open source", it's had over $1B USD in funding.

Since when does open source mean you can't make any money? Mozilla has a total of $1.2B in assets. The company isn't open source nor claiming to be.

This model was released under a "modified MIT-license" [0]:

> Our only modification part is that, if the Software (or any derivative works thereof) is used for any of your commercial products or services that have more than 100 million monthly active users, or more than 20 million US dollars (or equivalent in other currencies) in monthly revenue, you shall prominently display "Kimi K2" on the user interface of such product or service.

Which sounds pretty fair to me.

[0] - https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking/blob/main...

New comment by hnhn34 in "China is eating the world"

hnhn34 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:42:15 +0000

>but after Deepseek stunned the world with the R1 model, subsequent models got heavily censored and languished in relative obscurity.

I'm pretty sure this isn't what happened. DeepSeek just hasn't released a big model upate. But in the meantime, Qwen, Bytedance, Ziphu and Moonshot AI have released extremely impressive models, some of which are SOTA or close to it. The open source/open weight world is still in love with Chinese labs as they keep releasing cool stuff and filling the void left by Meta and Mistral.

New comment by hnhn34 in "Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT"

hnhn34 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 03:42:02 +0000

I think you had a kneejerk reaction from taking GP's comment too literally. Happens to the best of us. They're saying the LLM is simulating an anxious human and needlessly burning tokens ($$$) as a result, not that the LLM literally has anxiety and needs digital Xanax.

Hunyan World 1.0 – The First Open-Source 3D World Generation Model

hnhn34 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:33:11 +0000

Article URL: https://3d-models.hunyuan.tencent.com/world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44698464

Points: 5

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New comment by hnhn34 in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

hnhn34 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:03:35 +0000

Include me in the screenshot.

New comment by hnhn34 in "Show HN: DoubleMemory – more efficient local-first read-it-later app"

hnhn34 — Fri, 23 May 2025 23:40:31 +0000

Same! I guess HNers have the same tendency to hoard bookmarks so we all ran into the same pain points.

New comment by hnhn34 in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

hnhn34 — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:39:32 +0000

Just in case you didn't know, they raised the rate limit from ~50/week to ~50/day a while ago

New comment by hnhn34 in "Update turns Google Gemini into a prude, breaking apps for trauma survivors"

hnhn34 — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:50:14 +0000

> Whatever people say about AI, they're incapable of doing quality investigative reporting any time soon

the latest Gemini models have a very low hallucination rate in benchmarks [0]. Feel free to try it yourself. Just go to gemini.google.com, choose Deep Research, and ask it to write a report about a topic that you're intimately familiar with.

[0] - https://github.com/vectara/hallucination-leaderboard

New comment by hnhn34 in "The One-Person Framework in Practice"

hnhn34 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:09:32 +0000

I still don't get why .NET barely ever gets mentioned in these threads. Even new or niche frameworks like Phoenix, loco.rs and others get mentioned, but almost never .NET. It's as "convention over configuration" as it gets.

New comment by hnhn34 in "Reality Check"

hnhn34 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:44:21 +0000

I haven't used RAG yet, but OpenAI's embeddings are pretty far behind AFAIK. Gemini has the SOTA in embeddings right now.

Check out the MTEB leaderboard:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

New comment by hnhn34 in "College Towns: Urbanism from a Past Era"

hnhn34 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:54:16 +0000

I'm Puerto Rican and this hurt to read because I wish the noise problem was limited to beaches. Multiple cases of noisy, inconsiderate neighbors (in different apartments and cities) drove me insane, to the point where I left and don't plan on ever coming back. The way it affected my sleep during my formative years probably did irreparable damage.

Feeling like you don't belong in your own country is maddening and difficult to accept.

New comment by hnhn34 in "AI is turning us into glue"

hnhn34 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:20:58 +0000

Throughout all stages of my schooling from kindergarten to college, there were always artists, tinkerers and builders, but they were never the majority.

I can't think of any time in history, under any economic system, where humans who create tools and art were the majority. Most people just want to have families and enjoy life.

New comment by hnhn34 in "AI is turning us into glue"

hnhn34 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:03:54 +0000

>Think about your browsing history over the last year. You’ve probably consumed an obscene amount of React components, maybe millions.

Yeah, most of which are rehashes of the same thing, and most of them on the same ~10 websites.