Hacker News: i000

New comment by i000 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

i000 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:42:59 +0000

They want to encourage diversifying model use.

New comment by i000 in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

i000 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:13:25 +0000

I guess that is at the core of Google vs Oracle, they copied the API kept the implementation clean-room. It was definitvely ruled that this was fair use. If fair use applies to something as strict as re-implementing an API, I would argue it applies to something much more elusive, like cloning UI/layout.

New comment by i000 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

i000 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:14:24 +0000

That is my point people are pro-AI / anti-AI and pro-automation / anti-automation, there is nothing weird about it.

New comment by i000 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

i000 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:41:57 +0000

Weirdly common I would say. US dockworkers / longshoremen are anti-automation big time.

https://ilaunion.org/the-ilas-fight-against-automation-prese...

The lack of productivity-growth in construction is also telling that this industry as a whole may be a bit too pro-hammer and anti-innovation

https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/why-has-produ...

New comment by i000 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

i000 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:49:17 +0000

This happened to me in elementary school. We were doing fingerpaintings using plasticine. After all the bikes were hung on the wall, mine was racing the other way... Somehow it really stuck with me.

New comment by i000 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

i000 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:41:21 +0000

Indeed hilarious considering my grandparent still remember being put into a german nazi concentration camp.

New comment by i000 in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

i000 — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:43:45 +0000

Hmm.The point was that people with Alzheimers have trouble interpreting images, and obviously remain concious until the latest stages of their disease.

New comment by i000 in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

i000 — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:45:37 +0000

> do have long-term memory from their training and thus act very much like someone suffering from Alzheimer’s.

Your 8th grade science teacher may be disappointed too. Drawing such analogies using unequivocal language "very much like" disregards the limited understanding of LLMs, the false analogies between computer and biological systems, and the complex nature of Alzheimer's disease (no it is not just short term memory loss, not even close, for example ability to interpret images)

New comment by i000 in "Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world"

i000 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:50:20 +0000

Have you looked at the rise of Germany's right-wing politics recently? AfD with 18.8% in Baden-Württemberg (west Germany, relatively rich).

New comment by i000 in "Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world"

i000 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:44:53 +0000

Gearmany's pacifism is just like its green energy transition hypocrytical and ineffective. Their Energiewende was to shutdown nuclear to bring back coal. Their Zeitenwend amounted to bankrolling Putin's war machine via the Norstream pipelines at the expense of the very same countries they tried to anhiliate in WW2. So yeah, I think I can crack a joke.

New comment by i000 in "Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world"

i000 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:38:26 +0000

Not sure why you are voted down. Came here to make the same joke.

New comment by i000 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

i000 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:54:55 +0000

It is also wrong...

New comment by i000 in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

i000 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:45:48 +0000

What makes ggplot great is that it allows manual adjustments AND has a nice declerative grammar. Hard for me to see the value of a plotting library without being able to adjust plots.

New comment by i000 in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"

i000 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:29:32 +0000

Imagine a pizza place that allows you to pick from 40+ toppings but you can only order a margherita ;) /s

New comment by i000 in "Mamba-3"

i000 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:46:24 +0000

Agreed. What you wrote was probably the input, what we see is the LLM output with the directive to "make us sound smart, put gratuitous em-dash"

New comment by i000 in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

i000 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:11:31 +0000

Would it make sense to embed such single-purpose network with fixed weights within a LLM before pre-training?

New comment by i000 in "Prism"

i000 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 04:30:50 +0000

Me neither, but what you present is a false dichotomy. Science used to be a past time of the wealthy elites, it became a profession. By opening up it up progrss was accelerated. Same will happen when publication will be made more open and accessible.

New comment by i000 in "Prism"

i000 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:12:22 +0000

Perhaps the real issue is the gate-keeping scientific publishing model. Journals had a place and role, and peer-review is a critical aspect of the scientific process but new times (internet, citizien science, higher levels of scientific literacy, and now AI) diminish the benefits of journals creating "barriers to entry" as you put it.

New comment by i000 in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

i000 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:31:26 +0000

What makes you think that this 'surplus' GDP will be captured by those who do the investments?

New comment by i000 in "Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app"

i000 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:10:04 +0000

What an utterly disappointing comment. FWIW I spent 15min on the app, and found it very helpful to see examples of the various kinds of skin lesion - it will likely motivate me to see a doctor when I see a similar malignant skin lesion. Educating people is very helpful.