<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jampekka</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jampekka</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:32:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jampekka" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Policy on the AI Exponential"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Democracies should seek to form a global coalition centered on building AI according to their common values, iteratively trying to draw in the rest of the world by making it more and more attractive to be part of the coalition and less and less attractive to be outside it."<p>It's not clear to me on which side of the coalition USA is meant to be in this divide. And as an European I'm not sure whether being in China's or USA's coalition is better in the long term.<p>In general, this deliberate mongering of ever more geopolitical division is extremely harmful. As is the Trump bootlicking.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:52:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481695</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48481695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saying condoms are an easy fix to STDs is a bit like saying eating less is an easy fix for obesity though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:19:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466236</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We don't really know that about human written text either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:15:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463058</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed. Well written, clear, informative and to the point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:53:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461192</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48461192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My bet is on obesity.<p>"Overweight and obesity significantly increase colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of 66 studies revealing a 25–57% elevation in risk" <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12181496/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12181496/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:43:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453414</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Diet and exercise (to lesser extent) are the mechanism of obesity. The other factors may affect diet and exercise. A massive other factor for the latter is driving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:04:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448855</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448855</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obesity indeed is a massive elephant in the room in public health discussions. And even in TFA "ultra-processed foods" are put first, which is a) just a silly category, and b) effects from poor quality nutrition are mainly via obesity.<p>The obesity epidemic is by far the most important public health problem in the developed world, but discussing this publicly, and thus effectively addressing it, is very difficult.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:45:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448551</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48448551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(Three out of) four experiments is anecdotal for sure, but the result meshes with more established instruction following benchmarking (although DeepSeek V4 pro does not top these): <a href="https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/ifbench" rel="nofollow">https://artificialanalysis.ai/evaluations/ifbench</a><p>I found the writing clear and quite even handed. The lead is a bit salesy, but leads typically are. Knee-jerk dismissals based on vibes that something is LLM generated are quite low-effort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:56:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442874</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Contrary to belief, renewables, or generally speaking DC, makes things this stability problem worse.<p>Is there such belief? My feel is that anybody to whom electrical grid stability has even crossed their minds know this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:15:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442210</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also it was an asthma prevention study, not cognitive functioning one, adding even more "researcher degrees of freedom".<p>Doing such side studies is fine in itself, but selling such shakey results as "This study suggests that high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation during pregnancy may be associated with improved cognitive functioning at age 10 years." is a stretch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:55:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437133</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's quite strange that it's very easy to detect AI in writing.<p>Or you detect only the easy to detect AI writing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:58:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436067</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The idea does smell a bit like a rationalization for policy that was extremely convenient for stockholders and a disaster for workers.</p>
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<p>They do. I asked CharGPT for 327 x 48 and it used the "ChatGPT Instruments" calculator.<p>Previously it used to run Python scripts, and may still do for more complex calculations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433275</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US gun culture resembles nothing like "a militia officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence."<p>This was also before modern military with armored vehicles, aircraft, missiles and drones. I wonder what ratio of untrained handgun touting joe sixpacks would be needed against that.<p>If you want to get an idea what was meant with the militias at the time, look at maybe Switzerland. Or perhaps even countries with conscript armies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402912</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Nvidia – The Coming Short Squeeze?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is this linked through the fishy looking link shortener?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:16:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396126</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Now I work mostly with PhDs who were at the top of every academic environment they've ever been in. And yet I can see their thinking skills rapidly declining as well; many of them can no longer brainstorm, code, think deeply, or write without an LLM present doing 90% of the work. Many of them can no longer sit quietly for even 30 minutes just thinking on their own, which is a required skill for producing original thought.<p>This was my experience even pre-LLMs though (about my own PhD thinking skills too). I blame the amount of random stuff work now involves more than LLMs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:04:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396059</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "MAI-Thinking-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The benchmarks are a bit of a disaster? It's at about DeepSeek V3.2 level, but with about 50% more parameters. Loses handily to the also smaller GLM-5.1, and even worse to the similarly sized Kimi K2.6.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:39:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376703</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a ThinkPad P1 (Gen 2) and I run Linux, but I'd hesitate to recommend at least the Nvidia dGPU versions. The battery life is dismal, even with the dGPU disabled in software (can't be HW disabled). It also runs really hot and the suspend is still flakey.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371024</link><dc:creator>jampekka</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jampekka in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>API param passthrough will probably help with many of the cases. Things like sampling params and constrained decoding and returning logits tend to be very finicky with the translated params. But the return value translation also makes debugging these harder.<p>While I'm at it, another annoyance is that OpenRouter doesn't seem to have a very good API playground. The chat does work, but the params exposed there are quite limited and it's not clear how the GUI fields map to API params. I now have resorted to exporting the chat and figure out the params from the export JSON. Just having an option to get a curl command for the chat call would help a lot, and shouldn't be hard to implement.<p>Edit: I think the ideal implementation for the direct API access would be that I could generate API keys for the provider at OpenRouter that I would give in the provider API calls, but that would get billed through OpenRouter. Second best would probably be a raw HTTP proxy/tunnel that injects OpenRouter's own keys (or however it is that you call the providers). I don't really know though how you call the providers and what kind of new provider integrations these would require.</p>
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<p>Would it be possible to get "raw" access to the provider APIs, but still keep the consolidated billing? The unified API is great when it works, but it often causes hassle with more exotic use cases and new API features.</p>
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