Hacker News: jerlendds

New comment by jerlendds in "Alberta (Canada) slaps punitive tax on solar panels"

jerlendds — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:29:44 +0000

I unfortunately live in Alberta and I have to say Smith seems decently smart. Which is not to say I agree with or would vote for her but that shes very capable of getting things she wants. Seeing Alberta pop up on HN so often is disheartening. I hope she gets voted out soon or I just might have to move

New comment by jerlendds in "Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?"

jerlendds — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:20:12 +0000

VLM != LLM. Vision language models basically treat text tokens and image tokens the same. Post-training an LLM on images+text can improve its capabilities. Id recommend searching around the keyword VLM to find more resources on how multi-modal AI works.

- https://huggingface.co/blog/vlms

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimodal_learning

New comment by jerlendds in "The Association for Computational Heresy"

jerlendds — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:50:22 +0000

This is a fun rabbit hole I discovered. I'm currently reading the 2026 PDF: https://sigbovik.org/2026/proceedings.pdf which covers many topics that will likely pique the interest of the crowd here

The Association for Computational Heresy

jerlendds — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:46:27 +0000

Article URL: https://sigbovik.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588301

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jerlendds in "My practical approach to surfing the web safely"

jerlendds — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:04:03 +0000

I mean you might be able to if you squint hard enough but the experience of using it would be absolitely piss poor so no. Realistically speaking AI is not even nearly that good yet and buildong a browser is an absolutely huge undertaking

Noise-Driven Escape from Metastable Phases Explains Grokking in DNNs

jerlendds — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:15:48 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17120

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49461045

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Donto: An Evidence Operating System for Contested Knowledge

jerlendds — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:07:48 +0000

Article URL: https://donto.org/reports/donto-paper-2026-05-28

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107925

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Rad: The relational database, redesigned. OLTP backed by durable object storage

jerlendds — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:09:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.radengine.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912993

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Platonic space: where cognitive and morphological patterns come from

jerlendds — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://thoughtforms.life/platonic-space-where-cognitive-and-morphological-patterns-come-from-besides-genetics-and-environment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908975

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jerlendds in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

jerlendds — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:28:27 +0000

The sci-fi hand wringing is embarrassing. A huge chunk of the population is afflicted with mental health issues and the best psychitrists can seem to do is "Oh bro, wanna try some ketamine? Anti-psychotics?? Maybe some SSRIs, how about psychdelics?!" - this is a joke. Im all for more neuroscience research in every form because our contemporary understanding is embarassingly poor. This is a research tool for understanding what visual brain regions encode, not a mind-control device. Better models of brain function may eventually improve diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Calling every neuroscience advance "Black Mirror" is not ethical insight. It saddens me the reaction so many commentors have here, it is just lazy technological illiteracy imo.

New comment by jerlendds in "Show HN: OCR-grab: Flameshot clone that adds OCR"

jerlendds — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:39:35 +0000

I personally just use pipes and tesseract, no need for another tool imo:

flameshot gui --raw | tesseract stdin stdout -l eng | xclip -in -selection clipboard

Paseo: Orchestrate coding agents from your desk and your phone

jerlendds — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:16:38 +0000

Article URL: https://paseo.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48827057

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Un0rick: Open-source pulse echo ultrasound

jerlendds — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:19:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.opensourceimaging.org/project/un0rick/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688431

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jerlendds in "AI Has Broken Hiring"

jerlendds — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:44:34 +0000

https://archive.ph/Pfl79

New comment by jerlendds in "A PDF that changes based on how its read"

jerlendds — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:01:12 +0000

Yeah idk, this is weird as hell

New comment by jerlendds in "Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google"

jerlendds — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:02:25 +0000

Huh, I should sue google haha. I have a screenshot of their AI overviews spewing bullshit about my main username from the query "Find jerlendds". Ive tried it again and it appears to be slightly more accurate however my old screenshot says some nonsense about how I help track down international criminal rings via my osintbuddy project. Totally not true and it feels like it painted a target on my back. Too bad I dont have the funds to take them to court in Canada