Hacker News: jhonof

New comment by jhonof in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

jhonof — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:14:51 +0000

> When the Cybertruck was first announced, Musk was still the darling of the left and progressive wealthy. It was daring and different and cool, and it was explicitly meant to be an experiment in making cars differently.

People still hated it when it was announced, the online discourse was largely negative surrounding it. I remember being in my tech office at the time and we were all talking about how bad it looked.

New comment by jhonof in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

jhonof — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:16:03 +0000

Wasn't Bell Labs this in the past? It existed alongside public research institutes.

New comment by jhonof in "Waymo in Toronto"

jhonof — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:43:36 +0000

Street parking in the core makes what would be a manageable amount of snow into a disaster like 2 weeks a year minimum because plows can't get down older streets.

New comment by jhonof in "Leaving Tech"

jhonof — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:08:28 +0000

I'm at 33 rejections 7 ghosts in my currents job search, is getting a rejection abnormal? I haven't really ever done a high volume search like I am currently doing so I have no context.

New comment by jhonof in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

jhonof — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:18:48 +0000

I genuinely use AI all day every day so it isn't just based on nothing. The PMs I work with have no interest in speccing the technical side of solutions out at all, and vibed specs aren't even close to being one shottable yet.

New comment by jhonof in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

jhonof — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:14:52 +0000

The argument is it drives down wages across the board so obviously the wages would be the same.

New comment by jhonof in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

jhonof — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:27:38 +0000

I disagree, I think being able to specify and validate a product is a massive skill that will be in high demand for a while yet.

New comment by jhonof in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

jhonof — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:22:11 +0000

Natural language is too lossy for most usecases and people are bad at being specific enough to get what they want. For example, I am not creative enough to think of movie ideas compared to good directors so I will probably just pay to see what they cook up rather than try to make it myself.

New comment by jhonof in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

jhonof — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:10:06 +0000

I am genuinely doing it for free in my free time on top of my work (in fact I pay for the models) so I am doing it for less than peanuts. I completely disagree w/r/t the model take, their is skill in steering work to get a product done that is what management has always been about, I do think in the long run this will be automated but I have seen 0 progress on it so far.

New comment by jhonof in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

jhonof — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:42:42 +0000

> There is no future in being a Proof Digester, no valuable human is motivated in doing that, nor is there any glory in it.

Coding has already gone this way and plenty of people do find motivation and glory in the final product vs. the building of the product (myself included). I absolutely see value in a person being able to humanize llm math output and see the field moving in that direction.

New comment by jhonof in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

jhonof — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:32:34 +0000

Silicon Valley was freaking out last democrat admin because anti trust laws were actually being enforced finally by Lina Khan, I actually completely disagree and I think this admin has been very obviously worse.

New comment by jhonof in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

jhonof — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:21:38 +0000

I actually heard the opposite, the folks at Anthropic felt pretty confident they were ahead after the Astra release because it wasn't as good as they were expecting.

New comment by jhonof in "Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom"

jhonof — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:32:49 +0000

Yes but at some point there is diminishing returns in model quality. Most people don't need a model that can solve Navier-Stokes to write emails for them.

New comment by jhonof in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

jhonof — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:55:54 +0000

Consent of the people can be different for different things? No way /s

New comment by jhonof in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

jhonof — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:45:50 +0000

Constantly ripping up trade/other deals that were signed in the last decade is unreliable and hard to plan around.

New comment by jhonof in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

jhonof — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:51 +0000

The login issue is extremely annoying, at least mandating an xcancel link would fix that.

New comment by jhonof in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

jhonof — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:58:52 +0000

It's bench-marking near sol

New comment by jhonof in "Anthropic researcher says more than 10% chance AI "could kill all humans""

jhonof — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:34:26 +0000

This is a succinct explanation for what I have been thinking as well, thank you for putting it into words.

New comment by jhonof in "Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics"

jhonof — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:03:06 +0000

I think the purpose of an event like this would be to optimize the process so that it isn't just occasionally asking an AI to keep going.

New comment by jhonof in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

jhonof — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:09:06 +0000

Qwen 3.8 27B is better than Sonnet 4.6