Hacker News: josephcooney

New comment by josephcooney in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

josephcooney — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:21:09 +0000

I was on a long international flight recently with no internet and Google AI Edge Gallery installed on my phone with a 2.5GB quantized version of Gemma 4 on it. I was able to chat to it for a while and get some information about my destination which all turned out to be true and good advice.

New comment by josephcooney in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

josephcooney — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:53:15 +0000

I think they bought a whole bunch of batteries of some kind from China. I don't ask too many questions...which is I think how they like it.

New comment by josephcooney in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

josephcooney — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:52:12 +0000

Yeah, he is in a rural area. The batteries are off in a metal shed away from everything else.

New comment by josephcooney in "Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity"

josephcooney — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:24:56 +0000

One of my co-workers (I'm Australian) has 500 kilowatt-hours of storage at home...which is wild. Much more common is the 10-20 kilowatt-hours of domestic storage for a house.

New comment by josephcooney in "Sam Neill has died"

josephcooney — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:11:03 +0000

He's as Australian as Russell Crowe and Lamingtons!

New comment by josephcooney in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

josephcooney — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:35:51 +0000

More of a navigator for the 'scape of the net.

New comment by josephcooney in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

josephcooney — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:51:40 +0000

https://jcooney.net

New comment by josephcooney in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

josephcooney — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:39:54 +0000

as a long-time windows user who has fairly recently switched to linux - windows has a few rough edges too (and feels like it's getting increasingly rougher). Having recently switched I don't feel like things have changed much for me in terms of jankiness/broken-ness (and maybe linux is slightly better, for the subset of tools and programs I am using?).

New comment by josephcooney in "Are consumers just tech debt to Microsoft?"

josephcooney — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:45:33 +0000

the KEYBOARD! on my windows 11 laptop often fails to work after coming out of sleep...

New comment by josephcooney in "Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI"

josephcooney — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:09:39 +0000

The trace is interesting. The training cut-off according to the model is nearly a year old though.

The Joy of Faking It – Reducing Security Risks with Synthetic Data

josephcooney — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:32:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pz.com.au/the-joy-of-faking-it-reducing-security-risks-in-legacy-system-enhancement-with-synthetic-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45384908

Points: 1

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New comment by josephcooney in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

josephcooney — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 08:30:32 +0000

interestingly windsurf have done this (I'm not sure how frontier this model is...but it's their own model) https://windsurf.com/blog/windsurf-wave-9-swe-1 but AFAIK cursor have not.

Our First Vibe-Coding Rescue Project

josephcooney — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pz.com.au/our-first-vibe-coding-rescue-project

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925580

Points: 1

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New comment by josephcooney in "'Indiana Jones' jailbreak approach highlights vulnerabilities of existing LLMs"

josephcooney — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 02:28:33 +0000

Herman Lamm sounds like he was pretty unlucky on his final heist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lamm#Death

New comment by josephcooney in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

josephcooney — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:31:15 +0000

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here, but the local versions you can download and run kind of show it's its own thing. I think it was trained on some synthetic data from OpenAI and have also seen reports of it identifying itself as GPT4-o too.

New comment by josephcooney in "James C. Scott, author of Seeing Like a State, has died"

josephcooney — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:54:51 +0000

Seeing like a state is a very though-provoking book which I thoroughly enjoyed. I should give it a re-read.

New comment by josephcooney in "Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor"

josephcooney — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 01:42:44 +0000

DBeaver has what I think you're describing (at least for me with Postgres) - when browsing tables in the 'data' view, and also for query results there is a little icon beside a data field that is a FK, and you can click it to go to the related row. Not quite the full diagram thing you're describing but I think it can do a lot more than I am aware of.

New comment by josephcooney in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

josephcooney — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:59:54 +0000

I could see Meta buying this. They want a device in the 'next generation of devices', whatever that looks like.

New comment by josephcooney in ""A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4"

josephcooney — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:03:53 +0000

mouse army did kick some ass though

New comment by josephcooney in "A closer look at BookCorpus, a key dataset in machine learning"

josephcooney — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:22:58 +0000

Isn't this what "tiny stories" / Phi LLM are doing? https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644