<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: julius</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=julius</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 03:10:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=julius" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe there is a smart trick to get them to do the right thing, but the things I tried did not work.<p>At one point I had some smaller model draw bounding boxes around everything that looked interactable and labels like "e3" ... then asked the model to tell me "click on e3". Did not work in my tests was pretty much as bad as x,y.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027576</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Click coordinates. Agentic GUI is really annoying when the multi-modal agent cannot click on x,y coordinates.<p>I tested Qwen3.6, Gemma4, Nemotron3-nano-omni. They fully hallucinate x,y coords.
(did not try GLM-5V yet)<p>GPT-5.5 can easily do it. But also Vocaela, a tiny 500M model, is quite good at it. Hope they improve the training for x,y clicking soon on the smallish multi-modals.<p>Recently slopped a http service together just so my local models can click, instead of relying on all the wild ways agents currently hack into the browser (browser-use, browser-harness, agent-browser, dev-browser etc) <a href="https://github.com/julius/vocaela-click-coords-http" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/julius/vocaela-click-coords-http</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:33:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027390</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Show HN: Daily-updated database of malicious browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Super cool. Brave support by any chance? Using Linux, it found my Chrome, but thats not my primary browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917124</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Neural networks that learn non-linearity without activation functions [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Less information loss -> Less params? Please correct me if I got this wrong. The Intro claims:<p>"The dot product itself is a geometrically impoverished measure, primarily capturing alignment while conflating magnitude with direction and often
obscuring more complex structural and spatial relationships [10, 11, 4, 61, 17]. Furthermore, the way current activation functions achieve non-linearity can exacerbate this issue. For instance, ReLU (f (x) = max(0, x)) maps all negative pre-activations, which can signify a spectrum of relationships from weak dissimilarity to strong anti-alignment, to a single zero output. This thresholding, while promoting sparsity, means the network treats diverse inputs as uniformly orthogonal or linearly independent for onward signal propagation. Such a coarse-graining of geometric relationships leads to a tangible loss of information regarding the degree and nature of anti-alignment or other neg-
ative linear dependencies. This information loss, coupled with the inherent limitations of the dot product, highlights a fundamental challenge."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:23:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776066</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44776066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Moneybadger and Peach Payments partner to enable Bitcoin payments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of people who have relatively stable currencies (EUR, USD..) do not want to use bitcoin. What if bitcoin price goes down? How many extra steps is it to convert my USD to bitcoin and then back to USD? Do I only convert the 19.99 USD for my current purchase into bitcoin or do I put in more?<p>Do you solve these issues for customers? Or are you only targeting people who already are happy bitcoin wallet users? Are stablecoins part of your strategy?<p>Given how Visa,Mastercard,Paypal are seen as bad actors. Do you think you can capitalize on that, possibly partnering with Valve or something of that sort?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:10:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44734457</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44734457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44734457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "YouTube No Translation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Chrome/Brave: <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-no-translation/lmkeolibdeeglfglnncmfleojmakecjb" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/youtube-no-translat...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 11:09:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614465</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44614465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone with recent real-world experience?<p>From talking to AI, it seems the main issues would be:<p>- SEO (googlebot)<p>- Social Media Sharing<p>- CSP heavy envs could be trouble<p>Is this right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 08:27:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394921</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44394921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Airhull lets electric boats glide on a layer of air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Video of the ship and visualization of the technology: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOK4TGd_l_Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOK4TGd_l_Q</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 07:55:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095059</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44095059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Oasis AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for making this playable. I have seen videos of it, but thought I had to wait for years until I can experience it.<p>The future will be wild. "Hey ChatGPT, lets play Counterstrike on the Enterprise-D. Counter-Terrorists agains Spongebobs"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050780</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42050780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At first I thought you made a website that gives me an empty Markdown file. But I am glad I downloaded it its actually a pretty nice template.<p>What are you personally doing with the yearly goals in that file. Are you copy and pasting them from last week, or are you typing them down everytime to re-iterate them (and possibly even modify) ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 09:48:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41969350</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41969350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41969350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mercury sounds interesting. Requires a certain scale though (gravity is a bitch).<p>Considering just the initial mining and construction, bodies with low gravity and proximity to the earth feel like an efficient starting point, right? I always thought the moon would be a good place to bootstrap the first few thousand space habitats.<p>Your point about energy will probably be the biggest deal. Wondering how complicated it would be to ship a bunch of nuclear reactors to the moon. There seems to be quite a few companies working on small, "mass produced" reactors currently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:11:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338857</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- Demo made me want this instantly -- looks better than tabs<p>- Realized its VSCode -- started downloading<p>- Stopped the download when I saw AI -- cannot work on company code<p>Will definately try this when AI is disabled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41077313</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41077313</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41077313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also just used ElasticMQ in a docker environment. Did you see any specific downsides, when you looked at it? In which scenarios should I consider replacing it with your solution?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:31:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839015</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839015</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40839015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh wow TIL ESP32 can run TensorFlowLite. Person detection in 54ms! <a href="https://github.com/espressif/esp-tflite-micro?tab=readme-ov-file#performance-comparison">https://github.com/espressif/esp-tflite-micro?tab=readme-ov-...</a></p>
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<p>From their homepage it seems they do screensharing + AI summary of meeting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 16:36:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778118</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05629v1" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.05629v1</a></p>
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<p>Effects wore off after 18 months I think. He explains in the video why it was expected.<p>He took the pills 6 years ago still not killed by cancer. And of course this is n=1. The first thing he says after taking the pills is "Lets hope this does not kill me" :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:57:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631238</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Major cause of inflammatory bowel disease discovered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of the Youtube Guy who homebrewed a gene-therapy to treat his Lactose Intolerance, successfully<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:22:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607510</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40607510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pure NumPy implementation of Mamba]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/idoh/mamba.np">https://github.com/idoh/mamba.np</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40594743">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40594743</a></p>
<p>Points: 100</p>
<p># Comments: 35</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:55:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/idoh/mamba.np</link><dc:creator>julius</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40594743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40594743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by julius in "Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for sharing your product journey. Making hardware products is very interesting, when a single guy does it.<p>Would you mind sharing some of your prototype to production journey?<p>- How did you find companies that make the parts (pcb, enclosure)?<p>- How do you assemble all the parts (do you do that yourself or did you find a company to do that for you)?</p>
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