Hacker News: kensai

New comment by kensai in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

kensai — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:31:54 +0000

Wow, I thought this could not be possible. May I ask, where did you grow up? I mean, in the 80s the Star Wars were already a cult thing.

Bill Gates Warns A.I. Is More Dangerous Than Big Tech Will Admit

kensai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/bill-gates-ai-risks.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457272

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by kensai in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

kensai — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:27:15 +0000

the most pragmatic approach indeed!

New comment by kensai in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

kensai — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:18:43 +0000

Although in principle I agree, cultivating founders could be an added mission.

New comment by kensai in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

kensai — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:24:20 +0000

Even portrayed in Japanese-related games: https://shogun2-encyclopedia.com/techs/gempei_civil_core_tan...

New comment by kensai in "c100"

kensai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:02:43 +0000

Are there any independent reviews of the c100? I want to know more about the keypads and bindings they added.

Moravec's Paradox

kensai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:42:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388913

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kensai in "Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control"

kensai — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:15:35 +0000

“The mammalian brain achieves fast, highly effective goal-directed behavior leveraging paired forward/inverse internal models, open-loop multi-step motor commands, and the hierarchical organization of action.

Our findings show that the Inverter framework, built on the same three principles, enables fast and effective planning and control through a feedforward, sequence-level FoM-and-IM core that emits entire action sequences in single forward passes. We find that Inverters offer consistently high task performance at a fraction of the inference compute time used by step-wise RL or iterative planners.”

Neuro-Inspired Inverse Learning for Planning and Control

kensai — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:10:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24152

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126676

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kensai in "Ars Astronomica – English translations of rare Hebrew and Latin astronomy texts"

kensai — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:44:49 +0000

"Disagreement on AI philosophy shouldn't be a reason to flag a contribution."

Amen!

New comment by kensai in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

kensai — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:40:02 +0000

"like... programmers enjoy the act of typing lines of text into a file on their computer"

ehm, no!

New comment by kensai in "Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models"

kensai — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:06:51 +0000

Are you American? We would prefer it to stay a European company. I personally hope Mistral buys them or somehow they unite to make a stand.

New comment by kensai in "Flux 3"

kensai — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:37:23 +0000

You are completely ignorant. This is one of the best places to live and work on earth. Nonetheless, they also have positions in San Francisco for what is worth.

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

kensai — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033127

Points: 318

# Comments: 50

New comment by kensai in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

kensai — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:25:07 +0000

My question always remains. Which variety/implementation of Lisp is it worth it to learn as a hobbyist and which as a professional?

New comment by kensai in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

kensai — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:38:29 +0000

Valid comment, but prolly because this is the reality he knows. Which is fair.

New comment by kensai in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

kensai — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:14:43 +0000

That's a very harsh take. Most of us would not be alive by the end of the century to personally witness or attend the 1000 years of the University of Bologna, but that goes enough to say how ancient these institutions are: meaning their role obviously changed over time.

Historically, universities BECAME bastions of truth and knowledge, particularly with the introduction of Alexander von Humboldt's ideas for research. And that was already happening by the mid-end of the 19th century. You can not seek seriously truth and knowledge before the establishment of serious metrics and research methodology.

New comment by kensai in "l: A new runtime for k and q"

kensai — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:21:14 +0000

What's the problem if a site is vibecoded? We will be seeing it more often, I recon. Let's get used to it. On the other hand, perhaps a disclaimer is in order.

New comment by kensai in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

kensai — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:47:58 +0000

As a neurologist I read often imaging findings myself. However, one ability of the radiologists I appreciate is their ability to discern through artifacts by years of experience. I am not convinced the current AI crop can reach this level of discerning yet. But I am pretty sure they will reach us and surpass us there as well.

For the moment, I would prefer the final opinion always to be from a human (the human-in-the-loop approach in medicine). Best course of action is to run these LLM assessments and bring them to the next appointment and challenge constructively the doctor.

AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost

kensai — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:16:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lwilko.com/blog/i-gave-an-ai-a-civilization

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641927

Points: 90

# Comments: 99