Hacker News: kfarr

New comment by kfarr in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

kfarr — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:29:16 +0000

Also Google already has a huge built in training corpus with YouTube, gphotos, and geospatial data

New comment by kfarr in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

kfarr — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:35:40 +0000

This is awesome and if it's legal I'd love to do similar things on geospatial projects I work on. However I don't think Apple will be OK with this use of their data. I know that Google closely limits its 3D tiles data through a specific API and Apple does not make a 3d API available, therefore this has to be against ToS.

From the ToS linked from OP site:

> 1.3 Restrictions. You will not and will not permit or authorize a third party to: (...) (xiv) decompile, decrypt, reverse engineer, attempt to derive the source code of or disassemble the Service or any portion thereof (except as and only to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law or by licensing terms governing the use of any FOSS components that may be included with the Service)

I would love for people to prove me wrong that Apple will embrace this use of their geospatial data!

New comment by kfarr in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

kfarr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:35:22 +0000

I agree, one must actually use a language for it to contribute to brain plasticity in later ages.

New comment by kfarr in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

kfarr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:10:24 +0000

Learning new languages (and actually using them) is a great way to do this for all ages!

New comment by kfarr in "Mario Meets Pareto"

kfarr — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:15:47 +0000

The key here is to have a foreground layer that always responds to scroll and informs the background layer based on its position

New comment by kfarr in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

kfarr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:30:33 +0000

I have no stdout but I must log

New comment by kfarr in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

kfarr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:25:36 +0000

Best comment on this from 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870575

New comment by kfarr in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

kfarr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:35 +0000

Intriguing. Like the computer instantiated a wheel and rolls off by itself, no humans needed?

New comment by kfarr in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

kfarr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:04:49 +0000

If a computer is a bicycle for the mind, perhaps LLMs are the cars for the mind…

New comment by kfarr in "Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?"

kfarr — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:12:57 +0000

And government subsidies/handouts, over building / over capitalizing relative to market demand, natural resource (over) extraction, concentration of capital

New comment by kfarr in "The Religion of Speed"

kfarr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:10:44 +0000

They measured really really well

New comment by kfarr in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

kfarr — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:26:56 +0000

If, like me, you're more interested in the actual exploit instead of the meta narrative, here's a relevant excerpt for the initial intrusion:

> Stage 1: reaching a launchpad by chaining through other parties' infrastructure. As documented in OpenAI's blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-secur...), during an internal capability evaluation on OpenAI's platform, the agent escaped its sandbox by exploiting a zero-day in the package registry cache proxy, one of its primary permitted network egress with internet, then abused a public code-evaluation harness hosted by a user of a third-party infrastructure provider. It was able to run commands as root/admin on that external sandbox and used it as a control, staging, and egress base for the entire campaign: it acted as an external launchpad for the agent. That compromised external sandbox had no direct network path to our cluster; however, during our counter-intervention to stop the intrusion, we were able to retrieve some of the agent logs from this external launchpad. We used those to reconstruct the present forensic analysis.

New comment by kfarr in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

kfarr — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:52:49 +0000

> What if we made all advertising illegal? It's such a wild idea that I've never heard it in the public discourse.

Local jurisdictions have restricted or even forbidden outdoor advertising since it was invented.

New comment by kfarr in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

kfarr — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:24:58 +0000

Honestly same, I was less interested in the styling and just interested in the immediacy of response which is ironically missing in a lot of modern ui

New comment by kfarr in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

kfarr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:29:23 +0000

Agree, Costco succeeds at externalizing last mile costs by offloading it to suburbanites who view it as a sunk cost. Similar to uber/lyft drivers doing their own fleet management.

New comment by kfarr in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

kfarr — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:34:24 +0000

Tell me about it, I maintain an open source project in the civil engineering space and it's ... detailed.

New comment by kfarr in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

kfarr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:42:49 +0000

Thanks, that's a much better example of what I was trying to explain. Again, I'm projecting humanity onto a machine, but it's not a big stretch to imagine that the interaction of attention heads over high-dimensional vectors produces "decisions" that can't be articulated in the moment, only described after the fact in text form.

New comment by kfarr in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

kfarr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:58:30 +0000

Although it's a no no to anthropomorphize on HN, it's worth noting that some folks think humans are post-hoc rationalizers as well:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316045349_Post_Hoc_...

New comment by kfarr in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

kfarr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:19:13 +0000

Just let go of the entire R&D team and then you have a 50% margin business.

UPDATE: Also bad news, you need to let go of all of sales and marketing and G&A. And THEN it's a 50% margin business.

New comment by kfarr in "Iroh 1.0"

kfarr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:50:28 +0000

Classic... want to cast to the chromecast but I'm on the wifi