<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: knbknb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=knbknb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:45:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=knbknb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does "major number release" mean that it is actually an order of magnitude more compute effort that went into creating this model?<p>Or is this fundamentally a different model architecture, or a completely new tech stack on top of which this model was created (and the computing effort was actually less than before, in the v3 major relase?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:22:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619680</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's what had to happen.<p>To bid for lucrative defense contracts (and who knows what else from which organizations and governments).<p>Also, competitors are much less constrained by safety constraints, and slowly grabbing market share from them.<p>As mentioned by others: Enormous amounts of investor money at stake, pressure to generate revenue.<p>Next up: they will replace "safe" with "lethal" or "lethality" to be in sync with the current US administration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:21:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013358</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems that I cannot use GLM-5 via the API yet, because I am on the Coding-Lite Plan, the most basic paid tier.<p>I have also realized that I get faster and correct answer to the ascii_downcase question (even from GLM-4.7) when I submit to open.bigmodel.cn endpoint rather than the z.ai API endpoints (using the same API key). I get a mix of Chinese and Western characters in error responses from open.bigmodel.cn though, while the z.ai endpoint does only contain Western Characters.<p>(Just assuming that both websites are operated by the same company).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:46:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987151</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a well-known CLI tool for JSON processing called jq.
I have just asked GLM-4.7 for  the name of jq's built function to convert a string to lowercase. It is called ascii_downcase() according to the manual:<p><a href="https://jqlang.org/manual/#ascii_downcase-ascii_upcase" rel="nofollow">https://jqlang.org/manual/#ascii_downcase-ascii_upcase</a><p>However GLM-4.7 insists that is called ascii_down().<p>I tried to correct it and gave the exact version number, but still, after a long internal monologue, This is its final world:<p>"In standard jq version 1.7, the function is named ascii_down, not ascii_downcase.<p>If you are receiving an error that ascii_down is not defined, please verify your version with jq --version. It is possible you are using a different binary (like gojq) or a version older than 1."<p>GLM-5 gives me the correct answer, ascii_downcase, but I can get this in the Chat Window. Via the API I get HTTP Status 429 - too many requests.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:02:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986877</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many Microsoft employees are working on Azure Linux in 2026 (full-time equivalents)?  
Github Project Page lists ~ 195 contributors today.<p>Is Azure Linux  relying on community contributions, and MS employees do not write code, justt review, plan, coordinate?  
Or is it the other way around, Microsoft developers do most of the work, and occasionally accept a small PR and interesting feature requests from the community, here and there?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807862</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46807862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "The Calculated Typer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Q: There is not a single occurrence of the word "infer" (and related terms such as "inference") in the whole paper. Did you carefully try to avoid it or did this happen accidentally? Or is it the point of your paper?<p>(I encounter Type Checking  only in my IDE when red squiggly lines appear under syntax errors etc. So consider this a layman Q)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:01:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397063</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Study finds 46 percent of U.S. counties have pharmacy deserts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>4.7% of population, as the says so in summary of the study[1] , 3rd sentence. (1st sentence of second paragraph)<p>[1] <a href="https://www.drugtopics.com/view/pharmacy-deserts-prominent-in-areas-of-high-social-vulnerability" rel="nofollow">https://www.drugtopics.com/view/pharmacy-deserts-prominent-i...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:34:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386290</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43386290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Neuroscience: Formation of long-term memory without short-term memory IN MICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Long-term memory (LTM) consolidation is thought to require the prior establishment of short-term memory (STM). -- Authors show that it does not have to be this way.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01831-z">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01831-z</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42723105">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42723105</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 3</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 09:07:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01831-z</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42723105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42723105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "40+ JackOfManyTrades needs advice for job search"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think, in Germany, only small companies (sole proprietorship businesses) will see your diverse skillset as an advantage.<p>Or one of those companies who are really desperate to hire someone for whatever reason. Perhaps you can _take over_ such a business (search for "Nachfolger gesucht unternehmen")<p>It is not clear what your problem is. Has the freelancing side-business dried up, or is the  "main day job" gone, or both?<p>It is also not clear what you are looking for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567104</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567104</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42567104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In of their release videos for the o1 -preview model they _admitted_ that it's hardcoded in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474639</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42474639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can Typst only produce PDFs? Are other output formats on the development roadmap?<p>(I know that pandoc is incredibly flexible.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272414</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "EU Summons TikTok CEO After Romanian Election Shocker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Read the article - This is not the EU commission or some bigwig requesting a hearing or an investigation.<p>Rather there was one delegate from one of the many political groups in the EU Parliament (which has very little authority and power) who made a statement .<p>In analogy to the US political system: This is not Mark Zuckerberg summoned to a Senate hearing. Rather this is someone of the House of Representatives making some weird proposal or claim.<p>Maybe I am oversimplifying here, but you get the idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2024 08:50:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272249</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42272249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Francois Chollet is leaving Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you plan to write more "fundamental" AI papers such as "On the measure of intelligence", do you plan to refine your ARC-AGI benchmark again?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 09:26:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134458</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42134458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Hofstadter on Lisp (1983)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some computer science departments (and their MOOCs) use Lisp Dialects "Racket" and "Scheme" as a Teaching Language . For example, IDE DrRacket has an innovative language preselection feature that allows students to start out with a "Beginning Student Language".<p><a href="https://www.racket-lang.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.racket-lang.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:20:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866917</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41866917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Poetry was an official Olympic event"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Roman Emperor Nero introduced these in the year 67 AD during the 211th Olympiad:<p>- Heraldry
- Lyre playing
- Chariot race with foals
- Chariot race with ten horses
- Tragedy writing<p>(He won all of these competitions, of course, despite having crashed during  chariot racing.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2024 15:08:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225311</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41225311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Jeff Dean: Trends in Machine Learning [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe this was a review talk, designed for an audience of undergraduate students from various majors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 10:36:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439714</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39439714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Ask HN: Recommendation for Intermediate CSS Course?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google HTML/CSS Style guide: <a href="https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html" rel="nofollow">https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:24:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294508</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39294508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Standard Ebooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who decides or sets the difficulty level of "reading ease" (which is a sortable metadata attribute on the search page) ?<p>Some classiications seem a bit ...nonintuitive. For example, the Autobiography of John Stuart Mill is classified as "very diffcult" whereas "The Tempest" by Shakespeare is classified as "fairly easy".<p>I would classify it the other way around, but what do I know, I'm a nonnative speaker anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2024 16:13:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843208</link><dc:creator>knbknb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38843208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by knbknb in "Ask HN: AI/ML papers to catch up with current state of AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once a  week (at least!) some research group publishes another review paper to the cs.AI section on ArXiv. Look for new [papers with "survey" in the title](<a href="https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/?q=survey&rank=time&tags=cs.AI&pid=&time_filter=300&svm_c=0.01&skip_have=no" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/?q=survey&rank=time&tags=cs.AI...</a>). You'll get surveys on every conceivable subtopic of ML/AI.</p>
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