<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: kriro</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kriro</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:05:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kriro" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That jump through the mirror blew my mind as a kid. And level 6 oh man took us forever to beat that slightly obese guard. I still remember that we once accidentally walked all the way into that guard and switched places but then were killed by a strike to the back. always wanted to replay and see if I can pass the guard that way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502332</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Dopamine Fracking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a certain irony in coining the term on discord. Nice blog post but I'm used to reading these from people who hang out on IRC. Times are changing indeed.<p>My private version of anti-dopamine fracking is playing the phone game. Every social event I attend, I try to be the last person to look at their phone (well basically not look at it at all). It is fairly sad how easily this game is won in under 30 minutes in most casual settings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:20:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444396</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "The Cypherpunk Library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been a bit out of the loop with Austrian Economics (last re-read of Human Action was ~15 years ago). I'm very well read in it and enjoy the aesthetics of the theories and the history of thought books but got very tired of the online flame-wars and the political side in general (both the pro- and anti-Austrians). So Praxeology of Privacy sounds like an interesting read, I'll give it a go this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:46:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444126</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately DDG is still horrible for non-English results. As are most "smaller" search engines. I rotate through them every now and then to try. Is there a meta search engine that uses country specific engines depending on searches anyone can recommend?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:13:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359722</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're talking about enterprise customers. The trivial answer is Mistral has sales teams and consultants from the same company that builds the models and from the EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:15:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327092</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't see it mentioned explicitly in the methods section but I assume you prompted each model only once for each question? Did you consider prompting n-times in blank states to see if the models even agree with themselves?<p>Would also be interesting to add a virtual model that is simply the majority of all models and see how much the individual models differ from the "consensus".<p>Do you plan to add some sources in the related work section of baseline numbers for human expert disagreement in fact checking tasks (I'm assuming such studies exist).</p>
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<p>I agree. Once upon a time I was quite interested in FPGAs but the infrastructure being so uninviting in general made me move on completely. I was somewhat recently involved in quantizing neural networks with FINN (AMD) and let's just say...that was a pretty bad experience overall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258473</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice analysis, I would have loved a short overview of the kinds of experiments that were running on the machine (I know the results are given).<p>I find the "independent researcher" business model quite interesting. In the linked post he writes """DFT is a proprietary training algorithm, however, I’m currently offering a beta for a model training service where I will train your model for you using DFT."""
I'm curious how successful this is. Essentially market some AI breakthrough as a service instead of publishing a paper like my academic brain is trained to do.<p>As an aside, one thing that I always loved about our field was that the startup cost for many business ideas was "a laptop, internet connection and some some grit". In the age of AI it's quite a bit more and I feel one of the sad side effects of this is that it crowds out poorer and younger developers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 07:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233107</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I'm only thinking about non-programming business applications, anecdotally, Mistral is certainly a player in the European enterprise market. For most German companies I have interacted with, Mistral was the first point of contact regarding corporate AI rollout. For the "small potatoes" day to day minutia Copilot is probably the #1.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 09:38:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205231</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "OpenBSD 7.9"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used it a bit, had it installed for a while on a G4 PowerBook (must have been early-ish 2000s). I like the no-nonsense attitude towards blobs, security focus. Overall the experience was very good. The bit of code I read was also written nicely. I'll always endorse it and should really install it somewhere again in the near future.<p>This is also the 60th release. Congrats team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:36:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193872</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like textbook Inside the Tornado marketing. Pick a country as a bowling pin, show some success, go for a different/bigger country. Presumably cover EU first this way. Be the first to offer all-citizens licenses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 09:04:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167229</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Train Your Own LLM from Scratch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did it back in the day when fast.ai was relatively new with ULMFiT. This must have been when Bert was sota. The architecture allows you to train a base and specialize with a head. I used the entire Wikipedia for the base and then some GBs of tweets I had collected through the firehouse. I had access to a lab with 20 game dev computers. Must have been roughly GTX 2080s. One training cycle took about half a day for the tokenized Wikipedia so I hyper parameter tuned by running one different setting on each computer and then moving on with the winner as the starting point for the next day. It was always fun to come to work the next morning and check the results.<p>The engineering was horrible and very ad-hoc but I learned a lot. Results were ok-ish (I classified tweets) but it gave me a good perspective on the sheer GPU power (and engineering challenges) one would need to do this seriously. I didn't fully grasp the potential of generating output but spent quite some time chuckling at generated tweets (was just curious to try it).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 07:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019186</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019186</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Innocent mistakes and frustrating back and forth are also very common, especially for interdisciplinary teams. The mismatch in tooling and workflows and manual copy & paste conversion is a thing to behold. Add multiple countries and Excel to the mix (dot vs comma, formulas being language specific), maybe have a couple of Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Arabic speking researchers in the group for some extra UTF-8 magic. Line endings on Linux vs. OSX vs. Windows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:54:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833600</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I cook a lot of Vietnamese food. Goto recipe for fish sauce to use with bánh xèo and the like is roughly 4:1 water to fish sauce (3:1 is also fine) mix with 1-1.5 tablespoons of sugar until the sugar is dissolved.<p>Chop 2-3 pieces of garlic and roughly the same amount of chilli into very fine pieces (same cutting board so they mix already while chopping) and add it. Then squeeze about a slice of lime. taste and up/down sugar/acidity/fishiness to taste.<p>Edit: Typically I use 3 tablespoons of nước mắm with 12 of water for the 4:1 (forgot that in the initial post, otherwise the sugar amounts and so forth make little sense).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833420</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "CRISPR takes important step toward silencing Down syndrome’s extra chromosome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great achievement. Sometimes I imagine a world where the LLM-money, will and time was funneled into more aggressive CRISPR research and medical advances in general. If I want to go full sci-fi I even imagine cloning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:44:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789922</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The described enterprise sales process sounds a bit odd to me. I come from the perspective of existing codebase that is tailored to the specific customer processes/org structure etc. so maybe it's different for a completely blue ocean type of product.<p>It's usually initial contact + demo or feature talk of sorts. The next step is some small project with customer specific data which is billed. They get a quote and either do it or don't. Scale up, SLA etc. follow after that (basic outline of what's possible is usually given in the initial contact). Alternatively this small project can be some consulting package but it's always billed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:08:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776970</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Swift is at least in the TIOBE Top 20 (#20) and Scratch is at #12 but more educational. I'd also add Kotlin and Dart as contenders which sit just outside the top 20.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:34:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705091</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, I can only know that the owner of the private key signed but not how the document was created. But I suppose there is some trust involved that a person I know who signs doesn't sign some AI generated stuff.
To establish the initial link, I suppose we need something more mainstream/scalable than the old key signing parties I remember from CCC etc.<p>But at least for friends and family it should be possible to create some flow where every member has a key-combo and you trust them to only sign stuff they wrote etc. and have local mini-keysign parties.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:03:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518286</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518286</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite part of BeOS is the file system. The book can be found freely here: <a href="https://www.nobius.org/dbg/" rel="nofollow">https://www.nobius.org/dbg/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:12:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517622</link><dc:creator>kriro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kriro in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am I too naive in thinking the answer is rather simple? Cryptographic proofs (digital signatures). For text this should be trivial and for streaming video/audio you can probably hash and sign packets or maybe at least keyframes or something?</p>
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