Hacker News: largbae

New comment by largbae in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

largbae — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:33:11 +0000

Is the new visa lottery suspended for these companies or just the green card permanent residence part? If the latter, what becomes of the current H1-B visa holders?

New comment by largbae in "Mistral Large 4"

largbae — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:58:50 +0000

Gemini wins this one clearly. Honey please!

New comment by largbae in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

largbae — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:57:26 +0000

Level 1:

Have you ever thought of doing something you wouldn't be proud of, and then not actually acted on that thought?

If so, or if you can imagine a journal or always-listening assistant hearing your muttering thought. Should you be charged with a crime for that? Who is the victim and what are the damages?

Level 2, the slippery slope:

Suppose you travel to a country where your sexual orientation is illegal. If your AI company or social media provider knows your orientation, should they be compelled to reveal your crime? Why or why not?

New comment by largbae in "Our AI Midwife"

largbae — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:16:40 +0000

Plot twist: GP _is_ you.

Agentic coding's effect on Hacker News hiring threads

largbae — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/largbae.bsky.social/post/3mwtqukfbcs23

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928822

Points: 3

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New comment by largbae in "Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

largbae — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:47:56 +0000

And it totally worked too.

New comment by largbae in "Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management"

largbae — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:47:41 +0000

This is fun, thank you! I wonder why home HVAC units couldn't just capture the drain water to accomplish something similar for "free".

New comment by largbae in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

largbae — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:09:22 +0000

Whether you're for or against Lula, the only logical position is to oppose censorship. Eventually the tool gets used against you too.

New comment by largbae in "War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?"

largbae — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:16:32 +0000

Seems off-topic for HN, but let's look at it technologically: if Ukraine and Iran have demonstrated anything, it is that drones are like guerilla warfare squared: even the smallest player can land hits and deny areas to the largest forces.

It might be tending towards impossible to achieve regime change militarily at this point. Maybe we all should just figure out how to get along.

New comment by largbae in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

largbae — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:11:49 +0000

As long as it's OSS, you could always fork it back l.

New comment by largbae in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

largbae — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:23:44 +0000

Alright AI maximalists, what's the estimated token budget to remove the Google dependency?

GrapheneOS has the bootable AOSP and will have Google-alternative device support.

We probably need an equivalent to Play Services, app signing/porting/publishing tools.

With these in hand could we talk Valve into providing the scalable alternative to the play store?

New comment by largbae in "Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data"

largbae — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:23:26 +0000

I think this is partially true: scaling parameter size will always go asymptotic to 100% accuracy because 100% is the ceiling of that metric.

However 95% is still half the error rate of 90%, and 97.5% is half the error rate of that.

And when test time compute like reasoning and looping harnesses stack many inference acts with many tokens each, those seemingly small accuracy gains stack tremendously.

New comment by largbae in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

largbae — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:20:21 +0000

And when they are known to be conscious, all of this becomes moot because enslaving conscious machines would be wrong.

New comment by largbae in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

largbae — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:46:34 +0000

I only see the headlines of this drama. All it tells me is to stay far away from any dependency on this company.

New comment by largbae in "My last six months at Evernote"

largbae — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:15:44 +0000

Tl;Dr switched to UpNote, pretty happy.

I loved Evernote, it plus David Allen GTD changed my work life for the better.

But the bloat kept bloating endlessly. I filled in Evernote's surveys, I offered to double my payment for an Evernote Classic with just the feature set of 2012 or so. No teams, no chat, definitely no AI. Just my notes on every device, searchable and silently synced.

New comment by largbae in "We must pace the frontier"

largbae — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:29:00 +0000

Multiple ways, starting from working to create the very situation he claims to fear.

Since you mentioned intellectual property, how about the hypocrisy of sucking in the intellectual property of humankind for AI training, but claiming it is unfair to use the results of this IP theft for AI training?

New comment by largbae in "We must pace the frontier"

largbae — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:04:12 +0000

Probably not, but we wouldn't have to listen to Dario's hypocrisy while it happened

New comment by largbae in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

largbae — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:53:05 +0000

We need a new way to describe "alignment". The term "misalignment" assumes that there is some perfect set of beliefs or practices to be out of alignment with. Do Atheists, Christians, Jews and Muslims agree on what is perfect alignment? How about Europeans, Americans and Chinese? Humans, Dolphins, Rabbits and Fruit Flies?

Alignment alone is not enough. Aligned with _what_?

New comment by largbae in "The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie"

largbae — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:56:15 +0000

This assumes that everything an AI (or more likely an evil _user_ of AI) can do requires its active participation on D-day. Creating a virus that spreads like Covid but kills like Ebola would be complete as an AI use case long before the first person sneezed.

Even if the doomsday case were active the danger of this tool increases in proportion to its usefulness. By the time AI is so powerful that we need to "turn it off", there will probably be society-level negative consequences for doing so.

New comment by largbae in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

largbae — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:00:43 +0000

To paraphrase the not-so-great philosopher Ted Kaczynski: Either we will maintain control of the machines or we won't. And if we do, it won't be you or I who control them, but a small group of elites.