Hacker News: largbae

New comment by largbae in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

largbae — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:05:08 +0000

The new automatic translation is something that I would like to see all communities adopt. You can now follow folks who speak any language and each of you interact using your native language with no friction, just a tiny note of what language each message was translated from.

New comment by largbae in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

largbae — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:49:49 +0000

AlphaFold is interesting. Maybe LLMs converge because the ideal "use of language" converges. But there are other types of model.

New comment by largbae in "Boarding China's Last Bus"

largbae — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:11:49 +0000

This hits hard. Everyone wants to be relevant in the next iteration. But how exactly to do that is still up in the air.

New comment by largbae in "I Fired My AI Assitant"

largbae — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:08:43 +0000

It seems like a perfect reflection of the company's public persona. Opus knows better than you, and you'd best get used to it.

New comment by largbae in "Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data"

largbae — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:43:57 +0000

Ba dum bum... Tssss

New comment by largbae in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

largbae — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:13:29 +0000

I may be remembering wrong, but reasoning was first demonstrated by DeepSeek. Edit: I am indeed remembering wrong, seems o1 was first.

New comment by largbae in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"

largbae — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:09:16 +0000

This argument would make more sense if the cloud providers used these devices but you were not allowed to.

New comment by largbae in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

largbae — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:25:59 +0000

If I understand right, it is allowed to invest like a partnership, where you make $110 together out of your $100 and your partner's effort. But you must be exposed to the downside of failure just like your partner.

New comment by largbae in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

largbae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:52:11 +0000

I had a similar situation where some dormant account was still charging my credit card.

The account was probably real, made for some purpose 15 years ago. I had ignored the charge for years because it was like $7 a month. Then it went to $300/month, making it worth the time. I could find no invoice email and none of my AWS accounts lined up with the bill.

I tried contacting support, but without the account number involved they had no way to help. I disputed the charge, the bank refunded that month and then went right back to charging the next month(my credit card helpfully accepted the charges despite the dispute).

I had to cancel the credit card entirely to make it stop.

New comment by largbae in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

largbae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:05:06 +0000

If they did allow hard spend caps, it sounds like today would be a global outage.

New comment by largbae in "Pseudpocalypse"

largbae — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:38:39 +0000

So who is Satoshi Nakamoto?

New comment by largbae in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

largbae — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:44:49 +0000

If this is open weight, would abliteration counter the refusals?

New comment by largbae in "Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]"

largbae — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:15:39 +0000

Do you believe that machine learning or even specifically LLMs will "bust" out of existence?

The model in my head is more like DotCom telecom. The massive overbuild in fiber was eventually used and even used for the purpose that it was imagined for during the boom. It's just that the companies that built it mostly went under and new owners acquired it at a profit-supporting price.

New comment by largbae in "US Debt Clock Live"

largbae — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:04:47 +0000

I like to believe that will help. Which party is proposing actions that will lower the debt?

New comment by largbae in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

largbae — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:17:49 +0000

Regulatory problems are doing the heavy lifting. Sure power is "free", if you can launch it, station keep it and cool it and if the data services are useful at the modem latencies of geosync and lunar orbits. But if datacenter projects can't be built/powered fast enough due to permitting, this is an expensive workaround.

New comment by largbae in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

largbae — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:25:31 +0000

Yes but would these need to be in LEO? I would imagine that they would aim for farther orbits to spend a smaller percentage of their time in Earth's shadow

New comment by largbae in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

largbae — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:20:59 +0000

If you believe the hype, just wait until 2029 when it's not a person at all!

New comment by largbae in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

largbae — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:30:25 +0000

This article seems to make good points about how useless and invasive Chat Control 1.0 is, but then posits Chat Control 2.0 as the answer. Is the latter not also terrible for privacy, demanding backdoors in all encrypted chat tech?

New comment by largbae in "The AI Superforecasters Are Here"

largbae — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:56:06 +0000

Prediction markets are just the new ICO, NFT, SPAC etc scam/gambling(scambling?).

Play if you want, and call yourself a genius if you win, but only with money you can afford to lose.

New comment by largbae in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

largbae — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 03:23:31 +0000

Kasparov seems to show that there is room for more than moves in a great chess mind.