Hacker News: logancbrown

New comment by logancbrown in "Keenable SELECT: an agent that searches the web in SQL"

logancbrown — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:18:31 +0000

SQL shall never die, in contrast, it shall grow in scope and utility

New comment by logancbrown in "Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S."

logancbrown — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:19:39 +0000

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req...

New comment by logancbrown in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

logancbrown — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:49:37 +0000

Also very silly prediction given this would dramatically lower the amount of models hosted on HuggingFace and move users elsewhere to platforms that do support quantized models (not what Nvidia wants).

New comment by logancbrown in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"

logancbrown — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:10:09 +0000

Funny to think one of my favorite software projects this decade is basically "lets make it easy to host your own OLAP database".

New comment by logancbrown in "Grok 4.6"

logancbrown — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:00:58 +0000

Its possible no AI lab has any unique edge, and success is a combination of (a) having access to GPUs (b) having access to large amounts of data (c) know about the handful of techniques to build an LLM, of which nearly all are likely open source and documented in papers. So the cycle of growth is (a) and (b), get more GPUs and get more data and you have a better model.

New comment by logancbrown in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

logancbrown — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:41:25 +0000

The US doesn't need more oil, but if Iran were to cut off oil supply from the Persian Gulf it would make oil prices significantly more expensive by reducing total available worldwide supply. The US economy, for the better or worse of it, depends on cheap oil to supply energy for commerce and transportation, and if that becomes more expensive, people stop traveling, trucks stop shipping, energy stops being produced and millions of US jobs are at risk.

The whole "Death to America" and USA is the "Great Satan" make them a much more morally easy target given they have practically no ability to fight back.

New comment by logancbrown in "AI in Linux"

logancbrown — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:48:44 +0000

It is true globally as well, but there are certainty anecdotes where confounding factors makes it not true like what you've highlighted with specific France Nuclear reactors.

We should be cognizant of the environmental impact of producing more energy, but it still remains true that making more energy means cheaper energy across the resources we have today.

New comment by logancbrown in "AI in Linux"

logancbrown — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:46:11 +0000

Which metric do you disagree with presented on the site?

New comment by logancbrown in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

logancbrown — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:27:32 +0000

This is the case with all construction jobs. Its not unique to a data center.

New comment by logancbrown in "AI in Linux"

logancbrown — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:22:59 +0000

>The same process is pricing regular people out of the energy they need to power their air conditioner during those heat waves and the technology it enables is pushing them out of the labor market and into poverty.

I don't see evidence this is true, and the critical mass of data centers is making electricity cheaper. Economies of scale -> more energy = bigger electric plants = cheaper energy.

https://netchoice.org/new-study-confirms-what-weve-been-sayi...

New comment by logancbrown in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

logancbrown — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:29:34 +0000

Making recording in public require a license is a very easy way to cut free speech and document wrong-doing of a system.

New comment by logancbrown in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

logancbrown — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:27:32 +0000

The large distribution of silo'ed law enforcement across the US is one of the driving reasons why it can be so hard to solve crimes (murder, vehicular theft, etc). Once any crime has the potential to cross state or even jurisdiction lines, dealing with the inner-bureaucracy of crossed enforcement agencies adds days to weeks to solving urgent crimes. A distributed system without consideration into how to coalesce the data together is no better of a solution vs what we have today.

New comment by logancbrown in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

logancbrown — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:10:57 +0000

People think this is causing issues for data collection for LLMs, but in reality it's not and there are several very trivial mechanisms to employ in data collection to bypass the "poison data" issue. The internet landscape was already poisoned with fake data, fringe conspiracies, and text before this Poison Fountain initiative.

New comment by logancbrown in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

logancbrown — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:15:18 +0000

Because the EPA called it the "2010/2015 PFOA Stewardship Program" not the "2010/2015 PFAS Stewardship Program" PFAS != PFOA

New comment by logancbrown in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

logancbrown — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:31:57 +0000

I think you mean PFOS and not PFAS, the relationship of cancers and health risks is linked to PFOS, but not PFAS in general at this time. PFOS in consumer-facing products were also majority phased out back in 2015.

New comment by logancbrown in "A global workspace in language models"

logancbrown — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:27:36 +0000

Source for those interested

https://dnhkng.github.io/posts/rys/

New comment by logancbrown in "Car touchscreens are cheap, not good"

logancbrown — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:59:15 +0000

The volume button (dial) broke on my Ford Maverick in summer. Moving to a touchscreen car felt like a sigh of relief that I no longer had to worry about buttons and dials breaking when I need to use them, and don't have to worry about a trip to a dealer or tearing apart a dash to replace them. I will say a button "feels" nicer, but the added risk to me wasn't worth it. To each their own

New comment by logancbrown in "Fable 5 is Back"

logancbrown — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:30:04 +0000

Amusing to see OpenAI being the "good guy" in the end

New comment by logancbrown in "BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range"

logancbrown — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:57:13 +0000

>Tesla's lead is about the same as a Roomba's.

What is this supposed to mean? Tesla and Roomba are in separate industries.

New comment by logancbrown in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

logancbrown — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:54:07 +0000

anthropomorphization is not a counterargument