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New comment by logankeenan in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

logankeenan — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:03:31 +0000

Great point, inference is just one variable. It’d be really great to know how much those tasks costs in inference. I’m assuming they cost significantly higher than human labor. Therefore, the inference cost is so high that it makes the other variables seem irrelevant for the time being.

New comment by logankeenan in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

logankeenan — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:46:47 +0000

Robotics with AI is the real revolution.

Today, humans convert their labor to capital. Capital holders need labor (humans) to acquire more capital. When the price of inference for these robots becomes less than the price of labor then capital holders don’t need labor.

Obviously, AI impacts non-manual labor too, but a significant portion of the world population does manual labor.

New comment by logankeenan in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

logankeenan — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:02:58 +0000

3090 was released six years ago and is still very relevant for running models locally.

New comment by logankeenan in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

logankeenan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:07:41 +0000

> You uncover a better design and submit a string of diffs not only implementing the task but simplifying other parts of the code too. Bonus points for doing this before you implement (make the hard change easy then make the easy change).

The last part of this really stands out. A high performer understands that software is malleable. However, the way you shape it, when things change, and how much is changed at one time matters a lot

New comment by logankeenan in "Iroh 1.0"

logankeenan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:14:32 +0000

Why’s that? What would be the alternative?

New comment by logankeenan in "Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri"

logankeenan — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 02:21:48 +0000

Data centers are critical infrastructure and having them near military bases could be seen as a security benefit.

The AWS status page still shows UAE as disrupted https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

New comment by logankeenan in "Iroh 1.0"

logankeenan — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:41:24 +0000

Iroh has been amazing to work with and the engineers are so nice in the discord channel. The pragmatic approach to making p2p just work has been easy to understand. Their YouTube channel has great content too. Congrats on v1!

https://youtube.com/@n0computer

New comment by logankeenan in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

logankeenan — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:57:25 +0000

Do you have any recommendations for a live digest tool?

New comment by logankeenan in "The two oldest printing presses"

logankeenan — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:51:47 +0000

Do you have any recommendations for books on the history of movable type?

New comment by logankeenan in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

logankeenan — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:03:16 +0000

Patrick Rucker, one of the authors, spent time at our company, Claimable, last fall so he could investigate this issue further. Claimable is a startup where we leverage AI to help people appeal their health insurance denials. Ask me anything, I work in this space every day.

https://www.getclaimable.com/

New comment by logankeenan in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

logankeenan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:11:20 +0000

Which brand did you get? I’ve always been hesitant to get one, I’d like one that I could reduce the amount of data sent out to the cloud

New comment by logankeenan in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

logankeenan — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:34:27 +0000

Do all drones do this now? Is this required by law for manufacturers to implement?

New comment by logankeenan in "UK to force social media to remove abusive pics in 48 hours"

logankeenan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:43:08 +0000

Regardless of how you feel about content moderation, 48 hours is a ridiculously long time given what AI can do today. That “bad” image could have been propagated around the world to millions of people in that time. It can and should be removed in minutes because AI can evaluate the “bad” image quickly and a human moderator isn’t required anymore. However, the compute costs would eat into profits…

Again, I’m not judging about content moderation, but this is an extremely weak initiative.

New comment by logankeenan in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

logankeenan — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:09:44 +0000

This holiday season, I wouldn’t buy high priced high quality items from Amazon due to concerns about counterfeit. I probably still won’t even after they’ve made this change. DTC from quality producers now have decent websites, free shipping, and good customer service. If I’m going to buy a premium expensive product, why risk it.

New comment by logankeenan in "Iran official says 2k people have been killed in unrest"

logankeenan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:23:06 +0000

> how many of the people backing the protest are basically holocaust deniers

I don’t understand this? My assumption is that hardliners in Iran would be holocaust deniers and not want the regime to fall?

New comment by logankeenan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (Jan 2026)"

logankeenan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:48:20 +0000

Software that connects your own personal devices to form a p2p mesh network and also connects your friends personal mesh network. On top of that technology, the ability to chat, share media, or any other basic computing done between friends. Data is synced between devices. The goal is to make the underlying tech mostly invisible to the users. They pair devices and start doing standard software things.

New comment by logankeenan in "Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers"

logankeenan — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 14:38:01 +0000

> We need to support farmers because a market spread too thin on farming means people would starve.

People would not starve if we stopped the ethanol mandate. In fact, corn prices would fall because the government would no longer force ethanol to be mixed with oil. Less demand would decrease the price.

New comment by logankeenan in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

logankeenan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:49:26 +0000

I guess I’ll start to look at an alternative to GitHub self hosted runners.

It’s been awhile since I looked. What’s a good alternative?

New comment by logankeenan in "Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban"

logankeenan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:53:38 +0000

How would we effectively regulate social media? Being the regulator could be a very powerful political tool and used to capture or maintain political power.

New comment by logankeenan in "Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail"

logankeenan — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:13:06 +0000

It’s been about a year since I looked into this sort of thing, but molmo will give you x,y coordinates. I hacked together a project about it. I also think Microsoft’s omniparser is good at finding coordinates too.

https://huggingface.co/allenai/Molmo-7B-D-0924

https://github.com/logankeenan/george

https://github.com/microsoft/OmniParser