Hacker News: louiereederson

New comment by louiereederson in "The designer lamps in my house"

louiereederson — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:38:44 +0000

This is great. Lighting I think is the best thing to spend money on as it isn't exposed to wear and tear like furniture.

In addition to these also a huge fan of Anglepoise desk lamps, Lotte lamps and Mantis sconces.

Anthropic invests $100M to train 10k engineers

louiereederson — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-frontier-academy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935906

Points: 4

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Claude Code Mods

louiereederson — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/claude-code-mods

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925102

Points: 6

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OpenAI Parts Ways with Researchers Who Allegedly Shared Confidential Information

louiereederson — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-parts-ways-with-researchers-who-allegedly-shared-confidential-information-aebac528

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923737

Points: 10

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Swarm Scaling

louiereederson — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:11:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tobyord.com/writing/swarm-scaling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49836186

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by louiereederson in "Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]"

louiereederson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:45:39 +0000

Also Nietzsche: "“What do the people actually take knowledge to be? What do they want when they want ‘knowledge’? Nothing more than this: something unfamiliar is to be traced back to something familiar.”"

Economics of Open Weight Inference [pdf]

louiereederson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:06:01 +0000

Article URL: https://data.ornn.com/the-economics-of-open-weight-inference.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643926

Points: 3

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Meta projected to spend $10B on Anthropic AI

louiereederson — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/meta-anthropic-frenemies.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466201

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

OpenAI saw warning signs weeks before Hugging Face breach

louiereederson — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/26/openai-hugging-face-technical-report-ai-hack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454165

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by louiereederson in "Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods"

louiereederson — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:45:36 +0000

If you’re constantly moving sugar is a necessity for maintaining glycogen. There’s nothing inherently wrong with any food type, it’s all about context.

New comment by louiereederson in "Ox Alpha"

louiereederson — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:42:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

New comment by louiereederson in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

louiereederson — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:19:38 +0000

While they pay a subsidy: > RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum

New comment by louiereederson in "What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check"

louiereederson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:22:33 +0000

I'd say Bob Muglia is pretty credible

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

louiereederson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:04:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184746

Points: 299

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New comment by louiereederson in "Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?"

louiereederson — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:17:59 +0000

Over the period of the industrial revolution humanity gained the ability to manipulate the material world in profound ways (convert potential energy into mechanical work, etc.). My view is information technology allows humans to continue to do that, but more efficiently. I think you’d need a breakthrough in manipulating subatomic particles and quantum mechanics to have the same level of relative impact as the industrial revolution.

New comment by louiereederson in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

louiereederson — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:23:23 +0000

> Part of the problem was regulators’ decision in late May to approve 16 single-stock leveraged ETFs tracking Samsung and SK Hynix, which have been blamed for amplifying moves in indices and individual stocks.

Baffling that this was approved, though less so if you don't assume the regulator has the general market participant's interests in mind

Strategy Letter V: Commoditize Your Complements (2002)

louiereederson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:45:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040743

Points: 2

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

louiereederson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:07:23 +0000

Commoditization of the model layer is to Azure's benefit. It would help to avoid the model layer becoming a platform that commoditizes cloud into a pure bare metal business. It also redistributes 'consumer' surplus back to the end user via a lower effective price, which would conceivably increase demand for IaaS and/or PaaS which are complements.

New comment by louiereederson in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

louiereederson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:57:59 +0000

Well this at least raises the very interesting question of liability for an illegal action, irrespective of whether the action was undertaken by something considered sentient or a person.

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

louiereederson — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:32:30 +0000

Letter: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-L... [pdf]

https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103, https://xcancel.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103

https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-is-completely-div..., https://archive.ph/LAkVI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035303

Points: 659

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