Hacker News: lqstuart

New comment by lqstuart in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

lqstuart — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:15:37 +0000

GDPR set a pretty bad precedent (unless they were following another) of having a law that magically applies to their citizens everywhere in the entire world. And all of big tech followed it because of corporate greed I guess? Seems like it'd be pretty easy to just ignore it and then just not pay whatever fines. See how random countries like not having Google.

New comment by lqstuart in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

lqstuart — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:10:10 +0000

You used Claude to make some slop to see if Claude is getting worse…?

New comment by lqstuart in "How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy"

lqstuart — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:26:19 +0000

This article reads like it was written by someone who has done less research than the average HN poster. Not a single word of OpenAI threatening people or apologizing for threatening people.

New comment by lqstuart in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

lqstuart — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:26:24 +0000

I honestly love Kagi, it's like every single "it would be nice if Google gave me feature X instead of being greedy" in one place

New comment by lqstuart in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

lqstuart — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:12:24 +0000

At this point my vote is to just shut off the internet entirely in the EU

New comment by lqstuart in ".name Termination"

lqstuart — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:43:57 +0000

I really wish I could be this stupid and have enough power to make such stupid policies

New comment by lqstuart in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

lqstuart — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:24:33 +0000

Stoner is more of a Wozniak. You’re comparing a guy who patented part of a rifle that later got used in another company’s DOD bid (and keep in mind militaries are strongly incentivized to standardize on platforms for basic logistics reasons), to a narcissistic asshole who sold something to a mass consumer market. Just different skillsets.

New comment by lqstuart in "OpenAI ends it partnership with Cursor"

lqstuart — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:50:36 +0000

"We are making this choice because we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts"

Non-Twitter version: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-it...

OpenAI ends it partnership with Cursor

lqstuart — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:50:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2093515564786540695

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503609

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by lqstuart in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

lqstuart — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 23:28:21 +0000

two more fucking years of this

New comment by lqstuart in "Small Models Have Arrived"

lqstuart — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:50:57 +0000

It’s not hard to fine tune a 4B parameter model to outperform GPT-5.x or Claude on a domain-specific task. You don’t even need GRPO or whatever the flavor of the month RL technique is either. I suspect what you’re saying is that massive frontier models are the best for doing big slow tasks on human time horizons—and I emphatically agree—but keep in mind LLMs are useful for quite a bit more than just multi-turn chatbots; and in those instances, throwing infinite compute and latency budgets at a problem is generally not a great way to find the “best” solution :)

New comment by lqstuart in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

lqstuart — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:05:58 +0000

Eventually, someone is going to do this in Minecraft

New comment by lqstuart in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

lqstuart — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:47:47 +0000

Worked for crypto altcoins, after a fashion, and these are almost entirely the same people

New comment by lqstuart in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

lqstuart — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:08:34 +0000

Netflix has imo the worst recommendations on the entire internet. They are a Java shop that’s 5-10 years behind the industry in AI, and now they’re trying to use the most grossly inefficient and overcomplicated method out there to try to be trendy instead of just using a DLRM like everyone else was in 2020. What could go wrong?

New comment by lqstuart in "Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01"

lqstuart — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:32:50 +0000

It’s honestly remarkable how prescient Peter Watts was

New comment by lqstuart in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

lqstuart — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:54:50 +0000

Not sure what you’re getting at, is that too many or too few? Terraform, building grafana dashboards, building internal UIs, provisioning the networking and dealing with security groups and routing tables, IT stuff like MDM/SSO/OIDC, not to mention the entire data and ML infra is easily 10 engineers. And in a startup they’d all be juniors and do an even more terrible half assed job than Claude. These are all very well established fields with ample documentation online, and honestly pretty simple tasks as long as you have senior people to feed it a design that isn’t stupid.

New comment by lqstuart in "Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom"

lqstuart — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:36:02 +0000

I’m at a very fast growing startup with real revenue and Fable has let us avoid hiring probably 6-10 full time software engineers with full salary and benefits. We’re spending nowhere close to that. I’m the hiring manager and I’m closing the reqs.

So.. great news for Anthropic, I’ll go ahead and let the elephant in the room go unaddressed

New comment by lqstuart in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

lqstuart — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:57:31 +0000

how do massively negative margins "collapse"

New comment by lqstuart in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

lqstuart — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:17:58 +0000

I think the gap here variation. Yes, people living 50,000 years ago were likely quite similar to _some_ people alive today, just probably not very similar to the types of people who are able to peacefully sit around on the internet and read history books for pleasure, who would most likely ask that question.

New comment by lqstuart in "Teenagers Stayed Overnight at Their School and Found Hidden Ancient Roman Ruins"

lqstuart — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:35:18 +0000

I feel like the real news story is kids protesting against school being closed