Hacker News: luma

New comment by luma in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

luma — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:11:07 +0000

Today there are zero mentions of Eddie in the top 100: https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/top-100-usa/pl.606afcbb7...

I'd really love to see an actual source on this claim.

New comment by luma in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

luma — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:26:13 +0000

Entirely AI. I just can't with this style anymore.

New comment by luma in "CEO of largest public hospital says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI"

luma — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:32:08 +0000

Brother-in-law graduated med school in the early 90s and has been a practicing ER physician since. We discussed this recently and he related that his advisors told him not to go into radiology back in the late 80s because the assumption was that computers were going to take over the field. He's not too far away from retirement and it's only now that we're starting to see some signs of this prediction from 30+ years ago.

As others in the thread note, there are plenty of concerns around operational use of AI solutions in the medical space, but radiology has a much larger target painted on it than other practices as a fair portion of the job (but certainly not all!) can boil down to high-skill pattern recognition from visual inputs. The current list of AI-enabled devices going through FDA approval is public, more than 3/4 of the list are targeting radiology use cases: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/software-medical-device-...

New comment by luma in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

luma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:07:00 +0000

You’re mixing up “using” with “copying”. You are allowed to “use” all of a book or movie or code by listening to or watching or reviewing the whole thing. Copyright protects copies. The legal claim here is than training an LLM is sufficiently transformative such that it cannot be construed as a copy.

New comment by luma in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

luma — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:31:18 +0000

Amen.

People seem to struggle with the concept of private datacenters these days. Palantir customers tend to be the sorts of orgs that are pretty paranoid about their data, and they wouldn't be handing it over to some schmucks without being confident that those concerns were addressed. Militaries and governments generally aren't fuckin around with things like intelligence data, so I think it's reasonable that Palantir is able to make a convincing case to the world's most paranoid orgs that their data isn't being sent anywhere (and it'd likely be air gapped anyway).

Just because everything you touch is in the cloud doesn't mean other orgs aren't still building their own datacenters and then buying software to run inside.

New comment by luma in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

luma — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:22:44 +0000

I'm not sure if you're familiar with the work from the lab of Mike Levin at Tufts but I'm betting you'll find it interesting if not. Here's a taste https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6923654/

While I disagree with your notion that this is explicity due to gravity, the rest of your argument seems to align with some of this lab's work. Learning can be demonstrated on scales as low as a few molecules, way below what we would normally call "life".

New comment by luma in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

luma — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:28:53 +0000

And then an 18-to-20-something-year training run is required for each individual instance.

New comment by luma in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

luma — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:25:18 +0000

Modern LLMs, just like everyone reading this, will instead reach for a calculator to perform such tasks. I can't do that in my head either, but a python script can so that's what any tool-using LLM will (and should) do.

New comment by luma in "Baochip-1x: What it is, why I'm doing it now and how it came about"

luma — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:51:07 +0000

bunnie your book "Hacking the XBox" taught me how to get started on reversing electronics, took the fear out of the process, and replaced it with fun. Thanks for the multi-decades long effort you've made to make these tools available and accessible and approachable, your contributions to the hacker community are immeasurable and I cannot say thank you enough.

Thanks man!

New comment by luma in "No right to relicense this project"

luma — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:53:22 +0000

If automated AI rewrites are generally feasible, then the marginal price of nearly all software trends to zero.

New comment by luma in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

luma — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:44:31 +0000

What you describe is essentially what happened, the AI result working from specs and tests was more performant than the original. The real AI you describe just rewrote chardet without looking at the source, only better.

New comment by luma in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"

luma — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:00:42 +0000

I'm trying to understand your position here. An app with it's own way to manage multiple browser windows is better, because you have too many tabs open in your browser. If you have multiple links open, the tab management is now a problem in your desktop app instead of the browser. If you don't, then you don't have to manage tabs anyway. What does this solve that a separate browser window doesn't, except not having any way to add extensions like ad blockers or tampermonkey scripts etc?

New comment by luma in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"

luma — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:28:28 +0000

I've never understood the concept of an app wrapper for a link aggregator (HN, reddit, etc). The whole goal is to provide links to external sources, and now I'm browsing the web in a limited web browser without all my extensions etc.

Am I missing some core concept here? Why would I want to browse the web in this app as opposed to a web browser?

New comment by luma in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

luma — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:57:21 +0000

You can do this for much cheaper - all four of your tires are broadcasting a unique ID to report tire pressure, the radio to pick it up is cheap (because cars), and TPMS has no facility to randomize or otherwise secure this.

New comment by luma in "Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)"

luma — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:07:50 +0000

> The cannonball crashed into the church and went through a first wall. It then ended on the altar of the Chapel of the Virgin. [...] The cannon ball was walled into the left wall of the Chapel and a commemorative epigraph was added to it.

It wasn't showing the wall where it had crashed through, it's showing where the ball has been mounted into the wall for display.

New comment by luma in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

luma — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:44:38 +0000

Really looking forward to NY funding upgrades to the computers connected to CNC machines which tend to be pre-2000 vintage running software that's even older.

The entire concept is absurd on about 10 different levels.

New comment by luma in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

luma — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:36:41 +0000

If your goal is to buy the cheapest machine you can find in the world, chances are good everything you buy is going to come from China. That Prusa Mk3 you bought ages ago can be upgraded to the latest model, which means you have the option of turning that device into a lifetime machine, something ONLY Prusa offers.

Yes, the initial purchase price is higher, the lifetime price might not be.

New comment by luma in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

luma — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:18:19 +0000

The Blender project is the model I hope FreeCAD can eventually follow. Like digital animation, the 3D digital design field has a pretty rough selection of tools and the UI on all of them leaves a lot to be desired. FreeCAD has been on an upward trajectory in the past couple years as more people lean into the project out of frustration over increasingly hostile pricing from the commercial solutions. KiCAD has seen incredible advances since CERN started pouring resources into it, I'm sure Netflix money is going to help Blender. Now to get some large engineering shop to consider FreeCAD as their exit path to Siemens/et al...

New comment by luma in "White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying"

luma — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:21:39 +0000

Every Republican you know, including a substantial percentage of the users here, is directly responsible for what we have in front of us today.

This is precisely the thing they voted for.

New comment by luma in "We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole"

luma — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:26:24 +0000

This echoes my own experience. The very few times I attempted to post a question it was later flagged as duplicate, pointing to some other question which matched the keywords but didn't at all match the actual use case or problem. I don't know if this was the result of an automated process or zealous users, but it certainly put me off ever trying to engage with the community there.