Hacker News: maccaw

Hierarchical Reasoning Model – SOTA on Arc-AGI

maccaw — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:32:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sapientinc/HRM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684307

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by maccaw in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

maccaw — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:37:30 +0000

Funny, I feel the same way about humans.

New comment by maccaw in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

maccaw — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 04:53:14 +0000

How did he pull millions out of the economy? How is his money not in the economy?

Understanding Emergent Abilities of Language Models from the Loss Perspective

maccaw — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 03:10:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15796

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40194033

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Vercel reverted all edge rendering back to Node.js

maccaw — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 21:21:14 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/leeerob/status/1780705942734331983

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40070171

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by maccaw in "Neon Serverless Postgres is generally available"

maccaw — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:09:02 +0000

Fwiw my experience has been the exact opposite. It is by far away, the best serverless database I’ve used.

New comment by maccaw in "Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft"

maccaw — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:24:55 +0000

Why should we make it more efficient? Why not make more energy from clean sources first?

New comment by maccaw in "Grok"

maccaw — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:27:52 +0000

> they were favoring elon

No, and that's not what the article says either. They were just tracking how well his tweets were doing versus others. They were not favoring Elon.

Artificial Knowledge Creation

maccaw — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:59:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/artificial-knowledge-creation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38879722

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

AlphaCode 2 Technical Report [pdf]

maccaw — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:18:00 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/AlphaCode2/AlphaCode2_Tech_Report.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544935

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

Unshackling Artificial Minds

maccaw — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:01:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.alexmaccaw.com/unshackling-artificial-minds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38392820

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maccaw in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

maccaw — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 01:46:01 +0000

Which parts do you reject?

PaLI-3 Vision Language Models

maccaw — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 03:20:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09199

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37895601

Points: 176

# Comments: 23

Rlaif: Scaling Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with AI Feedback

maccaw — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:31:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00267

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37378052

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by maccaw in "Show HN: superwhisper – AI powered offline voice to text for macOS"

maccaw — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:33:13 +0000

I've been using SuperWhisper since the start and it's totally changed my workflow. I actually bought a mic because of it and I now mostly narrate my emails and other long form texts. The larger models are very accurate.

I know Neil is working on improving the speed of it using CoreML, which is I think the next big leap forward. Congratulations Neil!

Show HN: AI Generated 101 Courses

maccaw — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://101.school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37135940

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: 101.school – AI Generated Courses

maccaw — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 13:19:31 +0000

Article URL: https://101.school/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37048560

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maccaw in "Scaling Linear's Sync Engine"

maccaw — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:38:26 +0000

The trouble with coupling the two is that now I have to either trust some third party db service, or some custom db.

The DB is so fundamental, and so hard to get right / scale, that it's hard to trust a startup to do it well.

We use Firebase and even with all the resources google has this has a lot of issues (especially with the client libs).

New comment by maccaw in "Scaling Linear's Sync Engine"

maccaw — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 15:10:36 +0000

I have a genuine appreciation for how Linear has built this. We have had to build something similar for our note taking application (Reflect). It is very tricky to do and I wish there was more research on this.

In my opinion, what we need is:

1) A client-side performant SQLite database that supports live queries. I.e. you can automatically re-render the page when the queries change. That way your database can drive the UI and be the source of truth in regards to what's displayed on the screen.

2) A separate realtime syncing protocol that syncs database state to client state.

And ideally this is all open source, and that these two endeavors are not coupled tightly.

[1] Wa-sqlite is the best (imo) client-side db - better than than the official Sqlite WASM build (for now) because it had a indexeddb fallback for browsers that aren't the cutting edge Chrome.

[2] cr-sqlite is an interesting project using CRDTs to sync state around. However I still believe that for many production use-cases you want a ultimate server source of truth.

[3] Replicache is still the best closed source solution I know of.

[1] - https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite [2] - https://github.com/vlcn-io/cr-sqlite [3] - https://replicache.dev/

New comment by maccaw in "Show HN: A package manager for AI plugins"

maccaw — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:16:24 +0000

We've made it pretty abstract, so it should play nicely with langchain etc. We're all open-source and using open protocols like OpenAPI.

You make a good point though. We should write a langchain plugin to our API.