Hacker News: makin

New comment by makin in "GPT-5"

makin — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:10:56 +0000

Companies are collections of people, and these companies keep losing key developers to the others, I think this is why the clusters happen. OpenAI is now resorting to giving million dollar bonuses to every employee just to try to keep them long term.

New comment by makin in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

makin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:21:17 +0000

I was a bit confused as to what "Cognition" was, but they're the makers of Devin (edit: that just got added to the title, for reference), so that makes sense. Just buying the competition, the only surprise is they had more money to spend than the big ones.

New comment by makin in "Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why"

makin — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:13:09 +0000

They already do this, it's the moderation model.[1]

This name thing is an additional layer on top of that, maybe because training the model from zero per name (or fine tuning the system message to include an increasingly big list of names that it could leak) is not very practical.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview

New comment by makin in "AI Advent of Code: Implementing Papers"

makin — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 16:13:15 +0000

I think it's a bit absurd to care about trademark infringement of a social activity like this, but it should have been "Advent of AI Code" at least.

New comment by makin in "Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it"

makin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 07:05:30 +0000

Personally I didn't find the movie boring overall, but there were around five too many romance scenes between Driver and Emmanuel's characters that didn't seem to move anything forward, the kind of scenes that usually get cut for redundancy.

New comment by makin in "I Am Tired of AI"

makin — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:21:56 +0000

I'm sorry if this is strawmanning you, but I feel you're basically saying it's in the public's interest to give more power to Intellectual Property law, which historically hasn't worked out so well for the public.

New comment by makin in "Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models"

makin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:32:39 +0000

The main issue was that Meta quickly took down the first announcement, and the only remaining working submission was the information-sparse HuggingFace link. By the time the other links were back up, it was too late. Perfect opportunity for a rescue.

This Old Hut

makin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 12:55:23 +0000

Article URL: https://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/2007/10/this-old-hut---.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41337939

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by makin in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

makin — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:23:39 +0000

Once the data is "compressed" into the model it cannot be easily removed without starting the training over.

New comment by makin in "Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy"

makin — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:19:25 +0000

A bit of a shame about the exploit applying to THUG PRO. The mod is played to this day, since the more competitive side of the Tony Hawk franchise has been dead for almost twenty years (with the exception of the THPS1+2 remake, which was but a blip in the scene).

The mod itself is over 10 years old now, and I think the original developers are gone, explaining why no one was interested in fixing it when Ryan reported it. But this means that now the mod is unusable, no one is going to want to risk a full privilege exploit taking over their PC.

Hopefully this article reaches someone who's a bit more interested in patching the mod.

New comment by makin in "To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands"

makin — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 11:26:22 +0000

If you check the issues, you'll learn this is not a supported project anymore (and honestly, it hardly worked even back then).

New comment by makin in "To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands"

makin — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:35:41 +0000

Two big issues with Archive.org are that 1. it's a single point of failure, they don't encourage mirror sites to emerge, and 2. they keep using the "brand" to fight unwinnable battles like hosting books they don't own online, risking the whole endeavor.

I still appreciate it, but just imagine if it goes down due to a lawsuit. Now that Google no longer shows cached results, an entire historical record would be gone.

New comment by makin in "Space Age release date"

makin — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 15:12:40 +0000

I think quality is fine, the issue is the strings, having "Legendary Wire" in a serious factory game.

New comment by makin in "Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise"

makin — Thu, 09 May 2024 14:36:25 +0000

Denuvo mostly works. Allegedly they have a custom approach to each new game, so cracks can take months to appear, with some unpopular games never having been cracked at all. The price is lowered performance, of course.

New comment by makin in "The Mongolian Meta"

makin — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:58:21 +0000

This is amazing, but surely analyzing the Google car itself would be against the spirit of the game for the hardcore players? Is it a standard tactic?

New comment by makin in "Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Synthetic Voices"

makin — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:19:56 +0000

> We recognize that generating speech that resembles people's voices has serious risks, which are especially top of mind in an election year. We are engaging with U.S. and international partners from across government, media, entertainment, education, civil society and beyond to ensure we are incorporating their feedback as we build.

People had been theorizing the slowdown in releases was because of this, I didn't expect they would come out and admit it.

I've found the quality of Elevenlabs' voice generation is at least twice as good as this, which is surprising since OpenAI has had more time and money to work on this. There seemed to be an issue with inconsistent accents in the multilingual samples.

New comment by makin in "The Super Mario Maker community faces its final boss"

makin — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 21:53:45 +0000

That final boss, Trimming the Herbs, has definitely turned out to be a hacked (TAS) level, so The Last Dance was the last, already beaten level. This article is fairly outdated for a developing story.

New comment by makin in "JetBrains IDE new Terminal Interface"

makin — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:11:59 +0000

Personally I find it really useful for juggling interpreters between projects and keeping their state alive. There are CLI solutions for this, of course, but it's another set of commands to remember.

New comment by makin in "Unexpected responses from ChatGPT: Incident Report"

makin — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 08:17:01 +0000

Aren't we also machines? If we make theories that discount our own intelligence that's just throwing our hands up and giving up.

Maybe I would agree with you if LLMs weren't already embedded in a lot of useful products. I myself measurably save a lot of time using ChatGPT in such "unintelligent conversations". It's intelligent in the ways that matter for a tool.

New comment by makin in "Sony's Playstation Portal hacked, can now emulate PSP games"

makin — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:46:41 +0000

There isn't much incentive in making new stuff when it can be shut down by Sony or whatever company at any moment. See A2MR.