Hacker News: manvel_hn

New comment by manvel_hn in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

manvel_hn — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:34:35 +0000

It's quite interesting that those events are happening at the same moment. I wonder whether they are related

New comment by manvel_hn in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

manvel_hn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:00:57 +0000

So Kramnik, being a chess player and not a statistician, invented various methods of "detecting" cheating which seemed convincing for for a layman but questionable mathematically.

Then he started attacking Daniel, Hikaru and some other players online. This all led to pretty tragic consequences.

Kramnik still believes that he's in the right.

The only good thing out of this is numerous funny videos by chess players trying to figure out intricacies of statistics and math.

New comment by manvel_hn in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

manvel_hn — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:17:22 +0000

I quit at April 2025. Mostly because of agonizing corporate culture, loss of meaning and long term direction.

It took me couple of months to recuperate. Turned down couple of similar jobs and some nicer ones.

Then I started working on cheap sidewalk delivery robots, knowing nothing about robotics [1].

Made far enough to lunch a pilot (as a research project) and thinking about commercial pilots afterwards.

Absolutely don't have FU money, so I'm unfolding this and let's see where this would lead me [2].

[1] https://manvel-robotics.com [2] https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding

New comment by manvel_hn in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

manvel_hn — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:21:10 +0000

There are some curated lists of no-AI software. Would be nice to have an index / plot of how that changes in time.

https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index

https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

The $500 Delivery Robot Is Coming – and It Will Reshape the Industry

manvel_hn — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:33:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/article/2026/04/the-500-delivery-robot-is-coming-%E2%80%94-and-it-will-reshape-the-industry/26432

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278285

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by manvel_hn in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

manvel_hn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:21:32 +0000

Agree that this is just crazy.

I'm surprised that they didn't discover this kind of failure beforehand, and the backups were 3 month old.

New comment by manvel_hn in "Generative AI Vegetarianism"

manvel_hn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:57:10 +0000

Steam has mandatory disclosure of generative content used in games. Some got heat from gamers (Clair Obscur, The Finals).

China's push to commercialize research: match 680k innovators with companies

manvel_hn — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01202-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929991

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by manvel_hn in "Ubuntu 26.04"

manvel_hn — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:46:31 +0000

I hate snap as well. Use flatpak and KDE on Ubuntu. Never have been happier.

New comment by manvel_hn in "Ask HN: Which recent research paper blew your mind?"

manvel_hn — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:45:44 +0000

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

Older one, but still very nice work.