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New comment by mattnewton in "GPT-5.6"

mattnewton — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:23:29 +0000

This was a big concern for earlier models, but with modern CoT trained models they should be able to come to the conclusion entirely in the thinking trace.

New comment by mattnewton in "AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector"

mattnewton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:06:08 +0000

I think a) the labs are releasing very fast and b) why would they implement the long tail of app features when they can effectively sell tokens to every user to write their own version of the app, which is what is currently happening?

New comment by mattnewton in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

mattnewton — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:11:36 +0000

It’s not that poor people can’t afford a stamp it’s that they aren’t going to spend money on an automated service or stamp if there are other places to apply to that don’t require this.

So I think it’s going to lower recall a a lot - it reduces volume of good and bad actors equally. Anecdotally, I’m not going to bother with such an application unless it’s my top choice or I’m desperate. For small companies that probably means throwing the babies out with the bathwater.

New comment by mattnewton in "Zuckerberg says Meta's bets on reorganization 'haven't come to fruition'"

mattnewton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:13:49 +0000

Why do your think Meta doesn’t make money? Their ad platforms are incredibly lucrative.

New comment by mattnewton in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

mattnewton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:06:21 +0000

There are plenty of services to send mail form the internet for a small fee, so this will only discourage the most poor candidates and add friction for the best ones.

New comment by mattnewton in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

mattnewton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:04:27 +0000

I’m saying there is basically no way to both make vlms able to understand the long tail of PDFs where the layout conveys information (like charts and tables) and to make it as token efficient as text formats. Current approaches have mostly chosen to work more often than not at the cost of token efficiency.

New comment by mattnewton in "Meta caps internal AI token spending"

mattnewton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:23:17 +0000

Because PDFs are a nightmare of a format and the only thing that’s is reasonably guaranteed about them is they will render to an image that people can read, the parsing of which will be much less token efficient than the equivalent text

New comment by mattnewton in "ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2"

mattnewton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:20:38 +0000

But then I close my laptop and it’s not running on the headless host anymore right

New comment by mattnewton in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"

mattnewton — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:50:36 +0000

I read point 19 as Palantir’s goal being to import Chinese and Russian style surveillance, and the comment saying effectively “it can’t happen here” and “taking them less seriously” because they are raising alarm. After rereading my comment, I still think it clearly responds to that.

New comment by mattnewton in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"

mattnewton — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:49:20 +0000

How hot does the water need to be before you raise the alarm?

I think there is value in pointing out trend lines and voicing opposition even if there are other countries that have more authoritarian views on speech. This is not a competition, what matters is the experience of the people in the country today not the fact that if they moved to Russia it would be worse. What is important is that the US state has both gained capabilities to act that way, and has shown predilections for it.

Texas just gave a man 30 years for transporting zines because of the politics of those zines. The trend lines are potentially very bad. And it only gets harder to reverse if the concerned people are right; would you just say “I don’t think it can happen here” and have people wait until it does and delay talking about it until we are not allowed?

New comment by mattnewton in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

mattnewton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:31:17 +0000

In the US, I think we are being intentionally DDOS-ed.

This strategy was laid out by Steve Bannon in the old frontline PBS interview where he called the media “the opposition party.”

“They’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time,” he said. “All we have to do is flood the zone. … Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never – will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

Also see Vance’s recent comments about how nobody would hold Nixon accountable for watergate if it happened today, it would be lost in the next news cycle.

New comment by mattnewton in "Reading the news is the new smoking"

mattnewton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:28:32 +0000

Yeah people are overdoing it, and not everyone is being motivated to do something by feeling mad, but maybe instead of throwing up your hands that you can’t care about soybean tariffs, you could try to educate yourself on tariffs and choose your political representatives based on whether or not they are doing a good job. Or read more narrow news. Completely shutting down the channel seems to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

This kind of checking out / mass abdication and apathy seems really dangerous in a democracy.

New comment by mattnewton in "Federal agents track down woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE"

mattnewton — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:48:35 +0000

_in a polling place_ no less

New comment by mattnewton in "Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model"

mattnewton — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:03:35 +0000

Definitely encourage you to test the models. We tried to optimize for realistic focus and not over-sharpening, which leads to a "hyper" AI-look. It's hard to benchmark because people generally prefer sharp, saturated orangish pictures all else equal, but I believe these are bad shortcuts for the model to learn realism.

New comment by mattnewton in "Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model"

mattnewton — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:21:12 +0000

Krea 2 Large (on the website and api) was trained with the FLUX 2 VAE, if you want to test it out and push realism. After working with both I think the flux VAE has a slight edge in learning realistic textures but it's smaller than you might think, the Qwen VAE was overall very good in ablations and good at learning to produce a diverse set of styles.

New comment by mattnewton in "Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model"

mattnewton — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:15:21 +0000

You can find some links and details in the GitHub readme for finetuning / LoRA support. Ostiris, musubi tuner, fal and hugging face diffusers are all day-0 supported :) https://github.com/krea-ai/krea-2

We recommend training off the undistilled, Raw checkpoint, and then applying the LoRA to the Turbo model for inference.

New comment by mattnewton in "Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model"

mattnewton — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:31:21 +0000

Hi HN, we're releasing weights for our latest text to image model and publishing this writeup on how we trained it in quite a bit of depth.

I hope there is something in the report for everyone, we included a fair bit on the actual training and data infrastructure usually not written about much, that I think will be interesting to people here. There's more that didn't fit, happy to answer questions!

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

mattnewton — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.krea.ai/blog/krea-2-technical-report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646659

Points: 415

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New comment by mattnewton in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

mattnewton — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:40:19 +0000

The goal is to encroach on privacy, and those interests are using the children able to do it. There is no “solution” to the children using the internet anonymously problem that will satisfy them. We have to keep fighting for privacy.

New comment by mattnewton in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

mattnewton — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:36:24 +0000

I do not need to have the real secret of immortality to say to the emperor that swallowing mercury is bad.

The burden of proof is on those who put forward a solution.