Hacker News: mcbuilder

New comment by mcbuilder in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

mcbuilder — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:05:48 +0000

It's funny how this definition has shifted. I feel like growing up in the 90s it was pretty clear that AGI was very related to consciousness. For instance, Commander Data in ST:TNG to pick one of 100s of popular depictions of AGI at the time.

Now the idea of AGI has been narrowed and scoped to economically viable work. Even Turing had a different idea when he asked "Can machines think?".

New comment by mcbuilder in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

mcbuilder — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:46:29 +0000

Because of old outdated info that gets left behind, causing confusion for future agents.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi"

mcbuilder — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:07:05 +0000

As someone making my own harness, this makes me sad. Pi is a big inspiration and one of the best open source harnesses, but there are many others. dsh, opencode, hermes, etc. MCP is such a thin layer to implement for any harness, this just seems arbitrary.

New comment by mcbuilder in "A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs"

mcbuilder — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:58:58 +0000

Something makes me doubt her "coffee" is a dark roast that only loosely fits in the parameters of espresso.

New comment by mcbuilder in "AI 2027 (2025)"

mcbuilder — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:43:24 +0000

Distillation is not infiltrating systems and exfiltrating weights.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory"

mcbuilder — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:39:49 +0000

I had to do a double take myself, scrolled down and arrived at a similar number.

Wish I built this a few years ago!

New comment by mcbuilder in "AI 2027 (2025)"

mcbuilder — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:31:58 +0000

Look what's coming out of China, they are catching up on performance and surpassing the US in efficiency. They're on a different level when it comes to open releases of weights.

I don't, to me the entire premise is a bit flawed at it's core (ASI), and I read it like bad science fiction with China playing the bad guy just a narrative crux so we get to the acceleration timeline and warring nation states.

New comment by mcbuilder in "AI 2027 (2025)"

mcbuilder — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:14:18 +0000

One of the most biased claims IMO in AI 2027 is that a huge portion of the geopolitical and existential risk argument is hinged on the notion that China just steals the US frontier weights.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"

mcbuilder — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:06:13 +0000

I feel that quote more likely is pointed at "music appreciation" as a written work, versus understanding the theory. I know a few musicians who are happy to use terminology from theory, "I love to write songs with diminished and sustained chords".

This seems like a great resource to me, a classically trained pianist who is now playing different types of music.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

mcbuilder — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:20:32 +0000

And I didn't touch it, because it's your call to make...

New comment by mcbuilder in "GPT-6 Astra"

mcbuilder — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:13:44 +0000

I mean CoT came out of research circles not marketing

New comment by mcbuilder in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

mcbuilder — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:02:19 +0000

Well at least DeepSeek is up. :)

New comment by mcbuilder in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp"

mcbuilder — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:58:27 +0000

One of the early results from multimodal training is that it kinda works like cross training. Training vision helps with text tasks and visa versa.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mcbuilder — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:24:23 +0000

If I'm about to step into it 5 seconds after you leave, yes it does.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal"

mcbuilder — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:59:23 +0000

`emacs -nw` with DOOM Emacs for me. :)

New comment by mcbuilder in "MicroGPT-C in pure C hits 10M TPS on Apple M5"

mcbuilder — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:51:10 +0000

Small # of parameters means no memory bottleneck, which means blazing fast performance.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Claude: System Prompts"

mcbuilder — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:57:30 +0000

Nah, that's the same sort of thinking that makes people type "make no mistakes", I don't make my model roll play, etc. I believe that the longer the system prompt and the more you cram in it the worse the model does. You need the human doing minimal prompts, but in the right direction. Take a look a the transcripts of Terrance Tao with ChatGPT

New comment by mcbuilder in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

mcbuilder — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:31:14 +0000

It mostly hurts people in countries with weak purchasing power. DS was the main game in down for them.

Personally, I don't think we've seen the total end of dirt cheap LLMs, it's just a frontier lab doesn't want to be in business of serving half the world.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

mcbuilder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:06:26 +0000

Yeah, I feel like we bigly lose to China if we don't.

New comment by mcbuilder in "Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team"

mcbuilder — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:08:58 +0000

Great distribution and great community!