Hacker News: monkeydust

New comment by monkeydust in "Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6"

monkeydust — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:57:29 +0000

So which shovels companies are the ones to watch for burnt in silicon models ?

New comment by monkeydust in "We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn't Know to Ask"

monkeydust — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:23:12 +0000

https://archive.is/IAxf9

We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn't Know to Ask

monkeydust — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/opinion/ai-google-gemini-search-questions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112939

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by monkeydust in "UK's iconic Jodrell Bank telescope faces axe in science cuts"

monkeydust — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:03:27 +0000

Genuinely interested to hear from people in the field who can attest to the value of this telescope and research its helping us with. On the surface looks like (yet another) a terrible decision.

New comment by monkeydust in "Understanding the AI Economy"

monkeydust — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:13:48 +0000

Very true - reminded me of this demo* as an example... on the surface looks trivial but potentially life saving.

* https://youtu.be/knSkE9ejPl8?t=112

New comment by monkeydust in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

monkeydust — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:29:18 +0000

Would love to see a load/unload dishwasher benchmark.

My Hunt for the Original McDonald's French-Fry Recipe (2020)

monkeydust — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:37:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/original-mcdonalds-french-fry-recipe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970075

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

UK-Switzerland deal to scrap roaming charges and allow Britons to use e-gates

monkeydust — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:57:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c621p9yjz1zo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895508

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Robots available for rent: But what can they do?

monkeydust — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:20:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gymkg9lr2o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830988

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by monkeydust in "Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro"

monkeydust — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:08:52 +0000

I recently created a video and didn't want to use my voice on it.

Rather than TTS I did STS (speech to speech) through Eleven Labs (you upload the video it alters the audio track to voice of choosing with some parameters you can control).

I showed it to a bunch of people and they could not believe it was non-human. The bit that got most was all the pausing, broken sentences ...essentially elements you don't put into text if your doing T2S.

An LLM over the original text could perhaps inject these elements though if prompted correctly.

New comment by monkeydust in "Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks"

monkeydust — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:22:29 +0000

Where is a good place to start with training SLM these days if you don't have the compute locally?

New comment by monkeydust in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

monkeydust — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:46:34 +0000

'Intelligence is what you do when you don't know, -> came up somewhere, I think on LinkedIn but stuck in my head.

New comment by monkeydust in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

monkeydust — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:20:27 +0000

> Don’t Win the Argument, Profit From the Difference

Best section for me. Many times I have taken the contrarian view. It doesn't always work, I do get it wrong (fail fast) but when it goes right you earn virtual credit against the person whom you took the opposing view. Its not something tangible but its there and the next time you lock horns they remember.

Impressions from Visiting OpenAI, Anthropic, & Cursor

monkeydust — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:34:18 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/impressions-from-visiting-openai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736207

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by monkeydust in "5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)"

monkeydust — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:38:23 +0000

Very cool. Recommend walking through the curated story here first then exploring the menu visualization

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/

New comment by monkeydust in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

monkeydust — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:43:57 +0000

Whats peoples thoughts on Tenstorrent - they were looking for funding on Hiive recently but that deal got pulled when Qualcomm rumours surface a week or so ago.

SEC Form F-1 Bending Spoons SPA

monkeydust — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2004711/000110465926071170/tm2613674-7_f1.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647419

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by monkeydust in "Sakana Fugu"

monkeydust — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:54:31 +0000

I only use this for high value problems/challenges. A lot related to life decisions including work, where to live, finances etc. It gives me a small army that can break down and slice, dice the problem in different ways then someone to reconcile it all and present it back to me. The variance in their opinions is the most interesting part of this project so f ar.

New comment by monkeydust in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

monkeydust — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:56:13 +0000

the tax exemptions make it very attractive place to hold cash versus bank accounts - if your a UK citizen google (or AI) - low coupon gilt investing.

New comment by monkeydust in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

monkeydust — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:49:00 +0000

I think ...or hope...he ends more right than left and manages to do what Starmer failed to do a year ago which is to make major reforms to the Welfare system. Its just not sustainable.