Hacker News: mrbonner

New comment by mrbonner in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

mrbonner — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:15:48 +0000

You're talking about the aladeen or that aladeen? I don't understand which aladeen you are talking about.

New comment by mrbonner in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

mrbonner — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:33:06 +0000

This is great. I think Apple bought Kuzu, a in memory graph database in late 2025 to support RAG in combine with their FM like this. Even with such as small model, a comprehensive context of our personal data in graph RAG would be sufficient for a PA system. Do we know if we can have access to this RAG data?

New comment by mrbonner in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

mrbonner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:46:01 +0000

Godspeed AI-I

New comment by mrbonner in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"

mrbonner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:29:48 +0000

Can you at least read the article before criticizing them? They explicitly call out that they use Bayesian Optimization (Gaussian process) thing for this. It is "AI" but not "LLM" like you think it is.

New comment by mrbonner in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

mrbonner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:21:27 +0000

I am not sure if this is an April fool joke anymore in the age of AI.

New comment by mrbonner in "TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression"

mrbonner — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:43:17 +0000

I feel like I’m not the only who feel excited about the whole “compression” tricks while maintaining fidelity in our AI era. In a way, it has a vibe similar to the early 2000s when digital music became popular and the need for lossless compression was paramount. Sort of a pied piper moment for us now . Someone please make a Weisseman score for this stuff.

New comment by mrbonner in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mrbonner — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:42:45 +0000

Yes, my wife asks me to shut up when I mention AI. Hah

New comment by mrbonner in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

mrbonner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:15:53 +0000

I forgot that I also "try" Rust as well. But, I feel like it may not be suitable for my use cases and not simple enough for non-intelligent person like me :-). I agree error handling in Go could be better. But, comparing to Java I don't think I would feel salty.

New comment by mrbonner in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

mrbonner — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:46:11 +0000

Hey, thanks for sharing this. Your app inspires me to take a look at Go, again! I've been searching for another primary language to learn. My primary used to be Java at $day$ job and now Python for ML/AI. I love Python but still feel insecure given the lack of static typing. I look at TypeScript as well, especially in the context of Bun runtime. I decided it may not be for me, not the language, but the ecosystem around it.

New comment by mrbonner in "The 49MB web page"

mrbonner — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:34:45 +0000

Thanks for the deep insights! I feel like reading from an human fellow. Also you should put up a banner “no AI slop” hehe.

New comment by mrbonner in "The MacBook Neo"

mrbonner — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:36:03 +0000

Hah. When I worked for a very big Just Print Money bank circa 2008, they gave me, a SDE with the Lenovo ThinkPads running Windows with 4GB of RAM and a bonus of Lotus Notes for email. This thing was slower than molasses. Not to mention because we had an offshore team in India. every morning every engineer would begin the day with syncing the Subversion repo. My team was in central US but we had to connect to a proxy in NYC for network traffic inspection. This makes the sync over 45 minutes long. Repeat the same for every SDE, from both sides of the world, and you can guess the amount of time wasted.

I don’t think I would want to work in that environment anymore.

New comment by mrbonner in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

mrbonner — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:23:44 +0000

What stops the senior from using AI to review the AI generated code the junior published?

New comment by mrbonner in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

mrbonner — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:25:07 +0000

You also sound like me I have NielMed. I’m wondering if you used that before and how Navage compares to it? Appreciate the recommendation.

New comment by mrbonner in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

mrbonner — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:20:34 +0000

I did this 15 years ago. I didn’t feel like it helped much at all. But, that doctor was later on got sued for insurance fraud so it got me wondering if I was scammed as well. I’ll discuss this with my primary physician next exam. Thanks for the reminder!

New comment by mrbonner in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

mrbonner — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:03:46 +0000

You sound like me! I have had sinus issues all my life before 17. I even had a surgery at 16 but I honestly don’t think it helped. Now I have the sinus problem a bit under control, aka I still have occasional infections during allergy and cold season. I use NielMed to wash my sinus and I think it helps a lot. Besides that I really don’t know what it would take to fix it permanently. I constantly can feel the mucus dripping down my throat everyday.

New comment by mrbonner in "MacBook Neo"

mrbonner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:47:37 +0000

Yes, the iPad Air and Pro all come with M chips.

New comment by mrbonner in "MacBook Neo"

mrbonner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:05:56 +0000

I’m confused. The iOS device line gradually shifts towards the M chips. Why does Apple make a laptop with the A chips? Isn’t the M line is more performant and energy efficient comparing to the A chip?

New comment by mrbonner in "Don't become an engineering manager"

mrbonner — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:55:13 +0000

I am also not surprised that many P.E. have become Political Engineer as opposed to Principal Engineer.

New comment by mrbonner in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

mrbonner — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:50:26 +0000

You know, all of a sudden, I am starting to lose interest in meticulously drawn Mermaid diagrams in README, perfect grammar and spelling in doc reviews, or neat generated general photographs. They are all correctly presented, of course. But the ideas are mostly wrong, too.

I guess my stick figure hand drawn diagrams, a doc with few mistakes in grammar or spelling would be seen as more worthy to read as long as my ideas are sound. Right? :-)

Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data from Claude

mrbonner — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:15:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-accuses-chinese-companies-of-siphoning-data-from-claude-63a13afc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47126316

Points: 9

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