Hacker News: nafizh

New comment by nafizh in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

nafizh — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

The BBC has increasingly been anti-semitic. First, the baseless allegations of starving and murdering children in Gaza and now this. Troubling times.

New comment by nafizh in "CS234: Reinforcement Learning Winter 2025"

nafizh — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:27:06 +0000

check out cs 336 stanford, they cover DPO/GRPO and relevant parts needed to train LLMs.

New comment by nafizh in "Google Antigravity"

nafizh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:26:45 +0000

There's no way I am using such an important piece of life as an IDE from Google just because I know they are going to kill it within 3 years, if it survives that much. Probably will die with the Windsurf guy jumping ship again.

New comment by nafizh in "TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation"

nafizh — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:55:06 +0000

How would you onboard a software engineer who doesn't know zig if you were to do so? Learning tips?

New comment by nafizh in "Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?"

nafizh — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:46:15 +0000

Still use pinboard which seems more than enough for me. But I would happily pay for a pinboard that has better search and more responsive customer service.

New comment by nafizh in "The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers"

nafizh — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:41:10 +0000

I still haven't got access to GPT-5 (plus user in US), and I am not really super looking forward to it given I would lose access to o3. o3 is a great reasoning and planning model (better than Claude Opus in planning IMO and cheaper) that I use in the UI as well as through API. I don't think OpenAI should force users to an advanced model if there is not a noticeable difference in capability. But I guess it saves them money? Someone posted on X how giving access to only GPT-5 and GPT-5 thinking reduces a plus user's overall weekly request rate.

Biden Administration moves to ban medical debt from credit reports

nafizh — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:41:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/us/politics/biden-medical-debt-credit-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42629091

Points: 4

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New comment by nafizh in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

nafizh — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:33:08 +0000

It works fine I would say. In the absence of a bigger screen with proportional DPI (kindle scribe is 300 which is one of the highest in terms of screen size), kindle scribe is one of the better options still IMO.

New comment by nafizh in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

nafizh — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:28:18 +0000

Isn't remarkable pro the same size as Kindle scribe? Their website says 10.8 x 7.8 inches.

New comment by nafizh in "Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more"

nafizh — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:19:46 +0000

I wish they would do a bigger size kindle scribe. I read pdfs all day on my scribe, and often I wish the screen was bigger so the font size would be large.

Exa - Neural search engine

nafizh — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://exa.ai/blog/announcing-exa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40549129

Points: 2

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New comment by nafizh in "The Rise of the Forever Renter Class"

nafizh — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:59:55 +0000

A lot of this can be explained by just supply and demand. In central New Jersey, the number of people who need to get a home is always increasing, but number of houses being built is extremely low, and even those houses start from 900k-1M.

New comment by nafizh in "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"

nafizh — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 20:17:44 +0000

To be honest, when I say it has significantly worsened, I am comparing to the time when GPT-4 just came out. It really felt like we were on the verge of 'AGI'. In 3 hours, I coded up a complex piece of web app with chatgpt which completely remembered what we have been doing the whole time. So, it's sad that they have decided against the public having access to such strong models (and I do think it's intentional, not some side-effect of safety alignments though that might have contributed to the decision).

New comment by nafizh in "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"

nafizh — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:10:15 +0000

My use of ChatGPT has just organically gone down 90%. It's unable to do any sort of task of non-trivial complexity e.g. complex coding tasks, writing complex prose that conforms precisely to what's been asked etc. Also I hate the fact that it has to answer everything in bullet points, even when it's not needed, clearly rlhf-ed. At this point, my question types have become what you would ask a tool like perplexity.

New comment by nafizh in "Claude 2.1"

nafizh — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:15:45 +0000

This has exactly been my experience for at least the last 3 months. At this point, I am thinking if paying that 20 bucks is even worth anymore which is a shame because when gpt-4 first came out, it was remembering everything in a long conversation and self-correcting itself based on modifications.

New comment by nafizh in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

nafizh — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:51:23 +0000

Thanks for the reply. Is the code available by any chance?

New comment by nafizh in "GitHub Actions could be so much better"

nafizh — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 15:32:41 +0000

What's the technology behind the blog? It's clean, minimal and beautiful.

New comment by nafizh in "ChatGPT can get worse over time, Stanford study finds"

nafizh — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:35:08 +0000

Can 100% confirm this. You have to keep reminding it what I said just 2-3 hops ago.

New comment by nafizh in "MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac"

nafizh — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:19:34 +0000

The main problem I have faced with the whisper model (large) is when there is silence or a sizable gap without audio, it hallucinates and just puts out some random gibberish repeatedly until the transcription ends. How does this app handle this?

New comment by nafizh in "What Is Happening with ChatGPT?"

nafizh — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 03:49:32 +0000

It's not confirmation bias. Proof is I did the same, built two different webapps with languages I had little experience in, both before and after chatGPT got worse. In the latter case, I struggled much to remind it again and again of the context we are working in and had to give the current code state repeatedly as input for it to output modified code. It clearly can't remember the context and produces subpar code in a non-trivial project.