Hacker News: nateburke

New comment by nateburke in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

nateburke — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:49:11 +0000

Less Liszt/Paganini, more chamber music and teaching. I like it!

New comment by nateburke in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

nateburke — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:33:25 +0000

They are defending the value of their achievements!

They should explicitly advocate for the Fields Medal to weight teaching achievement more heavily going forward.

New comment by nateburke in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

nateburke — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:33:51 +0000

Releasing open weights that can approach frontier level intelligence (irrespective of number of tokens burned) is just a way of telling the world that anyone, even China, can serve frontier level inference if they have the chips and warm shells to do so.

What is stopping China from gaining a majority market share, then, in terms of serving inference?

AI Sovereignty -- yes

Cybersecurity concerns -- yes

Latency -- no, unlike previous emerging IT workload types , inference does not have strong latency requirements. eg 1s of additional network latency doesn't matter to a 15 min, 10-turn agent session.

Cost -- ultimately this comes down to a nations ability to plug chips into warm shells. which forks into geopolitical / trade on the chips side and energy scalability and modularity on the warm-shell side. Even if you call geopolitical / trade a toss-up, China has the US beat HANDILY on the energy front, yearly they are deploying 10x power to their grid relative to the US, which is shooting itself in the foot at every possible moment.

IMHO chip tech will travel across borders, absent a breakthrough in analog inference, energy scalability will ultimately dominate.

New comment by nateburke in "N+1"

nateburke — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:06:51 +0000

Issue 4 is incredible, I bought a damaged copy for a buck and it was the best literary dollar I have ever spent!

New comment by nateburke in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

nateburke — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:11:35 +0000

Seems like a common-sense approach. I appreciate the emphasis on understanding, humans will eventually be held accountable, blaming Claude for an outage is not going to get Claude fired.

New comment by nateburke in "Ferrari Luce"

nateburke — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:25:51 +0000

I like the ev6!

New comment by nateburke in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

nateburke — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:58:32 +0000

Penderecki did most of the heavy lifting there

New comment by nateburke in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

nateburke — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:28:25 +0000

Agreed. Curious to know if any other prominent voices have delved into the numbers in a similar way?

New comment by nateburke in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

nateburke — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:01:16 +0000

Is this LBO a ridiculous enough of a proposition that you are going to email your senator and or representatives to complain about LBO loopholes in corporate finance law?

I didn't think so.

I wish them well!

New comment by nateburke in "Ti-84 Evo"

nateburke — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:46:39 +0000

Ti-30x is all you need.

New comment by nateburke in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

nateburke — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:09:32 +0000

Add on the compounding effect that "QA" or "test" in someone's job description was viewed as a synonym for "less-highly compensated" over the past few decades, and you have an entire generation of mid career devs with poorly adapted instincts regarding what is valuable in the process of shipping working product.

The bottleneck was never coding...

New comment by nateburke in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

nateburke — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:36:52 +0000

I did this at my last job, it's nice.

New comment by nateburke in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

nateburke — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:03:30 +0000

Interesting that the algorithmic finance firms are still recruiting. Perhaps they still need a pipeline of rigorous thinkers, or are unwilling to cede significant influence over P+L to llms.

New comment by nateburke in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

nateburke — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:13:34 +0000

It feels like xAI is perpetually playing catch-up.

They haven't quite committed enough to a novel direction relative to anthropic or OAI, what's described in the OP seems symptomatic of a lack of differentiation.

If you spend all your time judging yourself relative to the incumbents, there will be no time left over to innovate.

The leash is too tight!

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:46:48 +0000

from the tweet above: "Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be."

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:45:50 +0000

I think it's plausible, given the effort he seemed to put into his initial response to the ads: https://x.com/sama/status/2019139174339928189

New comment by nateburke in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:16:24 +0000

Plain and simple this is revenge for the Anthropic super bowl ads, which were epic burns against openAI's primary future revenue stream.

New comment by nateburke in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

nateburke — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:14:29 +0000

Glad there are no hard feelings after those Superbowl ads

New comment by nateburke in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

nateburke — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:40:37 +0000

NTS was 60-80 mi away from Las Vegas.

yes there might be safer locations for an underground nuclear test, but how many of them offer the same "F U" PR capacity relative to Mexico/Juarez/cartels, etc.

New comment by nateburke in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

nateburke — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:15:16 +0000

My guess is nuclear test.

Airport circle to secure the transport of the device to the ground adjacent to the test site.

Trapezoid is the test site, wider on the side that is less controllable (border-facing).

Disconnected because two separate teams executed in parallel without informed oversight.