Hacker News: nxtfari

New comment by nxtfari in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

nxtfari — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:55:20 +0000

Location: NYC / LA

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: NYC or LA

Technologies: Motion planning, autonomy, embedded microcontrollers, embedded Linux, perception systems, controls. C, C++, Python, Rust

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/nabeelsherazi/nabeelsherazi.github.io/blo...

Email: see resume

7 YOE in shipping robots to customers, lots of safety critical stuff, looking to move into urban autonomy (self driving cars, delivery bots, construction bots, humanoids, etc). Looking for a startup with a mission I can get behind.

New comment by nxtfari in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

nxtfari — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:57:45 +0000

they’re doing m7 on the intel 18a fab, which is exactly that

New comment by nxtfari in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

nxtfari — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:26:40 +0000

One of the stupidest things about this is we talk all day along about how frontier models don’t just interpolate distribution, then can extrapolate out. Then something like this comes along and a model can generate gore or CSAM so therefore there must be gore or CSAM in the training data. Eye roll.

New comment by nxtfari in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

nxtfari — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:11:50 +0000

My honest read is that, having everything — the data centers, the compute, the models (however misaligned they might be), the only thing xAI is missing is users. They don’t have any users because the only people who use Grok are essentially Elon’s fanboy club, and all they pretty much do with it is ask it to generate arguments to win their Twitter threads or nonconsensually unclothe people. Cursor gives xAI a captive audience of users; most sophisticated users don’t use it anymore, so anyone left is unlikely to be opinionated when models are shifted to Grok. Marriage made in heaven.

New comment by nxtfari in "Map of Metal"

nxtfari — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:58:15 +0000

this being HN, from the title i genuinely had no idea whether this link would be about music, the apple graphics acceleration framework, or ore deposits.

New comment by nxtfari in "Infineon Unveils Auto Industry's First RISC-V MCU: Linux Era for Semiconductors"

nxtfari — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:05:22 +0000

really impressive. did not expect this from infineon.

New comment by nxtfari in "Teaching Claude Why"

nxtfari — Sat, 09 May 2026 03:18:42 +0000

> One of the lessons of philosophy is that once you adopt any particular value system, almost all philosophers either become immoral or caught up in meaningless and trivial quibbles.

Can you explain more about this?

New comment by nxtfari in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

nxtfari — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:35:20 +0000

> Do people have extremely complex Actions that I can't fathom?

Yes. Think CI jobs that test every candidate PR against a matrix of build targets, run fuzzing, run simulation tests, run bench regression tests, etc etc. Modern CI workflow automation has reached way beyond what a pedestrian can fathom if you’re not on the wave.

New comment by nxtfari in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nxtfari — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:42:20 +0000

I had issues with Qwen thinking endlessly when I didn’t know I wasn’t using the temp/top_k/min_p/etc settings specified in the readme. I’ve never had an issue with Gemma 4 thinking endlessly but could possibly be the same.

New comment by nxtfari in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

nxtfari — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:39:37 +0000

This makes a lot of my experience with Qwen make sense. I’ve watched all the benchmarks imply how close it should be to various GPT or Claude releases, but in my own use chatting with it or trying to get it do agentic tasks it was nowhere near as smart as even GPT-3.5 for example. Meanwhile Gemma 4 casually dropped and even the 4B models were performing better than Qwen 3.5 MOE in my chats. Benchmaxxing.

New comment by nxtfari in "AI generates nude images that outrank real photographs in sexual appeal"

nxtfari — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:53:49 +0000

Perennially relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jq73GozjsuhdwMLEG/superstimu...

Also in comic form: https://stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/

New comment by nxtfari in "Young people are turning to old-school hobbies to get off their phones"

nxtfari — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:51:32 +0000

not anything new. people have been taking up “old timey” hobbies to get away from screens since the late 2000s. you’ll remember the hipster javascript baristas of portland taking up leatherworking and blacksmithing between launching meteorJS sites “made with <3”

New comment by nxtfari in "Ex-Windows chief praises MacBook Neo, laments Surface defeat"

nxtfari — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:44:01 +0000

In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety for laggard developers. They even had this playbook watching Apple do their first transition from PowerPC to x86. Yet he seems to think Windows 8’s problem was velocity.

New comment by nxtfari in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

nxtfari — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:30:12 +0000

it’s not ZIRP anymore but it might as well be. you can truly get funded to make anything right now

New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: Ash, an Agent Sandbox for Mac"

nxtfari — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:09:01 +0000

I believe you’re late to the “ash shell” name by about 36 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell

New comment by nxtfari in "The Brand Age"

nxtfari — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:07:37 +0000

very interesting article but i was surprised pg’s conclusion was the opposite of what i expected. to me it was like oh this is brilliant, instead of trading effort linearly for money you can just control image and be paid outside for it. reminded me of, e.g. chamberlain canned coffee, which tastes terrible but has emma chamberlain’s personal brand lifting for it in the aisle every time you see it.

New comment by nxtfari in "Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables"

nxtfari — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:46:34 +0000

you never know what’s going on in someone else’s claude max plan

New comment by nxtfari in "Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?"

nxtfari — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:27:04 +0000

i do robots for work (formerly drones, now self driving cars). pick a type of robot that interests you. self driving rovers, industrial manufacturing machines, drones, humanoids, underwater pipe inspecting subs are all robots with very different technologies underlying them. very hard to just “learn robots” you gotta have something in mind that you think is cool that is the direction you wanna go in, otherwise e.g. you learn inverse kinematics and it’s completely unnecessary for delivery drones, or you learn VLMs and it’s completely unnecessary for industrial robots. start with the goal and then peel back the onion. good luck!

New comment by nxtfari in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

nxtfari — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:50:16 +0000

To be fair, writing a takedown blogpost on a maintainer for closing its PR is the most human oss dev thing an agent could do.

New comment by nxtfari in "List animals until failure"

nxtfari — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:36:33 +0000

there are so many special cases that this game responds to, i was shocked that it didn’t involve an llm at all at the end. very cool.