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New comment by petra in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

petra — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:53:29 +0000

Let's say the goal is doing something for work, so accuracy is important, and you prefer for it to be a nice reading experience, like a good translation.

As long as cloud model are somewhat better in these things, it's good that users would have the option to use cloud models.

New comment by petra in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

petra — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:03:13 +0000

>> Most of the bottleneck in business isn't building the things or sourcing, it's mostly advertising/sales.

That may also change with llms - they can help the buyers compare every product available, and find the best.

New comment by petra in "Ask HN: Are we losing our engineering literacy?"

petra — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:31:38 +0000

I'm not saying they are alive, they have consciousness, etc.

But do we really know how LLM's(and the layers above, harness, RL, etc) work, or is there some emergent, surprising phenomena in those systems?

New comment by petra in "AI, Tools and Transformation"

petra — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:50:35 +0000

>> however this might be the biggest fear of middle managers who will never let it happen easily

Will this be different in a company like Amazon, or the new internet companies, that we're born with a deeper understanding of disruption and has it in their DNA?

New comment by petra in "Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone"

petra — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:01:32 +0000

Small business might care about the cost of subscriptions if they could get high quality systems this way.

New comment by petra in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

petra — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:13:08 +0000

I think we'll may see something like:

1.AI design tool

And in the warehouse of a big electronics distributor: 1.something like 3D printing that can make a single board rapidly 2.An automated assembly for a single board 3.AI based Automated testing for prototypes, with remote access.

This may reduce the loop to under a day.

New comment by petra in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

petra — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:22:51 +0000

It's probably for the better over the long term, I Agree. We might be getting into complicated times, with AI and robotics, so it's much better if Europe would be more self-sufficient, militarily, technologicaly and economicaly.

New comment by petra in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

petra — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:54:35 +0000

I hope that Trump doesn't represent US policies in the long term.

New comment by petra in "Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)"

petra — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:23:09 +0000

It's not just inference, some things done in data centers like simulations, testing, are complementary to inference.

And in these types of hardware, the time between a successful prototype and a fully deployed product is pretty long. Maybe they count on that to know when to stop?

New comment by petra in "Processing in Memory: DRAM Is About to Do Math"

petra — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:18:57 +0000

Maybe it would make sense for a single type of a desktop/laptop, for some use cases.

I would be more expensive, but maybe the performance would be worth it.

New comment by petra in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

petra — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:45:26 +0000

True. Well what can be expected from a thread with that hilarious title?

New comment by petra in "The turbulent AI era is here"

petra — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:27:07 +0000

What put the fear of god in governments, was the great depression(which is an indirect a result of the industrial revolution), terrible leaders rising because of it, and WWII as the result.

We already have terrible leaders in many places, war(mostly economic, some physical), and that's even without the huge unemployment wave that is coming.

New comment by petra in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

petra — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:10:43 +0000

But it seems relative immune to the current rise of populism.

Not a bad tradeoff, all included.

New comment by petra in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

petra — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:47:39 +0000

The Californian company probably opens their new plant in Missouri, so now it's not exactly a Californian company.

New comment by petra in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

petra — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:14:26 +0000

Let's say I'm a German small business owner.

Tomorrow Europe becomes a single market. How do I compete with a similar business but from a country where business costs are significantly lower ?

New comment by petra in "Fable and the end of the free lunch"

petra — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:55:41 +0000

Like all of us we're winners because of the internet?

New comment by petra in "A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been"

petra — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:24:56 +0000

A lot of the leet code problems are "math shaped". LLM's are pretty strong at that.

My guess is that interview questions would test your skills combined with the llm, because when testing skill without, the difference is just too big.

New comment by petra in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

petra — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:47:45 +0000

Regarding speed - now it takes much less learning to use a fast web framework(like Meteor), this means web based software will be more performant.

Regarding security - i wonder: can we develop a framework that is responsible to 100% of the security, with zero responsibility for security on the app developer?

New comment by petra in "Cerebras CS-4"

petra — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:43:05 +0000

I wonder: in world where inference is cheap, how many engineering agents that use simulation as their feedback we will use?

In the scenario, engineering everything becomes so easy - so why not optimize everything? every component, every product, every system?

And maybe llm's could invent. So even more to simulate. And simulation is inherently compute-heavy.

So unless there are some other bottlenecks, we'll use a lot of simulation servers.

New comment by petra in "I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore"

petra — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:56:38 +0000

There are just so many new technologies, some just as software, some in hardware,food,medicine, etc.

But maybe it makes it harder to get excited from most things.

For example, once you browse Anna's library, or ask Claude to develop some software for you, it's harder to get excited from most things.