Hacker News: plingamp

New comment by plingamp in "Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw"

plingamp — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:50:14 +0000

Specifically when the document number reaches around 10k+, a phenomenon called "Semantic Collapse" occurs.

https://dho.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/Legal_RAG_Halluc...

New comment by plingamp in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

plingamp — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:52:56 +0000

Shared this in another comment, but my luggage was in a locked truck, nothing visible from the back windows. They broke in by smashing the windows, unlocking the door and using the latch to fold the back seats down to expose the trunk.

New comment by plingamp in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

plingamp — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:41:06 +0000

For what it's worth, everything was in a locked truck with no visible way of seeing any items.

From what I heard from others, apparently the thieves have a device that allows them to detect electronics (I had two laptops, cellphone, and a few other devices). I'm not sure how accurate this is, but i'm not sure why my car was the only one on the street that was targeted as there were no visible signs of valuables in the car (nothing visible from windows etc.) Funny part is a few weeks later nothing was found except for my Kindle which a kind citizen found and returned to me. Apparently thieves don't like to read?

New comment by plingamp in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

plingamp — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:16:05 +0000

My car got broken into in Oakland, California. Multiple pieces of luggage stolen (yes, my fault for leaving it in the car in the first place). Luckily I had an AirTag that showed the exact location of the stolen items. I called the police but they said they couldn't do anything. Apparently, even if I had the location the thief would have to invite them in. Regardless, I was put on a waiting list, they finally called me back 3 days later. I promptly left the state a few months later.

New comment by plingamp in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

plingamp — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:23:51 +0000

Sorry not related - your blog is awesome. Cool to see you here on HN!

New comment by plingamp in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

plingamp — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:34:50 +0000

I’m building PaperDrop it's a research workspace that turns PDFs and new arXiv papers into something you can actually work with (notes, questions, cross paper comparisons). Would love feedback from people who read a lot of papers: https://paperdrop.xyz

It's still early prototype / beta, but wanted to share it anyway!

New comment by plingamp in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

plingamp — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:38:47 +0000

Indian and Chinese are not languages

New comment by plingamp in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

plingamp — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 06:46:24 +0000

According to Crunchbase, Loopt raised $39.1M.

PayPal Launches U.S. Dollar Stablecoin

plingamp — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:47:49 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.paypal-corp.com/2023-08-07-PayPal-Launches-U-S-Dollar-Stablecoin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37041992

Points: 49

# Comments: 55

$44M (7000 BTC) stolen from Binance

plingamp — Wed, 08 May 2019 01:23:46 +0000

Article URL: https://binance.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028031711-Binance-Security-Breach-Update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19855082

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

React Native for Windows

plingamp — Mon, 06 May 2019 23:47:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19845068

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Addicted to Bitcoin: The Cryptocurrency Rehab Center

plingamp — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 21:43:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUirBLEQQ5M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249741

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by plingamp in "Show HN: TensorFire"

plingamp — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:17:55 +0000

From the github issue referenced in the FAQ, I think they mean that because TensorFlow only natively supports CUDA, TensorFire may outperform TensorFlow on computers that have non Nvidia GPUs, such as the new MacBook Pro.

New comment by plingamp in "TensorForce: A TensorFlow library for applied reinforcement learning"

plingamp — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 20:21:49 +0000

I may have used the term hyperparameter too loosely. Yes, this project does a good job on taking a configuration first approach, but even they set some defaults. For example, they set relu as their default layer activation function. I haven't had time to see what other such defaults are being set.

New comment by plingamp in "TensorForce: A TensorFlow library for applied reinforcement learning"

plingamp — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:16:39 +0000

In the past, i've found that these higher level libraries built on top of TF are useful for quick model building, but should be used cautiously. By having default hyperparameters it can be easy to blindly build semi-working models without knowing what's happening. I would recommend either reading the associated papers or implementing the models in code (at least once) before using these pre-built models. That being said, i'm really excited by this project! I think it'll save researchers a bunch of time.

New comment by plingamp in "Study: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups"

plingamp — Mon, 13 Mar 2017 16:12:49 +0000

I think he maybe referring to this:

Bannon responded: “When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think . . . ” he didn’t finish his sentence. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/16/13653490/steve-bannon-tru...

Heating houses with high performance servers

plingamp — Mon, 13 Feb 2017 21:03:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nerdalize.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13638743

Points: 63

# Comments: 52

New comment by plingamp in "MacBook Pro"

plingamp — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 21:36:20 +0000

I have a old Chromebook that I am using as my primary dev machine (at home). Was hoping to upgrade it to a MBP, but now i'm not sure. I know they are two different classes of machines, but what really struck me in that I can literally buy 10 Chromebooks for 1 MBP.

New comment by plingamp in "How to make tabs using only CSS"

plingamp — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:33:08 +0000

Hmm, I also have uBlock Origin on, and the website renders perfectly for me (on chrome). I think this is might be a firefox specific issue.

New comment by plingamp in "Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images"

plingamp — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 22:45:34 +0000

All ML networks are inherently biased towards its creators. My colleague recently described this issue to me as the "Old, white, male" problem. This is why most voice recognition services drastically fail when they are shown foreign accents.