Hacker News: potatoman22

New comment by potatoman22 in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

potatoman22 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Reminds me of https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/infinity-arcade

New comment by potatoman22 in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

potatoman22 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:46:21 +0000

I really liked this, thank you

New comment by potatoman22 in "Show HN: Cactus Needle 3: 8-29MB automation models can match DeepSeek V4 Flash"

potatoman22 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:45:53 +0000

I think a good "traditional" approach would look like a BM25 algorithm over an index of trigger phrases for each category, sitting behind a majority-vote classifier. The "fine tuning" would be done by reindexing the data, generating different/new phrases, and tuning the classification threshold.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

potatoman22 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:56:16 +0000

I think that's to demonstrate its speed

New comment by potatoman22 in "StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator"

potatoman22 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:58:37 +0000

Adding this to my homelab, thanks for the web browser option. How does your son use the backing tracks? Does he mute bass/drum, or play along with them?

New comment by potatoman22 in "Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device"

potatoman22 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:13:08 +0000

I have about 60 hours of my own playing in midi data. I wonder if I could fine-tune this model on that?

New comment by potatoman22 in "Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette"

potatoman22 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:21:46 +0000

It's not specific to SQLlite per se, but that's what most dashboard builders are

New comment by potatoman22 in "Midjourney Medical"

potatoman22 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:03:13 +0000

I was trying to say there's precedent for using ML in this field. I don't think they even said this product is an image generation model. It's probably some ML version of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_computer_tomography

I also found this researcher on their staff who studies tomography https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=idvD2yYAAAAJ

New comment by potatoman22 in "Midjourney Medical"

potatoman22 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:30:31 +0000

Generative models have been used in healthcare for a while for things like drug design and data generation. Not to mention all the algorithms (and probably ML) used in generating results for MRI and CT scans. I don't think this is that crazy provided they can prove it's effective.

New comment by potatoman22 in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

potatoman22 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:20:16 +0000

I'd wager that for 99.9% of "Apple Intelligence" tasks, Google's models perform just as well as other frontier labs. Google also has done more work on getting LLMs running on edge devices compared to anthropic and openAI.

The source also says > The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, which Apple says are adapted to run both on-device and on servers through its existing Private Cloud Compute infrastructure

Which could mean Google and Apple have trained some custom models, probably the on-device ones, specifically tailored towards Apple's hardware.

New comment by potatoman22 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

potatoman22 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:59:40 +0000

Picking an equal weight fund is closer to picking specific stocks than investing in the S&P500 imo

New comment by potatoman22 in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

potatoman22 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:58:44 +0000

I wonder why they didn't use a Bonsai model as the text encoder

New comment by potatoman22 in "Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace"

potatoman22 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:55:46 +0000

It reminds me of the Nord theme https://github.com/nordtheme/nord

New comment by potatoman22 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

potatoman22 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:37:08 +0000

Google should know why a human accepted the automated suggestion, or if and why there wasn't any human oversight in the first place.

New comment by potatoman22 in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again"

potatoman22 — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:08:12 +0000

This reminds me of control vectors, especially this line in the linked DwarfStar repo:

> y = y - scale * direction[layer] * dot(direction[layer], y)

From https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/

> A control vector is a vector (technically a list of vectors, one per layer) that you can apply to model activations during inference to control the model's behavior without additional prompting

New comment by potatoman22 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

potatoman22 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:54:38 +0000

Neat! It seems like Qwen 9b took the same amount of time as gemma4-e4b too, which is interesting. I haven't been able to get Qwen to stop thinking so much

New comment by potatoman22 in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

potatoman22 — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:47:01 +0000

Not to be nitpicky, but many of the 4-12b models are somewhere between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4o-mini. It's hard to find a good comparison though, because the benchmarks people score models against change so often. For reference, Sonnet 3.6 came out about a year after GPT 3.5

New comment by potatoman22 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

potatoman22 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:56:12 +0000

The website has a "chat" link near the top

New comment by potatoman22 in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

potatoman22 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:06:40 +0000

There's a point where they meet, but "faking it until you make it" doesn't work for productivity in the same way it doesn't work for getting rich.

But there's a secret: just buy my $399 masterclass and I'll teach you 17 simple productivity hacks to 100x your income.

New comment by potatoman22 in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

potatoman22 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:46:47 +0000

Bloomberg made a good video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gjnrMg9iSo