Hacker News: pulkitsh1234

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:37:37 +0000

Creation is done by humans who have been trained on the data of their life experiences. Nothing new is being created, just changing forms.

A scientist has to extract the "Creation" from an abstract dimension using the tools of "human knowledge". The creativity is often selecting the best set of tools or recombining tools to access the platonic space. For instance a "telescope" is not a new creation, it is recombination of something which already existed: lenses.

How can we truly create something ? Everything is built upon something.

You could argue that even "numbers" are a creation, but are they ? Aren't they just a tool to access an abstract concept of counting ? ... Symbols.. abstractions.

Another angle to look at it, even in dreams do we really create something new ? or we dream about "things" (i.e. data) we have ingested in our waking life. Someone could argue that dream truly create something as the exact set of events never happened anywhere in the real world... but we all know that dreams are derived.. derived from brain chemistry, experiences and so on. We may not have the reduction of how each and every thing works.

Just like energy is conserved, IMO everything we call as "created" is just a changed form of "something". I fully believe LLMs (and humans) both can create tools to change the forms. Nothing new is being "created", just convenient tools which abstract upon some nature of reality.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:05:51 +0000

any ideas which extension was it ?

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Growing Neural Cellular Automata"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:39:08 +0000

well it attempts to explain how individual cells can combine to create complex creatures (like a lizard) AND how the creature can have features like healing, regeneration, etc.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Google Antigravity Built an OS from a single prompt"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:12:34 +0000

> goes to show just how intrinsically intelligent the Gemini family of models have gotten, even on Flash (Gemini 3.1 Pro was unable to do this)

3.1 Pro couldn't do it.. but why ??

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:10:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-brewery_syndrome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199701

Points: 3

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New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:10:31 +0000

Product Manager

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:19:03 +0000

YouTube PM if you are seeing, this is your "AI project".

Instead of just filtering user asked questions. We could probably just use an LLM to find interesting sections in video which has answer to a particular question.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:16:20 +0000

Thanks for making this..I was trying to accurately find timestamps in a video from a transcript sometime back, was not aware that this is called "phoneme alignment" and whisperx already solves this !

Growing Neural Cellular Automata

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:21:09 +0000

Article URL: https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172320

Points: 133

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The Best Sports Game Nobody Played [video]

pulkitsh1234 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:08:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMc4M5QJvM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818582

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:53:59 +0000

completely anecdotal, but I think the same can be said for human therapists.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:25:32 +0000

I am surprised to see this on HN front page, there is no new information here, just an ad.

The Ladder of Inference

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-ladder-of-inference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397901

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

pulkitsh1234 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:47:01 +0000

> The quality of the talks was high

Maybe I was in the wrong rooms, but the quality of the talks were really low.. Most of them were advertising one kind of service or another.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Show HN: DuckDB for Kafka Stream Processing"

pulkitsh1234 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:01:07 +0000

(not an expert in stream processing).. from the docs here https://sql-flow.com/docs/introduction/basics#output-sink it seems like this works on "batches" of data, how is this different from batch processing ? Where is the "stream" here ?

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

pulkitsh1234 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:10:49 +0000

Genuinely curious, how to actually implement detection systems for a large scale global infra which that works with < 1 minute SLO ? Given cost is no constraint.

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Google Antigravity"

pulkitsh1234 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:40:25 +0000

Seems like they are trying to attack both Cursor and Lovable at the same time...nice !

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

pulkitsh1234 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:29:11 +0000

uv has been my sole reason to come back to Python for coding. It was just too time consuming to setup a working dev environment with Python locally.

Moving Away from CDK

pulkitsh1234 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://sst.dev/blog/moving-away-from-cdk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45384884

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by pulkitsh1234 in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

pulkitsh1234 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:33:04 +0000

> In spring 2024, Altman learned Google would unveil its new Gemini model on May 14. Though OpenAI had planned to release GPT-4o later that year, Altman moved up the launch to May 13—one day before Google’s event.

> The rushed deadline made proper safety testing impossible. GPT-4o was a multimodal model capable of processing text, images, and audio. It required extensive testing to identify safety gaps and vulnerabilities. To meet the new launch date, OpenAI compressed months of planned safety evaluation into just one week, according to reports.

> When safety personnel demanded additional time for “red teaming”—testing designed to uncover ways that the system could be misused or cause harm—Altman personally overruled them.

> The rushed GPT-4o launch triggered an immediate exodus of OpenAI’s top safety researchers. Dr. Ilya Sutskever, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, resigned the day after GPT-4o launched.