Hacker News: ray__

New comment by ray__ in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

ray__ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:08:42 +0000

This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful.

I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved (in my experience, anecdotal).

I've come to peace with the fact that I will never be able to simultaneously experience the productivity of i3 and the necessary evil of MS Office/Illustrator on the same OS. The most important factor in my work is who I work with (rather than what I work with) so I'll remain on the latter train for now.

New comment by ray__ in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

ray__ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:45:51 +0000

Would love to read a Tell HN post about the kinds of attacks you are concerned with!

New comment by ray__ in "iNaturalist"

ray__ — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:40:34 +0000

Thanks for chiming in, and for your great work on iNaturalist!

New comment by ray__ in "iNaturalist"

ray__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:45:01 +0000

Wow, I didn’t know that iNaturalist was so proactive about that sort of thing. It also sounds like you have a really cool yard! :)

New comment by ray__ in "iNaturalist"

ray__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:55:13 +0000

Maybe not, but I'd want to know beforehand either way. And looking through accounts near me suggests that a fair number of users add enough detail to make me think that they don't realize that their info is so public (selfies/profile pictures being the most problematic example imo).

New comment by ray__ in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

ray__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:39:37 +0000

Care to elaborate on this?

New comment by ray__ in "iNaturalist"

ray__ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:27:29 +0000

I love this app, but it's also a significant doxxing risk especially for the large number of non-technical users that it has. A quick look at the map reveals the home addresses and names of many iNaturalist users in my neighborhood, lots of them older folks that probably don't realize that adding all of the neat wildlife that they see in their backyard (or uploading things they see on remote hikes without any 3G coverage once their phone connects to their home wifi network) is also putting their home address on display by adding a cluster of photos right next to their house that are all attached to their account.

New comment by ray__ in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

ray__ — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:12:11 +0000

The author wanted it to retain some practical value, hence the discussion of the four “layers” of time—departing from the 12-hour system completely, even if there is a better way to represent time outside of it, would make the clock difficult to use.

AI has the worst sales pitch I've ever seen

ray__ — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/ai-has-the-worst-sales-pitch-ive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532574

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

ray__ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:00:54 +0000

Article URL: https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513475

Points: 576

# Comments: 166

New comment by ray__ in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

ray__ — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:24:40 +0000

Honestly pretty crazy, although that must be the max speed. The carrier was going about 10 mph in this case (per Strava).

I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor

ray__ — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:05:59 +0000

Article URL: https://andrewjrod.substack.com/p/im-going-to-cure-my-girlfriends-brain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46920248

Points: 148

# Comments: 93

ClaudePad

ray__ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:35:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/marshallrichards/ClaudePad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46728815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Boltz Bio Manifesto

ray__ — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:55:03 +0000

Article URL: https://boltz.bio/manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46543308

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Why isn't everyone talking about (and using) Cerebras?

ray__ — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:14:28 +0000

Cerebras' wafer-scale chips seem like the outperform any of Nvidia's solutions for inference workloads. Since most people run inference in the cloud anyway, why aren't more datacenters being built with this technology instead of Nvidia GPUs? Is it simply a production bottleneck? Given the magnitude of hype around any AI-related advances, I'm surprised that Cerebras doesn't get more press.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379843

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Circuit Sparsity

ray__ — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/openai/circuit-sparsity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258701

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ray__ in "NSF announces initiative for new generation of research organizations"

ray__ — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:02:32 +0000

This is awesome, and is a great example of the type of funding structure that government orgs (looking at you, NIH) should be offering. Government-backed research is the bedrock upon which the US economy rests, and as science becomes more expensive, we need to support research at the intersection of academia and industry more explicitly.

ARPA-H was a great step towards this goal for public health-focused efforts (-omics experiments aren't going to pay for themselves, at least at first) but a more general funding mechanism has been needed. I think this is a great direction for the NSF, and to be honest it's refreshing to see something like this given the horrible stance that this government has taken towards science (which has been compounded by the biotech bubble/correction).

Nook Browser

ray__ — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:32:56 +0000

Article URL: https://browsewithnook.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46170402

Points: 138

# Comments: 119

New comment by ray__ in "Show HN: CUDA, Shmuda: Fold Proteins on a MacBook"

ray__ — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:31:43 +0000

Can you fold very large proteins/complexes with the large amount of VRAM available on Macs? Ram limitations forcing folding runs to proteins ~<1500 is an annoying nit for a lot of protein folding workflows for me—I'd be curious to see if this helps.

Py2Dmol

ray__ — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:44:54 +0000

Article URL: https://py2dmol.solab.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988259

Points: 1

# Comments: 0