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New comment by ray__ in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

ray__ — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:40:09 +0000

Great article. This is the kind of web design that I like.

Baby Pictures

ray__ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/porsche911/s/GxepFmYLLK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650630

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Unreasonable Redundancy of Nature's Protein Folds

ray__ — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:47:56 +0000

Article URL: https://research.ligo.bio/posts/unreasonable-redundancy-of-natural-protein-folds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48379669

Points: 163

# Comments: 61

UMA Playground

ray__ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:11:26 +0000

Article URL: https://aidemos.atmeta.com/uma

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48374796

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ray__ in "Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity"

ray__ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:11:32 +0000

I see, very interesting, thanks!

New comment by ray__ in "Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity"

ray__ — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:06:41 +0000

This is a cool idea—I know from snooping on sumbit scripts and node utilization on the HPC that I use at my institution that most submissions leave some compute on the table (and many of them are egregiously bad). I'd probably vote in favor of sending every submitted sbatch script through an LLM (at least for everyone else, I'd would prefer tuning my own usage myself :) ).

Presumably the underlying model here is also an LLM? To what degree is it "fine-tuned", or is it just given a set of tools to build a good picture of cluster usage?

New comment by ray__ in "Various LLM Smells"

ray__ — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:31:43 +0000

I wonder if the tendency to write short punchy sentences stems from deliberate RL efforts to avoid repetitive, consistent writing? I seem to remember that a critique of early LLMs was that they would produce sentences whose construction was too homogeneous. Would be interesting to know the answer to this.

New comment by ray__ in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ray__ — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:08:29 +0000

You could say something similar about biology—just physics behind the curtains, and we understand a lot of the basics. The difficulty comes from complexity, not mysticism.

To be clear I don't think that LLMs are sentient, but the appeal in studying them is similar to biology in that you get to dissect a highly complex system with comparatively crude tools.

The Unmet Needs Index

ray__ — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.convoke.bio/blog/introducing-the-unmet-needs-index

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115466

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Learning to Discover at Test Time

ray__ — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:39:44 +0000

Article URL: https://test-time-training.github.io/discover/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098925

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ProteinView

ray__ — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/001TMF/ProteinView

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002814

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ray__ in "Craig Venter of Human Genome Project Dies at 79"

ray__ — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:32:03 +0000

It feels like a lot of the folks who occupy the same biotechnologist genre as Venter (George Church, Eric Lander, etc.) can come off this way. I agree fully about the grifty nature of aging and longevity research (mostly because of the target audience), but I also think that you need an element of this willingness to entertain ideas that are borderline crazy to get to their status in the first place. Proposing to sequence (or, perhaps more timely—edit) the human genome would have seemed like a wild idea in the 80s, and yet they were thinking about it.

The end of this short interview with Stuart Schreiber has a similar vibe:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41570-026-00803-0

Note how interested he is in consciousness and AGI. This is something that he's been talking about for a long time, just formulated differently. You need to be able to temper true scientific rigor with a little bit of wackiness to even think about tackling these big questions.

Welcome to Actual Computer

ray__ — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:55:24 +0000

Article URL: https://actual.inc/company/blog/introducing-actual-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982570

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Resolution Challenge

ray__ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:09:28 +0000

Article URL: https://rico.ibs.fr/helixplorer/resolution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851562

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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?