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New comment by real0mar in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

real0mar — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:10:46 +0000

Finally, they face consequences for their IPO pump fear mongering rhetoric

New comment by real0mar in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

real0mar — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:27:12 +0000

Correct. And tire dust increases because electric vehicles are usually heavier

New comment by real0mar in "OLMo 2 - a family of fully-open language models"

real0mar — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:43:19 +0000

The inconvenient truth might be that the other models score higher than OLMO because they aren't restricted to purely "open and accessible" training data. Who knows what private or ethically dubious data went into training Mistral or llama, for example.

New comment by real0mar in "Howdy – Windows Hello style facial authentication for Linux"

real0mar — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 15:35:03 +0000

That was primarily because the face id sensor stack is too thick to fit in the laptop lid

New comment by real0mar in "Chrome for Android doesn't have extensions, but Edge now has a whole store"

real0mar — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:56:33 +0000

New comment by real0mar in "I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts"

real0mar — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:50:00 +0000

Yeah. Reasoning models like r1 tend to be good for architecting changes and less optimal for actually writing code. So this allows the best of both worlds.

New comment by real0mar in "Apple has locked me in the same cage Microsoft's built for Windows 10 users"

real0mar — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:48:38 +0000

Apple's marketing team must be so good if they can convince HN users that an iPad is a suitable replacement for a "real" computer. No one who knows what a terminal or root access even means should be fooled by this.

New comment by real0mar in "Jim Simons has died"

real0mar — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:51:16 +0000

Does the book cover anything about how the fund actually works? It's understandable that they'd want to keep a tight lid on it, but I'm so curious

New comment by real0mar in "Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'"

real0mar — Fri, 10 May 2024 20:49:41 +0000

no one asked

New comment by real0mar in "The Year in Computer Science"

real0mar — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:27:38 +0000

I love the art in quanta magazine