Hacker News: reedf1

New comment by reedf1 in "Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?"

reedf1 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:46:12 +0000

New comment by reedf1 in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

reedf1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:25:50 +0000

GP comment is AI

New comment by reedf1 in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

reedf1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:24:43 +0000

He's an AI.

New comment by reedf1 in "Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family"

reedf1 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:17:17 +0000

An e-reader is the only device I've ever actively wanted a big chunky separated bezel. For the longest time my oldest kindle has been the one I actually used despite no usb-c.

New comment by reedf1 in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

reedf1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:51:17 +0000

It won't happen in our lifetime. American's are yet to fully understand the impact, it will take 50 years or more to go back to 2024.

New comment by reedf1 in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

reedf1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:36:45 +0000

Indistinguishable or very mildly better. But it's considerably faster. Some portion of that is also probably down to improvements in model harnesses, I've been using opencode.

New comment by reedf1 in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

reedf1 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:21:34 +0000

I've been running Qwen 3.8 27b (an opus 4.6 tier model), locally on a 5090 for just over two weeks @ 170 tokens/s. That's a frontier model from 9 months ago running on consumer hardware. Who knows where distillation and pruning gets us in another year.

New comment by reedf1 in "A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]"

reedf1 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:48:35 +0000

my first guess is always Gboard.

New comment by reedf1 in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

reedf1 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:00:34 +0000

Kids are not training LoRas without a big budget. I fought for $5 from my parents, I could write C for free.

New comment by reedf1 in "Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation"

reedf1 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:31:05 +0000

Context?

New comment by reedf1 in "Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely"

reedf1 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:39:28 +0000

I'm going to remove specific reference because I think even being directed to the right thing is dangerous. You are right.

New comment by reedf1 in "Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely"

reedf1 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:27:44 +0000

New comment by reedf1 in "Watch AI materials-science and bioscience abilities closely"

reedf1 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:20:34 +0000

yes - I don't want to publicize what I know. I worked briefly at a leading university bio lab. It's haunted me for awhile that it would only take 1 disgruntled postdoc to wipe out humanity. There are {AI things} now that will tell you how.

New comment by reedf1 in "Hot coffee could cause oesophageal cancer"

reedf1 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:27:39 +0000

I understand that this is research worth doing, but for the love of god, they need to improve the messaging of this to the general public because, as it currently stands, it's outright hysterical.

New comment by reedf1 in "Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework"

reedf1 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 06:48:07 +0000

nightmare horseshit, don't waste your tokens

New comment by reedf1 in "TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings"

reedf1 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:40:43 +0000

Reads like an onion article. I've gone to great lengths to avoid ads - but it's a war I am losing. Content is now interleaved with ads at the creative stage in subtle (and not so subtle) ways, this inexorable convolution occurs even on formerly alternative spaces. Let me pay, I want to pay, I'll pay a lot, just stay out of my fucking head.

New comment by reedf1 in "I think the military commissary's freezers were hacked"

reedf1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:19:56 +0000

AI or not - can we agree to stop doing this now that AI has ruined it:

"But the thing I can’t get past is Fort Huachuca’s failure mode.

Not: the freezer compressor died.

Not: the power went out.

Not even: the refrigeration system stopped cooling.

Every freezer went into active defrost."

New comment by reedf1 in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

reedf1 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:48:55 +0000

was expecting umberto eco after the first few - I'm sure you've either read him or desperately should!

New comment by reedf1 in "AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class"

reedf1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:27:06 +0000

great - that still requires something

New comment by reedf1 in "AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class"

reedf1 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:08:26 +0000

I do think one day that LLMs may be so 'aligned' that hacking culture will have a resurgence in some way. In the sense that the only way to do anything a bit below board will be done manually.