Hacker News: ren_engineer

New comment by ren_engineer in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

ren_engineer — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:44:04 +0000

somebody looked at Claude Code's binaries and Anthropic is testing out their own app platform called antspace. Not sure why people are shocked, they've been cloning features of their API customers and adding them to their core products since day 1. Makes sense they will take user data and do it for Claude Code by copying features or buying up what developers are using so they can lock people into a stack. These are the same people that trained on every scrap of data they could get their hands on and now complain about distilling models from their output

https://x.com/AprilNEA/status/2034209430158619084

Ironically this type of stuff really makes me doubt their AGI claims, why would they bother with this stuff if they were confident of having AGI within the next few years? They would be focused on replacing entire industries and not even make their models available at any price. Why bother with a PaaS if you think you are going to replace the entire software industry with AGI?

New comment by ren_engineer in "Should you take creatine?"

ren_engineer — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:43:29 +0000

bodybuilders once again 10-20 years ahead of mainstream science

New comment by ren_engineer in "Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional"

ren_engineer — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:59:50 +0000

cell tower dump and general geofence warrants to Google/Apple were how many Jan 6th protesters were found and charged. Courts threw out all their arguments about this very issue. This is standard practice and was celebrated as cops being smart

here's a Washington Post article lamenting that Google was cutting back on how long they hold location data and how hundreds of people wouldn't have been prosecuted without it- https://archive.ph/r7afb

New comment by ren_engineer in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ren_engineer — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 20:22:33 +0000

Gwern talked about it when GPT 4.5 came out, a ton of breakthroughs with image and text AI came from anons trying to optimize models for their waifus. That's basically the origin of chat models in general - https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1izpgct/comment/mf5...

New comment by ren_engineer in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ren_engineer — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:57:15 +0000

/g/ was the origin of Chain of Thought for AI, also where llama weights were first leaked

New comment by ren_engineer in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

ren_engineer — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 20:55:58 +0000

lol that was a bait thread, this is the same place that had a discussion on whether a pitbull could defeat the Sun if it snuck up on it at night

New comment by ren_engineer in "I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636"

ren_engineer — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:57:11 +0000

churches don't get billions annually in government funding, they are treated like any other charity in terms of donations

New comment by ren_engineer in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

ren_engineer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:58:44 +0000

those endowments, especially for the Ivy League schools, aren't liquid at all. They'd take a massive haircut if they had to start pulling funds from it

New comment by ren_engineer in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

ren_engineer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:48:39 +0000

no, but there would be much more push back against this type of action if Harvard and other universities didn't alienate a large chunk of the population. Why should the taxpayers fund places that openly admit to decades of racial discrimination in admissions

the institutions have already failed their intended purpose, as shown by the research fraud. Propping them up with tax dollars because of nostalgia over the name brand is pointless

New comment by ren_engineer in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

ren_engineer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:42:12 +0000

the judge you are quoting literally worked in FDR's admin when they were deporting millions of Mexicans, regardless of whether they were born in the US. They didn't get due process

New comment by ren_engineer in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

ren_engineer — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:21:45 +0000

these types of moves wouldn't be possible in the first place if these institutions hadn't spent decades burning their own credibility. They even mention Alzheimer's research in this post, something that has literally wasted billions of taxpayer dollars due to an academic cartel shutting down anybody trying to expose the fact that they were completely wrong about amyloid plaques

New comment by ren_engineer in "Wall Street sell-off turns 'ugly' as US recession fears grow"

ren_engineer — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:30:21 +0000

just cutting government spending would automatically put the US into recession, deficit spending is the only thing that has kept things going. Huge amount of job growth is either direct government hiring or indirect through businesses hiring off revenue from government contracts

New comment by ren_engineer in "GPT-4.5"

ren_engineer — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:25:53 +0000

hyperscalers in shambles, no clue why they even released this other than the fact they didn't want to admit they wasted an absurd amount of money for no reason

New comment by ren_engineer in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

ren_engineer — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:12:32 +0000

saw someone point out how they could have framed it as a way to reward good workers, but instead they showed how they can go after people underperforming. Just bad framing and shows how out of touch they are

New comment by ren_engineer in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

ren_engineer — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:35:27 +0000

>Janus is the roman god representing changes, transitions from past to future, beginnings and ends

Deepseek flexing on OpenAI with this model, basically say their time is over

New comment by ren_engineer in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

ren_engineer — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 20:33:59 +0000

not sure why people are surprised, it's been known a long time that RLHF essentially lobotomizes LLMs by training them to give answers the base model wouldn't give. Deepseek is better because they didn't gimp their own model

New comment by ren_engineer in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

ren_engineer — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:16:13 +0000

comparative advantage is disproven at this point, because economists are failed math majors who don't account for the innovation flywheel effect and general network effects. Silicon Valley software industry happened because of the proximity to the existing hardware industry there. Same thing for other forms of manufacturing and the US gave it away in the name of short term profits

New comment by ren_engineer in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

ren_engineer — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 21:11:13 +0000

their energy policy has essentially crippled their economy

New comment by ren_engineer in "Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose"

ren_engineer — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:43:24 +0000

Gen Z only voted democrat by a 4% margin which is an absolute death sentence for the democrat party considering people only vote further right as they get older. For context Obama won that demographic by 20% in 2012, and won it by even more in 2008. If those numbers hold democrats have no path to winning national elections

https://apnews.com/article/election-harris-trump-women-latin...

New comment by ren_engineer in "Who killed the rave?"

ren_engineer — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 20:21:23 +0000

not when the majority of real estate is being bought by investors just looking for a place to throw money regardless of price. That's the main issue in Canada and in tier 1 cities in the US. The people owning the RE don't live there