Hacker News: runeks

New comment by runeks in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

runeks — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:51:57 +0000

Comment threads like these are why I read HN comments.

Thank you for the insights, both of you.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Bug Discovered by AI: CVE-2026-60161

runeks — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:08:12 +0000

Article URL: https://octane.beehiiv.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040324

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by runeks in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

runeks — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:09:29 +0000

> I still wonder why some of our key universities in the US aren't building Open Weight Models.

I'm guessing the $100m price tag plays a role. Plus the fact that it will be outdated next quarter.

New comment by runeks in "A man who would change Russia"

runeks — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:04:53 +0000

https://archive.ph/2026.07.09-085648/https://www.economist.c...

A man who would change Russia

runeks — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:03:54 +0000

Article URL: https://economist.com/leaders/2026/07/09/the-man-who-would-change-russia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919019

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by runeks in "I love LLMs, I hate hype"

runeks — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:04:40 +0000

> I think the opposite: I think the frontier labs have good margins on their inference unit costs.

Interesting. Good enough to make up for training costs?

Also, where can I read more about this?

New comment by runeks in "The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia"

runeks — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:11:14 +0000

> Good guess. The actual mechanism [...]

Why couldn't both these factors contribute to the result of the study?

New comment by runeks in "A graph that should be front-page news"

runeks — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:30:05 +0000

> enforce right to repair

How much would this change Niño surface temperatures, you reckon?

Heat Wave in Europe Shatters Records in Denmark, Switzerland and Czech Republic

runeks — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/europe-heatwave-2026-temperature-records-broken-9.7251458

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700261

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by runeks in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

runeks — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:56:14 +0000

It's a proof of concept that it's possible to etch a neural net into a chip and get massive performance (and efficiency) boost

New comment by runeks in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

runeks — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:53:04 +0000

If performance per watt is 100x better than GPUs (as GP link claims) then I don't think it's a hard sell at all. That's actually a cost reduction that matters.

New comment by runeks in "How to earn a billion dollars"

runeks — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:36:36 +0000

> But if the growth requires capital (an investment, a loan, or the wealth the founders already have), the situation becomes less clear. How much of the success can be attributed to the contributions of the founders and how much is based on arbitrary choices made by wealthy people?

I don't get it. If I need to raise money to fund my startup, how are my profits more "earned" if I crowd fund $10m by finding 10,000 wage earners who will lend me $1000 each than if I borrow $10m from a billionaire?

New comment by runeks in "How to earn a billion dollars"

runeks — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:07:12 +0000

> So he has set up a system that extracts value from others.

That's a very negative way to describe buying a share in a company.

New comment by runeks in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

runeks — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:45:08 +0000

> [...] but their coils get saturated at higher RPMs meaning they lose efficiency at highway speeds (which actually affect the range number people car about).

This seems like a big disadvantage. Highway is exactly where EVs fare worst compared to ICE cars.

I wonder if this could be solved by introducing a gearbox?

I know the new Mercedes CLA (EV) has two gears, the second gear being optimized for highway speeds. But I don't know whether it's related to this.

New comment by runeks in "They’re made out of weights"

runeks — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:04:06 +0000

> Consciousness doesn’t require thinking, it only requires perception.

Could we imagine a human being that is conscious but has no sensory input nor any occurring thoughts but is still conscious?

New comment by runeks in "They’re made out of weights"

runeks — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:11:01 +0000

> We literally spend almost all day, every day, thinking about ourselves, in terms of our inner self.

> That is consciousness.

So thinking is consciousness?

Can there be consciousness without content? E.g. can I just be conscious of being conscious? If so, consciousness cannot be defined as the thing(s) we're conscious of.

New comment by runeks in "The dangerous delusion of modern warfare"

runeks — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:36:37 +0000

https://archive.ph/2026.05.29-114338/https://www.economist.c...

The dangerous delusion of modern warfare

runeks — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://economist.com/interactive/essay/2026/05/28/the-dangerous-delusion-of-modern-warfare

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344016

Points: 38

# Comments: 81

New comment by runeks in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

runeks — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:10:50 +0000

Writing software for which a full spec is available before you begin — in this case the rules of chess — was an easy problem even before AI.

New comment by runeks in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

runeks — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:07:38 +0000

> Efficiency is about using minimum cpu cycles or minimum memory or minimum network round trip or more generically using minimum/optimum resources to get something done.

No profitable business wants to pay you for writing code that uses "a minimum" of a resource. It wants to pay you to find the right balance between resource usage, time-to-market, operating cost, code complexity and probably several other factors.