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New comment by schmorptron in "Midjourney Medical"

schmorptron — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:11:55 +0000

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and interpreting it in a charitable way because they sound earnest about it, this is incredibly ambitious and cool-sounding, and I wish them all the best. It's something that's some sort of pipe dream, a noninvasive diagnosis machine that is able to use certain generic measurements and then derive insane levels of data from it. We've of course seen Theranos, but the holy grail remains.

Of course, there's always the tradeoff between research data collection and access vs user privacy, and striking that balance is incredibly hard. To make anything like this even remotely feasible you'll need a shitton of data and have it fully available to your researchers as well, while somehow safeguarding individual users. anonymizing medical data is impossible without rendering it near useless. Hoping they can figure that out! (Also, with human bodies being so different from one another, combatting bias is probably an eternal challenge)

New comment by schmorptron in "Midjourney Medical"

schmorptron — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:04:38 +0000

you can build the datacenter right next to the tank and use the now-warm cooling water to pump into the tanks!

New comment by schmorptron in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

schmorptron — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:31:08 +0000

Cursor's composer models are finetuned kimi

New comment by schmorptron in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

schmorptron — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:10:31 +0000

It's "just" an opencode fork but it adds some nice features to try out while not being a full orchestrator metapackage like oh-my-opencode. Quite nice! Though it would be even nicer if this stuff came upstream or as an easy extension instead in the future

New comment by schmorptron in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

schmorptron — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:47:02 +0000

got one answer by reading the rest of the comments, makes sense that the diffusion process is inherently reasoning-like: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2

New comment by schmorptron in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

schmorptron — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:44:10 +0000

What would a diffusing reasoning model look like? have a pre-defined length [thinking] block that gets diffused over a long time, and then the final output block uses what is in that thinking block as part of its input? And how do diffusion models decide the output length in the first place, is it a pre-set parameter? or does it diffuse an [end] token into the middle somewhere?

New comment by schmorptron in "Claude Fable 5"

schmorptron — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:55:17 +0000

The irony of "we train on all of humanity's collective output, but god forbid anyone trains on ours" is still incredible

New comment by schmorptron in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

schmorptron — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:40:10 +0000

Cool project! I'll be trying it out. I've been a big fan of throwing whatever sources I have on a new topic i'm trying to get into into a llm "project" and then asking it to teach me, grounded on the actual content to speed things up.

But at the same time, I'm afraid getting everything laid out for you in exactly the way you want will erode some of the understanding you build by going through a primary source directly and figuring things out the hard way. So this having more focus on actually doing stuff by yourself seems right up my alley (while still tending to the LLM induced intellecutal laziness... ) .

New comment by schmorptron in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

schmorptron — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:16:43 +0000

Maybe this will replace raptor-mini as the "free" model on copilot plans? (but I don't see it at all yet on the student plan, in vscode or the cli)

New comment by schmorptron in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

schmorptron — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:27:17 +0000

the new intel ultra whatevername 3 series seems to come a bit closer there, so the framework pro with its explicit linux support might be an option

New comment by schmorptron in "Claude Opus 4.8"

schmorptron — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:33:54 +0000

It's interesting that (for example for the explore agent https://github.com/Piebald-AI/claude-code-system-prompts/blo... ) they use a personality "you are a file search specialist" and "your strengths" framing. I thought that was largely thought to be useless, or even counterproductive nowadays? Does anyone know more about this stuff?

New comment by schmorptron in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

schmorptron — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:07:46 +0000

i see the reasoning traces in opencode (cli). maybe it's a setting?

New comment by schmorptron in "Why TUIs are back"

schmorptron — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:18:39 +0000

I think part of it is also that we're able to still LARP as full developers of complex systems while vibe coding by seeing an interface that makes us look like l33t h4xx0rs even though we're just pressing continue 15 times

New comment by schmorptron in "Measuring what frontier models know – and how big they are"

schmorptron — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:37:17 +0000

Aaand critique https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/veFMEzDDyWaer2Sms/sanity-che...

New comment by schmorptron in "Measuring what frontier models know – and how big they are"

schmorptron — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:56:52 +0000

Associated paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.24827v1

Measuring what frontier models know – and how big they are

schmorptron — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:55:10 +0000

Article URL: https://01.me/research/ikp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985269

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by schmorptron in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

schmorptron — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:45:41 +0000

for the current moment, Intel seems to be ahead of AMD for both power efficiency and iGPU performance. Panther Lake is really, really good.

New comment by schmorptron in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

schmorptron — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:57:16 +0000

In the gap between cost going down and profitability, is there not an increased risk of sybel attacks?

Fixing AMDGPU's VRAM management for low-end GPUs

schmorptron — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://pixelcluster.github.io/VRAM-Mgmt-fixed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47706024

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by schmorptron in "StackOverflow: Retiring the Beta Site"

schmorptron — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:01:36 +0000

Oh, I was thinking more of user enters question into SO -> LLM answer on SO -> user evaluates whether LLM answer was sufficient (or system itself judges whether answer is also interesting to other users?) -> question + answer combo made public, judged by other users.

There are of course several huge issues with this, but thats why I prefaced it with ideal world hahaha

the biggest of which is why most users would want their questios publicized if the ChatGPT answer not on the stackoverflow platform will be enough or even better

Or how existing users and question-answering volunteers feel about just being cleanup and training data after LLMs