Hacker News: shikon7

New comment by shikon7 in "Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels"

shikon7 — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:33:22 +0000

Because you can wrap Go binaries in Python wheels, but not yet Python wheels in Go binaries

New comment by shikon7 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

shikon7 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:53:33 +0000

Also, in that case, they know where all the men currently are, which is probably the main reason to implement it now. m

New comment by shikon7 in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

shikon7 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:17:35 +0000

Maybe you could use different timetables in summer and winter, so that only the relevant part of activities is affected, not everything indiscriminately. This would also make it possible to cater to local needs much better instead of simply fixing school hours from 9 to 15 and adjusting the clock that it falls into daylight.

New comment by shikon7 in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

shikon7 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:07:39 +0000

No, executive orders can't change law and international law, unless ratified by congress, is not democratically legitimized and applicable law in the US to begin with

New comment by shikon7 in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

shikon7 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:42:22 +0000

It's not new in the sense that any of its components are new, and it's not new in the sense that similar things had not been done before, it's new in the sense that putting the right components together in the right way suddenly created something capable of starting a viral hype.

Essentially, as I understand it, it is a personal AI assistant running on your computer, integrated with different systems (like email, chat).

New comment by shikon7 in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

shikon7 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:58:27 +0000

What would be a reasonable amount of time to audit the dependencies?

New comment by shikon7 in "Claude's new constitution"

shikon7 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:42:05 +0000

It's not that life wants to continue existing, it's that life is what continues existing. That's not a moral standard, but a matter of causality, that life that lacks in "want" to continue existing mostly stops existing.

New comment by shikon7 in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

shikon7 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:25:20 +0000

If I would guess, I'd say 65% positive, 35% negative

New comment by shikon7 in "TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models"

shikon7 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:20:25 +0000

That doesn't work when the Chinese produce uncensored open weight models, or ones that can easily be adapted to create uncensored content.

Censorship for generative AI simply doesn't work the way we are used to, unless we make it illegal to posess a model that might generate illegal content, or that might have been trained on illegal data.

New comment by shikon7 in "Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years"

shikon7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:39:31 +0000

You mean, if you would apply the inverse of the standard romanization of Mandarin, the resulting sound would be closer to the Japanese sound, if starting from the Kunrei spelling than if starting from the Hepburn spelling?

New comment by shikon7 in "Nvidia Nemotron 3 Family of Models"

shikon7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:22:30 +0000

> We are releasing the Nemotron 3 Nano model and technical report. Super and Ultra releases will follow in the coming months.

New comment by shikon7 in "FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence"

shikon7 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:20:43 +0000

You can run it with a 5090 and the standard ComfyUI template, it just offloads some parts to RAM. Image generation takes about a minute for sizes like 1024x1024.

New comment by shikon7 in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

shikon7 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:30:08 +0000

It seems to me that thinking models are harder to decensor, as they are trained to think whether to accept your request.

New comment by shikon7 in "I refuse to date someone who uses ChatGPT"

shikon7 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:32:50 +0000

I wonder if printed books were just as controversial when the printing press was invited.

New comment by shikon7 in "Nvidia DGX Spark: When benchmark numbers meet production reality"

shikon7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 21:06:05 +0000

But the article shows that the Nvidia ecosystem isn't that mature either on the DGX Spark with ARM64. I wonder if Nvidia is still ahead for such use cases, all things considered.

New comment by shikon7 in "What if tariffs?"

shikon7 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:22:03 +0000

For full effect, it should be priced 100 in Switzerland and 139 in the US

New comment by shikon7 in "Karpathy on DeepSeek-OCR paper: Are pixels better inputs to LLMs than text?"

shikon7 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:28:20 +0000

Seems we're now at a point of time when OCR is doing so well, that printing text out and letting computers literally read it is suggested to be superior to processing the endoded text directly.

New comment by shikon7 in "Most users cannot identify AI bias, even in training data"

shikon7 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:24:07 +0000

But maybe your tells are also biased. If you're truly unbiased, then

* any facts supporting another view are by definiton biased, and should not be presented

* you have the only unbiased objective interpretation of the minds of the subjects

* you don't bias against using words just because they are hyperbolic

* something unbiased would inevitably be boring, so you need emotional appeal to make anyone care about it

* since no sources are unbiased, identifying any of them would inevitably lead to a bias

New comment by shikon7 in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

shikon7 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 03:25:09 +0000

Google Glass was so much before its time, it might be reinvented a few more times and abandoned again before finally becoming a success.

New comment by shikon7 in "Photowand – Turn selfies into professional photos with AI"

shikon7 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:57:33 +0000

The irony of calling selfies not realistic photographs until processed by AI