Hacker News: shostack

New comment by shostack in "Latest Airbus single aisle aircraft innovations"

shostack — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:03:04 +0000

Introduce a larger one that you have to sign up for digitally to wait in line and be notified when it is available and charge for the privilege. Hell, make it auction based so if you want to jump the line you can if you pay for it.

New comment by shostack in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

shostack — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:32:47 +0000

Is fireworks not private enough?

New comment by shostack in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

shostack — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:57:10 +0000

Or for anyone on Windows 10 Home

New comment by shostack in "GPT‑Live"

shostack — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:10:57 +0000

I have built out something similar that let's me use my phone's hardware buttons to open an input stream with the mic for my Hermes agent over my matrix gateway and then has it play back with a local TTS model on my Pixel 10 Pro.

But the Deepseek v4 flash model I am using through OpenRouter is killing me on latency. Any suggestions to improve that?

New comment by shostack in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

shostack — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:06:09 +0000

I work with someone who did a lot of work with this to improve our ability to generate awesome visualizations with little thinking. It's a very powerful language but needs guardrails and guidance, particularly if you want end users to be able to produce consistent and standardized visualizations without knowing anything about it.

New comment by shostack in "Tripadvisor AI summaries give glowing reviews to dangerous hotels"

shostack — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:16:35 +0000

Affiliates trying to get you to buy something have been using fake reviews since the beginning of time. AI simply helps do it at scale.

New comment by shostack in "Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries"

shostack — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:04:24 +0000

Generally when people have a house cleaner they know who it is and have some form of relationship with them that establishes a baseline of trust. That would not exist here.

New comment by shostack in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"

shostack — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:38:37 +0000

The world would be a smarter place if every study and resulting news article were required by law to include something like this at the top.

New comment by shostack in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

shostack — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:07:47 +0000

If you're using Matrix, consider Hermes as a harness if you haven't already. Native gateway support. I've been primarily using mine through Element and it has largely been great.

New comment by shostack in "1,700 free online courses from top universities"

shostack — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:53:15 +0000

There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.

New comment by shostack in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

shostack — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:52:11 +0000

With a sufficiently sophisticated harness you can actually do quite a lot by just talking to your AI. I have regularly dictated to build things on my phone while walking to lunch for example.

New comment by shostack in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

shostack — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:51:54 +0000

Which of those providers are:

1. Keeping your data private on in the US

2. Not training on it

3. Not quantizing the model

4. Offer reasonable latency adds rate limits

New comment by shostack in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

shostack — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:48:11 +0000

This is literal whataboutism. Refute the comment if you have a valid point to make.

New comment by shostack in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

shostack — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:34:54 +0000

I wonder how many issues 5.1 could have caught if you ran it as multiple adversarial reviews against the original output it gave you.

New comment by shostack in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

shostack — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:29:53 +0000

And how does this compare to openai which is an ad company now? I am interested in trying codex but I want to know how my data will be used for ads or measurement and training data if I become a paid subscriber. And what happens to that data when I stop subscribing?

New comment by shostack in "Waymo Premier"

shostack — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:20:55 +0000

10% off is practically nothing and also irrelevant because it is the total cost of the trip that matters and they can easily increase that over time behind the scenes in a way that makes up for that 10% and then some once they determine the price elasticity of these premium customers which I imagine is quite higher.

New comment by shostack in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

shostack — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:34:27 +0000

Also, a lot of people have dreams about a perfect idealized version of something instead of the reality. If they actually got to experience the reality they might find that they no longer hold that dream as they originally knew it.

New comment by shostack in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

shostack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:13:42 +0000

More like incredibly lucky that the global hardware market dried up for compute capacity even as his AI product flopped. Right place at the right time.

I just dislike that it is now harder to avoid giving Musk money directly or indirectly.

New comment by shostack in "The advertising cartel coming to your web browser"

shostack — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:32:56 +0000

Look up differential privacy. Done right, it is impossible to do what you said.

New comment by shostack in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

shostack — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:30:38 +0000

Yes. Happy for the team but I do not like that this likely means for the future growth expectations as a customer. Hint: probably higher costs and being squeezed more.