<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: sigmoid10</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sigmoid10</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:10:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sigmoid10" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Because the demo was done with politicians<p>I feel like this should be the default. Responsible disclosure to the affected company, followed immediately by disclosure to every politician in the dataset. Once we start collecting high profile cases this way instead of waiting X days for a faceless corporation to release a fix, companies will think twice about their security and the data they collect if that could make them end up on the shit list of the local government.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:42:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963133</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Several indies have, but with big league studio games requiring development times on the order of 4-6 years, I wouldn't expect major titles with considerable AI generated content before the end of the decade. I'm also willing to bet that AI art won't make development times for these titles shorter, but simply lead to even more densely packed content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:06:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955712</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "In Ukraine, distributed renewables foil Russia's assaults"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>But can't energy from fossil fuels be generated in a decentralized manner too?<p>If you sit on an oil well, perhaps. In practice every static part of the production and distribution chain is a centralized target: from wells over refineries to depots, roads, harbours and finally power plants. You simply can't run fossils in a distributed local-first approach. That's also the reason why even for a massive oil producer like Russia, Ukraine can cause billions in damages with drones costing a couple hundred grand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:39:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952203</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49952203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Things similar to GDS exist in many wealthy countries by now. And quite a few of them do work more or less. But it you ever get to work with the government on something like this or even just get a peek behind the scenes at how critical software decisions are made, you would share the same opinion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:59:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951987</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only the user can tell whether something is potentially dangerous, then either every bug or none of them should get a CVE. There are countless systems out there that are commonly used in ways beyond what even the developer intended, how should a third party authority like the CNA be able to discern this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:13:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932192</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49932192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure it's easier to keep eyes on in a tiny country like Singapore, but basically all major western countries struggle with stuff like this because politics is way too spread out and ingrained with too many local interests. Strong federalism is the cradle of corruption, but if you can walk across your country in a day there's simply not enough room to federalize. OTOH federalism is necessary if your seat of government is 500 miles away, because there is no way for them to effectively govern local issues anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:14:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931823</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In practice it would be 10 managers and in-between contractor types siphoning all allotted money and then an unexperienced dev building a terrible overburdened service that noone wants to use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:43:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930894</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Young people and vanilla users might only see "the internet" as something that primarily happens on smartphones, but there are entire industries out there dependent on software that doesn't even exist for mobile phones yet still requires an internet connection. Smartphone internet is primarily an end-user/casual consumer thing. Sure there is a lot of money in that too if you can capture millions of users, but the real easy money is in B2B. And everyone in the dotcom era correctly saw that coming, but the digitalisation simply happened too slow for most industries because there was a whole generation of people who grew up without computers and who didn't mind wasting hours everyday on something senseless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:15:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923657</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Meta VR Glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Still, you basically pay twice the price for finger and eye tracking and a slightly newer snapdragon with more RAM. Resolution, lenses, refresh rate are all basically equal and passthrough is way worse without the hardware upgrade.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:07:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900561</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900561</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The dotcom bubble burst because the development of the internet could not keep up with expectations, even though investors were correct in principle with their assumption it would generate swaths of wealth. For AI the hope is that AI itself will start to push its own development and adoption sooner rather than later, so the timing issue that killed dotcom investors might instead make AI investors insanely rich. That's why we're still seeing heaps of money getting dumped into it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:33:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900028</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would certainly not make any economic sense, and I guess that's also why noone is seriously looking into stuff like volunteer/enthusiast clusters of home computers to do inference in the same way that e.g. LHC@home works. The main bottleneck for LLMs is still memory bandwidth. Any memory bus not directly soldered on your GPU is terribly slow. That's why one big GPU with twice the VRAM will always perform significantly better than two GPUs with half the VRAM each. And it's also not like you can just solder more memory onto a chip. At modern speeds, the speed of light is a hard limit. For current GDDR7, signals may only travel like 10mm per cycle.<p>If you spread such a system out over dozens or hundreds of tiny chips, you'll be wasting most of its resources and lose hard to anyone who built a single chip setup.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:55:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889213</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Meta VR Glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For a total of $1200 I'd expect a bit more.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:16:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854347</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Meta VR Glasses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The three year old Quest 3 is still the absolute best thing you can buy in this space in terms of value per dollar. Especially the color passthrough is a feature I found to enjoy quite a lot and it prevents me from even considering the new Steam Frame. After the price hike I think Meta might now sell roughly at break even or perhaps even with some tiny margins, but before it was definitely at a loss. If mine fell down and broke today, I'd probably buy it again in a heartbeat, even though I only use it semi-regularly like you.</p>
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<p>I'd be very surprised if at the very least Tesla/xAI aren't actively investigating that already. The general purpose intelligence to deal with complex new situations will never fit into a pure driving model, because it will need to understand human behaviour on a level that goes way beyond what people do on a road. I'm pretty sure that an eventual level 5 system will look closer to GPT than any traditional driving model. The biggest issue is indeed latency and we probably won't see it in real cars until a multi-trillion parameter model like GPT-6 fits on a simple ASIC that can run in an affordable car. Right now a stack of B200s that can run a frontier intelligence model costs more than a car itself. But a GPT-8 running something like 20k tokens/s on a Taalas HC5 will almost certainly be able to drive a car under real conditions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822797</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49822797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cancer research is a lot harder for LLMs than math millennium problems though, because there is no fast feedback loop to iterate on. Even if you have a really good idea based on a solid theoretical insight, doing the experiments using in-vitro/mice/monkeys/humans can take years or even decades. I have no doubt that AI will help find new avenues that boost certain parts of research in these fields, but I don't see a potential for a drastic change until we at the very least give LLMs a direct way to interact with lab equipment and train them using RL on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:43:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821452</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The whole point is the quantified output. If you just ask an LLM to type out its confidence "manually", it'll make up some nonsense. The logprob numbers are more reliable.<p>The whole point of my argument is that neither is good, but from a technical perspective logprobs is probably the worst unless you train a model on specific outputs. In which case you'd throw out the generality again, so when I think about it more, it's actually the worst overall. In my experiments, having the model simply assign "high" or "low" probability in a structured output generally performs best. You can try numbers, but you will never get anything close to what you could expect from traditional ML. And most certainly not from logprobs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:11:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814294</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Best option would be reasoning + clear system instructions + constrained output. That is, if you have to use a chat model. Which works well enough to be sure, but hey I haven't tried raising millions of dollars when I did that 3 years ago. But perhaps I was the stupid one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:29:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813164</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813164</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Jev in 25 Lines of Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Going directly for the logprobs is always icky when you use a chat model as base, because they are trained to write prose as output. So your "choice" tokens and thus their probabilities might get diluted in whatever else it wanted to say. If you have to do it in the same way as this post, at least add clear system instructions and a carefully worded beginning to the assistant output section of the prompt to lower the chances of it wandering off immediately.<p>I've found that using structured outputs solves this problem much better. Instead of letting a model generate only "A", "B" or "C" and looking at the probs, have it directly generate "Legitimate", "Spam" or "Phishing" or any other pre-defined option from a set of multi-token sequences. Behind the scenes it boils down to something quite similar, but you're not running into the risk that the model actually wanted to say "A phishing attempt seems likely, so answer (C) is correct.", which would lead "A" to have the highest probability in the first token. You can even use a reasoning budget this way either via inherent reasoning or a free-form part preceding the remaining output structure. You can also have it assign probabilities (either in words or numbers) using more complex output structures, but I would not rely on them much more than the token logprobs (they can still be quite good though).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:13:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813052</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49813052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Don't Use AI to Write"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most people apparently still don't get that using AI for mere proofreading is the same as using it as a mere knowledge base summary tool. Instead of proofreading, have it be adversarial. Let it try to take apart your argument. The latest generation is extremely good at calling out half-truths and circumstantial evidence across many fields. These days I would not dare to put anything in front of a human peer that hasn't passed at least an AI sanity check review.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789307</link><dc:creator>sigmoid10</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sigmoid10 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, he is famous for axing down middle management in companies. Might as well get rid of Super PACs and buy voters directly.</p>
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