Hacker News: soheil

New comment by soheil in "Evolving OpenAI's Structure"

soheil — Tue, 06 May 2025 04:35:19 +0000

It'd be odd if people batted eyes before the 1st nuclear weapon came to be, but not batting now.

New comment by soheil in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

soheil — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:01:46 +0000

Yes on both Cursor and Windsurf.

https://twitter.com/cursor_ai/status/1911835651810738406

New comment by soheil in "GPT-4.1 in the API"

soheil — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:33:22 +0000

Main takeaways:

- Coding accuracy improved dramatically

- Handles 1M-token context reliably

- Much stronger instruction following

New comment by soheil in "But what if I want a faster horse?"

soheil — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 01:57:55 +0000

You are the horse. Platforms realized they don't have to keep making faster horses or cars or whatnot if they just turn their users into zombie-like creatures who mindlessly click on what's presented to them albeit just to chase that next carrot of dopamine.

New comment by soheil in "How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack"

soheil — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 22:06:58 +0000

Pretty sure he's following the rules and besides what business do you have imposing on this thread when you have nothing to contribute in terms of the conversation?

To say biggest "private equities" in the world own large portions of each other is absolutely correct. It's nitpicking to resort to technicalities of what arm of Blackrock owns what arm of Vanguard, not at all the point and it only distracts from the main point about conflicts of interest when it comes to the control of publicly traded media, NBC, CNN, newscorp (almost all media that matters) and thus suppression of free speech.

You're wrong.

New comment by soheil in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

soheil — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:10:13 +0000

bobby drop table, still a thing

New comment by soheil in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

soheil — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 21:03:54 +0000

Feels more useful for something like cli where you want to run one-off commands to test something instead of running it in production given how non-deterministic the behavior can be for example for something like

  chat.ask "What's being said?", with: { audio: "meeting.wav" }

definitely don't want users to get a valid response only 75% of the times, maybe?

New comment by soheil in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

soheil — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:43:00 +0000

Never seen HN turned against someone so vehemently, it's as if a group of bots was set lose to criticize a certain individual.

New comment by soheil in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

soheil — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:41:22 +0000

You do realize you and your OP are currently top comments in your respective threads both criticizing Elon and even preemptively criticize your imaginary criticizers

New comment by soheil in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

soheil — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:34:57 +0000

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New comment by soheil in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

soheil — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:58:55 +0000

The idea that air traffic control radio can be chill when multiple CRJs crashed within weeks is questionable.

New comment by soheil in "Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS"

soheil — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:14:40 +0000

massive flex by having an angled perspective view of the animated terminal when they could've much more easy stuck a flat gif in its place.

New comment by soheil in "Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop"

soheil — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:05:03 +0000

They've probably done the analysis and found the demographic most likely to respond to/tolerate an ad to be Jeep owners or in the vicinity of it.

New comment by soheil in "Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop"

soheil — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 07:57:12 +0000

Presumably the ad will be a reminder to perhaps buy another Jeep.

New comment by soheil in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

soheil — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:28:15 +0000

That's kinda the point. That type of reasoning is vacuous.

There are millions of great arguments why antibiotics made the world a better place, I'm yet to hear one of YT.

New comment by soheil in "California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots"

soheil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:35:42 +0000

I'd say if you control what information 1.411 billion people have access to you have scale on your side.

So it's not scale.

New comment by soheil in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

soheil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:27:43 +0000

You don't know a world without them so you actually have no idea if they have made your life compared to that world much better or much worse. How your life was at the time is irrelevant.

New comment by soheil in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

soheil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:19:59 +0000

Aaron committed suicide and FBI going after him was meant more as a lesson to the other kids at MIT than anything.

MegaUpload did the same, kim dotcom got raided in his sleep by FBI in New Zealand! So no I don't buy your reductionist argument, there are forces at play that allow companies with founders with the likes of Google to get away with it but not others.

New comment by soheil in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

soheil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:14:24 +0000

So be a company? Last I checked it costs a couple of hundred dollars to form an LLC, what am I missing?

New comment by soheil in "California bill would require bots to disclose that they are bots"

soheil — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:52:26 +0000

No but still good to know in this case specially as the website is broken and I had to refresh a few times.