Hacker News: supermdguy

New comment by supermdguy in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

supermdguy — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:11:43 +0000

Someone posted a tool that does this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140042

New comment by supermdguy in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

supermdguy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:14:35 +0000

There was a show HN for something similar a couple months ago[0]. Looks like they shut it down. Probably too difficult/low-margin to run as a business, but I think the co-op model you mentioned has potential.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639779

New comment by supermdguy in "MAI-Thinking-1"

supermdguy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:33:47 +0000

It's interesting because their last model series (Phi) was based around the thesis that high-quality synthetic data is better than a large pre-training corpus.

New comment by supermdguy in "2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update"

supermdguy — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:23:51 +0000

I think the conduit exception still applies for analog faxes. Which makes no sense, since tapping a fax line is probably way easier than compromising a data center.

New comment by supermdguy in "Temu is advertising filet mignon on X"

supermdguy — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:15:13 +0000

Apparently from a third party seller in New York....and tastes really bad. I was surprised steak could be safely mailed in such normal looking packaging!

https://www.delish.com/food/a70539084/temu-meat-review/

New comment by supermdguy in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

supermdguy — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:12:01 +0000

Interesting to see this after the recent post about Chrome’s on-device model using up 4gb of storage, which frustrated a lot of people [1].

I agree local models are great, and it’s cool that Apple has models built in now. But I feel like it basically has to be an OS level feature or users are going to get upset. I’d certainly rather have a small utility call out to OpenAI than download its own model.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019219

New comment by supermdguy in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

supermdguy — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:21:57 +0000

Better auth is great! I love how it's way more hackable than using a something like Clerk. We were able to add a plugin to allow auth via iframe postMessage (embedded in a CRM) and everything worked seamlessly.

New comment by supermdguy in "Agent Skills"

supermdguy — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:38:47 +0000

I've used it off and on over the last month or so. For more complicated tasks (30+ minutes) it works well, and seems to replace a lot of prompting that I'd normally need to do (e.g. asking questions about requirements, creating specs and implementation plans, staying on task). For simple tasks, it tries to do too much and gets in the way.

New comment by supermdguy in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

supermdguy — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:40:36 +0000

There’s a really good analysis here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LBC2TnHK8cZAimdWF/will-jesus...

> The Yes people are betting that, later this year, their counterparties (the No betters) will want cash (to bet on other markets), and so will sell out of their No positions at a higher price.

Ask.com has closed

supermdguy — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:12:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ask.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983226

Points: 477

# Comments: 240

New comment by supermdguy in "Looking for feedback on a paper about a revision-capable language model [pdf]"

supermdguy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:38:27 +0000

Overall, I'm really impressed by what you accomplished! I'm not a researcher, so not sure if this is that helpful, but here are some thoughts:

- I wonder if the "move" action is difficult for the model to learn to use well. The model sees token location as positional encodings in the embedding, not sparse character offsets. Would be interesting to see something more like "jump to next/previous [token or set of tokens]". Or maybe a find/replace like most coding harness edit tools use?

- I'd move the exact training data generation details to an appendix. Could be summarized to improve the flow of the paper.

New comment by supermdguy in "You have to rank 5 projects before you can post your own"

supermdguy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:35:32 +0000

Cool concept! I think the hardest part will be getting people in the target audience to use it. A lot of indie hackers make software for other indie hackers, but that isn't true of most other verticals. And honestly building software for indie hackers feels like a losing battle. Any ideas of how to incentivize none-builders to rank projects?

New comment by supermdguy in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"

supermdguy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:14:51 +0000

From the most recent comment, looks like this is a bug, triggered by the system inadvertently activating an internal release tool [0]. Still a pretty wild bug, but not as dramatic as the title suggests. Which is kind of unfortunate honestly, the chaos of every gas town instance automatically contributing to itself would be beautiful to see.

- https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/blob/main/internal/fo...

New comment by supermdguy in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

supermdguy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:17:25 +0000

Next step is to build an analog scientific calculator with only EML gates

New comment by supermdguy in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

supermdguy — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:15:14 +0000

Bizarre reading the thread, it feels like their Claude responding to the other posters’ Claudes

The Hypercurious Mind

supermdguy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:39:41 +0000

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-hypercuriosity-of-adhd-may-have-helped-humans-thrive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720642

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by supermdguy in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

supermdguy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:16:20 +0000

If all LLM advancements stopped today, but compute + energy got to the price where the $30 million zettaflop was possible, I wonder what outcomes would be possible? Would 1000 claudes be able to coordinate in meaningful ways? How much human intervention would be needed?

New comment by supermdguy in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

supermdguy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:25:56 +0000

And also OpenAI’s codex spark?

New comment by supermdguy in "OpenAI Codex Moves to API Usage-Based Pricing for All Users"

supermdguy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:03:08 +0000

Headline/article is extremely misleading. They still have subscription plans with included usage, but those usage limits are now based on tokens instead of messages.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card

New comment by supermdguy in ""Good Taste" Is Just Experience"

supermdguy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:00:18 +0000

I like this, and think it's true for how humans learn. What's interesting to me is that it seems LLMs are significantly smarter than they were two years ago, but it doesn't feel like they have better "taste". Their failure modes are still bizarre and inhuman. I wonder what it is about their architecture/training that scales their experience without corresponding improvements in taste.

In theory, RLVR should encourage less error-prone code, similar to a human getting burned by production outages like the article mentioned. Maybe the scale in training just isn't big enough for that to matter? Perhaps we need better benchmarks that capture long-term issues that arise from bad models and unnecessary complexity.