Hacker News: supermdguy

New comment by supermdguy in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

supermdguy — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:42:44 +0000

It would require collusion with HuggingFace, including getting them to release their disclosure blogpost a week in advance. Huggingface is primarily a hub for open models, so there's not really an incentive for them to jump through hoops/lie to provide marketing for OpenAI's (closed) models. So it's highly unlikely this is fabricated.

New comment by supermdguy in "No link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes"

supermdguy — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:28:33 +0000

The administration promised they'd find a cause by September 2025. I guess that was the best they had at that point?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-cause-of-autism-research...

New comment by supermdguy in "Why write code in 2026"

supermdguy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:15:46 +0000

“Do you know what the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program?

Code. It’s called code.”

- CommitStrip (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p70bk8/sp...)

I think if you’re doing it right, the core of your code should be the simplest expression of the underlying business logic. Of course there’s always going to be supporting layers, and maybe those don’t need to be reviewed. But if you haven’t read the code, there’s an extent to which you don’t know the business logic.

A 4x4 MIMO SDR tile for spatial RF vision and beamforming

supermdguy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:00:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/scale-rf/quadrf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859308

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

Distributism

supermdguy — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:02:34 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720201

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by supermdguy in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

supermdguy — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:05:01 +0000

> We're also launching GPT‑5.6 Sol on Cerebras at up to 750 tokens per second in July, bringing frontier intelligence to customers at unprecedented speed.

This is really exciting. I work on voice AI, and we're still using 4.1/4.1 mini since none of the frontier models come close on latency. I'm excited to be able to have more interactive experiences, I think it'll unlock new ways of working with these models.

New comment by supermdguy in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

supermdguy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:18:20 +0000

Agreed, there were also a few where I deduced the correct definition by comparing the options.

New comment by supermdguy in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

supermdguy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:24:48 +0000

One trick I’ve used is creating a folder and then adding a .gitignore inside it with *. Then nothing in that folder gets tracked, without needing to add anything to the public gitignore. Didn’t know about .git/config though!

New comment by supermdguy in "Why LLMs still lack taste"

supermdguy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:48:00 +0000

I agree that current memory systems are pretty bad, and I think that’s because memory is a prompted behavior instead of a learned one. In theory, if memory was an emergent behavior instead of a prompted one, it would be a lot better.

I think you’re right that changing its own harness would be bad and skew towards prompt engineering instead of learned behavior. So maybe instead it could start with a harness with memory CRUD tools and then learn how to most effectively use them.

New comment by supermdguy in "Why LLMs still lack taste"

supermdguy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:36:54 +0000

I think good taste is objective to an extent, especially given a particular production context.

Why LLMs still lack taste

supermdguy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:46:13 +0000

Article URL: https://beyondtheprior.com/post/why-llms-lack-taste/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476212

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

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.