Hacker News: svantana

New comment by svantana in "A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"

svantana — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:48:34 +0000

> Also, it's the same model for all the games, right

It's a bit unclear but it looks like different models, since they all have different parameter and MAC counts. It would be much more impressive with a single world model that could maybe dream up new games inbetween the games in the training set.

New comment by svantana in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

svantana — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:42:43 +0000

But then again, they are mostly looking at images and videos of other people, right?

New comment by svantana in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

svantana — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:50:02 +0000

I get about a second of audio interruptions when theme auto-switches from light to dark at night. Usually no big deal but I need to remember to turn it off if I were to perform with it.

New comment by svantana in "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly"

svantana — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:19:23 +0000

The games themselves are copyrighted, no?

New comment by svantana in "Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware"

svantana — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:06:39 +0000

> It is HACKABLE

> Everyone else: FAIL!

I was under the impression that the M-VAVE firmwares are closed-source but have been reverse-engineered, as has happened with many other popular music machines. But I know some manufacturers distribute encrypted firmware files, mainly to thwart counterfeiters. But a side effect is it makes it harder to decompile/hack/improve.

New comment by svantana in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

svantana — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:46:33 +0000

> Remember that there is still quite a bit of friction to doing that

If they're using the github.io repo, the web app can be just as accessible as any other site

New comment by svantana in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

svantana — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:50:57 +0000

I think the point is that it's possible to move the assets without moving their owner.

New comment by svantana in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

svantana — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:07:17 +0000

Why? Vegetables are cheaper, tastier and overall less icky.

New comment by svantana in "I said no and Apple said yes"

svantana — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:04:37 +0000

I make it a point to never install the first versions of major macos releases. they are usually buggy and have annoying new features that are either removed, improved or made optional in the following minor releases. Currently on 26.6.2, it's pretty good.

New comment by svantana in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

svantana — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:55:04 +0000

I think you're comparing to third party prices, deepseek's prices hasn't changed with this release. Also, $1.2 is the peaktime price.

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

New comment by svantana in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

svantana — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:35:20 +0000

Yes and it's also compatible with thermodynamics: it's much easier to destroy (increase entropy) than to create (locally decrease entropy)

New comment by svantana in "Small Models Have Arrived"

svantana — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:53:38 +0000

The "IQ 180" label seems to be referring to the (human) CTO of their startup.

New comment by svantana in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

svantana — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:12:25 +0000

And relatedly, just now available on OpenRouter

https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813

New comment by svantana in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

svantana — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:26 +0000

I would be extremely surprised if something as elegant, terse, and useful as the Fourier Transform had been missed by human mathematicians up until now. All expressible theorems are enumerable, after all (if we limit ourselves to a finite alphabet). It seems likely that any new theorems are long, highly complex and esoteric, regardless of human or machine origin.

New comment by svantana in "Hy3"

svantana — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:19:10 +0000

More like second-to-last on most of them, to my eye. Which is impressive as it's smaller and cheaper than the others.

New comment by svantana in "Show HN: 18 Words"

svantana — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:36:50 +0000

Haha oops, you're right :)

New comment by svantana in "Introducing Muse Spark 1.1"

svantana — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:05:01 +0000

It's a high quality benchmark for sure, but it being public means it's at risk of leaking into the models (unintentionally or not), right? For that reason I prefer to look at the private ones, like: HLE, SimpleBench, Kagi, ARC-AGI.

New comment by svantana in "Show HN: 18 Words"

svantana — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:48:40 +0000

the obvious solution is to not use the words that have an obscure word as anagram. I failed on 'target' because I went for 'regatta'.

New comment by svantana in "GPT‑Live"

svantana — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:12:29 +0000

I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

New comment by svantana in "Starring the Computer"

svantana — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:07:59 +0000

It's "Rain" (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kWlTrpt5k