Hacker News: svantana

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

New comment by svantana in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

svantana — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:42:49 +0000

I'm a housekeeper skeptic. While I concede that a professional housekeeper would probably do a better job than me on most domestic tasks, I still think everyone should clean their own home, cook their own dinner, and write their own code.

New comment by svantana in "AI is slowing down"

svantana — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:38:33 +0000

Probably this: [1]

80k * $7/month * 12 months/year = $6.7M/year

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/19/ed-zitron...

New comment by svantana in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

svantana — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:04:07 +0000

No, that's not the reason they claim. From the paper:

> WFH has been shown to raise the cost of supervising and monitoring workers, and can slow on-the-job learning

New comment by svantana in "The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin"

svantana — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:22:21 +0000

I would think that's true for all the models on OR. The data is skewed for sure, but it's interesting none the less.

New comment by svantana in "The mysterious Hy3 LLM is topping OpenRouter Model Rankings by a large margin"

svantana — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:22:43 +0000

Also, while we're pitching new features to openrouter, I'd like to see a "$ spent" chart, which would remove all these huge freebie spikes. It looks like it would be pretty much dominated by claude.

New comment by svantana in "What Do Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems Mean?"

svantana — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:38:21 +0000

Of all the incompleteness-style theorems, I find the Halting problem to be the most approachable and also the most interesting. Maybe it's because I'm a software dev that dabbles in math rather than the other way around. But that makes me wonder if all of Gödel's theorems can be stated if 'software form', so to speak.

New comment by svantana in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

svantana — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:56 +0000

Current chinese AI company valuations (USD):

Knowledge Atlas Technology (Z.ai): 57B

MiniMax Group: 26B

Deepseek: 45B (rumored)

New comment by svantana in "Stable Audio 3"

svantana — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:47:41 +0000

Blog post: https://stability.ai/news-updates/meet-stable-audio-3-the-mo...

A bit bizarre that there's not a single audio example in that post. But the model is available on their gen-AI service: https://stableaudio.com/

New comment by svantana in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

svantana — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:38:33 +0000

You could say they have a sort of anti-moat (drawbridge?) since you can use their product to create a competitor. But that's true of most dev tools, in a sense.

New comment by svantana in "Starship V3"

svantana — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:13:10 +0000

A polar low earth orbit can be always-on (no earth shadow). Each satellite will be in thermal equilibrium, around 10°C. Catastrophic destruction from micrometeoroids is rare. I'm not saying it's a good idea, but I don't see any dealbreakers in the math/science.

New comment by svantana in "Starship V3"

svantana — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:33:08 +0000

I don't follow your logic. I mentioned starlink as an example of transistors (and solar panels) in space dealing with radiation.

New comment by svantana in "Starship V3"

svantana — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:27:48 +0000

How hot do you think black objects in space get? Something like 10°C. Look up thermal equilibrium of an ideal black body.