Hacker News: ta93754829

New comment by ta93754829 in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

ta93754829 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:00:20 +0000

I think you're conflating complex and complicated. An OS is very complicated but is predictable. An LLM is complex and not necessarily understandable.

New comment by ta93754829 in "Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI"

ta93754829 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:30:39 +0000

it's a bug, in authentication

New comment by ta93754829 in "Agent swarms and the new model economics"

ta93754829 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:49:55 +0000

it feels kind of like a concept car a large manufacturer would show off at a motor show. Everyone knows there is no intention to actually ship that thing, but they're exploring concepts and technology and trying to make inroads in what comes next.

New comment by ta93754829 in "A software engineering interview question I like: computing the median"

ta93754829 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:37:49 +0000

I don't know... I've been coding for ~30 years, and I've never had to write code to compute the median so it doesn't seem that useful unless it's somehow relevant to the job

New comment by ta93754829 in "Claude Sonnet 5"

ta93754829 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:04:04 +0000

that link doesn't exist anymore? what did it say?

New comment by ta93754829 in "Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand"

ta93754829 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:44:39 +0000

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New comment by ta93754829 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

ta93754829 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:51:19 +0000

this looks awesome, great work!

New comment by ta93754829 in "It might be possible to detect gravitons after all"

ta93754829 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 02:32:12 +0000

So I thought gravity was basically the curvature of spacetime. But if there's a "gravity" particle, those two things seem mutually exclusive?

Can someone who understands this please explain it to me, thanks!

New comment by ta93754829 in "The Coming Technological Singularity (1993)"

ta93754829 — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 02:16:36 +0000

we keep moving the goalposts, and that's not a bad thing.

remember when Doom came out? How amazing and "realistic" we thought the graphics were? How ridiculous that seems now? We'll look back at ChatGPT4 the same way.

New comment by ta93754829 in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

ta93754829 — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 01:47:38 +0000

eventually, we'll be able to eliminate the intermediate "computer", and just let the ai render everything we need to interact with

New comment by ta93754829 in "Bop Spotter"

ta93754829 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:03:12 +0000

damn this is old internet. love it!

New comment by ta93754829 in "Limits to running speed in dogs, horses and human"

ta93754829 — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:53:02 +0000

I live in a very hot location, and I also happen to like going for long runs. I've long known, if I took my dog with me on my run, it would kill him. Even though he's a fit young dog, there's no way he can handle the heat at running pace for that length of time.

New comment by ta93754829 in "British engineering giant Arup revealed as $25M deepfake scam victim"

ta93754829 — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:21:55 +0000

we're probably ~10 years away from replicants. in 20years there's going to be millions of tesla humanoid robots all over the place

New comment by ta93754829 in "Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals"

ta93754829 — Fri, 03 May 2024 01:08:07 +0000

“It shows that he, to some extent, has the cognitive capacities that he needs to treat the wound with some medically active plants,” she said. “But we really don’t know how much he understands.”

This could apply to many humans too. Many people don't know why they're doing what they're doing, and don't have any understanding of how what they're doing works.

We're really not _that_ much smarter than them.

New comment by ta93754829 in "Sora: Creating video from text"

ta93754829 — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 06:25:53 +0000

puts on the movie industry

The Theory of Everything? [video]

ta93754829 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 21:14:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRDex1IXu0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39280693

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ta93754829 in "Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs and technologies"

ta93754829 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:36:30 +0000

nice try Iran

New comment by ta93754829 in "NASA selects a plan to "swarm" Proxima Centauri with tiny probes"

ta93754829 — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:53:30 +0000

lets say we did this, and we got the tiny probes up to even ~speed of light... then what are they going to do when they get there? what sensors can they carry and report back. And we wouldn't be able to slow them down, so they're going to transit through the target solar system relatively quickly (days even).

New comment by ta93754829 in "Smart mattress CEO reminds everyone his company collects customers' sleep data"

ta93754829 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:01:20 +0000

I heard recently that BMW have back pedaled from subscriptions due to the massive backlash, so maybe that's a small win? don't know

New comment by ta93754829 in "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google"

ta93754829 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:59:45 +0000

Google is the next Blackberry, it just hasn't happened yet. Unless they can get a Nadella, and really transform the company asap, they're in a death spiral.