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New comment by tensegrist in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

tensegrist — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:45:30 +0000

i've been using nixos on an m2 air for a year now, the kernel is enough

New comment by tensegrist in "Claude Sonnet 5"

tensegrist — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:04 +0000

there was a vibecoded prediction market–style page that was put up yesterday (?) that got the date exactly right i think

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

tensegrist — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0000

can a unique fingerprint (no pun intended) be extracted from hand geometry

New comment by tensegrist in "Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API"

tensegrist — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:51:15 +0000

at least 50% of the front page would disappear if this were enforced

New comment by tensegrist in "Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100"

tensegrist — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:14:38 +0000

> on some queries the gaming card actually beat the H100 (1.26s vs 1.77s on Q10), despite the H100 lacking RT cores

despite?

New comment by tensegrist in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

tensegrist — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:18:12 +0000

aiui nvidia has buyback agreements covering these to prevent them from being sold off

New comment by tensegrist in "My LSM tree was slower than a B-tree. Then I profiled it"

tensegrist — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:22:42 +0000

i don't know why you're trying to analyze the meaningfulness of sentences that are not the results of a human thought process but are clearly rhetorical flourishes from an llm that "feels" compelled to fill its prose with them

New comment by tensegrist in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

tensegrist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:56:57 +0000

> On the Intelligence vs. Cost per Task Pareto Frontier: GLM-5.2 is on the Pareto frontier of the Intelligence vs Cost per Task chart, with the lowest cost per task among models at its intelligence level. GLM-5.2 costs ~$0.46 per task, compared to GLM-5.1 ($0.25), Kimi K2.6 ($0.31), MiniMax-M3 ($0.18) and DeepSeek V4 Pro (max, $0.05)

am i missing something?

New comment by tensegrist in "The Amphibious Villagers of Indonesia"

tensegrist — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:51:56 +0000

> When you invite guests in, you say "Please, come up!"

japanese also does this idiomatically: the verb 上がる "to rise" can be used for "to enter (a house)", which gives rise to expressions like お上がりください for "please come in"

New comment by tensegrist in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"

tensegrist — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:50:11 +0000

blindsight is really something

New comment by tensegrist in "Nova Ransomware issues an apology to Eriell Group"

tensegrist — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:45:32 +0000

for those not in the know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_St...

New comment by tensegrist in "Trivial Pursuits"

tensegrist — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:44:48 +0000

> But it would take a writer of rare skill – which Nguyen is not – to make it compelling reading.

jesus

New comment by tensegrist in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

tensegrist — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:14:29 +0000

…bounty hunting?

New comment by tensegrist in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

tensegrist — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:34:37 +0000

> It is very difficult to be a productive editor without custom tooling at this point

this is extremely reminiscent of the stackexchange situation

On the Laser-Fusion Milestone (2022)

tensegrist — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:30:59 +0000

Article URL: https://inference-review.com/article/on-the-laser-fusion-milestone

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286254

Points: 2

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New comment by tensegrist in "Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics"

tensegrist — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:06:15 +0000

there was some interview where he illustrated the idea of a twin prime pair using 27 and 29

New comment by tensegrist in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

tensegrist — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:10:56 +0000

reasoning itself just affords the model a ton of extra forward passes / "time to think"

the, como se dice, "misalignment" between the content of reasoning tokens and the actual output following the end of the reasoning is a separate problem, extensively studied by e.g. Anthropic

New comment by tensegrist in "Bournegol??? (2014)"

tensegrist — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:18:32 +0000

reminded of Arthur Whitney's stuff

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800777

New comment by tensegrist in "No Slop Grenade"

tensegrist — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:51:49 +0000

"Why it's wrong"

New comment by tensegrist in "Fender escalates legal campaign against S-style guitars"

tensegrist — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:50:53 +0000

on the one hand this sucks on the other hand let a thousand schools of steinberger/strandberg-style weirdness bloom