Hacker News: tomaskafka

New comment by tomaskafka in "GPT-6 Astra"

tomaskafka — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:54:38 +0000

Helping your child navigate the world is the only remaining thing that makes you human.

And you can already ask models to help you become better at it.

New comment by tomaskafka in "GPU World"

tomaskafka — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:37:07 +0000

I think personalized suriveillance and manipulation (thought control, manipulating people through filtering of content they receive) on a level any dictator would drool over can be gotten for a fraction of 1 GPU per person.

New comment by tomaskafka in "I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis"

tomaskafka — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:46:54 +0000

I’ve been playing with this too, the OP is rediscovering the whole field of AI before LLMs. Prolog, temporal logic …

The next one is ontology and semantic web, for which the “trying to stem verbs and nouns” is a crude v0.1 attempt.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Stop Making TUIs"

tomaskafka — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:40:07 +0000

You can ship native app for each platform much easier nowadays.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

tomaskafka — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:38:17 +0000

> for 4 years before it became a little sluggish

Weird, I didn't know silicone degrades in this way. Perhaps it was rather the macOS and Mac apps that were getting progressively worse?

New comment by tomaskafka in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

tomaskafka — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:40:20 +0000

Whole Europe does this.

I never understood why whole nation wants to live in debt just to have one extra month of cash flow (which they’ll probably squander soon).

New comment by tomaskafka in "Stop Making TUIs"

tomaskafka — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:27:32 +0000

No, that is 2 years ago era.

Now it’s “native apps for 5 platforms done almost for free” era for anyone who cares.

See Meta’s new AI desktop app (no, I won’t install anything from Zuck on my computer, but I appreciate what they did).

New comment by tomaskafka in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

tomaskafka — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:29:20 +0000

I understand this; I would expect that a $50bn carrot would suffice to move the donkey, but it seems it does not.

New comment by tomaskafka in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

tomaskafka — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:27:58 +0000

Thank you for this report - I tried leaving gmail 2 years ago and returned quickly exactly because of this. Sad to hear the situation remains unchanged.

Meanwhile, on my other account, I have hacked together a basic email classification with n8n and cheap LLM model, and it works awesomely and costs peanuts. I wonder why services who want to be google's competitors don't do this?

New comment by tomaskafka in "Nvidia's Risky Business"

tomaskafka — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:11:53 +0000

I had a hard time understanding why didn’t AMD make a better developer experience for this two years ago, and am now even more baffled that even with all the LLMs they still don’t seem to have moved a single inch, despite this probably being a tens of billions dollars worth feature.

New comment by tomaskafka in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

tomaskafka — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:47:16 +0000

Also cats - I saw experiments where they gave the “my cat is mostly sleeping and sometimes wandering around the garden” cats gps tracker, and found out they routinely wander 8 km away into the woods each night.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Seedance 2.5"

tomaskafka — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:14:37 +0000

Or western movies don’t have stories Chinese audience would relate to, but for dumb visual effect fests, there is no story so it works everywhere.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

tomaskafka — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:53:15 +0000

And yet they can all be comfortably watched at a single place, with high quality and no ads.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

tomaskafka — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:51:30 +0000

At this point China probably has a botnet that can be turned on with a few deploys, and spans a majority of homes in US and RU (and thus is unblockable without disconnecting half of voters from the internet). Ready to attack the infrastructure.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

tomaskafka — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:17:56 +0000

Not at all. 2.5 year old Apple Watch, glue gave up after warm pool in aquapark (40 deg Celsius), water got in, dead.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Truth is not a direction: a Tarski attack on LLM probes"

tomaskafka — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:30:28 +0000

> Second, some people do really believe in a kind of platonic representation space that all models converge on, and that represents the “true” state of the world. If truth is indeed an objective part of the world, then you might expect such a universal truth direction to emerge as models get better. This

This really sounds like all those scifi stories with people trying to find god in the computer. How could it be there, in the jumbled mirror of internet scraped texts.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Codex Security"

tomaskafka — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:04:08 +0000

On metrics this either shows as “codex security makes people use us more” or “people are buying extra plans, yay!”

Promotions all around.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Why haven't organoids solved all of drug discovery?"

tomaskafka — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:56:50 +0000

Having known nothing about organoids, this was a fascinating read. I can just imagine how challenging would be our work if computers worked like body.

New comment by tomaskafka in "The five primitives I run a one-person company on"

tomaskafka — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:36:38 +0000

“This is the highest-leverage primitive, and it is the one most people skip. The reason is uncomfortable:”

AI slop.

New comment by tomaskafka in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

tomaskafka — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:42:48 +0000

This sounds like weapons market after the crash of soviet republic. Never has been a better time to get a functioning tank or parts of nukes.