Hacker News: trash_cat

New comment by trash_cat in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

trash_cat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:45:47 +0000

There is more to it than typing "llama serve".

New comment by trash_cat in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

trash_cat — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:01:19 +0000

Discovering that Enterprise customers tolerate higher prices compared to retails consumers is discovering demand elasticities not PMF. Am I missig something?

New comment by trash_cat in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

trash_cat — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:13:26 +0000

Nobody forces you to use touchscreen exclusively?

New comment by trash_cat in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

trash_cat — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:05:44 +0000

Sales people using it a lot to scout prospects and understand a person's seniority in an organisation, to target better and prepare a strategy to pitch higher up the chain.

New comment by trash_cat in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

trash_cat — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:50:06 +0000

Geopolitics and industrial policty aside, I think it's important to check how stable and reliable these chips are. I wouldn't count on them being on par with "western" ones. Correct me if I am wrong here.

New comment by trash_cat in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

trash_cat — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:15:07 +0000

My two cents that this is part of the learning curve. With collective experience this type of work will be more understood, shared and explored. It is intense in the beginning because we are still discovering how to work with it. I think the other part being that this is a non-deterministic tool which does increase some cognitive load.

New comment by trash_cat in "Claude Opus 4.6"

trash_cat — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:15:29 +0000

I think the naming schemes are quite arbitrary at this point. Going to 5 would come with massive expectations that wouldn't meet reality.

New comment by trash_cat in "Iran Protest Death Toll Could Top 30k, According to Local Health Officials"

trash_cat — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:07:36 +0000

BitChat comes to mind.

New comment by trash_cat in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

trash_cat — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:20:34 +0000

Clearly there is some demand for those papers, and research, to exist. Good opportunity to fill the gaps.

New comment by trash_cat in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

trash_cat — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:20:08 +0000

The former IMF chief Kenneth Rogoff has been talking about this and appeared on NYT Ezra Klein's podcast that I highly recommend[0]. He also talks about China and the role of the dollar at the end with Dwarkesh Patel[1]. A lot of the discussion I see here is adressed by him.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2cohNt6a4 [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2b4TjQa4gk

New comment by trash_cat in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

trash_cat — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:21:59 +0000

What constitutes real "thinking" or "reasoning" is beside the point. What matters is what results we getting.

And the challenge is rethinking how we do work, connecting all the data sources for agents to run and perform work over the various sources that we perform work. That will take ages. Not to mention having the controls in place to make that the "thinking" was correct in the end.

New comment by trash_cat in "I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)"

trash_cat — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:18:34 +0000

You have to understand that these large corpos move like whales, and the money you quoted is a rounding error. I´ve seen a company department burn cash it was asigned on purpose so it wouldn´t go back to finance (indicating that the department isnt using all their money and something is wrong).

New comment by trash_cat in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

trash_cat — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:45:38 +0000

Nobody with interest in politics thinks it's about drugs. It's a pretext and a way to gain legitimacy to exert force over foreign nation with some legitimacy that would otherwise clearly go against international law.

New comment by trash_cat in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

trash_cat — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 04:49:21 +0000

But isn't context window dependent on model architecture and not available VRAM that you can just increase or decrease as you like?

New comment by trash_cat in "OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals"

trash_cat — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:29:02 +0000

There is some circular financing going on, but AI accelerationists think this will be offset by demand, value, and adoption in businesses. Hence these deals are warranted for the incoming demand.

New comment by trash_cat in "The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management"

trash_cat — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 09:38:26 +0000

>> "Turns out the major bottleneck is not intelligence, but rather providing the correct context."

But this has more or less always been the case for LLMs. The challenge becomes context capure. Which in my opinion is the real challenge with LLM adoption. Without the right contex, some tasks just cannot be reliably completed.

New comment by trash_cat in "Trade in War"

trash_cat — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:08:34 +0000

I think it would be better to ask why do states allow trading with the country your state is at war with.

New comment by trash_cat in "LLM Inevitabilism"

trash_cat — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:33:02 +0000

This concept is closely reated to politics of inevitability coined by Timothy Snyder.

"...the politics of inevitability – a sense that the future is just more of the present, that the laws of progress are known, that there are no alternatives, and therefore nothing really to be done."[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/16/vladimir-putin-...

This article in question obviously applied it within the commercial world but at the end it has to do with language that takes away agency.

New comment by trash_cat in "Online Text to Diagram Tools"

trash_cat — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:01:44 +0000

This is incredibly useful and interesting. I have tried asking claude to generate XML code for various diagrams for import to draw.io with varying success. But I feel like if I could incorporate these instead, or markdown, for a specific graph instead of pure XML would yield better results.

New comment by trash_cat in "Why do LLMs have emergent properties?"

trash_cat — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:35:25 +0000

I think the better question is to answer why do emergent properties exist in the first place.

I disagree with the premise that emergence is binary. It's not. What we determine "emergent behaviour" is partly a social concept. We decide when an LLM is good enough for us and when it "solved" something through emergent properties.