Hacker News: vl

New comment by vl in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

vl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:50:53 +0000

How can this practically work though? As Earth goes around the Sun 90 degrees, orbit will become half-shadowed.

New comment by vl in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

vl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:41:38 +0000

>Corolla is expected to come in several powertrains, including gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and battery electric.

And also it’s just going to be confusing for the customers. Which one to get? Which one is better? It’s hard to imagine how same platform can have efficient structural layout for the large battery and for the ICE engine.

EV is much about software as well, and Toyota is not going to shine in this area either…

New comment by vl in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

vl — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:04:19 +0000

Also for traditional fuel you don’t have to carry half of the fuel - oxidizer comes from air. And then when you spend fuel, you have less weight to carry (which becomes noticeable on the plane).

New comment by vl in "Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage"

vl — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:51:16 +0000

” But he will not receive a royal allowance, nor will he be expected to take on official duties, and he has no rights to the Belgian throne.”

So it seems nothing will change for him.

New comment by vl in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

vl — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:19:50 +0000

I trained to play insane, usually a just bit slower than average, after using hints for couple times.

I suggest larger levels (yes, scrolling and zooming might be required). After all, minesweeper is the most interesting on the largest level.

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:36:39 +0000

The simple fact is that economy can’t be 100% services. Who is going to pay these baristas if nobody else earns anything?

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:32:13 +0000

The only reason you can figure it out is because of the system prompt which is designed to make model “useful”, safe and compliant.

Raw modern LLM with different pre-prompt will easily fool anyone.

New comment by vl in "Claude Opus 5"

vl — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:07:22 +0000

Or another way to see it is that current models are AGI as it was defined before, and the goal post is being moved.

New comment by vl in "Short sellers notch $8.7B profit as SpaceX shares dip to IPO price"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:41:09 +0000

Does market closing and not trading continuously affects this?

If market opens at significantly different price, you may be forced to liquidate and loose more than expected.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:08:49 +0000

Frontier labs release frontier models to the public only if there is market pressure to do so. Anthropic is not even hiding that they have been using Mythos internally for months now.

I wouldn’t be surprised if OpenAI (so much for “open”) is using GPT-6 internally already.

It appears that peasants like us are not going to get access to frontier AI anymore at any price.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:03:59 +0000

This is strategy by Chinese government, so much of US economy is invested in AI. Releasing free or cheap versions of the models undermines US economic growth. It’s asymmetric strategy that makes sense if you are close second in AI race. If situation is reversed, US would do the same.

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:50:59 +0000

France’s football team is second only to England’s and Argentina’s.

It’s a miracle that in language same words have different meanings depending on context. If this wouldn’t be the case we could have hardcoded NLP algorithmically without inventing these expensive LLMs!

New comment by vl in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vl — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:34:15 +0000

While you are technically correct, in English it’s perfectly fine to say it this way as well.

“Second only” here has meaning “next after”, not “number two”.

New comment by vl in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

vl — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:47:49 +0000

Bespoke solutions are better in many cases. They do exact things required for the project without taking extra dependency. Reducing dependencies is beneficial, because dependencies require management. So with llms economy of taking dependency shifted.

New comment by vl in "Claude Fable 5 Backlash Grows"

vl — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:31:29 +0000

I uploaded my blood test results and prompted pedestrian medical question. I shut it down because it's "bio research".

New comment by vl in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

vl — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:56:15 +0000

I really don’t understand what SD card reader on MacBook Pro is for.

All small cameras and devices use micro SD. Professional cameras don’t use SD since forever now. Basically I always need an adapter now.

New comment by vl in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

vl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:51:30 +0000

So for new Ghost in the Shell is it a good idea to watch previous ones before watching the new one? If so, it what order? Is movie worth watching at all?

New comment by vl in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

vl — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:53:06 +0000

Usually the grants are restructured. Ie instead of what was vested and unvested rank-and-file gets new 4 year grants. And then it works exactly the way you would expect: everyone works for 4 years and then leaves.

New comment by vl in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

vl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:17:38 +0000

What people don’t get that traditional software jobs are gone.

There is no need for developers, testers, PMs, TPMs, devops, leads anymore. Communication burden and structure imposed by these roles is too high when you have AI. It doesn’t make sense to tell somebody to do something and for them to type it into the AI. You can type it into the AI yourself without wasting the time.

There is new job - software creator. Think of it as a single person replacing a team. This job requires different mix of skills, and different level of autonomy. Hiring needs to be adapted to this really, and people need to adapt. Some will shine in this new world, and those who still narrowly think of themselves as specialists in the specific old role are going to be jobless.

New comment by vl in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

vl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:08:24 +0000

What transmitters? Now calls happen over WiFi which companies sell.