<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: vonneumannstan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vonneumannstan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:08:58 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=vonneumannstan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its a well trod problem: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302557" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243511...</a><p>Not exactly background noise but totally incomparable to the normal CO2 outputs of major nations like the US or China. I.e. ~20 Million Tons CO2 vs 4 Trillion and 13 Trillion Tons respectively.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274332</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "License plate reader searches should require a warrant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Scale actually matters<p>Is this actually born out in Court Cases? Warrantless Surveillance by NSA seems to be blanket legal for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:44:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274245</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whats the criteria for getting included on the map? The few I clicked seemed to be clustered at Railyards but were also pretty high quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:17:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244027</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The scientific basis for this statement is unclear.<p>Is it? Actually this seems like one of the MOST clear aspects of LLM performance we can measure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243984</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243984</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Idk about other people but the way I usefully use llms to help with study is to treat them as a good tutor. If you are stuck on a problem or need an explanation of a concept it helps greatly. Much of the actual process of studying Math, Physics, CS, etc in University is sitting in a room working on problem sets and now you can do that with the equivalent of a highly competent Grad Student to bug with any issue you run in to. However yes trying to get an LLM to draft a 1000 ft view of an entire field and calling that learning is a poor use case.</p>
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<p>But Micron is overpriced and new capacity is about to come online right? Right???</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216467</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow how many years of experience with Claude Code and Codex do you have? lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:29:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216454</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Google is already doing this and has an experimental project on top of already having TPUs and cramming their quantized flash onto individual TPUs for inference.<p>Google is no longer a serious player in frontier AI. I doubt they will ever hit a SOTA model again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:33:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211085</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "The AI Demand Bubble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>He apparently had to sell every liquid thing in the portfolio.<p>You can read in their investor letter exactly what happened and where they stand and explicitly they did not sell every liquid thing nor did they sell all their public equities. Are you just lying or stupid?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:53:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174108</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "The AI Demand Bubble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its up 80% on the year. How do your investments compare?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172648</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "The session you cannot take with you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly I discount any company named after Tolkien lore as most likely evil and probably incompetent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:01:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124055</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124055</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Free ChatGPT on Chat mode.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124043</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's almost always a version of "I used the free version of ChatGPT 10 months ago and it couldn't code well."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:59:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124038</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Distillation doesn't work"<p>lol</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124031</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Fields Medals 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're misunderstanding my comment. The OP was amazed by people who can manipulate symbols on paper. Von Neumann would have been considered an incredibly POTENT wizard. He actually impacted the world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:45:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041988</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Fields Medals 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His work was incredibly APPLIED. Which is precisely why he is remembered and lauded.<p>Can anyone here not involved in theoretical math name 5 Fields Medalists? Take out Terry Tao or Andrew Wiles or Gigori Perelman and can you name any Pure Mathematicians from the last century at all?</p>
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<p>>Why should OpenAI (or any frontier lab) be building these systems if they can't get a secure environment / containment right?<p>Yes why indeed. If you take it a step further and we reach a point with superhuman systems then there is arguably no possible secure environment or containment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:20:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000200</link><dc:creator>vonneumannstan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by vonneumannstan in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Then where do new ideas come from? Do the muses bestow divine creativity upon artists, poets, and musicians?<p>Apparently thats what you believe if you think "creative" ideas just float into brains somehow.</p>
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<p>>GenAI is great at combining existing things in new ways (interpolation). It's terrible at creating new things from scratch (extrapolation).<p>I think you believe a fallacy about how human cognition works if you think we actually do something different than interpolation</p>
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<p>Short answer yes.<p>Slightly longer answer for older text to image models you teach them how to encode images and text into the same latent space. Then you simply do a conversion, take a text input, put it into latent space and then extract the image that latent space represents.</p>
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