Hacker News: vthallam

New comment by vthallam in "GPT-5.5"

vthallam — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:03:02 +0000

This model is great at long horizon tasks, and Codex now has heartbeats, so it can keep checking on things. Give it your hardest problem that would take hours with verifiable constraints, you will see how good this is:)

*I work at OAI.

DINOv3: Self-Supervised Learning for Vision

vthallam — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:47:21 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/?_fb_noscript=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914616

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vthallam in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

vthallam — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:57:19 +0000

As if 3 different preview versions of the same model is not confusing enough, the last two dates are 05-06 and 06-05. They could have held off for a day:)

Show HN: Vibe Coded a simple browser game for Pi Day

vthallam — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:59:36 +0000

Article URL: https://pi-pursuit-adventure.lovable.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368595

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Meta Extends Its Ray-Ban Partnership into the 2030s

vthallam — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:58:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-extends-ray-ban-partnership-into-2030s/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41584738

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Meta opens Horizon OS for other companies to build VR headsets

vthallam — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:01:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C6EbeLPxovW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40115614

Points: 54

# Comments: 2

New comment by vthallam in "Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators"

vthallam — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:31:53 +0000

Just wanted to say the video demo on the home page was very cool. Congrats and good luck!

New comment by vthallam in "PFAS in blood are ubiquitous and associated with risk of cardiovascular diseases"

vthallam — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:26:20 +0000

> I've started taking 100ml shots split out twice a week

mind sharing what kind of shots?

New comment by vthallam in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

vthallam — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:41:20 +0000

probably thinking of mapping the API routes to folder structure? like customer/transactions/{id} mapped to similar folder structure with a file containing the source for the API call

New comment by vthallam in "FDA says 561 deaths tied to recalled Philips sleep apnea machines"

vthallam — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 07:58:21 +0000

I have a deviated septum, but the doctors in the US doesn't think its medically necessary to do Septoplasty and I also have a sleep apnea, come to think I should get this done.

Meta Starts Testing of Multimodal AI on Rayban Glasses

vthallam — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:28:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.threads.net/@boztank/post/C0w5Vz3r0h0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620308

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by vthallam in "OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft"

vthallam — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:23:43 +0000

> >> and comp was reasonable

there's no way you guys would get the same comp though? like not even close. MSFT irrespective of how much it wants you is not going to honor the 10X increase in valuation from the upcoming $90 billion valuation.

Even if they do, you will miss on the upside. MSFT stock is not going to 10X but OpenAI's might.

Meta's Ego How-To: Research on Mixed Reality Experiences with AI

vthallam — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 18:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/research/ego-how-to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559555

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vthallam in "Amazon Introduces Q, an A.I. Chatbot for Companies"

vthallam — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:11:34 +0000

I guess B2B kind of makes sense. Like most companies data is already on their cloud, so a wrapper to answer questions on their data seems pretty useful. But I see that they want this to be company's knowledge base chatbot which kind of doesn't make sense given most companies use MSFT/GOOGL products for conversations + knowledge management?

Generative AI stickers are coming to Meta’s apps along with AI editing

vthallam — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:55:08 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/generative-ai-stickers-are-coming-to-metas-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37683781

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: What do you use GenAI for in your day to day life?

vthallam — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 17:04:57 +0000

Now that the dust has settled a bit, curious on if this is something that's still useful to you everyday.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052211

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

Meta Q2 2023 revenue is up 11% YOY

vthallam — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:21:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/stonksnews/status/1684295301551517697

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884380

Points: 29

# Comments: 17

New comment by vthallam in "Generative AI support on Vertex AI is now generally available"

vthallam — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 23:37:55 +0000

how does Vertex compare to GPT in terms of quality of output? Also do you use it as it is, or do any fine tuning?

New comment by vthallam in "Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data"

vthallam — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:19:27 +0000

This is under development, We already parse form 4's to generate insider transactions and are going to do the same for 10Q's and 10K's very soon. If you are interested in sharing more feedback on what you would want, please reach out to me at venk at stonks dot news

New comment by vthallam in "Show HN: StonksGPT – A Natural Language search tool for Stocks and Finance data"

vthallam — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 16:43:30 +0000

Hey! Thanks for trying and Sorry it didn't work for you. I had to either build in vaccum with a lot of guessed training data or release a reasonably working tool, so i opted for later.

Things will definitely improve over time, names and tickers should at least give you a chart though! would love to know your prompts either here or email me at venk at stonks dot news