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New comment by wald3n in "Will It Mythos?"

wald3n — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:52:57 +0000

The benchmark fills an interesting niche, but the methods need work considering how many caveats are included in the results.

New comment by wald3n in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

wald3n — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:31:21 +0000

Dystopian

New comment by wald3n in "Magnifica Humanitas"

wald3n — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:32:21 +0000

Love this: building for the common good means accepting the limits and weakness of humanity without considering them an error to be corrected. Today, the human desire for fullness of life is at risk of being misled by deceitful goals, such as the prospect of a technology that promises to free us from all weakness, and models of wellbeing that leave behind entire populations. All too often, we place our hope in unlimited “upgrades,” in forms of progress that exacerbate inequalities, and in immediate solutions incapable of healing people’s wounds. As a result, while some pursue the illusion of unlimited self-assertion, many are deprived of basic necessities.

New comment by wald3n in "Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks"

wald3n — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:41:06 +0000

Cool idea, thanks for making this

New comment by wald3n in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

wald3n — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:16:48 +0000

So expensive with a one year limited warranty. Come on man :/

New comment by wald3n in "The gay jailbreak technique"

wald3n — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:13:03 +0000

This doesn’t work for shit

New comment by wald3n in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

wald3n — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:12:40 +0000

This doesn’t work at all

New comment by wald3n in "A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)"

wald3n — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:46:14 +0000

Karpathy is an interesting case of PhD gone industry and he mentions this topic in the article. In my field of computational social science it is sadly very taboo to happily leave the academy. Yet, they don’t do much to make it more appealing. My biggest win was to find a group of people outside of my research group that I liked collaborating with. Research is more fun as a team sport.

New comment by wald3n in "European Tech Alternatives"

wald3n — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:48:35 +0000

I don’t understand why Mistral gets so little recognition. They consistently have a top model on benchmarks such as LiveBench and their models are open source. Hugging Face is French, Black Forrest Labs (Stable Diffusion) is German, Weaviate is Dutch, Hetzner for IaasS. There’s AI here. Maybe hardware production is the bigger problem?

New comment by wald3n in "DOOMscrolling: The Game"

wald3n — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:35:14 +0000

Fun!