Hacker News: xchip

New comment by xchip in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

xchip — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:10:38 +0000

Well if you are shy, you have two options. Support going back to the office so everybody commutes there and you can easily talk to people without putting much effort... Or take it as a growth opportunity for yourself, take advantage of the extra time that you have saved in that useless commuting, and try to talk to people outside work and make friends as everybody else does.

Please believe in yourself!

New comment by xchip in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

xchip — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:01:52 +0000

Nvidia fully supports remote work, people love it and they are doing great, not sure why others companies have issues with this.

New comment by xchip in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

xchip — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:09:23 +0000

NVIDIA is hiring wherever the talent is, learn from NVIDIA, stop whining.

Nobody talks about the AI bubble anymore

xchip — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:11:38 +0000

What's your theory about this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313947

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by xchip in "Show HN: Lilo – An open source personal AI assistant that lives in Telegram"

xchip — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:55:04 +0000

It's not personal as it requires "an API key for at least one of: OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter"

New comment by xchip in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

xchip — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:48:02 +0000

This article could have been summarized in three paragraphs.

I'm really hating this trend of diluting content by giving useless testimonials, random anecdotes and delaying the resolution of the subject as much as possible.

New comment by xchip in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

xchip — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:04:58 +0000

I also receive too much spam, I'll believe in their AI whenever they are able to fix spam.

Was Back‑to‑Office Enforced?

xchip — Sat, 09 May 2026 08:44:26 +0000

Or did it end up being more of a suggestion in practice?

What was your experience?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073244

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xchip in "Apple agrees to pay iPhone owners $250M for not delivering AI Siri"

xchip — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:52:52 +0000

There are about 150.7 million active iPhones in thr US

So, you are getting $1.66 back.

New comment by xchip in "Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds"

xchip — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:35:39 +0000

This is the general idea of how I understood it works.

- It's based on WAN a video model, it generates a frame at a time in latent space that we later we decode into RGB

- We keep the latent space and its RGB of each frame in a database. Along with the RGB we compute depth so we get a cloud point (RGBD). This will be used for persistence.

- For each new frame we check which past frames have their point cloud contained in the camera frustum. We take the top 3 frames with more overlap and get their latent space.

- We feed these 3 frames to WAN via the cross attention layers for conditioning and that is how we achieve consistency

- The RGBD can be used to generate a gaussian splatting of the scene.

New comment by xchip in "Softmax, can you derive the Jacobian? And should you care?"

xchip — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:40:58 +0000

"This transforms a vector of arbitrary real numbers into values between 0 and 1 that sum to 1"

Not really, softmax transforms logits (logariths of probabilities) into probabilities.

Probabilities → logits → back again.

Start with p = [0.6, 0.3, 0.1]. Logits = log(p) = [-0.51, -1.20, -2.30]. Softmax(logits) = original p.

NN prefer to output logits because they are linear and go from -inf to +inf.

New comment by xchip in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

xchip — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:09:58 +0000

Feels like a bailout. Belgium’s playbook is simple: skip maintenance, let it decay, then replace it on the taxpayer’s dime.

New comment by xchip in "Musicians are manufacturing sold-out shows"

xchip — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:04:56 +0000

I'm sure this article could be a tweet.

New comment by xchip in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of European Union inactio"

xchip — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:10:36 +0000

If they care so much about child safety they should check first the Epstein files.

New comment by xchip in "Show HN: Nodepp – A C++ runtime for scripting at bare-metal speed"

xchip — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:57:55 +0000

Impressive, you did better than the guys of the c++ standard

New comment by xchip in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

xchip — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:03:51 +0000

They updated it recently to fix the stuttering in the Disney app, and that issue had been there for a year or so. And they did that probably because Disney paid them.

It's a corporation, they don't work for free.

New comment by xchip in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

xchip — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:32:06 +0000

That is how Napoleon got defeated in Russia. Russians decided not to engage in battle and let the winter solve the problem for them.

New comment by xchip in "Native Amiga Filesystems on macOS / Linux / Windows with FUSE"

xchip — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:24:56 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by xchip in "I rebooted my social life"

xchip — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:14:54 +0000

What is your body count now?

New comment by xchip in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

xchip — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:03:50 +0000

gmail sucks, I'm getting 2-3 spam emails a day, am I the only one?