Hacker News: xpl

New comment by xpl in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

xpl — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:50:46 +0000

> they will not be able to obtain non-immigration visas in the future

Why? Aren't L1 and H1B "dual intent" visas?

New comment by xpl in "Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine"

xpl — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:22:10 +0000

It made a big difference when it first appeared on the battlefield. Russia has adapted since then, so it's no longer a game changer. But systems like these helped Ukraine hold on, and they continue to do so today.

New comment by xpl in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

xpl — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:51:34 +0000

> Their capabilities should saturate at human or maybe above-average human performance

LLMs do have superhuman reasoning speed and superhuman dedication. Speed is something you can scale, and at some point quantity can turn into quality. Much of the frontier work done by humans is just dedication, luck, and remixing other people's ideas ("standing on the shoulders of giants"), isn't it? All of this is exactly what you can scale by having restless hordes of fast-thinking agents, even if each of those agents is intellectually "just above average human".

Show HN: Better HN – Realtime Comment Updates and Cleaner Look

xpl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:31:07 +0000

I'm sharing a userscript for for those who read the HN comments section a lot:

1. Updates comments without reloading the page — instantly see new ones as they appear.

2. Cleaner comment topline for less distraction — shows controls only when you hover over the topline.

There is a preview gif of how it looks in the README.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370222

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by xpl in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

xpl — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:43:37 +0000

Is this a joke? If it's not trainable / differentiable when why do it in the first place? It's just as inefficient and inflexible as it gets compared to tool calling — you have to statically bake programs in the weights, model cannot introspect it and modify, it has very limited IO capabilities, bad performance, bad everything. Its like a weird brainfuck-esque VM — cool that you can do it, but for what except some lulz?

But maybe it's just too genius and I don't understand it.

New comment by xpl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

xpl — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:01:52 +0000

Unfortunately, no. We allow hybrid work, but only if you're willing to relocate immediately (U.S. only).

New comment by xpl in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

xpl — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:44:51 +0000

We at Avride are hiring in Austin for a full-time, onsite position.

In this role, you'll help build state-of-the-art 3D data annotation tools that advance autonomous driving.

We're looking for a seasoned UI engineer with a strong React background and relevant experience building highly stateful, low-latency interactive applications. Experience with 3D graphics is a plus.

Apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/avride/jobs/4012877009

New comment by xpl in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

xpl — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:07:46 +0000

> Tesla is famously anything but a car company because their cars are mediocre in every way except the battery range

I can't say that I'm a big fan of this guy... But I can tell you this: I learned to drive only after moving to the U.S. recently, and when I had to choose my first car, I found Tesla to be the best among many I tried. It's just awesome, and I don't even use their FSD, the car itself is superb (at least the latest "3"). Minimalistic, no BS, drives well, quiet, comfortable. The same feeling I had with the first iPhone, compared to other phones.

New comment by xpl in "Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?"

xpl — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:13:57 +0000

sqlite with extensions, scales to millions of docs easily

New comment by xpl in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

xpl — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:47:16 +0000

A similar project of mine (generated back when GPT-4 was out, along with comment threads and articles):

https://crackernews.github.io/

New comment by xpl in "Grokipedia and the coup against reality"

xpl — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:23:33 +0000

> What are some examples?

"Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel" https://aish.com/weaponizing-wikipedia-against-israel/

New comment by xpl in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

xpl — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:31:25 +0000

Why not use actual Ethereum as a base layer? If you want speed, build (or use) an L2 on top of it.

I can hardly see any value in "yet another private blockchain" — just use a database, duh.

New comment by xpl in "GPT-5"

xpl — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:15:00 +0000

They say:

In the API, all GPT‑5 models can accept a maximum of 272,000 input tokens and emit a maximum of 128,000 reasoning & output tokens, for a total context length of 400,000 tokens.

So it's only 270k for input and 400k in total considering reasoning & output tokens.

New comment by xpl in "AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time"

xpl — Sat, 31 May 2025 18:47:34 +0000

Only at first glance. It can easily render things that would be very hard to implement in an FPS engine.

What AI can dream up in milliseconds could take hundreds of human hours to encode using traditional tech (meshes, shaders, ray tracing, animation, logic scripts, etc.), and it still wouldn't look as natural and smooth as AI renderings — I refer to the latest developments in video synthesis like Google's Veo 3. Imagine it as a game engine running in real time.

New comment by xpl in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

xpl — Tue, 20 May 2025 13:48:27 +0000

Check out this Russian Telegram channel on AP https://t.me/usadminvisaprocessing/1

There are people who file collective mandamus lawsuits, so you might consider joining one of those groups.

However, from what I've seen, it could be a waste of money, as there isn't convincing evidence that it accelerates AP. These lawsuits usually take many months, and AP often resolves "by itself" before the lawsuit reaches a resolution.