Hacker News: yalok

New comment by yalok in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

yalok — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:58:17 +0000

He may just want to buy them, to accelerate things, once SpaceX IPOs

New comment by yalok in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

yalok — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:43:42 +0000

vibe-coded all the way through

New comment by yalok in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

yalok — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:16:50 +0000

Fwiw, this sounds like a healthy discourse - you don’t have to agree on everything, every approach has its merits, code that ends up shipping and supporting production wins the argument in some sense…

This is not special to Meta in any way, I observed it in any team which has more than 1 strong senior engineer.

New comment by yalok in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

yalok — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:10:21 +0000

Tangentially, on this CD policy - it leads to really high p99s for a long tail of rare requests which don’t get reliable prewarming due to these frequent HHVM restarts…

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

yalok — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:16:53 +0000

very cool idea. But, time savings are not true for every tool call, and it's not clear to me yet whether this is batch-able; also, intuitively, for most of the models that run on GPU, you'd still want to offload tool exec part to CPU since it's much cheaper...

New comment by yalok in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

yalok — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:45:19 +0000

> I'm not fully on board with his world model strategy as the path forward

can you please elaborate on your strategy as the path forward?

New comment by yalok in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

yalok — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:09:18 +0000

is Google using LLM-guided fuzzers that can inspect the code first?

New comment by yalok in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

yalok — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:57:50 +0000

I just had a problem installing iMovie on a MacOS 14 - 11-year old MBP13, perfectly functional otherwise (my 10-year old kid uses it), the original iMovie that used to work earlier, just stopped launching (maybe I need to change some xattrs for it?), and the new iMovie from the App Store can't be installed on such an old OS (why not show the older version there, like iOS AppStore does on older OSes?)...

New comment by yalok in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

yalok — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:26:05 +0000

for Google AI Overview (not sure which Gemini model is used for it, must be something smaller than regular model), looks like search/RAG helps it get it right - since it relies on LinkedIn and Hacker News (!) posts to respond correctly...

as of Feb 16, 2026:

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Drive the car. While 50 meters is a very short distance, the car must be present at the car wash to be cleaned, according to LinkedIn users [1]. Walking would leave your car at home, defeating the purpose of the trip, notes another user.

Why Drive: The car needs to be at the location to be cleaned. It's only a few seconds away, and you can simply drive it there and back, says a Hacker News user. [2]

Why Not to Walk: Walking there means the car stays home, as noted in a post. [3]

The best option is to start the engine, drive the 50 meters, and let the car get washed.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ramar_i-saw-this-llm-failure-... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034546 [3] https://x.com/anirudhamudan/status/2022152959073956050/photo...

But the regular Gemini reasons correctly by itself, without any references:

==== Unless you have a very long hose and a very patient neighbor, you should definitely drive. Washing a car usually requires, well, the car to be at the wash. Walking 50 meters—about half a New York City block—is great for your step count, but it won't get your vehicle any cleaner! Are you headed to a self-service bay or an automatic tunnel wash?

New comment by yalok in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

yalok — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:31:35 +0000

in ~30 years of my work in DSP domain, I've seen insane amount of ways to do signal processing wrong even for simplest things like passing a buffer and doing resampling.

The last example I've seen in one large company, done by a developer lacking audio/DSP experience: they used ffmpeg's resampling lib, but, after every 10ms audio frame processed by resampler, they'd invoke flush(), just for the sake of convenience of having the same number of input and output buffers ... :)

New comment by yalok in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

yalok — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:29:47 +0000

this. Deep understanding of physics involves building a mental model & intuition how things work, and the process of building is what gives the skill to deduce & predict. Using AI to just get to the answers directly prevents building that "muscle" strength...

Havana Syndrome Device Purchased

yalok — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/politics/havana-syndrome-device-pentagon-hsi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598284

Points: 19

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New comment by yalok in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"

yalok — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:06:50 +0000

their Play store review practices are such a joke. Apps review is a completely obscure process, no clear way to see that the app is in review state, if they reject - amount of information why it was rejected is minimal and you have to second-guess; appealing is not trivial; most of the reviews are done by AI which gets triggered in totally random places from time to time (e.g., in my case, some pictures which looked fine for kids for years and went through many previous reviewed, suddenly seem too violent).

New comment by yalok in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

yalok — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:46:26 +0000

In my experience, anything related to Google Ads - they never reacts to any claims of scam…

Their incentives contradict healthy behavior… :(

New comment by yalok in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

yalok — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:34:28 +0000

is there any good comparison of Hybrid vs EREV efficiency (when main battery is depleted), even with Atkinson cycle ICE for EREV? my understanding was that the main reason for all this complexity in Hybrids was due direct-to-wheel power transfer efficiency, while in EREV there's efficiency loss when converting ICE output to electric current...

New comment by yalok in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

yalok — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:33:54 +0000

thanks! are any of them multi-lingual? what languages may be supported?

New comment by yalok in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

yalok — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:40:17 +0000

how large are the STT and LLM models that you use on-device? are they part of the OS or downloaded with the app?

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

yalok — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:42:58 +0000

extremely telling - lot's of tech mentioned there either never reached expected potential or completely obsolete...

Prompts to be much more cautious with the current tech, and invest more time in fundamental stuff (like closer to science).

New comment by yalok in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

yalok — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:21:50 +0000

Not really, in my personal experience and per my friends, most of big companies are pretty lenient about it, except for Apple.

New comment by yalok in "Ghostty is now non-profit"

yalok — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:31:55 +0000

moonlighting is permitted by law in California (companies legally can't prevent you from doing it, iiuc), as long as there's no conflict of interest with your main job...