<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: yalok</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yalok</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:38:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=yalok" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>but ASML is in Europe - so they hold at least some critical part of the stack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:21:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145947</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> First git itself is distributed and built for scale.<p>there're different dimensions for "scale" - like handling large monorepos, orders of magnitude more commits, tighter requirements for latencies (for agentic use, e.g. for agentic history navigation)...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 01:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103142</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>were you in that room where Adam was making that call? No? didn't think so...<p>Just give people some benefit of doubt. There're much simpler ways to explain certain things that suspecting some universal evil in every move...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 05:52:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072189</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There're tons of ways to fine-tune WebRTC that it wouldn't corrupt audio in poor network - it has all of the controls to smoothly trade-off latency vs quality. Not just NACKs - FEC, disable PLC/Acceleration/Deceleration, larger JB (tons of parameters) etc.<p>Most of the glitches I heard with OpenAI's Voice were <i>not</i> WebRTC related - but rather, to my ear, they sounded more like realtime issues with their inference - which is a very different component to optimize.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 05:49:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072174</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48072174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it doesn't necessarily have to be tied to monetization & privacy directly.<p>It may just be that ROI doesn't make sense: very few user out there truly care about (or even understand) E2EE, for quite some users it creates an inconvenience & support incidents (harder to move from device to device, forgot your passphrase - lost your history, new joiners to a group chat don't see previous history, etc), it requires a significant additional engineering effort to just maintain it, many new features get shipped much slower because of it...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:33:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070499</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>building new features on top of E2EE is genuinely hard, and I've seen many companies struggle to keep innovating while staying strictly E2EE.<p>Having seen multiple leading messaging/VoIP stacks from inside, the amount of engineering spent to work around various limitations of E2EE in real prod scenarios is insane, and even for simple every-day-use features metrics don't compare to the metrics of the same feature running without E2EE.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:53:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070220</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>amazing to see Claude Code top models still way above all other models for C++ & Java, while GPT 5.5 is higher in Python & JS and others.  Shows the skew in the training data sets, and maybe the go-to-market focus - with Anthropic focusing on enterprise customers much more than OpenAI?<p>Matches with my experience with Opus for C++.<p>C# results are empty - @gertlabs - any ETA for those?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918795</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does this include repos content in BitBucket?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:22:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836518</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47836518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Brunost: The Nynorsk Programming Language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For those in the USA - if you never tried brunost (brown cheese) - look at specialty cheeses of a larger grocery chain (Whole Foods, Safeway, …) - it’s called “Ski Queen” here, and is sold as a perfect cube in red/brown plastic pack.<p>It’s very delicious.<p>I was ecstatic when I found it quite a few years ago in a regular store. A Norwegian friend of mine used to send me a brick of this cheese once a year for Christmas, when I was a student, and I treasured it as one of the most valuable possessions :)<p>Also, fun fact - the reason this cheese tastes sweet is due to caramelization - the milk gets boiled for a long time (hours) to get the brown color and sweetness. So it’s completely natural, zero added sugar ;)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:14:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816546</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He may just want to buy them, to accelerate things, once SpaceX IPOs</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699437</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>vibe-coded all the way through</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:43:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593237</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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…<p>This is not special to Meta in any way, I observed it in any team which has more than 1 strong senior engineer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:16:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409574</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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…</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409543</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47409543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362533</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm not fully on board with his world model strategy as the path forward<p>can you please elaborate on your strategy as the path forward?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:45:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330210</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is Google using LLM-guided fuzzers that can inspect the code first?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:09:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068660</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068660</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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?)...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068100</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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...<p>as of Feb 16, 2026:<p>====<p>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.<p>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]<p>Why Not to Walk: Walking there means the car stays home, as noted in a post. [3]<p>The best option is to start the engine, drive the 50 meters, and let the car get washed.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ramar_i-saw-this-llm-failure-example-on-x-this-activity-7428546358560743424-mcOs" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ramar_i-saw-this-llm-failure-...</a>
[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034546">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034546</a>
[3] <a href="https://x.com/anirudhamudan/status/2022152959073956050/photo/1" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/anirudhamudan/status/2022152959073956050/photo...</a><p>But the regular Gemini reasons correctly by itself, without any references:<p>====
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?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:26:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044320</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>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 ... :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:31:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031576</link><dc:creator>yalok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by yalok in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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...</p>
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