Hacker News: zamderax

New comment by zamderax in "Nvidia just paid $20B for a company that missed its revenue target by 75%"

zamderax — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:26:03 +0000

I often tell startups if you have amazing revenue, that your startup might get a lower acquisition offer price because your acquirer doesn’t care about your revenue. They might just care about your tech.

New comment by zamderax in "Chronon: A data platform for serving for AI/ML applications"

zamderax — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:06:16 +0000

Is this something like Spark or Apache Flink?

New comment by zamderax in "François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video]"

zamderax — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:44:54 +0000

People are allowed to evolve opinions. It seems to me he believes that a combination of transformer and program synthesis are key. The big unknown at the moment is how to do program search.

New comment by zamderax in "Apple to Android and ESP32 P2P Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi Aware [video]"

zamderax — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:03:41 +0000

Historically Apple used Apple Wireless Direct Link. Now it can communicate with the more open Wi-Fi Aware which is enabled on most modern Android devices and even ESP32

Apple to Android and ESP32 P2P Wi-Fi with Wi-Fi Aware [video]

zamderax — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JQgZucb0c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231037

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by zamderax in "LLMs are making me dumber"

zamderax — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:19:01 +0000

It’s been overall good. Being able to access a web app or website by entering a URL is impressive!

New comment by zamderax in "Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B"

zamderax — Mon, 05 May 2025 23:56:25 +0000

Supabase is particularly valuable for its users. Or right now “vibecoders”

New comment by zamderax in "Clair Obscur Metacritic user score"

zamderax — Fri, 02 May 2025 20:38:11 +0000

FFVII Rebirth is perfection. Best battle system ever, great voice acting, great music.

New comment by zamderax in "No Calls"

zamderax — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 20:45:41 +0000

I don’t think this is true anymore. Firebase, auth0, AWS, figma and many more SaaS obliterated this dichotomy

New comment by zamderax in "Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic"

zamderax — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 08:05:39 +0000

No they should not do this. They are trying to create generalized artificial intelligence not a specific one. Let the cursor, zed, codeium or some smaller company focus on that.

New comment by zamderax in "Show HN: Libretto – Simple recording and editing, an alternative to Descript"

zamderax — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 16:57:04 +0000

A marketing rule is that you cannot pick the same combination of colors as the incumbent product. Because looking at your website, I am thinking of DeScript all the time. So your website is now an ad for DeScript. This is why Pepsi cannot pick red and Xbox cannot pick Blue.

Congrats but please change the color if you want to compare yourself to DeScript.

Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn about program synthesis

zamderax — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 06:19:14 +0000

I was recently inspired by this talk from Francois Chollet on Program Synthesis and Discrete Search as a compliment to how transformers and LLM work. Like LLMs are kind of bad a math, but if they can be complemented by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTU8Ha4Jyfc&t=8965s

This always made me think of Genetic Algorithms no?

Does anyone have any suggestions on content for program synthesis to read up and learn in 2024?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42113255

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zamderax in "Ollama 0.4 is released with support for Meta's Llama 3.2 Vision models locally"

zamderax — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:33:35 +0000

Does anyone know if this will run on the iPhone 15 (6GB) or iPhone 16 (8GB)