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New comment by zkmon in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

zkmon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:32:15 +0000

Maybe an yearly ritual?

Someone runs K3 on 80x 5090s, for 20 tok/s

zkmon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:35:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/totheagi/status/2081855316443205717

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49081489

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New comment by zkmon in "Our position on open-weights models"

zkmon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:13:19 +0000

The evil Superman (openAI) attacks the good city (huggingface) and the city is saved by the MegaMind (GLM 5.2). Usually, the city dwellers would praise MegaMind as the hero, but the story is twisted - the Superman is only "testing" and the MegaMind is too evil to have such powers of saving the city.

New comment by zkmon in "Our position on open-weights models"

zkmon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:54:13 +0000

The core concerns stated as use of AI in drones and surveillance, by China. And what does USA government do with AI? Drawing pictures of flowers and writing novels?

New comment by zkmon in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

zkmon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:27:34 +0000

The myth you fell into is, assuming that the AI is here to increase your personal productivity. No. Think of AI as a vendor who can provide you with contractors that can code for you. 20 years back, if you are promoted as a manager and approved with a budget to hire 10 contractors, what would you do? You would hire 6 coders, 3 testers and a project manager. Your would mostly interact with the PM giving feature specs, and checking out the progress. You might also ask someone to do the code reviews. You won't sit with every coder and go through the code every day.

AI gives you coders, not some "tool" that you can use to make yourself a faster coder.

New comment by zkmon in "Design is compromise"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:54:46 +0000

Optimization is not same as compromise. Optimization is about having freedom to tweak the parameters with the goal of maximzing somthing. Compromise focuses on lack of freedom. The terms focus on different areas of the overall situation. Design happens within the optimization context, which is shaped by the constraints.

New comment by zkmon in "Design is compromise"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:35:34 +0000

Not quite. Design is about optimization (of user experience, performance etc). Optimization implies constraints. Constraints are what made you think of "compromise".

New comment by zkmon in "What's Under Your Feet in New York City?"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:31:53 +0000

Fascinating. Anything that grows up above ground has a proportionate growth below ground as well.

New comment by zkmon in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:02:50 +0000

No. I was referring to the global AI industry.

New comment by zkmon in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:10:17 +0000

> Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has predicted that AI could wipe out half of white-collar jobs and push unemployment to 20 percent.

And then he also says that a certain model is too dangerous to release.

New comment by zkmon in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 07:21:48 +0000

It's not just hard drive problem. If you buy a new storage rack at your home, it will be full in no time. No matter how many racks you buy, you will always find things fill those racks. This is like rain water filling up the lakes. if there is a lake, it gets filled. Or maybe it is called a lake because it gets filled. So, one can say that the disks create or cause the data. If there is no disk, there is no data.

New comment by zkmon in "DeepSeek pause fundraise after comments on compute gap to US leaked (transcript) [pdf]"

zkmon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:42:29 +0000

Give it 5 years for China to have it's own ASML. Nothing big bang is going to happen in 5 years or even a decade from now, execpt for a few more hypes, deep corrections and the political drama. AGI is not a destination, but a journey. There are no winners.

New comment by zkmon in "The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft"

zkmon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:58:56 +0000

To extend the argument, even if someone types every single word using their keyboard, they are not quite "writing". They are dictating each letter by pressing at different places on a keyboard. The computer does the writing of each letter using a predefined shape (font). And even someone is writing using a pen, they are only dictating the strokes by moving the pen in different directions, while the pen, ink and paper are bringing the letters into existence.

New comment by zkmon in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

zkmon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:20:21 +0000

I think a more useful metric would be intelligence per dollar spent.

New comment by zkmon in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

zkmon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:40:01 +0000

> My banking app requires, on average, three FaceID logins before the 3D Secure confirmation view appears.

That's a different, equally big problem. Security mafia at every company will continue to rule everything and everyone. They do not have goals or constraints that are tied to productivity and user experience.

We are heading to a situation where the security teams are causing much more damage compared to the possible attack vectors. While this damage is real and certain, the damage due to attack vectors is only hypothetical.

Ofcourse, we do need security. But currently no one including CEO can dare to define how much security is needed. On top of that, regulators do their own share of damage, piling up regulations. No one takes any risk. They will ask you to tie yourself down until you can't move. Your mobility is not their problem.

New comment by zkmon in "98.css"

zkmon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:26:12 +0000

With every new version of the OS, the UI desigenrs were forced to show some change and call it improvement, even though those changes functionally unnecessary, more resource consuming, less faster, and less reliable.

New comment by zkmon in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

zkmon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:51:51 +0000

Never thought China can force these two companies to run for the cover.

New comment by zkmon in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

zkmon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:48:55 +0000

We might see people rushing to download the Chinese models expecting a ban, like they mobbed stores for tissue paper a few years ago.

New comment by zkmon in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

zkmon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:17:00 +0000

Why is it hard to come up with tests that closely resemble real-world usecases where the models are being used?

New comment by zkmon in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

zkmon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:14:08 +0000

I'm not a mathematician. Could someone let me know, what's the objective of this conversation and what was the result?