<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: zurfer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=zurfer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:47:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=zurfer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>maybe exactly because the frontier moves, introductory pricing makes sense as you want to free up compute for the newer models</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:32:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290843</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is obviously cool and useful so kudos, but wow security researchers have to throw their hands up all the time.<p>Now we open another attack surface where you can ask a remote agent to do things by default. There was a time when you call this a Remote Code Execution vuln. It's of course a feature here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228661</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49228661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Universities would prefer no AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Zooming out you see that books, pen and paper are all technology. Like even school and language is technology.<p>Given that AI exist maybe we can roll back some of the school/university and just let people do the work and learn while doing?<p>Yes not for a 7yo but with 18 you could just work and learn what is required or what you find exciting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183668</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, we can't have the counterfactual world but could it be that without computers, Internet or AI, there might be no/less growth?<p>I somehow doubt that AI will accelerate growth constantly as the world has inertia and I'm not sure AI is sustainably increasing our ability to change. On the other side, if there is a technology that can do that it could be intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:10:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143751</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49143751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's made for LLMs, the spec should be yaml not json. Way more token efficient</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:26:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131985</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49131985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks cool but how can I use it? Somehow i don't want to go hunting for access through the rabbit hole that is Microsofts Corporate blog.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:46:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073142</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://github.com/soofi-project/Soofi-Pretraining" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/soofi-project/Soofi-Pretraining</a>
<a href="https://huggingface.co/Soofi-Project/Soofi-S-Base" rel="nofollow">https://huggingface.co/Soofi-Project/Soofi-S-Base</a>
> "The final model will be released openly under a permissive license, without gated access. We will share access details as soon as it is ready."<p>not open weight yet</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:06:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979911</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>more interesting link: <a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2607.09424v2" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/html/2607.09424v2</a>
and 
> Long-context serving efficiency. Soofi S combines frontier-level capability with the highest measured aggregate long-context decode TPS, and unlike full-attention dense baselines maintains high throughput as context grows. Panel (1(a)) plots Capability Index versus measured aggregate decode TPS/GPU at 40K context and batch 32. The Capability Index averages five benchmark groups, i.e., Code, GSM8K, GPQA-Diamond, English aggregate, and German aggregate, after normalizing each group to the best plotted model. Aggregate decode TPS/GPU is measured with a TP=1, one-B200 vLLM latency-subtraction protocol. Panel (1(b)) shows measured aggregate decode TPS/GPU as a function of input context length under the same batch-32 protocol.<p>it's a small win in the small model class</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:02:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979854</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Somehow the blog post seems naive. Yes GLM 5.2 is good and cheaper per token, but margins are a result of supply and demand. Now demand for quality and quantity of tokens is increasing at least quadratic or cubic (more users * more tasks * more tokens per task). On the other side you have real infrastructure constraints on the supply side.
Openai and Anthropic have large commitments and contracts that enable them to get access at a scale of compute that is not obviously going to be available for open source model hosts.
And you see it, glm 5.2 inference is less stable and higher variance than any of the bigs labs.<p>Why is SpaceX not hosting glm 5.2? because they make more money with renting out to Anthropic and Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:47:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816005</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So he throws billions at a few top AI researchers, but they produce nothing of value.<p>so he spends 1% of yearly revenue on AI talent to catch up? we can't judge if they have produced nothing of value, no? They don't owe the world to open source their work?<p>Meta has plenty of failings, but taking risks and investing optimistically is not on my list. I guess the sentiment here on HN is probably biased by the addictive nature of its products.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776038</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ASML, SAP, ARM, Spotify, ...<p>How do you define biggest? Can't be by market cap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:45:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759349</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759349</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48759349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is called mechanistic interpretability. There is lots of fascinating insights already since you can do basically everything down to the neuron or weight level thousands of times. The human brain is many orders of magnitude harder to make sense of.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:32:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665271</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We outsourced it for 2.5k (extra) and it was still painful, took almost 2 months and worst of all wasted so much time and focus.<p>The worst was sitting at the notary, and getting read out loud by her what we were about to sign (also paying for that).<p>If you think about starting a company, spend some time to think through what it would mean for you to be a Delaware C Corp or an Estoinian one. It will increase your chances of success as you can focus on what matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:12:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659212</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "DuckDB Internals Part 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like sqlite, duckdb is underappreciated as a production database. You can totally run it on servers or even "serverless" and do some heavy data transformations or with the right server size work with large scale datasets (up to a TB compressed seems fine).</p>
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<p>I heard the same argument from my doctor when I wanted a blood scan.<p>But what's the intention? If you do a scan and then try to find everything that is wrong about you, you're 100% right, there will be false positives and unnecessary panic/medication etc.<p>However if you just collect data for months and years and WHEN you get a symptom you have a lot more data then we should be able to give better diagnosis faster. If we do that for long enough as humanity and there is data sharing the accuracy of the whole thing will increase a lot.</p>
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<p>Exactly, like SAP HANA stores everything in memory, you get great analytical and transactional performance but good luck financing that at scale</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:51:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561884</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48561884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was a red herring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487951</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487951</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is LTSE working the way you hoped?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:27:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477809</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477809</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do think it's more subtle. AI can replace very few jobs end to end with the same quality, maybe none. But AI can be put to work on high ROI problems. Now when the new marginal job is not obviously as high ROI as putting another 100k of tokens to work, no human gets hired.<p>Next, comes natural attrition in a company where a certain percentage will leave every year. Will they get replaced with a human or their budget goes into tokens?<p>Only when these 2 angles are exhausted, a typical company will start thinking about layoffs.<p>Now, some companies are already stressed: customer buy AI products instead of theirs, AI makes it easier to build what they offer, customers believe they can vibe code things. These companies will layoff first, because of AI. Not because AI will do the persons job but because the money gets spend differently.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:34:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473264</link><dc:creator>zurfer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by zurfer in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't fall for it. Its a trick question. Capitalism made everybody replaceable a long time ago. :P<p>The more interesting question is: Has the ease of replacibility increased because of AI?</p>
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