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imjonse··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
'usa ip theft 19th century' in your fav search engine
imjonse··on Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
Hammock-driven development will get a new meaning.
imjonse··on DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles
They're OSS projects in a friendly competition, both working towards the goal of having alternatives to big closed source players. No need for jabs.
imjonse··on Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
If anyone cares about plants suffering they should go vegan, as many more plants are consumed to raise animals than would be if there was a direct plant intake in humans for the same amount of calories and nutrients. Ditto for land use, water, CO2 emissions, etc. but let's assume our friend cares strictly about reducing suffering short of starving themselves to death.
imjonse··on Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?
> The real answer is something HN doesn't like so I won't advocate it openly, but it involves society paying to take care of people to provide homes, provide medical access, things like this. Neither party is interested in that.

There are enough people on HN who think working social democracy is a great option; not everybody here is a libertarian cryptobro, an eastern european with decades-long PTSD or a hardcore conservative.

imjonse··on Neovim 0.12.0
nice to see that.
imjonse··on Neovim 0.12.0
It probably goes against Vim tradition, culture and freedom to choose, but I wish they added even more built-in features (like Helix) that are currently implemented in competing and sometimes brittle plugins and have to be put together into also competing vim starter packs and distros of plugins and config files just to have a modern setup out of the box.
imjonse··on What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?
"The TurboQuant paper (ICLR 2026) contains serious issues in how it describes RaBitQ, including incorrect technical claims and misleading theory/experiment comparisons.

We flagged these issues to the authors before submission. They acknowledged them, but chose not to fix them. The paper was later accepted and widely promoted by Google, reaching tens of millions of views.

We’re speaking up now because once a misleading narrative spreads, it becomes much harder to correct. We’ve written a public comment on openreview (https://openreview.net/forum?id=tO3AS KZlok ).

We would greatly appreciate your attention and help in sharing it."

https://x.com/gaoj0017/status/2037532673812443214

imjonse··on Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
games could cause a lot of 'lost' time, but you had a say in games; there's a lot more consuming and almost no producing in social media use. And games did not cause you anxiety and FOMO, nor did they programatically lure you into spending your time and money on them.
imjonse··on Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
> It’s called parenting.

That clearly is required here, but the scale of the existing and potential harm is such that relying on parenting only is the equivalent of using paper instead of plastic straws when the worlds biggest companies and militaries are burning down the environment.

imjonse··on Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
> I don't envy the kids that found an outlet doing something productive only to have a nanny state eventually rip it away from them.

99% of today's social media usage is the opposite of productive, too bad the laws concentrate on policing internet use though.

imjonse··on The strait of Hormuz blockade will strangle US defense industry
what other assumptions sound more reasonable?
imjonse··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
As a european I see what you mean, but that 'we all' in your sentence probably hasn't included those from Latin America, and large parts of Africa or Asia since long before Trump. The US pulled quite a few less than admirable tricks (to use an euphemism) on non-europeans during the 20th century.
imjonse··on Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
I was a bit worried you are paraphrasing Rob Pike, but no, he actually agrees with that Knuth quote.

I am almost certain that people building bloated software are not willfully misunderstanding this quote; it's likely they never heard about it. Let's not ignore the relevance of this half a century old advice just because many programmers do not care about efficiency or do not understand how computers work. Premature optimization is exactly that, the fact that is premature makes it wrong, regardless if it's about GOTO statements in the 70s or a some modern equivalent where in the name of craft or fun people make their apps a lot more complex than they should be. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the brutally inefficient code you mention was so because people optimized prematurely for web-scale and their app never ever needed those abstractions and extra components. The advice applies both to hackers doing micro-optimizations and architecture astronauts dreaming too big IMHO.

imjonse··on LLM Architecture Gallery
> On the LLM Architecture Gallery, it’s interesting to see the variations between models, but I think the 30,000ft view of this is that in the last seven years since GPT-2 there have been a lot of improvements to LLM architecture but no fundamental innovations in that area.

After years of showing up in papers and toy models, hybrid architectures like Qwen3.5 contain one such fundamental innovation - linear attention variants which replace the core of transformer, the self-attention mechanism. In Qwen3.5 in particular only one of every four layers is a self-attention layer.

MoEs are another fundamental innovation - also from a Google paper.

imjonse··on Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings)
It's more likely the other way around, the .ai domain with a fairly generic and maybe future-proof name needed a quick vibecoded project to not be empty when it launches.
imjonse··on Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US
One should acknowledge the role genes/luck play in disease, while also admitting that there are a few foods about which there is more or less consensus they are very bad for your health. So you can roll your eyes if someone suggests eating kale sprouts will cure all your problems but don't just keep eating junk food as if the opposite of their take must be good.
imjonse··on Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
At least some of that money should definitely go towards improving his powerpoint slides on JEPA related work :)
imjonse··on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates
> To me, this is yet another reason why capitalism initially was great at making an economy,

Initially it wasn't that great either if you were a slave or worked 14 hours a day .

imjonse··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
what do you mean it does not have a simpler user interface? I found the combo of hx for quick edits/terminal work and Zed with hx bindings for everything else great.
imjonse··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
agreed, it wasn't more than a few days/a week. The real annoyance is if you use other coding environments too which do not have hx bindings (VScode, Google Colab) and have to constantly switch between hx and vim keys. Zed has had very good hx keybindings support for a few months now so this became less of an issue.
imjonse··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
It actually has Helix bindings as well which makes the investment in Helix not that risky anymore. I use both.
imjonse··on Maybe there's a pattern here?
Croatia:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/croatia-r...

imjonse··on Maybe there's a pattern here?
> no one here needs to worry about being drafted into a war.

here meaning the US or HN?

imjonse··on We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
exactly the sort of behaviour that guaranteed he would be un-outsted by the powerful who back him.
imjonse··on The whole thing was a scam
He's young, he's got enough time to outdo himself.
imjonse··on The whole thing was a scam
> In capitalism, the market decides.

> In oligarchy, connections and donations decide.

> It sure look like the US is transitioning from the former to the latter.

One has to wonder on what planet Gary Marcus has lived so far.

imjonse··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
> I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values,

I am sure you think they are better than the average startup executive, but such hyperbole puts the objectivity of your whole judgement under question.

They pragmatically changed their views of safety just recently, so those values for which they would burn at the stake are very fluid.

imjonse··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
GPT 5.3 Codex-Spark was released last week.
imjonse··on I’m joining OpenAI
> a project that people want,

do many people actually use openclaw (a two week old project IIUC) or is it just hyped up?

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