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johndear223

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johndear223··on Ask HN: What's the future like? For normies, will it still be apps and websites?
IMO which is worth a grain of salt in the dead sea. Humans are good at over estimating. The AI revolution has happened already. There won't be super general intelligence. Just better automation tools. Most of the headline grabbing break throughs have been clever PR or half truths. Hugging face wasn't hacked by rouge openAI models, it was a cyber security group from Israel been allowed to use state of the art LLMs as an exercise in what can be done.

People seem to forget that all data centres and telecom exchange buildings have off switches.

johndear223··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Erik Wing done the research. Love that. I think theirs a name for that kind of coincidence.
johndear223··on The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving
Where would Ancient Aliens fall into this lack of understanding?
johndear223··on Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s
There are solutions already for Mac , check out ISTA DAs lab hugginface, I got one of their qwen next models working pretty fast on m2 ultra
johndear223··on Ask HN: What will happen if AI is mature and people have little work to do?
Communism
johndear223··on A self-hosted job search suite, JobNavigator
Any success stories?
johndear223··on Show HN: How far do I have to go to run into 100k people?
Pretty cool, took me a few minutes to figure it out, there was a nice stretch of Florida that had no rays, clear cut wilderness
johndear223··on Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
Weiss makes the mirrors.
johndear223··on Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
The lasers are made in San Diego, the lenses made in Germany.
johndear223··on Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
I was just reading about this in a tech magazine, couple of startups also trying other techniques of interest, one of them using helium atoms for the lithography. This uses pretty close to x-ray wavelengths of light. Amazing feats of engineering taking place in this crazy world of ours.
johndear223··on Modder Runs GTA III Inside GTA: San Andreas on an In-Game TV
The orobus of GTA, it mentioned having GTA vice city running inside GTA 3 that's running inside GTA San Andreas.
johndear223··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Articles like this are why I come back to HN. Interesting technically, kinda novel and fun. Got me thinking about datasets that may be sitting on old HDD, got TBs of old video and audio from projects of past. Blogs like this help point the way.. Now if only I had the time..