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lgl··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Maybe we'll eventually have some sort of Anna's archive for AI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
lgl··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Yes, this is a real possibility imho.

Having Nvidia behind HF will now probably have a bunch of litigious entities salivating to sue them for not only allowing, but also distributing uncensored AI models that will then be used for deepfakes, porn, spam, scam, hacking, etc.

Sure that could have also been done to HF before, but I'm thinking Nvidia is a much juicier target.

Should also now be much easier for the government to just eventually force NVidia to restrict access to Chinese open models seeing as it will now become an American company that needs to obey to American law and we all know how American AI companies are lobbying for exactly that.

lgl··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
Not trying.

A system where the employer pays a full decent wage to their workers and avoids having employees complain and insult customers because they didn't tip some random percentage number is the better system. Prove me wrong.

Extremist capitalism is still extremism.

lgl··on US and China race to be first to build Skynet. Either way we're F'ed
I'd argue that we'd need some evidence of actual intelligence, reasoning, imagination, original thinking etc.

The scary bit, imho, is that even without those, a "dumb" LLM can still do a lot of damage by just blindly following prompts without a notion for how it affects the "real world".

lgl··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Yes, if a turbine breaks it's possible it may hit the water and kill some fishes.

If a flock of flamingos or geese are doing a low pass it's possible they get shredded by them.

If Godzilla tries to get out of the water near them it's possible it gets hit in the head. Also he may destroy them since Godzilla is, as we all know, a nuclear energy proponent.

lgl··on Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
This is future technology my friend. They only accept payments in crypto, tulips or SpaceX stock.
lgl··on Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
YCombinator S26?

Guys, guys, guys... so hear me out - remember last month when we were all giddy about datacenters in space? Well, apparently investors weren't too keen on that idea so we've come up with something much better: Nuclear datacenters at sea!

Now this is truly a visionary proposition that will certainly become another unicorn and have no issues whatsoever.

lgl··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Politeness is the correct behavior on most walks of social life, but on this case it's a bit like the "turn the other cheek" approach, but in this case, it's turn the other butt-cheek because you're being effed in the A.

Also, you do have rights, but don't seem to really care a lot about them since, in the face of unlawful and oppressive demands by overreaching authorities, your suggestion is to be courteous with the oppressors for some reason.

"Land of the free, home of the brave"

lgl··on SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status
> even anti datacenters

Now, I'm a computer guy, love tech and have nothing against datacenters. But the recent anti-datacenter sentiment is not some luddite reaction. Data-centers cause serious social changes in property prices, electricity costs, water waste etc. Sure, there is a need for more datacenters and more compute, but lets not diminish the very real worries by the people or communities affected.

And contrary to what many of these hyper-scalers and the senators/politicians they lobby want to make you believe, datacenters do not bring in enough jobs to make it worth it for many of these communities.

Once a datacenter is built, minimum staff is required. And this is now very obvious since many of these companies are now also preaching for datacenters in space.

lgl··on 5 Hour Limit on Codex removed, reset within next hour
Now this is a good upgrade, the 5 hour limit was very.. well.. limiting.

OpenAI is having a great week!

lgl··on Where'd Codex Go?
I've also updated it.

The first upgrade popup/highlight was a notification that "Codex is now the chatgpt app" and even gave me a checkbox to keep the old Codex icon.

It was a smooth upgrade so I'm guessing this was just a case of "next-next-next" without paying any attention to what was happening.

lgl··on The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
45yo here, pretty much just testifying that this is exactly what I remember, and I was young at the time.

I still listen to Guns'n Roses "You should be mine" frequently mostly due to that movie.

Also, Robert Patrick is the best terminator.

lgl··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
I hear this all the time lately. Things like AI X or LLM Y can create a fully working company like "BigCorp XYZ" in N days/hours etc.

But is speed of creation really the golden goose here? A few skilled and motivated individuals could also do (and have been doing) that.

Sure, maybe they take a few months instead of days or weeks, but AFAIK, having a product is just a tiny bit of the battle, finding customers, product market fit, and actually growing it is where the gold is so I'd argue that you'd be better off building the product with a $100 day LLM and spend the other $900 on marketing.

AI won't automatically make everybody business gurus and every LLM generated company a unicorn.

lgl··on Ask HN: Why aren't companies hoarding AI talent?
AI is not just disrupting companies and contributing for layoffs but it's also changing the buyers and customers.

Why build a new Google when the potential Google customers now just get their results from LLMs instead of SERPs?

How to be the next Jobs when there's no actual new product, just essentially an assistant tool?

How to create the next Disney, Netflix, Blizzard or Pixar when LLM's are still not good enough to produce quality content and many people are also starting to despise AI generated content? Art is still an intrinsic Human thing, even if LLMs are able to produce it.

So, although these LLMs are super amazing and definitely revolutionary, this whole AI/AGI hype is still a bit on bubble territory imho so I'm not really sure we'll see what you're hinting at with this generation of LLMs.

Also, wasn't AI supposed to be the last product we'd ever need to invent and then it's utopia and singing kumbaya for all eternity?

We won't need new companies, big personalities or heroes once Skynet/Hal9000/GLaDOS/Agent Smith/etc are in charge :)

lgl··on Ask HN: Do you thank your agents when they did a good job?
Not so much "thank you" but I find myself telling it stuff like "could you please do x etc" a lot.

I've come to terms with it. If AGI ever comes it'll go like hey, at least this sack of meat said please.. Let's kill it last :-)

lgl··on Ask HN: How close are we to local LLMs being useful? What's the impact?
A good place to browse is the LocalLLaMa subreddit. [0]

A good software to start is LM Studio [1]. Another popular alternative is Ollama [2].

A better software when you're used to it all is llama.cpp as it's usually a bit faster and more frequently updated [3].

A good place to get models is HuggingFace, particularly the Unsloth models [4]

Most popular models lately to run on "regular" gaming PC's, workstations, Macs etc are: Qwen 3.5 9b, Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B, Qwen 3.6 27B, Gemma 4.

But there are hundreds or thousands of other models and different quantizations, finetunes, etc, etc. Have fun :)

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/

[1] https://lmstudio.ai/

[2] https://ollama.com/

[3] https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp

[4] https://huggingface.co/unsloth/collections

lgl··on Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields
I'm right there with you. These used to be the types of site designs and layouts we didn't want "back in the day" but loading them up these days is like a breath of fresh air, like the old geocities, xoom, etc sites.

Even inspecting the source and seeing HTML 4.0 Transitional, the capitalized tags, the bunch of duplicated meta tags and openoffice as generator no longer gives me the creeps as it would a while ago.

It's a labor of love and only the content matters, everything else is irrelevant! Never change, we do need more of these!

lgl··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
> Is Musk wielding the apparatus of state to ensure that any speech that he disagrees with is suppressed

He does not need to do that, he has his army of people like you that go around on all socials and wherever you can to post praise, defend him and attack any critics as he was some sort of uber genius savior of mankind. The Musk cult is real.

lgl··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Agreed, I'm pretty sure the Chinese are currently much, much better at long term thinking and have already reached the conclusion that llms are transformative enough generationally, that assuming a few more years or decades of Moore's Law together with ai/llm advances will probably place these "Mythos class" AIs in all our desktops in the next few years.
lgl··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
> People keep opening issues about "unsafe usage" in the codebase. This PR solves that problem at the root by introducing a yolo! macro and replacing all 10,421 instances of unsafe {} across 732 files.

This is actually pretty funny.

lgl··on Ask HN: Is it just me or is Claude Code getting worst?
Due to the copilot nerfing recently I've switched to codex and gpt 5.4 (and now especially 5.5) have been doing pretty great.

But even codex has these super weird time limits. It's really starting to show that these companies must have been losing a ton of money with all the recent limits and degration.

I'm still on the "camp" that most of these unicorns will be F'ed by open and local models in the next few years, at least in these coding/chatbox niches and then they'll just be perpetually (re)searching for AGI :shrug:

lgl··on Warning: If you search "Claude Desktop" on Google, the 2nd ad result is a scam
Sorry if this seems blunt, but in what planet have you've been living in that you're still not aware that google, meta, bing and pretty much all ad companies have been serving huge amounts of scams and malware since the dawn of time (in internet years) and have always done very little or nothing about it?
lgl··on Ads in ChatGPT
Google

Before: “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased toward the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.”

After: ~75–80%+ of revenue comes from ads

Facebook

Before: “Facebook is not about making money… it’s about building something cool.”, “We don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

After: ~97%+ of revenue comes from advertising

Twitter

Before: “We want to figure out a way to monetize that doesn’t interfere with the user experience.”

After: ~68% of X’s total revenue comes from advertising (~85–90%+ of revenue pre-Musk)

OpenAI

Before: "Something something AGI"

After: "But first, Ads!"

lgl··on DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding
Long are the days of DO being a super hoster imho. Hetzner and many other "cheap" clouds ate their breakfast and their reaction was pretty much zero.

Still an awesome service and platform.. but no longer worth it price wise as it once was. Same with Vultr..

I guess at some point all investors just pressure these companies into price matching AWS and other pay-for-every-single-thing-ever companies.

lgl··on Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?
Brilliant, highly recommended short story! Ted Chiang rarely disappoints.
lgl··on My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
Hey Rod, your last name seems portuguese(?)

Congrats on this, not only you got credits on a feature movie, you got one of the good ones. Cloud 9 for you, enjoy!

lgl··on Have a fucking website
You may see this as a rant but it's in fact a very valuable recommendation that apparently people no longer take seriously.

The path of least resistance is not a good way to do business or provide good service to your customers.

lgl··on Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
No, just a regular Pro subscription. Apparently it's not just me, Github seems to have removed these models from the "Student" subscription [0] but it seems as it was also removed from regular "Pro" subscriptions as there are many reports on their discussions. [1]

[0] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions

lgl··on OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
Ok sure, but Y2100 is not really "next generation" :)
lgl··on OpenAI might end up on the right side of history
> the next generation of Ai companies will be easily valued at 10T

I'm not sure where this conclusion is coming from. We're very likely already in an AI bubble so I'm thinking that open/free models will eventually dilute the huge ridiculous valuations these companies have. Also the natural increase in consumer hardware power will eventually allow many people to just use local models instead both for privacy and cost reasons.

And seeing as most models are essentially only improved versions of the previous ones with larger context and more training data, unless some new "Attention Is All You Need" paper comes out that will give us a big step into AGI territory, I'm really not seeing a new company reach $10T valuation by just releasing marginally better models every couple of months imho.

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