HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

maxilevi

791 karma · joined September 28, 2019

currently lead inference engineer @ elevenlabs

happy to chat about anything. shoot me an email: maxilevi77 at gmail.com

submissionscomments
maxilevi··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
Oops, will open source too!
maxilevi··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
IMO better syntax and VM than Java and easier to write performant code than other VM based langs like Python + good tooling
maxilevi··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
I get what you mean and I agree but I wanted to highlight the difference between this and all the vibe coded games opus 5.5 can one shot
maxilevi··on Hedra is a 3D open world game I wrote from scratch while in highschool
I started this game almost 10 years ago in high school as a way to learn OpenGL. Scope creep quickly took over, and it eventually became a full 3D game and engine with animations, rendering effects, dynamic terrains, etc, with ~100k lines of code and native Linux and Windows support.

Thought I'd share it! With AI coding now, it feels like a relic of another era. Crazy to imagine writing 100k lines by hand today!

maxilevi··on Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
but they don’t, the price of an h100 per hour has been going up across the year because you can squeeze more utility out of the computations
maxilevi··on Quantization from the Ground Up
since when ngrok is doing ai
maxilevi··on How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page
It was never about hard work its about who owns the means of production. And it turns out the best way to amass huge amounts of wealth is creating something so you have ownership and working on growing it for decades.

Jeff had similar compensation as jassy when he was ceo. It’s just that he is also the owner.

maxilevi··on How an inference provider can prove they're not serving a quantized model
thats not true in practice
maxilevi··on Repatriate the gold': German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Canada wouldn't be able to defend from an invasion
maxilevi··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
I just said LLMs
maxilevi··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
I don't mean search in the reductionist way but rather that its much better at translating, finding and mapping concepts if everything is provided vs creating from scratch. If it could truly think it would be able to bootstrap creations from basic principles like we do, but it really can't. Doesn't mean its not a great powerful tool.
maxilevi··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
LLMs are just really good search. Ask it to create something and it's searching within the pretrained weights. Ask it to find something and it's semantically searching within your codebase. Ask it to modify something and it will do both. Once you understand its just search, you can get really good results.
maxilevi··on USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994
AED is pegged to the USD
maxilevi··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
most of them are non binding letters of intent, i don't think it's as trite as you put it
maxilevi··on A 27M parameter model beating LLMs on reasoning tasks
Try it and let us know
maxilevi··on Addiction Markets
That only applies for industries that are growing. And most of the “gambling” happens in options markets which are perfectly zero sum before fees.
maxilevi··on What If Every Picture You've Ever Seen Already Exists?
Similar to the plot of the library of babel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel)
maxilevi··on Image to 3D
Half the features are not available
maxilevi··on Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire
As if the government could do better capital allocation in the economy than buffett
maxilevi··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
temu and shein are cooked
maxilevi··on Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally
In some countries its illegal to buy dollars due to currency controls.
maxilevi··on Ask HN: So Where's the Moat for AI?
They used NVIDIA GPUs, just less of them
maxilevi··on When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows
There is no negative effect to doing so, why would you not?
maxilevi··on Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)
The intention of the treaty of Versailles wasn’t to make a peaceful Europe
maxilevi··on Reddit S1
Most of the compensation is in stock awards not cash
maxilevi··on India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely
And how many people are like that? You are basically discard most of the population
maxilevi··on Ask HN: Have any of you had success trading the stock market?
Unless you get an extended tech downturn and you lose 10 years of gains
maxilevi··on Inflation is as corrosive to investing as it is to the real economy
Barter economies never had inflationary periods. Inflation as we see it is in it's major component caused by governments debasing the currency.
maxilevi··on How to improve and get out from mediocre?
It's tricky because you almost never truly work on sophisticated systems as a whole. You usually interact with a small part of them that tends to be meaningless, (e.g. writing YAML files for complex k8s).

The exception to this would be if you are the one designing the system, but then most sophisticated systems tend to grow from necessity rather than central planning.

That's my experience at least.

maxilevi··on The History of Coffee (2015)
Why?
Page 1 of 6Next →