Weird time to do it IMO, right on the brink of agents potentially becoming the main entity closing purchases for many. If agents succeed at becoming e-commerce middlemen for the masses, I think these decisions will age…
If you plan to stay in tech.. but it's a great time to make alternative plans if you aren't committed to adapting to the changes the industry is going through. The day-to-day of tech work could be unrecognizable in 5-10…
I don't think it's a binary. Even among people who are pro-AI, there are uses of AI that almost everyone is against. I doubt most people have a problem with a lightweight model that runs on a laptop and does grammar…
I subscribe to XBox Game Pass and used to subscribe to Geforce Now too. They're both really great for me as more of a casual gamer, but at the competitive level in the fighting game genre, it's totally insane and people…
This continues to be an absolute no-go for competitive real-time games due to input latency. I honestly think there's a chance that game clients might go the way of the recording industry, and they just might not be…
There's plenty of reason to still be skeptical about the future of VR, or Meta's practices, but shoving all of that aside it does look like a big step toward the level of comfort that's going to be needed for VR to…
Yeah I use a custom fork of llama.cpp that has an abliteration feature that basically does this. It's sloppily vibe coded and I don't have time to coordinate on a way to do this cleanly upstream, but it's absolutely…
Immediate first impression is that this tagline should go. If the project brings something valuable to the table it doesn't need to shit on other permissively licensed open source projects to make a case for itself
The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous agreement that it's a good thing to…
Seems like a more organized way to do the equivalent of a folder full of md files + instructing the LLM to ls that folder and read the ones it needs
I feel like this sort of thing will be referenced for comic relief in future talks about hysteria at the dawn of the AI era. The article actually contains the sentence "The machines aren’t just taking over our…
Whether web or native is better is hardly relevant to the core of this issue IMO, which is about fundamental rights to admin our own devices. Having to make a network request to fetch an external resource every time you…
Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
I'm not a modeler but I've tried it a few times. For me, modeling is a pain that I need to deal with to solo-dev a 3d game project. I would think about using something like this for small indie projects to output super…
Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.
No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid about their requirements, but I'm a…
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for…
I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the SOTA, but is it possible to beat an…
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned…
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone. It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and…
I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it. Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everything is recorded. Information about…
Not a lawyer but my opinion is the law shouldn't be used to compel anyone to provide unpaid services. With that said, I still think it's terrible for the community. If other package repositories like npm, PyPI, and…
The preamble of the GPLV2 begins with: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to…
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but it sounds like they're doing this the right way. I want to be able to run a local model using something like VLLM or FastChat, then be able to call it from a context menu. No obnoxious…
That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.
Weird time to do it IMO, right on the brink of agents potentially becoming the main entity closing purchases for many. If agents succeed at becoming e-commerce middlemen for the masses, I think these decisions will age…
If you plan to stay in tech.. but it's a great time to make alternative plans if you aren't committed to adapting to the changes the industry is going through. The day-to-day of tech work could be unrecognizable in 5-10…
I don't think it's a binary. Even among people who are pro-AI, there are uses of AI that almost everyone is against. I doubt most people have a problem with a lightweight model that runs on a laptop and does grammar…
I subscribe to XBox Game Pass and used to subscribe to Geforce Now too. They're both really great for me as more of a casual gamer, but at the competitive level in the fighting game genre, it's totally insane and people…
This continues to be an absolute no-go for competitive real-time games due to input latency. I honestly think there's a chance that game clients might go the way of the recording industry, and they just might not be…
There's plenty of reason to still be skeptical about the future of VR, or Meta's practices, but shoving all of that aside it does look like a big step toward the level of comfort that's going to be needed for VR to…
Yeah I use a custom fork of llama.cpp that has an abliteration feature that basically does this. It's sloppily vibe coded and I don't have time to coordinate on a way to do this cleanly upstream, but it's absolutely…
Immediate first impression is that this tagline should go. If the project brings something valuable to the table it doesn't need to shit on other permissively licensed open source projects to make a case for itself
The HN audience is overwhelmingly aware of the issues around right to repair and data collection, so there isn't much reacting to do there - I assume there's already near-unanimous agreement that it's a good thing to…
Seems like a more organized way to do the equivalent of a folder full of md files + instructing the LLM to ls that folder and read the ones it needs
I feel like this sort of thing will be referenced for comic relief in future talks about hysteria at the dawn of the AI era. The article actually contains the sentence "The machines aren’t just taking over our…
Whether web or native is better is hardly relevant to the core of this issue IMO, which is about fundamental rights to admin our own devices. Having to make a network request to fetch an external resource every time you…
Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
I'm not a modeler but I've tried it a few times. For me, modeling is a pain that I need to deal with to solo-dev a 3d game project. I would think about using something like this for small indie projects to output super…
Kind of fun to get into a brutal insult battle with. Hope I didn't violate any TOS with with that one.
No degree. I've been working the full stack for almost 15 years full time, including recently learning to train various types of gen AI models. There are still orgs that are rigid about their requirements, but I'm a…
It's inevitable because it's here. LLMs aren't the "future" anymore, they're the present. They're unseating Google as the SOTA method of finding information on the internet. People have been trying to do that for…
I'm not going to disagree because greed knows no bounds, but that could be RIP for the enthusiast crowd's proprietary LLM use. We may not have cheap local open models that beat the SOTA, but is it possible to beat an…
I think I'm mostly in agreement with your points. I think a significant part of the downfall of DEI was deliberate bad-faith behavior from those who actually oppose equality, but there are also things to be learned…
I think there's still appeal in the underlying (very) basic ideas of trying to create a workplace that's comfortable for everyone. It's being rolled back quickly because that's what influential rich people want, and…
I think information and culture/fashion both have a lot to do with it. Pre-social media, you could get drunk and embarrass yourself, and forget about it by the next day. Now everything is recorded. Information about…
Not a lawyer but my opinion is the law shouldn't be used to compel anyone to provide unpaid services. With that said, I still think it's terrible for the community. If other package repositories like npm, PyPI, and…
The preamble of the GPLV2 begins with: "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to…
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but it sounds like they're doing this the right way. I want to be able to run a local model using something like VLLM or FastChat, then be able to call it from a context menu. No obnoxious…
That's hilarious. Someday we'll all be working QA, just scanning over AI output for issues, like manufactured goods passing by on a conveyor belt.