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momojo commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

momojo · a month ago

This doesn't match my own experience. I dream of the day the stuff I don't find interesting can get automated but again and again I find myself having to do things by hand.

I wonder if this is similar to Chess and Go getting 'solved'. Hard problem spaces that only the biggest brains could tackle. Maybe it turns out creating highly performant, distributed systems with a plethora of unittests is a cakewalk for LLMs, while trying to make a 'simple web app' for a niche microscopy application is like trying to drive around San Francisco.

momojo commented on Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language · Posted by u/goose0004

momojo · a month ago

Great work!

> In practice, that means more logic fits in context, and sessions stretch longer before hitting limits. The AI maintains a broader view of your codebase throughout.

This is one of those 'intuitions' that I've also had. However, I haven't found any convincing evidence for or against it so far.

In a similar vein, this is why `reflex`[0] intrigues me. IMO their value prop is "LLM's love Python, so let's write entire apps in python". But again, I haven't seen any hard numbers.

Anyone seen any hard numbers to back this?

[0] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

momojo commented on Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy geospy.ai/blog/locating-a... · Posted by u/kachapopopow

momojo · a month ago

Reminds me of the Clearview AI controversy[0].

I'm not diminishing the ethics debate, but it's crazy to me how easy it was for two non-technical rich dudes in a garage to build Clearview AI (And before vibe-coding!):

  1. scrape billions of faces from the internet
  2. `git clone` any off the shelf facial-recognition repo

It was just a matter of when.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview_AI#History

momojo commented on TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B) github.com/microsoft/TREL... · Posted by u/dvrp

momojo · 2 months ago

I'm surprised at the lukewarm reception. Admittedly I don't follow the image-to-3D space as much, but last time I checked in, the gloopy fuzzy outputs did not impress me.

I want to highlight what I believe is the coolest innovation: their novel O-Voxel data structure. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how they figured out the conversion from voxel-space to mesh-space. Those two worlds don't work well together.

A 2D analogy is that they figured out an efficient, bidirectional, one-shot method of converting PNG's into SVG's, without iteration. Crazy.

momojo commented on AI will make formal verification go mainstream martin.kleppmann.com/2025... · Posted by u/evakhoury

momojo · 2 months ago

@simonw's successful port of JustHTML from python to javascript proved that an agent iteration + an exhaustive test suite is a powerful combo [0].

I don't know if TLA+ is going to suddenly appear as 'the next language I want to learn' in Stackoverflow's 2026 Developer Survey, but I bet we're going to see a rise in testing frameworks/languages. Anything to make it easier for an agent to spit out tokens or write smaller tests for itself.

Not a perfect piece of evidence, but I'm really interested to see how successful Reflex[1] is in this upcoming space.

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ [1] https://github.com/reflex-dev/reflex

momojo commented on SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image apple.github.io/ml-sharp/... · Posted by u/dvrp

alexgotoi · 2 months ago

Apple dropping this is interesting. They've been quiet on the flashy AI stuff while everyone else is yelling about transformers, but 3D reconstruction from single images is actually useful hardware integration stuff.

What's weird is we're getting better at faking 3D from 2D than we are at just... capturing actual 3D data. Like we have LiDAR in phones already, but it's easier to neural-net your way around it than deal with the sensor data properly.

Five years from now we'll probably look back at this as the moment spatial computing stopped being about hardware and became mostly inference. Not sure if that's good or bad tbh.

Will include this one in my https://hackernewsai.com/ newsletter.

momojo · 2 months ago

I wonder if humans are any different. We don't have LIDAR in our eyes but we approximate depth "enough" with only our 2D input

momojo commented on Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits eli.li/gundam-is-just-the... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

neaden · 2 months ago

I don't really agree with this authors analysis of Austen. Like on Pride and Prejudice, "Elizabeth Bennet wants to marry for love and respect, but in her world marriage is fundamentally about economic security and social alliance." Elizabeth grew up with her parents fairly disastrous marriage (where her Dad doesn't respect her Mom) and inability to think in the future which put the girls in such a bad situation (her father should have saved money up instead of just assuming he'd have a son eventually). She is reacting against that, wanting a husband that will have mutual respect AND the economic security of someone who is responsible. She wouldn't just want to marry someone for love who wasn't able to provide her economic security, just like she doesn't want to marry Darcy she doesn't respect him. This article makes it sound like she is rejecting the social expectations of her society, but only her mom really wants her to marry Mr. Collins and as seen by her own marriage and support of Lydia's marriage she is a pretty bad judge of what's going to make a good life.

Later they say "They also both, mostly, focus on characters who have enough privilege to have choices, but not enough power to escape circumstances. Characters in both aren’t peasants without agency, but they’re also caught in larger systems they can’t opt out of" But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of. But even within Austen you have Emma, who is entirely economically and socially secure and doesn't need to worry about anything and Fanny who lives entirely at the whims of others.

momojo · 2 months ago

> But that just describes basically everyone, none of us have no agency, but all of us are also caught up in larger systems we can't opt out of.

But isn't the drama between the billionaire heiress and her starving-artist lover more interesting than the lawyer girlfriend deciding whether she wants to marry her below-average-salary boyfriend?

Or maybe I don't understand your complaint.

momojo commented on Poetiq – Traversing the Frontier of Superintelligence poetiq.ai/posts/arcagi_an... · Posted by u/JnBrymn

momojo · 2 months ago

Anyone have any thoughts? ARC-AGI (and 2) is pretty much the only benchmark of interest to me anymore, due to its abstract nature.

momojo commented on Gemini 3 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/preek

panarky · 3 months ago

Hmmm, I wrote those words myself, maybe I've spent too much time with LLMs and now I'm talking like them??

I'd be interested in any evidence-based arguments you might have beyond attacking my writing style and insinuating bad intent.

I found this commenter had sage advice about how to use HN well, I try to follow it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38944467

momojo · 3 months ago

You mentioned "step change" twice. Maybe a once over next time? My favorite Mark Twain quote is (very paraphrased) "My apologies, had I more time, I would have written a shorter letter".

momojo commented on Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages ai.meta.com/blog/omniling... · Posted by u/jean-

momojo · 3 months ago

Does anyone else feel like they buried the lead?

> Omnilingual ASR was designed as a community-driven framework. People around the world can extend Omnilingual ASR to new languages by using just a few of their own samples.

The world just got smaller