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Re:TCNs as Alternative to Transformers? on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:20AM (#48358024)
"Just because they are not there YET doesn't mean "

To be honest i didn't read the rest...yes it does mean that. Chance you're employee/investor in spacex? 100%.

Re:TCNs as Alternative to Transformers? on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:38AM (#48353350)
Sorry, I replied. Spacex failed with Mars.
They failed. Period.

TCNs as Alternative to Transformers?

over the last months I've experimented with many alternatives to transformers, such as one i created github repo about:https://github.com/bggb7781-collab/lrnnsmddsArchitectures I've experimented with and my personal notes as pros and cons:1. RNNS: Like Mamba, RWKV and my attempt above: likely the best alternative to transformers but hard to parallelize and I've personally encountered weird...

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Ask HN: Has AI affected negatively the job market for devs?

So, not trying to "flex" but in the past I've worked on projects even for Microsoft/darpa, won awards, now been developing alternatives to transformers for generative models in C and can't even get an interview after tens of applications? even $10/hour seems like a stretch...looks like it's all about connections now and any buzzword or "complex code" is immediately considered an ai-slop or far...

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Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring

OK, this is just social science but note this:Musk posted today for people to give 3 proofs of exceptional ability if they want to join the most expensive and "most innovative" company ever - Spacex.But how can you innovate when you follow the rules? what if you send 1, 2 or 4 reasons? and why would anyone work for someone with very questionable and controversial views? It doesn't seem possible...

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in theory several GBs .bin may be useful chatbot if it's not transformers even better. Not too easy to code but...for me as a user it's preferable over SaaS right now.
qwen, grok, chat ji pi ti? They are close to sonnet in quality...if you want quality drop, no high standards: mistral or solar 3 pro or something.

Ask HN: How far will the neo-Luddites go in their attempts to stop AI progress?

I was just watching coverage of the recent attack against Altman:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJi4LJWC1zsmolotov cocktail against heavy guarded home seems almost harmless but what if they attack larger infrastructure, nuclear, terrorism? The attack vectors seem endless and very real...from hacking to actually using AI (deepfake) to make anti-ai content.

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This is also an interesting case against LLMs/chatbots. If it was 1903 chatbots would've repeated the same that airplanes are impossible or that time is constant, there is no attraction between diamagnetic materials (casimir effect) or anything experimentally proven later. I'm not saying one should pursue claims that may always remain pseudoscience such as magnet motors but it helps to always doubt common academic consensus at the time and rather: experiment.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Monday April 13, 2026 @05:06PM (#47757812)
* fastest human-made object (well, for the time being it's failing);

* this too: https://github.com/bggb7781-collab/lrnnsmdds

* SNN, NLP spiking neural network;

* neurosymbollic code generator (half-abandoned, not quite feeling like resurecting 2010s and amazon alexa is the right choice atm).

Re: on Monday April 13, 2026 @01:28AM (#47747963)
she looks gemini generated?? either musk made the profile "so cool, legalize comedy" or false flag from altman? 20% chance for a legit retarded doomer.
Re:Ask HN: How did you specialize as a software engineer? on Saturday April 11, 2026 @05:02PM (#47734000)
it just clicks with me, i like the syntax of the language or i believe it may solve important problems (e.q. AI helping with cancer cures, helping engineers design propulsion, improve loneliness etc). Existing documentation was important too back in the days before 2023 and the AI boom, for example asking question about c# on stackoverflow is one thing but asking about the Ring programming language totally different. Finally: versatility of language, i tend to avoid limited purpose languages like say perl or ruby which may be amazing idk but lack of gui tools, ai ecosystem, gaming development, app development etc i'd rather avoid them.
Re:Viktor Orbán Could Lose on Friday April 10, 2026 @05:25PM (#47723851)
i hope he does, nothing but a puppet of trump and putin.
well i mean if they use all those zillions of gigawattz for agi there will be no energy left for cancer so they'll starve it
you can't seriously convince anyone over 15 they didn't anticipate this 'a priori', all Amodei, Askell, Cherny etc seem like very smart people...that's just hype for enterprise customers to pay more $$$ or for their upcoming ipo stock.
turn mercury to gold?
hmmm 10x, i added this line on top in the comment on top inside the file:

"PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0"

(free for non-commercial) ^ I'm not sure it's the best license though, actually gpt 5.4 says it's a bad idea, but after a long puzzling wheather to make it GPL free for everything or refrain from posting on github at all i picked the middleground...i may change it later.

Re:Ask HN: What should I re-skill in? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:51PM (#47711319)
either you program AI itself or hardware/robotics: arduino/rasp pi. I have a feeling the next "big thing" will be space but that's a bit premature, make it the mid-30s or 40s where the space-bubble starts.

Show HN: Linear RNN/Reservoir hybrid generative model, one C file (no deps.)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bggb7781-collab/lrnnsmdds/refs/heads/main/lrnnsmdds

I just noticed it takes literally ~5 minutes to train millions parameters on slow CPU...but before you call Yudkowsky that "it's over", an important note: the main bottleneck is the corpus size, params are just 'cleverness' but given limited info it's powerless.Anyway, here is the project:https://github.com/bggb7781-collab/lrnnsmdds/tree/maincouple of notes:1. single C file, no dependencies....

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SNN brain-inspired gen-AI in C/C#, no external AI libs could be promising?

So over the past months I've experimented with many potential alternatives to transformers, one of which is the so called Spiking Neural Networks which, to the ones unfamiliar with them, is an approach to AI which seeks to make AI as similar to the human brain as possible, in other words while transformers or RNN, LSTMs are result-driven (not seeking to simulate human 1:1) - SNNs actually try...

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Screenshot of interesting generalization from a tiny corpus on linear RNN

this is a linear RNN I've worked on, with the goal to solve the long range memory problem in RNNs as well as other improvements such as constant speed in generation...the rest of the text is copy/pasted as the original since due to the limited size this is massive overfit (perplexity is under 1.20):https://i.imgur.com/p6AmBrq.pngAnother way explain this is: "like Mamba but with good long term...

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"free speech" in america...
Re:SpaceX targets more than $2T valuation in IPO on Thursday April 02, 2026 @07:03PM (#47621339)
Not trying to sound negative but maybe when you're exposed as a ped@file neonazi, the last thing you need to do is ask for 2 trillion $?
Re:Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards Real World Agents on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:39PM (#47621123)
i've been fan of qwen for quite some time, awsome!

Ask HN: Not much interest in offline CPU LLMs that may kill SaaS?

Hypothetically speaking a .bin model file <4 GB can be very competitive, the rest is just interface like a desktop app. This may be:1. free; 2. solves the privacy issue so you communicate with your chatbot offline, lack of privacy is huge issue amongst end users. 3. crazy but even in 2026 people don't always have internet everywhere.This turns the LLM industry from SaaS subscription to a...

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