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Artist with no technical experience stumbles upon the next generation of LLMs

Hacker News - Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:59am

For context, I have no CS background (terminals scare me), studied evolutionary biology in undergrad, did behavior analysis work for children with autism, and spent the last few years working full time as an independent artist.

While building agent infrastructure to help with the business demands of artistry, I developed a hypothesis about current LLM architecture that I want to test.

The core idea is nature has never produced higher orders of intelligence through single isolated units. Yet every frontier LLM is based on single model architecture. I want to change that. I'm placing several open source models into a living training environment with birth/death conditions, extinction events, commerce, and even marriages between models. The goal is to recreate natural selection within a training environment to force model specialization and evolution. I also have some preliminary ideas on minimizing the attention bottleneck in current LLMs by introducing "emotions" as a model parameter.

Happy to get into the more technical details in the comments. Will be periodically posting my research updates here. If you want to support the experiment: https://www.gofundme.com/f/stop-wasting-water-on-data-centers-a-safe-roadmap-for-ai

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Goodbye ChatGPT

Hacker News - Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:52am
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Show HN: Show HN: Widget Cast – Video Widgets for Your iPhone and Apple Watch

Hacker News - Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:20am

Hello! I've just released Widget Cast today, it's a little app to make looping animated widgets for iOS. Take any video and and you can trim to 10 seconds or less, then apply a load of effects like CRT, night vision, thermal, colour tint, etc - then see it animate away on your home screen.

App store: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/widget-cast-video-widgets/id67...

Got a glowing futuristic website here too: https://widgetcastapp.com

If you have an Apple watch, you can view them there too.

Could be a special moment or person, or just a dinosaur jumping up & down (which is also special).

It's free with some effects behind IAP (there are sort-of pay-what-you-want tiers). No subscriptions or ads.

Hopefully it's good fun!

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Watch RT Live Anywhere in the World

Hacker News - Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:05am

Article URL: https://rtlive.ru

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"An (important) message from Infomaniak's founder"

Hacker News - Wed, 05/20/2026 - 5:01am

Hello ...,

I'm writing to you as the founder and strategic director of Infomaniak because something important has just happened, and it concerns you directly.

I no longer control Infomaniak

It's not a multinational that has taken my place. It's a Swiss public-interest foundation: the Infomaniak Foundation. It now holds the majority of voting rights, in the form of special shares that can never be transferred.

The Infomaniak Foundation has two missions:

First, to support projects of general interest: digital sovereignty and education, environment and biodiversity, ethical technology, and the energy transition.

Second, as the reference shareholder, to safeguard the independence and longevity of our DNA.

What this changes for you

You chose Infomaniak for specific reasons: sovereignty, sustainability, respect for your privacy, and local roots.

Today, these commitments no longer depend on me. They are written into a charter that no one can undo.

I remain fully committed to Infomaniak's strategy, alongside the leadership team that has been running Infomaniak for years. What's changing is what protects it.

No investor, present or future, will be able to alter Infomaniak's DNA, mission, or independence. This protection will also allow us to welcome, in complete safety, the resources we need to grow.

And so that you can verify our commitments year after year, Infomaniak publishes a public impact report every year.

Why now

Today, more and more of you are entrusting us with your data, websites, emails, and business-critical activities. That trust, built up over thirty years, represents a vast amount of information. In the AI era, it has taken on an unprecedented strategic value.

At a time when most European data sits with a handful of American players. At a time when we have seen, mid-proceedings, judges at the International Criminal Court lose access to their digital services overnight. At a time when AI consumes ever more energy and concentrates ever more power. Europe's technological autonomy has never been more essential.

Such trust could no longer rest on my goodwill alone. It demanded structural protection.

This is what I owe you.

All the details, how the Foundation works, its members, and what comes next for Infomaniak, are explained here:

Discover the full story behind this project

You chose Infomaniak years ago, sometimes decades ago, for reasons that have never been more relevant than they are today. This foundation is my way of protecting your choice for the long term.

It's also my way, today, of saying thank you. Thank you for your trust. Thank you for choosing a sovereign cloud, rooted in the local economy, that respects your privacy.

With my deepest gratitude,

Boris Siegenthaler, founder and strategic director of Infomaniak

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