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by thorum3 hours ago |
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upvoteby skohan2 hours ago|
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We had decades to work on making software more performant, but instead most users' space-age 2nm chips spend most of their time running Javascript because it was faster to make software that way.
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upvoteby winrid2 hours ago|
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even my ten year old laptop browses the web fine ^_^

If I had to complain about any site/app it'd be datadog... each tab uses like 1gb in firefox.

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upvoteby skohan47 minutes ago|
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I think it's hard to understand how much better your experience could be if all your software was 10x faster and using 0.1x the resources, since you can't test both experiences side by side

It's like riding a bike with a tiny bit of resistance in the bearings. You will get used to it, and will probably feel like your bike is fine. But if you replace the hub and remove that friction, you will wonder how you ever tolerated riding a bike that way.

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upvoteby gr_norm2 hours ago|
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Why would you do that instead of having the model do the task you're using the UI for? It could generate UI widgets on-the-fly as needed to take richer inputs.
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upvoteby skohan2 hours ago|
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It might be fine for one-off applications, but it's incredibly inefficient for something that has to be done over and over.

Why would you use a GPU and gigabytes of VRAM running a non-deterministic process for something a program can do on the CPU in milliseconds with kilobytes of memory?

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upvoteby hnlmorg2 hours ago|
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Probably for the same reasons most of our desktop applications have become slow Chromium instances consuming multiple GBs of RAM, each:

It’s cheaper to hire developers, and quicker to ship software. The user experience be damned.

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upvoteby skohan2 hours ago|
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The logic here is a bit different. Consumer software is slow because it's the user paying for the compute to run those bloated Electron apps. Unless we're all running local inference in the future, it would be the vendor paying for the compute to run the AI-based UI.

Of course they would pass that along to the consumer, but nobody is going to pay token-based pricing for something that used to be free and ad-supported, or a cheap monthly subscription.

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upvoteby hnlmorg38 minutes ago|
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This demo is already using a local model. Which is why I made the Electron comparison.
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upvoteby antonvs2 hours ago|
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I don't really disagree, but... why do we use Javascript for so many UIs? Badly designed web pages with ads can easily use gigabytes of RAM.

Edit: oh, I saw you wrote a related comment after I posted this. So you already know that direct LLMs for UIs are all but inevitable...

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upvoteby latentsea1 hours ago|
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What if we're really just living in a world model? How big of a GPU is required to run the universe I wonder?
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upvoteby rvz48 minutes ago|
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This makes absolutely no sense what so ever.

There's a good reason why the UI for Excel, Photoshop and Word has hardly changed and remains consistent for years and that has worked for billions of people.

Many HN readers have forgotten the Windows 8 UI disaster already.

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