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by abtinf 3mo ago
> This is where things got interesting. Not because AI wrote the code — the code itself isn’t complicated, it’s a 1986 game that ran in 32K of RAM — but because Claude turned out to be an extraordinary tool for interrogating 6502 assembl
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by abtinf 3mo ago
There is no doubt. It's junk.
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Things that are worse than war, a wildly incomplete list, in no particular order: Pogroms; slavery; totalitarian dictatorship; theocracy; intentional mass starvation; mass organ harvesting; mass forced relocation; anarchy; failing to respon
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by abtinf 3mo ago
War is not nearly the worst thing. Not even in the top 10.
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by abtinf 3mo ago
It’s potentially a gross misallocation of capital. Right now, the 5 and 10 year US treasury rates are 4.2% and 4.47%. The 30 year is 4.99%. A business with a return on invested capital less than that is in fact operating at a loss. Unless t
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by abtinf 3mo ago
This likely represents increased freedom and faster decision making for Mojang and King. Moving up the org reporting chain lets you do more, because you have fewer people to convince. It’s not as good as being fully independent, but that wi
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Here is my unsolicited advice: If one of your goals is to get others to adopt the software, I recommend you redo the marketing page and readme from scratch. Delete them without looking at them again, then hand write the content for them. On
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Why does this landing page load js from merklemap.com?
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Entrusting data storage to a vibe coded filesystem seems imprudent.
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Setting aside that this seems to be pure slop, what’s with all the empty commits?
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Of course.
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by abtinf 3mo ago
Here is a video I made explaining it from absolute basics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_AgKuFGvJfI And the repo: https://github.com/abtinf/homunctor
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by abtinf 3mo ago
I wrote an early version of the Cylance AV desktop client. The UI side was a web app that talked to its windows service backend using HTTP over windows pipes. This was surprisingly easy to do using WCF.
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by abtinf 4mo ago
Those claims are extremely suspect and completely support the current rationing and power structure of healthcare. But, even granting they could be true, they would be true under the status quo . Sure, a one off full body scan might be sca
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by abtinf 4mo ago
The first thing I look for in any UI library is accessibility support. Makes it trivial to filter out toy projects.
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by abtinf 4mo ago
Someone ought to build a browser that is designed from the ground up to treat the web for what it is: the most hostile ecosystem on the planet. uBlock/uMatrix functionality should be built into the core. Every domain and PSF should be
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by abtinf 4mo ago
If I had to guess, it's because the registration is brand new (about 8 hours old), created at 2026-06-15 14:01:25 UTC.
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by abtinf 4mo ago
> Please provide an evidentiary basis for human consciousness. Direct experience. No further justification is necessary. All arguments against consciousness presuppose the existence of consciousness (the so-called stolen concept fallacy)
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by abtinf 4mo ago
This seems like just another NoSQL db, but with fancier words.
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The simplest proof LLMs are not conscious [video](youtube.com)
2 points by abtinf 4mo ago|4 comments
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by abtinf 4mo ago
The claim that LLMs are conscious is exactly the same as the claim that this mechanical movement (a NAND gate) is conscious. If you created an enough of these and connected them (material properties permitting), you could implement anything
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by abtinf 4mo ago
No, proof reading isn’t okay. No LLM involvement should be allowed whatsoever, exactly the same as the current HN policy on comments.
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by abtinf 4mo ago
The HN rules need to expand to ban all AI generated posts.
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by abtinf 4mo ago
There are many cases where SQLite + concurrent front end (like a go net/http server) can handle all the load that a service might ever conceivably have to handle, especially if allowed to scale up hardware over time. You can trivially
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by abtinf 5mo ago
> Pontiac Aztek was at least bold How bad does a design have to be that this is a valid attack? The Luce is so generic it borders on nihilism - destroying the very concept of Ferrari precisely because Ferraris are good.
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by abtinf 5mo ago
This transpiles to the native language.
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by abtinf 5mo ago
That area has dozens of aerospace manufacturers, building up since before WW2. People wanted to live close to work. There are lots of homes and commercial areas and industrial parks are tightly mixed together. Source: I’ve worked in aerospa
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by abtinf 5mo ago
I don’t see how models can be licensed at all. There is no creative element in them. As you say, you start with a random array and start mutating it until you get something that magically does interesting things. Sure, you can hold copyrigh
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by abtinf 5mo ago
Insofar as I can tell, inference is on a certain path toward becoming "free". The models are now extremely powerful on high-end consumer hardware, and the efficiency trend seems likely to continue. Here is a recent non-rigorous be
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by abtinf 5mo ago
This approach ignores 99% of the value of Kagi. Google provides atrocious results compared to Kagi once you've taken a few minutes to use the basic Kagi features.

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