dang

17 ms·

481.
by dang 3mo ago
It's sometimes used that way, sometimes a fact, and sometimes both. It's all unclear because we're still in the early stages of this working itself out.
482.
by dang 3mo ago
That's a high exaggeration of course, but in the wonderful old HN tradition of perceiving the site as dominated by $badness, where everyone has their own perception of $badness. I'm not picking on you - it's practically a uni
483.
by dang 3mo ago
I think you're probably right that the article was AI-assisted, but (if so) it's important not to confuse that with the thing the article is about. Google wouldn't pay $90k for a hallucination. I don't mean that as a cri
484.
by dang 3mo ago
Hey guys - please don't do tit for tat spats on HN. I know how it feels (believe me, I know how it feels down to such a level that any hypothetical offspring would also know how it feels), but it only makes everything worse. https:&#x
485.
by dang 3mo ago
Hey guys - please don't do tit for tat spats on HN. I know how it feels (believe me, I know how it feels down to such a level that any hypothetical offspring would also know how it feels), but it only makes everything worse. https:&#x
486.
by dang 3mo ago
I understand the response (hence https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887373 ) but please don't react by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
487.
by dang 3mo ago
Wow, what is that episode? I haven't listened to TAL in probably more than a decade but it was great for a long time, and for all I know still is.
488.
by dang 3mo ago
Please don't be snarky or cross into putdowns or personal attack. We're all in (let's call it) the unlucky 10,000 about something. About most things actually. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
489.
by dang 3mo ago
I'd be curious if you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887149 and let me know (once I've finished editing the damn thing) how this changes, or doesn't change, your response.
490.
by dang 3mo ago
Recent and related: Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)
491.
by dang 3mo ago
We don't allow genai text on HN itself - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 . How to enforce it is a separate question, of c
492.
by dang 3mo ago
Thanks! I've put that in the toptext now.
493.
by dang 3mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834309 , which was posted first. (Sorry! I still want to implement karma sharing so we can split credit between multiple submitters.)
494.
by dang 3mo ago
We put your submission ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834309 ) in the SCP ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ) and it's on the frontpage now. I would have emailed you this but didn&#
495.
by dang 3mo ago
We've edited the title now in the hope of nudging the discussion in a more substantive direction.
496.
by dang 3mo ago
Thanks - I've attempted to put that in the title above, in the hope of representing the article accurately. (The trouble with a baity title like "Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?" is that it generates a bar
497.
by dang 3mo ago
[stub for offtopicness] [[All: please don't post shallow-generic reactions to baity titles. Those are basically the same thing, a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubin_vase , and we're trying for something mo
498.
by dang 3mo ago
" Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: I suppose I'd better add that this is not a defense of $THAT_GUY - just an attempted defense of HN comment
499.
by dang 3mo ago
I moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861923 to give the author's submission a chance. I hope that's ok! (and while I'm at it: thanks for submitting so many great links to HN - we gre
500.
by dang 3mo ago
Thanks! We've put shingles into the title above.
501.
by dang 3mo ago
We can move it if you tell us what the parent should be.
502.
by dang 3mo ago
If you give us something to look up I can try to track them down for you. Up to you of course.
503.
by dang 3mo ago
Yep we've been around the block a few times with that pre-emptive trick: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
504.
by dang 3mo ago
Discussed at the time (of the article): Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500508 - Sept 2021 (399 comments)
505.
by dang 3mo ago
Turning this into a nationalistic flamewar is an additional road to hell that we did not need. This thread was bad enough without it. Please don't post like this to HN again. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.
506.
by dang 3mo ago
We get thousands of emails - far too many to even read them all, let alone respond the way we would like to. There are other reasons why we might not respond, but overload is the main one. Edit: I only see one email in the archive related t
507.
by dang 3mo ago
I understand how it can be confusing. The key factors in doing it this way are (1) the community regards older accounts, especially ones that have significant posting history, as more credible; and (2) doing it publicly rather than silently
508.
by dang 3mo ago
Ok that's good - if you get it again can you let us know at hn@ycombinator.com? We definitely don't want to exclude legit users.
509.
by dang 3mo ago
It was, but there were too many legit users getting affected, so we turned most of that off a few days ago. Are you still seeing it?
510.
by dang 3mo ago
> What are YOU on about? Can you please edit out swipes like this from your HN comments? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Your post would be fine without that bit. Perso

More ›