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by johnfn 6mo ago
There are many people who have been saying this far there was any sort of business model in place.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Some people think there will be an exponential takeoff, which means that a 6 month lead effectively rounds up to infinity.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
I think this is a little too optimistic: - Go onto a Reddit thread about ICE, everyone in the comment threads says they don't like ICE. That's the obvious statement, not edgy. - Go onto a Reddit thread about Trump, everyone says t
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by johnfn 6mo ago
The best part about this is that the title "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it" is perfectly self-descriptive.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
The NYT has no authority to dox people. If they or anyone believed that SSC was acting unethically or illegally, that should be processed through proper legal or ethical channels, which exist for a reason. The solution is not that NYT shoul
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by johnfn 6mo ago
It is not his real name. Once he upended his life, he revealed his real name here[1]. It is not Scott Alexander. [1]: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/still-alive
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by johnfn 6mo ago
The NYTimes infamously doxxed Slate Star Codex[1], despite him basically begging them not to because it would upend his psychiatry practice, back in 2020 for no reason other than because they could. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
What do you mean? In most cases, the benchmarks show a larger number for Muse and a smaller number for Opus.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
What's hard to believe? OP just asked what the bug was.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Be careful with that because then bikers are just going to start using car horns.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
A pretty easy way to construct a bug that is easy for a human to solve but difficult for an AI is to have it to do something with z-indexes. For instance, if your element isn't rendering because something else is on top of it, Claude w
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Yeah, I find it a bit odd how at the time everyone was pointing and laughing at OpenAI for being obviously wrong about this. Now in 2026, AI slop is very obviously a serious problem - it inundates all platforms and obscures the truth. And p
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Wow! I totally remember reading the bit I'll quote down below back in 2019 and having my mind utterly blown. What a blast from the past. If anything, I think this moment was even more astounding to me than GPT 3.5, 4, etc. > For exa
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by johnfn 6mo ago
GLM-5.0 is the real deal as far as open source models go. In our internal benchmarks it consistently outperforms other open source models, and was on par with things like GPT-5.2. Note that we don't use it for coding - we use it for mo
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by johnfn 6mo ago
It is profoundly ironic that this article is AI generated.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Isn’t this the point? People use CC for the model, not the harness. So the harness can be slop and it doesn’t matter.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
"Laughing" at how bad the code in Claude Code is really seems to be missing the forest for the trees. Anthropic didn't set out to build a bunch of clean code when writing Claude Code. They set out to make a bunch of money, an
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Pretty neat site you've got there. You should submit it to Show HN. I had fun clicking around - it's like TVTropes, except the examples make me angry, lol. It would be pretty fun to train an LLM on this site and then have it flag
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Read his comment in context. The comment thread, condensed, is: mudkipdev says "There can't be any interesting discussion about AI programming". We agree that is a universal claim. (Right? I mean, your comment says "You
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by johnfn 6mo ago
He said: > "there is no interesting conversations to be had about LLM programming anymore" The first sentence was in his experience, but this is a universal assertion. He is claiming no one, in the world, is having interesting
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Maybe you struggle to have good conversations because I just provided an anecdote and you immediately stated that my anecdote is false? If this is how you typically interact with people I’m not surprised you’re not having interesting conver
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by johnfn 6mo ago
There genuinely is a lot of interesting discussion to be had about LLMs, and I know this is true because I discuss things with my coworkers daily and learn a lot. I do admit that conversation online about LLMs is frequently lacking. I think
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by johnfn 6mo ago
This is against the hacker news guidelines[1]: > Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Are you upset that Tesla is named Tesla? Probably not? A lot of people are angry about Tesla and I think even then I haven't ever heard of that particular complaint.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Are you upset about Calvin and Hobbes being a reference to John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes? Probably not? I think OP is asking an interesting question and you are being unnecessarily combative.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
This is written by an LLM. Also, it doesn't make sense: > 57K lines, 0 tests, vibe coding in production Why on earth would you ship your tests?
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Surely "so frustrating" isn't explicit content?
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by johnfn 6mo ago
This is an interesting denial of reality.
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It is absolutely not paranoia. People are distilling Claude code all the time.
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by johnfn 6mo ago
Is this true? Non-reasoning LLMs are autoregressive. Reasoning LLMs can emit thousands of reasoning tokens before "line 1" where they write the answer.

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