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by npilk 7mo ago
Yes, spending time working with Claude Code leaves me feeling the same way I feel after a day scrolling Reddit and HN - a thin, jittery, frayed sort of weariness. It's almost like gambling, with inconsistent dopamine hits, but it adds
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"Al has joined your family"(notes.npilk.com)
2 points by npilk 7mo ago|2 comments
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by npilk 7mo ago
Don't we already have these filters in place? I only saw this because it was highly-upvoted on HN, for example - I don't read every new submission. I also read things sent by friends and family, shared by curators I trust, etc. Of
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by npilk 7mo ago
By the way, for anyone wondering/unfamiliar, the scale of this tournament is such that it's not realistically possible to enumerate all possible outcomes, let alone submit them to a site like this. With 63 games, there are 2^63 po
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by npilk 7mo ago
For sure it was overkill/not the most efficient approach - really I was more just curious if it would work. The answer was "kind of", but even that is pretty amazing. I can't imagine telling myself 5 years ago that I cou
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by npilk 7mo ago
Love it! Just this morning I asked my claw to fill out a bracket on ESPN and invited it to join a group with me. It was a bit clunky (Disney's signup within an iframe was tricky and navigating the bracket to make picks with JS took a f
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by npilk 7mo ago
Fun project but I need a downvote button - Secret History is great! Incredibly rich and interesting characters.
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by npilk 7mo ago
I find this happens naturally on high-trust teams highly motivated by their work, and I doubt just asking for it like this will be effective.
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by npilk 7mo ago
The author is saying something different here - that in this mode, the speaker’s feelings about how the recipient will receive a blunt message are the speaker’s problem. In this case the recipient has already reassured the speaker they
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Custom clothing is cheap and easy to order(pilk.website)
4 points by npilk 7mo ago|1 comments
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by npilk 7mo ago
What's odd is according to the article, this index estimated an ~8% default rate in 2024. So maybe the stress test was measuring something different? It's weird to think the stress test would find a lower loss rate during a seve
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by npilk 7mo ago
It's some sort of Gell-Mann-Amnesia-like effect. I am accustomed to seeing thoughtful, informed discussion about technical topics on HN, so then it's jarring when something like this hits the front page and nobody seems to have an
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by npilk 7mo ago
This doesn't seem too far off from ~80 characters per line, which I believe is best practice for readability. Though you could make the column wider and bump up the font size and it would be even more readable.
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by npilk 7mo ago
It feels like building humanoid robots so they can use tools built for human hands. Not clear if it will pay off, but if it does then you get a bunch of flexibility across any task "for free". Of course APIs and CLIs also exist, b
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by npilk 7mo ago
With LLM-based tools that inherently rely so much on the semantics of language, I wonder if there will be differences in code generated for the "wanted board" in the "Wasteland", compared to the "task list" in
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by npilk 7mo ago
Infinite Jest describes a very similar (fictional) development, albeit with network TV. As viewers leave, content producers are ever-more desperate to monetize remaining traffic, which worsens the experience and drives more viewers away, cr
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by npilk 8mo ago
Just because G&A was up $68m doesn't mean it was all spent on that one party... Edit: never mind, the report clarifies that without the party expense G&A would have been flat YoY.
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by npilk 8mo ago
@dang would there be any possibility of creating a view that hides posts and comments by accounts newer than, say, Jan 1 2026? Similar to how https://news.ycombinator.com/classic works (only showing votes from the oldest ac
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by npilk 8mo ago
For what it's worth, your original comment is a little hard to parse, particularly because you say "our pilot deployment" which makes it sound like you were involved in deploying the cameras. Combined with your realpolitik co
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by npilk 8mo ago
This is cool, I love the concept. I wonder how much our understanding of past language is affected by survivorship bias? Most text would have been written by a highly-educated elite, and most of what survives is what we have valued and priz
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by npilk 8mo ago
So about 1 in 10? Doesn’t seem that terrible to me. Especially when many of them are in response to questions about his work, and he’s answering with a link to a different post. I think 7 or 8 out of 10 would be a bad look.
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by npilk 8mo ago
Fair enough - I didn’t turn the sound on for the video. The premise of the sketch seemed to fit the rest of the slimy stuff in the feed, which is why I figured that video in particular got recommended. I mostly included it because of the ab
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by npilk 8mo ago
Interesting. I wonder if the phrasing as "do you ever use this platform" leads to this result. I could definitely believe more 30-49 year olds log in every so often for Marketplace etc., but would expect DAU to be lower than 50+.
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by npilk 8mo ago
Well, I haven't really used any Meta platforms for at least 5 years, so I don't think that's how they're deciding what to serve me. I could definitely believe that I used to click on more pictures of girls than boys back
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by npilk 8mo ago
Yeah, this makes sense. It does sort of imply that new users would just see a bunch of garbage, which you'd think isn't ideal. On the other hand, how many new users could possibly still be signing up for Facebook? So maybe it&#x27
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Facebook is cooked(pilk.website)
1513 points by npilk 8mo ago|847 comments
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by npilk 8mo ago
The opposite issue exists in men's clothing - it seems to be harder to find clothes that fit shorter/smaller men. "Medium" sizes tend to be quite large. I made a page about this myself - Model is 6'2" Wearing S
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by npilk 8mo ago
Curious how you generate the maps. OpenStreetMap turns out to have most golf course features mapped by volunteers, so it's possible to pull that data (see here for a fairly rudimentary example: https://github.com/npilk&
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by npilk 8mo ago
I wonder if this has implications for AI alignment? Maybe prompting with poor spelling and grammar will make the AI eager to please the privileged, high-power user. (/s)
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by npilk 8mo ago
For what it’s worth, swipe to type works just fine on the native keyboard, for those who didn’t know. Agree about many of the other bugs / issues.

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