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by scared_together 5mo ago
Pangram considers this text human written.
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by scared_together 5mo ago
> Is it just that the subject line alone is a springboard for casual discussion? I think this has been the case on many sites, for decades. Many people just want to read and write comments without engaging with the OP. Have a look at thi
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I have used Rust, Java and TypeScript before, so I understand that static typing is a major help. But I don’t think types are really sufficient to solve the problem you identified earlier of understanding how “many small individually readab
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I think for travel around Earth, supersonic passenger aircraft are more feasible than rockets. Even if we consider sonic booms, a lot of routes where rockets would be desirable are across uninhabited oceans.
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I’m curious about the design space of languages & frameworks which are lower level than LLM prompts but higher level than Python, Ruby and Common Lisp. Do you have any recommendations for systems where reasoning about large systems is e
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I would consider that a spoiler
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I never used Pangram before today, but since I've seen it mentioned many times on HN and I enjoyed reading the OP, I decided to try it. I am only using the free plan so let me know if I'm missing something. I am assuming the paren
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by scared_together 5mo ago
I guess “2026 is the year you stop reading generic blogs”
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by scared_together 5mo ago
Unlike the GNU coreutils rewrite in Rust, the Bun rewrite in Rust is being undertaken by the owners of the project. That said, yes, you’re correct that Bun isn’t GPL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun?tab=License-1-ov-fil
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by scared_together 5mo ago
> How could a computing field that moves slower than Moore's law even work? We’ll probably find out soon, because even ignoring the environmental concerns there is a limit to how small transistors can get.
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by scared_together 6mo ago
> Not all educational AI is created equal, and the differences matter. Khan Academy's Khanmigo, launched in limited beta in 2023 and reaching approximately 1.5 million users across 130 countries by the end of 2025, represents a phil
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by scared_together 6mo ago
I can imagine that, but I struggle to imagine that happening tomorrow, which is part of the GP’s point.
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by scared_together 6mo ago
It’s also possible this is the first iteration of the loop described in the “A practical loop for training taste” section. Which would be less of a “prank” and more of “using the HN audience to feed the machine”. The loop (some points snipp
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by scared_together 6mo ago
I agree. For those who didn’t read the article… There are subheadings every 3 paragraphs and enough bullets to reload a machine gun. There are also neither any sources nor any personal anecdotes. Everything feels generic. > Over time, th
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by scared_together 6mo ago
> in order to make better decisions If Pete Hegseth bets against the pilot’s rescue, then deliberately prevents the pilot’s rescue in order to win his bet, then that would not improve prediction-making or decision-making in any way. Pred
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by scared_together 6mo ago
I wasn’t thinking too hard about the distinction between an integrity check and an identifiable detail, and I guess it makes sense that you’d be okay with one and not the other. My broader point would have been that if OpenAI can identify y
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by scared_together 6mo ago
Is your interlocutor barking up the wrong tree, or are you missing the forest for the trees? According to the OP: > The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your c
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by scared_together 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_wit... > Text generated by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek etc. often violates several of Wikipedia's core content
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by scared_together 6mo ago
> I've turned 12 minute videos back into the 5 phrases news it was based on. Why not read the original news? Okay, there are many reasons why you might not want to do that, such as ads, tracking, having to pay for a subscription if
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by scared_together 7mo ago
> Linux on a fridge? A toaster? A toothbrush? Yes. I’m glad, even overjoyed, that no desktop operating systems are running on my toothbrush. As for the other benefits, a large chunk of them amount to “you can customize <Y>”. Which
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by scared_together 7mo ago
In the case of the New York Times, they have subscriptions and many are willing to pay for their work - but their subscriptions are not ad-free.
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by scared_together 7mo ago
But you’re responding to a comment here, not there. So why not abide by the norms that prevail here?
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by scared_together 7mo ago
Not sure if this is an example of something Musk hates, but here’s a paragraph from the “2016 presidential campaign” section of the Donald Trump article on Wikipedia. > Trump's FEC-required reports listed assets above $1.4 billion a
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by scared_together 7mo ago
Does anybody have a link to the actual survey? Also, why are social media accounts for pets still allowed?
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by scared_together 7mo ago
That’s all legacy but none of it is speedrunning. If we could conjure pickaxes and electric power plants in a single day, that would be speedrunning.
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by scared_together 10mo ago
In your jurisdiction, are there regulations and taxes on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol? And are there any comparable regulations on social media?
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by scared_together 1y ago
> The only ones who lose are those who are want to do boring work instead of something creative. Aren’t the creative jobs also being taken by LLMs and image generators?
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by scared_together 1y ago
> Apple isn't the only one standing in the way of a Google hegemony. Who else would you consider? Chromium-based browsers from companies other than Google are still contributing to Google’s hegemony. And Mozilla is funded by Google.
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by scared_together 1y ago
You are phrasing this as an individual choice but people have poured billions of dollars into making software mediate creativity (image and text generation), and connection (social media, dating apps). Whereas the repetitive work of assembl
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by scared_together 1y ago
What if instead of writing the entire OS, a company were to pick up an existing “hobby” OS and refine it? For example any of the systems listed in Carmack’s post. Or perhaps Serenity OS, RedoxOS, etc.

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