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New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:38:23 +0000

I'm always surprised to see HN people saying models aren't good. What are these guys building? The best engineers I know, from startup to big tech admit these models are incredible. Including people I don't know personally, foundational engineers from every area. The average HN person though, is doing some quantum-alien computation that not even the best developers in the world can grasp.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

3l3ktr4 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:55:55 +0000

eat sleep rave repeat

Gen-Z Protestors in Nepal Used Discord and TikTok to Overthrow Their Government

3l3ktr4 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/rachinkalakheti/status/1966314602251301138

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45231002

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "How much oranger do red orange bags make oranges look?"

3l3ktr4 — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 00:44:03 +0000

I like the energy of the post a lot! Nice job.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "The case against conversational interfaces"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:20:48 +0000

I disagree with the author when they say something along the lines of “why don’t we use buttons instead of using these new assistive technology? Buttons are much faster, and I proved humans like fast.” I think that’s false. Why after 10 years of software development I haven’t learned EMACS? Because I’m lazy, because I don’t think it’s the bottleneck of my work. My bottleneck might be creativity or knowledge and conversational interfaces might be the best thing there are for these (in the lack of a knowledgeable and kind human, which the author also seems to agree with). Anyway, I don’t know, I found the title a bit disconnected from the content and the conclusions a bit overlappingly confusing but this is a complicated question. In the end I agree that we want a mix of things, we want a couple of keyboard strokes and we want chats. But most of all we probably want direct brain interface! ;)

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:18:26 +0000

I thought this was going to be about the UV rays from the sun... But it's another python package manager. We're running out of names.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:18:49 +0000

This subthread are among the best comments I've read in this website.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "Rio: Web apps in pure Python"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:35:13 +0000

Curious to know what you're using under the hood for the python! I've download the repo and a quick search with "pyodide" didn't return anything.

Ask HN: What are some essays that profoundly changed the way you think

3l3ktr4 — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:07:19 +0000

No specific themes here, I'm curious to read about things that changed your mind!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41547610

Points: 22

# Comments: 14

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:56:22 +0000

I wonder why they claim they need this... Tor seems to be doing fine as an organization without collecting user data? Why maintaining Firefox is much more expensive? I guess the codebase for Firefox is much larger and in the end Tor is a fork of Firefox, right? So maybe they do need much more resources? Not to say I'm not disappointed with Mozilla once again.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

3l3ktr4 — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:52:54 +0000

>And Mozilla leadership is associated with radical left politics, just as an extra.

Do you have proof for this? I'd be curious. I also fail to see how is that related to the collecting data by default thing. Is that a leftist thing now?

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "I have no constructor, and I must initialize"

3l3ktr4 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 12:50:05 +0000

This is the best title, OP.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "How to do the jhanas"

3l3ktr4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:47:03 +0000

I think this startup-y way of tapping into meditation i pretty silly but also, idk maybe it's the way for us nerds to achieve these things?

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "How to do the jhanas"

3l3ktr4 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:45:59 +0000

I've been meditating pretty consistently for the last year 20 min meditations or more every day and though I've put way more than the time the OP put in trying to achieve jhanas I couldn't even reach the first one. I wonder what I'm missing!

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

3l3ktr4 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:30:29 +0000

Are you saying it's not rational for me to expect rationalists around here? :P I guess that's reasonable?

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "H5N1 prevalence in milk suggest US bird flu outbreak in cows is widespread"

3l3ktr4 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:21:30 +0000

It's crazy to see people denying that (meat) factory farming is a problem. You'd expect most of the public of this website to be rationalists in one way or another. Of course factory farming is an aggravating factor for the spread of diseases. Of course we can thrive with less meat consumption or none. How is that even a question?

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "The case against caffeine"

3l3ktr4 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:14:06 +0000

I wish this was initially disclosed as an opinion piece rather than reading through it and finding it out in the end.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "Goodreads asks users to help combat 'review bombing'"

3l3ktr4 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 19:31:41 +0000

They could use this and a bubble in the site explaining this might be review bombing and show the score of the book disregarding these events. I’ve never understood why people have such a negative opinion on goodreads, though. I guess this is the only thing I know of that makes it bad.

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "An Open Letter to the Python Software Foundation"

3l3ktr4 — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:32:54 +0000

Can you go on and be clearer with what you mean?

New comment by 3l3ktr4 in "How I got here"

3l3ktr4 — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 09:16:30 +0000

I’m really happy that you found a way out of the trafficking life. That was a really nice thing to read and I think a lot of people will resonate with it. (Computer nerds that had tough times in life). I’m wishing you all the best in your fight against addiction and I’m definitely adding Unlocked Labs to my list of donations. Thanks for sharing your story.