Hacker News: 4b11b4

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages"

4b11b4 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:32:52 +0000

That's.. not..

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Credit where credit is due"

4b11b4 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:30:21 +0000

Nevermind! I just went down a rabbit hole on "negative hard feature mining" that has simple origins from early days of object detection and bootstrapping!

I'm sure pangram has to deal with a lot of bullshit to keep retraining on new model output though.

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Credit where credit is due"

4b11b4 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:03:54 +0000

Can someone educate me - does pangram actually work? Why are people acting like this tool is god?

I thought definitively classifying writing was essentially an impossible problem. Of course, we can often smell it, but again, that's not definitive.

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Is MCP becoming the common foundation of smart, decentralised search?"

4b11b4 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:17:05 +0000

No.. MCP is for actions

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Push ifs up and fors down: The idiom, its algebra, and its limits"

4b11b4 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:29:35 +0000

this is just a guard on the function definition?

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Open source 160 sound visualization experiments"

4b11b4 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:19:25 +0000

Can you make them all move on repeat for a sine sweep followed by some misc transients

New comment by 4b11b4 in "ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust"

4b11b4 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:51:03 +0000

that is a good one re llms

New comment by 4b11b4 in "ArtCraft Apps – open-source Adobe compatible suite written in Rust"

4b11b4 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:11:56 +0000

I like this mindset but damn that's a lot of tokens? At what cost? And then to continue to maintain and .. idk.. I suppose it'll work? If the motivation is strong enough and momentum is sustained?

New comment by 4b11b4 in "All I wanted was a custom domain email"

4b11b4 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:02:33 +0000

Seems you're... conflating the concepts of spamming people with using a language model to generate code

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Blogging with Gleam, Org-Mode and Pandoc"

4b11b4 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:50:14 +0000

lol yeah this should just be a pile of elisp

New comment by 4b11b4 in "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows"

4b11b4 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:56:00 +0000

Run as server, agent can run arbitrary elisp

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Turbo Haskell"

4b11b4 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:54:02 +0000

Sit down

New comment by 4b11b4 in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

4b11b4 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:50:38 +0000

Didn't even bother trying it yet

New comment by 4b11b4 in "OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns"

4b11b4 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:03:45 +0000

Haven't even tried Astra, nor GPT 6.. I don't even have fomo anymore

5.6 Sol still cranking along

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Humanos – Help Building the Human Operating System"

4b11b4 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:02:40 +0000

What in the AI psychosis

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Writing Parquet files using Haskell"

4b11b4 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:05:27 +0000

Genuinely curious how someone could come to the conclusion that functional programming is pointless

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Goodbye Google"

4b11b4 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:36:23 +0000

Sure, that's a fair point. Advertising is just a mechanism cost wise that enables the platforms which contain addictive qualities.

I suppose yeah... It's just greed and corruption.

The incentive structures are wrong/poor/malignant

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Goodbye Google"

4b11b4 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:33:52 +0000

I agree, while reading the post I was thinking that the potential negative impacts the author listed might be subtle and detrimental along the same lines of social media.

Sure, there may be some bad actors who utilize it to hack computer systems.

But most of the negative impact will be the subtle influences on the mind which are hard to identify and quantify.

New comment by 4b11b4 in "Writing Parquet files using Haskell"

4b11b4 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:11:31 +0000

What! I loved my func prog class with Haskell

Should be mandatory

New comment by 4b11b4 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

4b11b4 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:01:15 +0000

lol I might have to start using quantized for when people do dumb shit in traffic