Hacker News: 7777777phil

Base Mac Mini Sold Out from Apple Online Store

7777777phil — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:40:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/22/base-mac-mini-sold-out-from-apple-online-store/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873790

Points: 2

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New comment by 7777777phil in "OpenAI model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text"

7777777phil — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:14:05 +0000

> The model is available today under the Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face (opens in a new window) and Github (opens in a new window).

Bringing back the Open to OpenAI..

Trump is super unpopular. So why don't Democrats have a bigger lead?

7777777phil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/sbsq-31-trump-is-super-unpopular

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854623

Points: 16

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Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse

7777777phil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/four-horsemen-of-the-aipocalypse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851191

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

The Internet Is Real Life

7777777phil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:11:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-internet-is-real-life

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849087

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 7777777phil in "Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage"

7777777phil — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:42:49 +0000

> whether the final result is actually better, or whether it is just a more polished hallucinatio

Agents sampled from the same base model agreeing with each other isn't validation, it's correlation. Cheaper orchestration mostly amplifies whatever bias the model already has. Neat hack though.

New comment by 7777777phil in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

7777777phil — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:42:13 +0000

In 2018 the Swiss voted if cows are allowed to have horns (1). It was called the horned cow initiative.

(1) https://www.admin.ch/en/horned-cow-initiative

New comment by 7777777phil in "New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims"

7777777phil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:26:00 +0000

MFN clauses are common in retail, what's different about Amazon's is the enforcement. Manufacturer MAP policies threaten "we won't ship you more," which you can recover from (unlike a listing demotion)

New comment by 7777777phil in "Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

7777777phil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:25:07 +0000

>Generation became cheap, validation didn't this is basically the whole post imo. Also maps to why productivity hasn't really moved despite 93% adoption.. the oversight bandwidth eats the generation gains.

Jevons for code is right but the bottleneck is review, not typing: https://philippdubach.com/posts/93-of-developers-use-ai-codi...

Charts of the Week: Are Tech Stocks Cheap?

7777777phil — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:03:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-is-tech-cheap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808743

Points: 1

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Dwarkesh Patel's Podcast with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

7777777phil — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:20:52 +0000

Article URL: https://thezvi.substack.com/p/on-dwarkesh-patels-podcast-with-nvidia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796595

Points: 2

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Do Not Disturb My Circles

7777777phil — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:06:14 +0000

Article URL: https://philippdubach.com/posts/do-not-disturb-my-circles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779145

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I Will Never Respect a Website

7777777phil — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767707

Points: 6

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"AI polls" are fake polls

7777777phil — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:42:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/ai-polls-are-fake-polls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731984

Points: 26

# Comments: 5

New comment by 7777777phil in "Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence"

7777777phil — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:14:31 +0000

KL(P||Q) penalizes Q heavily when it assigns low probability to things P considers likely, but barely cares when Q wastes probability on rare events. That's why KL regularization in RLHF pushes models toward typical, average-sounding outputs..

New comment by 7777777phil in "Show HN: Skrun – Deploy any agent skill as an API"

7777777phil — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:09:46 +0000

Auto-switching across model providers basically concedes the model layer is commodity, which I think is right (1)

tbd whether the skill registry develops network effects or just stays a flat directory. Portable skills as APIs tracks with the broader pattern of agent stacks decomposing into specialized swappable layers, where the defensible asset is whatever process knowledge orgs encode, not the deployment infra.

(1) wrote about it here from an enterprise perspective: https://philippdubach.com/posts/dont-go-monolithic-the-agent...