Hacker News: Antibabelic

New comment by Antibabelic in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

Antibabelic — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:29:40 +0000

The oldest works there are from the 1880s.

New comment by Antibabelic in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

Antibabelic — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:51:07 +0000

What kind of art do you think the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), houses?

New comment by Antibabelic in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

Antibabelic — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:21:27 +0000

Most of their code is locked behind closed doors.

New comment by Antibabelic in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

Antibabelic — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:16:21 +0000

You can't bring a steak to a vegan potluck and say "Come on guys, we won't get sued over this!"

New comment by Antibabelic in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

Antibabelic — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:25:14 +0000

"AI Use Disclosure: A majority of this code base was crafted by hand without any use of AI (which can be seen from the project's Git history)."

So much for "human programming is obsolete".

New comment by Antibabelic in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

Antibabelic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:49:48 +0000

It is pedantic. Saying that people should say CPC instead of CCP adds nothing to the conversation. If it grinds your gears then maybe starting with organizations like the Encyclopedia Britannica[0] rather than random Hacker News commenters might prove more effective.

[0] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Communist-Party

New comment by Antibabelic in "The Birth of Prolog (1996)"

Antibabelic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:44:54 +0000

Prolog is a very practical language for particular tasks. Languages are tools that fill different niches.

Besides, people do stay with Prolog. The language has been going strong for many decades. New Prolog projects pop up often. This can't be said for many other unusual languages, which perished in academic obscurity.

New comment by Antibabelic in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

Antibabelic — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:39:55 +0000

Sarcasm?

WikiLambda the Ultimate

Antibabelic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:14:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-05-22/Recent_research

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493218

Points: 62

# Comments: 13

New comment by Antibabelic in "They’re made out of weights"

Antibabelic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:33:14 +0000

A language is a set of sentences.

A sentence is a finite sequence of symbols drawn from an alphabet.

In this sense, mathematical operation tables are absolutely a language. As are natural languages.

New comment by Antibabelic in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

Antibabelic — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:33:56 +0000

> Here we ask whether, in a task where gestures are particularly useful—namely, spontaneous demonstration in which no real object is present—speakers of a high-gesture (Italian) and a low-gesture (Dutch) culture show similarities or differences in how they teach to adults versus children.

Solo tabletop role-playing games

Antibabelic — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:34:37 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_role-playing_game

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259824

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Antibabelic in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

Antibabelic — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:59:23 +0000

I don't have an ad blocker on my laptop. The ads I get are pretty much entirely generic and irrelevant to me, I don't remember ever consciously clicking on an ad.

New comment by Antibabelic in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

Antibabelic — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:30:49 +0000

> That human would be turning down a potential Fields Medal for this discovery.

While interesting, this result is not Fields Medal material.

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

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:12:56 +0000

The end result is the same: an SVG file. Definitely doesn't matter to an LLM what produced it.

New comment by Antibabelic in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:31:06 +0000

Second place is small?

New comment by Antibabelic in "Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25"

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:25:14 +0000

I think the parent comment is wondering if it was originally drafted in English and then translated to Latin.

New comment by Antibabelic in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:20:29 +0000

This is a lot of very confident assertions.

> you do decide to actively go against it for decades because you like doing things your way

Perhaps there's a good reason why a developer or a group of developers decide to do things a certain way.

> This is why Krita is sweeping the floor with gimp

Aside from the fact that these programs are intended for pretty different things, the impression I have is that GIMP has a much larger install-base than Krita and more people are aware of it. Far from "sweeping the floor".

> GNOME is hanging on by nature of being the default

Or perhaps some people (and enterprises) want a polished OOTB desktop experience without having to deal with KDE's bugs and Windows-like design language. There are plenty of GNOME installs on Arch Linux for example, where you can't speak of any "defaults" with regards to desktop environments.[0]

[0] https://pkgstats.archlinux.de/fun/Desktop%20Environments/cur...

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

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:53:32 +0000

I don't understand this response. Human artists can and do make SVGs.

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

Antibabelic — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:24:29 +0000

My day job is not in the tech industry. I am an editor. Literally nothing has changed for me in the last four years.