Hacker News: Bratmon

New comment by Bratmon in "NP-Overrated"

Bratmon — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:58:56 +0000

Exactly!

New comment by Bratmon in "Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2"

Bratmon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:53:00 +0000

I think Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.

New comment by Bratmon in "How to think about software quality (2022)"

Bratmon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:13:38 +0000

This article is very rambling and somehow manages to miss the most important driver of reduced software quality: shifting requirements.

You can have the most beautiful perfect design that leverages the greatest abstractions in the world, and then have it all entirely destroyed by a single requirement shift that totally kills your abstractions.

New comment by Bratmon in "Substack writers, you need a website"

Bratmon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:42:21 +0000

The entire pitch of Substack is "You can export the email addresses of your current subscribers at any time"

So if they stop doing the "email my subscribers whenever I post" step, another service will fill the gap pretty quick.

New comment by Bratmon in "Silicon Valley has a science fiction problem"

Bratmon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:52:53 +0000

I think at some point you have to accept that different people are going to take away different things from the same novel.

New comment by Bratmon in "Em dashes are fucking amazing"

Bratmon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:29:10 +0000

I think the Em dash fans are quitters ⸻ there are much longer dashes in Unicode they can use.

New comment by Bratmon in "What happens when the information runs out"

Bratmon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:07:05 +0000

I'm genuinely curious what you thought "AI restoration" was doing if the fact that it added details that it thought were reasonable was surprising to you

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:14:52 +0000

Those are licenses for API access to data too new to be in the training data (for use by agents), not for the training itself.

I don't really understand why you think they're relevant, given that this conversation is about the training itself.

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:49:15 +0000

> It does seem to be becoming the norm for AI companies to licence premium content in America, judging by the deals they're making.

This is a very surprising claim to me (and I imagine many small website owners who keep getting scraped by Anthropic and OpenAI).

Do you have a source?

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:09:53 +0000

But surely at least one of the websites Anthropic scraped to make Claude had a ToS forbidding automatic access?

Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:10:45 +0000

AI companies do not get to play the "Making an LLM using our data is unethical because the resulting LLM will replace us and hurt our profits" card.

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:01:43 +0000

I like this comment because its argument only makes sense if you assume that the entire world's output of books and art did not require a huge amount of resources and expertise to make, nor did it add any value.

It's the most CS-major take ever!

New comment by Bratmon in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

Bratmon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:28:47 +0000

Laughing at the idea of distillation being bad is exactly as cliche/flamebaity as complaining that your model got distilled.

No more, no less.

New comment by Bratmon in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

Bratmon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:03:54 +0000

But if I followed that advice here, I would say "Obviously I don't need a library to multiply numbers" and miss the decades of research and optimization.

New comment by Bratmon in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

Bratmon — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:53:42 +0000

This is a problem I have a lot in modern programming ecosystems: How do I tell the difference between a library written by a team of experts who have spent decades optimizing everything to do with the task and a library written by one guy that's an unnecessary straightforward wrapper over the obvious implementation?

New comment by Bratmon in "Fake food delivery site for the dopamine"

Bratmon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:10:06 +0000

You've just invented the mobile games industry.

New comment by Bratmon in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

Bratmon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:38:41 +0000

Push factors and pull factors do much more work together than either do on its own.

New comment by Bratmon in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

Bratmon — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:00:02 +0000

I dunno. If you need to record your thoughts often enough that you're wearing a smart-ring to do it, then it seems like you're going to burn through the 12 hours of recording time pretty quick.

New comment by Bratmon in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

Bratmon — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:03:01 +0000

Wait, so it can record for 12-15 hours, then it dies and there's no way to recharge it?

That's like, horror game flashlight levels of longevity.

New comment by Bratmon in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

Bratmon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:52:52 +0000

It's always really funny to me when commenters don't read the article and then phrase the article's point like they invented it.