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New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Where does all the milk go?"

DiffTheEnder — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:38:57 +0000

Understand the concern here - I can confirm the diagrams/interactive elements on desktop were AI generated based on a diagram I made in powerpoint. The interactivity and JS elements is not something I'm not going to code myself. I'm a writer/thinker not a frontend dev.

The diagram is almost 1:1 the same except the cheese layout which it chose to do a bit differently. The mobile version of the diagram is an AI driven layout restructure - however still true to my source material.

The writing of the article is entirely my own. I'll choose to take it as a compliment that you think it's too polished haha.

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Where does all the milk go?"

DiffTheEnder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:12:16 +0000

There's something to be said about variety of consistency/taste to excite the tastebuds I think!

Where does all the milk go?

DiffTheEnder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/dairy-production-process

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690060

Points: 38

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New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

DiffTheEnder — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:15:20 +0000

They mention that they have humans review the most crticial bugs before sending it to the maintainers in their dev blog.

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

DiffTheEnder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:24:43 +0000

I'm finding queries are taking about 3x as long as they used to regardless of whether I use Sonnet or Opus (Claude Code on Max)

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Every GPU That Mattered"

DiffTheEnder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:57:50 +0000

Do you think it was entirely AI? Surely some human involved to get this sort of layout..

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

DiffTheEnder — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:50:24 +0000

Is it possible for a tool to know if something is AI written with high confidence at all? LLMs can be tuned/instructed to write in an infinite number of styles.

Don't understand how these tools exist.

The Codification Treadmill

DiffTheEnder — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:20:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/the-codification-treadmill

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646614

Points: 2

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New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Bird brains (2023)"

DiffTheEnder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:38:34 +0000

Thanks that’s fair critique. And apologise for the half truth there.

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Bird brains (2023)"

DiffTheEnder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:05:23 +0000

The zero parenting thing is what gets me. Pretty much every other animal we'd call intelligent leans hard on social learning -- crows, primates, parrots all spend ages learning from adults. Octopuses hatch alone, figure everything out solo in 1-2 years, and then die. That's the wild part. If they had even a 5 year lifespan with overlapping generations, honestly no idea where the ceiling would be. Maybe the octopi in captivity could be taught to parent and produce genius octopi?

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

DiffTheEnder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:01:40 +0000

This is interesting because I wonder if it compounds. Smaller genome, smaller cells, more neurons in the same volume... and now those neurons are individually more efficient too. The density numbers already seemed hard to explain just from spatial optimisation -- this might be the missing piece? Wonder what research exists here

New comment by DiffTheEnder in "Bird brains (2023)"

DiffTheEnder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:23:17 +0000

Ah yeah that's exactly what it was but thought I'd try to add a bit more emotion to this point haha. Even if the parrot said this every night as a good night - its still very sweet that Alex said that every night :)

Bird brains (2023)

DiffTheEnder — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:14:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dhanishsemar.com/writing/bird-brains

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573887

Points: 341

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