Hacker News: Miraltar

New comment by Miraltar in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

Miraltar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:19:44 +0000

Instead or in addition to following blogs, what I'd love to have is a way to filter out those I don't like.

New comment by Miraltar in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

Miraltar — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:56:35 +0000

Well, if you're supposed to administrate shocks to teach or test someone's memory, asking the question while they're screaming isn't just about protocol, it does break down the purpose of these shocks. Saying that participants did administrate shocks because they trusted the legitimacy of what they thought they were doing doesn't hold up under these circumstances.

New comment by Miraltar in "ArXiv Declares Independence from Cornell"

Miraltar — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:44:30 +0000

> HAL is decidedly second-tier. Given the option, everyone would pick arXiv over HAL.

Can you elaborate on that?

New comment by Miraltar in "Looks like it is happening"

Miraltar — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:12:54 +0000

Guidelines say "please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" in that case I'd argue that it's linkbait so changing it is justified

New comment by Miraltar in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

Miraltar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:33:37 +0000

Create some sort of score that goes up when a "child" misbehaves. The further the child the lower the increase but at some point you get banned anyway

There are no statistics in the Kingdom of God (2023)

Miraltar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:59:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/there-are-no-statistics-in-the-kingdom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119815

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Miraltar in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

Miraltar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:43:48 +0000

Your detector did not work well on an AI-collab writing fiction project I did a while ago, tagged it as 100% human even with high confidence for the most part. But to be fair, most detectors weren't significantly better, although this one gave a justification that made sense https://aidetector.com/

New comment by Miraltar in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

Miraltar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:52:40 +0000

Stopped reading there: "This model (Moshi) could [...] recite an original poem in a French accent (research shows poems sound better this way)."

New comment by Miraltar in "The price of fame? Mortality risk among famous singers"

Miraltar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:20:03 +0000

Is it still true today?

New comment by Miraltar in "I program without syntax highlighting"

Miraltar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:51:37 +0000

I'm guessing they used the same argument that was made for calculators, printing... By lessening the burden on your brain you weaken it.

New comment by Miraltar in "I program without syntax highlighting"

Miraltar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:46:02 +0000

I think it's fine when you're just working on your own but if you have to review code or work in a codebase you don't own that's much more effort.

New comment by Miraltar in "I program without syntax highlighting"

Miraltar — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:44:27 +0000

That's not really what's said. If you regularly change languages and some are supported and some are not, switching to unsupported languages will be very unpleasant. Having to switch editor/install plugins/customize can be tedious.

New comment by Miraltar in "On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs"

Miraltar — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:33:23 +0000

Yup, three years of fighting on "correct" use of words. Maybe someday people will accept that LLMs do "hallucinate" even tho it's not the same "hallucinate" as for humans.

New comment by Miraltar in "On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs"

Miraltar — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:23:48 +0000

Agreed, the original title is better (and typo free) although a bit long.

H-Neurons: On the Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination-Associated Neurons in LLMs

New comment by Miraltar in "“Are you the one?” is free money"

Miraltar — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:36:09 +0000

Keep in mind that not everyone on the internet uses English as their first language and they might use words weirdly cause it resembles what they're used to

New comment by Miraltar in "The appropriate amount of effort is zero"

Miraltar — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:49:42 +0000

> if you do not have enough grip, you may unfortunately spill the coffee on the floor. If you don't have enough grip while doing a sharp turn, it could be literally fatal. As a result, it is wise for the absolute majority of people in high-risk situations to exert more power than necessary. The energy investments are small, but changes in probabilities are significant.

Yes but there's still a sweet spot to find, you're not gripping your cup or your wheel as hard as you can. Over-gripping in uncertain conditions can be good but only to a certain extent.

I still agree with you though, a good example of this is climbing stairs — if you have strong legs it's much less effort to go 2 by 2 but I'd never tell someone struggling to do that, it would make no sense.

New comment by Miraltar in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

Miraltar — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:36:22 +0000

Delegating life decisions to AI is obviously quite stupid but it can really help lay out and question your thoughts even if it's obviously biased.

New comment by Miraltar in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

Miraltar — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:49:32 +0000

You're doing it the wrong way imo, if you ask gpt to improve a sentence that's already very polished it will only add grandiosity because what else it could do? For a proper comparison you'd have to give it the most raw form of the thought and see how it would phrase it.

The main difference in the author's writing to LLM I see is that the flourish and the structure mentioned is used meaningfully, they circle around a bit too much for my taste but it's not nearly as boring as reading ai slop which usually stretch a simple idea over several paragraphs

New comment by Miraltar in "Cloth Simulation"

Miraltar — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:58:26 +0000

Exactly as discussed in Sebastian Lague's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGk0rnyTa1U

New comment by Miraltar in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

Miraltar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:44:34 +0000

It doesn't say that gpt is better, just that it is more popular