<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Myrmornis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Myrmornis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:47:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Myrmornis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "The Git history command deserves more attention"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair. I think what I'd say is that we don't have to use plain git bisect -- it would be quick to make a bisect script that doesn't land on the failing-test commits. Especially seeing as most teams squash before merging, we should have the freedom to create failing-test commits.</p>
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<p>One good reason is to keep your tests separate from the fixes that make your tests pass. That way you can check your test fails before the next commit makes it pass, eliminating the risk of a false negative (test passes that would have anyway).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:11:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901831</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "Two Qwen3 models on one DGX Spark: the residency math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article was clearly written by an LLM. Please say so at the top.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621546</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need to know the words since 3 out of the 4 definitions are silly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:10:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608342</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The string "writ" only occurs once in an article about how to develop ones ideas on non-trivial subjects. Pretty telling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:03:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576869</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does anyone really sit there thinking and make much progress? You write.</p>
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<p>Thanks. I've bought it and started using it; it looks great. I was previously using Hyprnote which did work well, but yours appears to fit my "I just want markdown" case better and to generally be more polished.<p>I'll be wanting to find a good workflow to get the markdown transcripts into a git repo with file names that define a suitable sort order and also indicate what the meeting was. So would welcome your suggestions there. Not blocked of course, yo umake it easy to copy from clipboard or from the disk location and rename, but might be nice to have more control about where and how the .md lands.<p>I might email the support address on the off-chance that you're happy to have support/feature conversations like this. Thanks!</p>
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<p>I will be happy to spend £10 on this. One feature question though -- does it continue transcribing the meeting even if I've turned my volume down / muted it?</p>
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<p>> AI-generated papers could overwhelm peer-review systems with low-quality work<p>That's not a problem unique to math, or even to academia. It's a problem in every context in human life where people communicate via written documents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:55:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382817</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The problem was the view didn't work after something else had been done.<p>In that situation you have two choices:<p>1. Tell claude to iterate until the tests for the new view and the old views are all passing.<p>2. git reset --hard back to the previous commit at which all tests are passing and tell claude to try again, making sure not to break any tests.<p>It's essential to use tests when vibecoding anything non trivial. Almost certainly in a TDD style.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 12:03:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093914</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I typed :rs pods to switch back to the pods view. Nothing rendered. The table was empty...
> now something was fundamentally broken and I couldn't just prompt my way out of it.<p>Hey I don't want to over simplify, I'm sure it was complicated, but did the author have functional tests for these broken views? As long as there are functional tests passing on the previous commit I'd have thought that claude could look at the end situation and work out how to get the desired feature without breaking the other stuff.<p>TUIs aren't an exception, it's still essential to have a way to end-to-end test each view.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 03:11:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090683</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090683</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48090683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the one hand I'm not sure Dawkins has read/thought enough about how LLMs actually work. I'm getting the impression he doesn't fully appreciate or is somehow forgetting that it's a text completion algorithm with a vast number of parameters and that even if the patterns of learned parameter tunings are not really comprehendible, the architecture was very deliberately designed.<p>But on the other hand his thoughts at the end are interesting. Summary:<p>Maybe our "consciousness" is like an LLM's intelligence. But if not, then it raises the question of why do we even have this "extra" consciousness, since it appears that   something like a humanoid LLM would be decent at surviving. His suggestions: maybe our extra thing is an evolutionary accident (and maybe there _are_ successful organisms out there with the LLM-style non-conscious intelligence), or maybe as evolved organisms it's necessary that we really feel things like pain, so that evolutionary mechanisms like pain (and desire for food, sex etc) had strong adaptive benefits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992478</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think you read carefully what he said. At the end he gave three quite interesting thoughts about what might be true assuming LLMs are less conscious than we are (i.e. assuming our consciousness is not a purely algorithmic phenomenon as we obviously know LLMs are).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:25:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992356</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your notes look really interesting, thanks. I'm curious --from the prose style it's clear they were written by an LLM. For  design notes like this do you sort of have a mental TODO to go back and write them up in your own words to make sure they really capture your own opinions?</p>
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<p>The article is still missing the most important point about a "trust system" -- you have to explain what it is and convince me that I even care about the problem you're trying to solve. It's my machine, what is a "trusted" or "untrusted" file? If people just force security "solutions" on me without asking me whether I understand or agree with their problem diagnosis then I will immediately disable the protection if I can or blanket accept all prompts without thinking.<p>This is good, but it doesn't go far enough:<p>> ... the problem with security measures that cause too much friction is that users tend to disable them in order to get on with their work. To fulfill its security purposes, a good trust system needs to stay out of your way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:58:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815212</link><dc:creator>Myrmornis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Myrmornis in "Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Take a look at <a href="https://d2lang.com/examples/dagre/" rel="nofollow">https://d2lang.com/examples/dagre/</a> and <a href="https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/" rel="nofollow">https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/</a><p>The language is richer and all diagram types are implemented consistently in the same language in a way that can be composed, as opposed to being a collection of unrelated DSLs.<p>The improved visual appearance is clear from inspecting example diagrams, I believe.</p>
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<p><a href="https://d2lang.com/" rel="nofollow">https://d2lang.com/</a> is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.</p>
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<p>I read the first couple of posts in the series. The essay is full of criticism of LLMs, and in a couple of places the author distances himself, as if he himself isn't using them ("some people I respect tell me that...").<p>It's certainly worth discussing the fact that the entire industry is starting to outsource large amounts of our thinking and writing work to non-sentient statistical algorithms, but this discussion needs to honestly confront the extent to which they are successfully completing useful tasks today.</p>
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<p>This is really cool! Is there an alternative way of thinking about it involving a hidden markov model, looking for a change in value of an unknown latent P(fail)? Or does your approach end up being similar to whatever the appropriate Bayesian approach to the HMM would be?</p>
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<p>Doubtless the current LLMs aren't the last word. But this author sounds like they would get more out of the current LLMs if they put their energies into that rather than into criticism.</p>
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