Hacker News: TheDudeMan

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

TheDudeMan — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:25:09 +0000

Related question: Who is the highest-ranking US leader who would be able to understand such a statement and ponder it for more than 2 seconds?

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other"

TheDudeMan — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:34:26 +0000

So strange that people are into this, but were not into the much stronger non-LLM poker agents.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Faster Argmin on Floats"

TheDudeMan — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:32:45 +0000

But how is that slower than sorting the list?!

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Faster Argmin on Floats"

TheDudeMan — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 04:36:38 +0000

How fast if you write a for loop and keep track of the index and value of the smallest (possibly treating them as ints)?

New comment by TheDudeMan in "The obstacles to scaling up humanoids"

TheDudeMan — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:16:33 +0000

OK, so you do get the vision.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "The obstacles to scaling up humanoids"

TheDudeMan — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:10:43 +0000

No, I never said that.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "The obstacles to scaling up humanoids"

TheDudeMan — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:08:56 +0000

You know they're getting better, right?

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

TheDudeMan — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:57:35 +0000

They saw how much money stablecoin issuers are making. Simple as that.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood"

TheDudeMan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 22:26:33 +0000

I interpret The Bitter Lesson as suggesting that you should be selecting methods that do not need all that data (in many domains, we don't know those methods yet).

New comment by TheDudeMan in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

TheDudeMan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:06:12 +0000

Yes, many PMs suck. And many engineers suck. And communication is always lossy. Having many/all engineers take some calls helps to mitigate those.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator"

TheDudeMan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:14:28 +0000

I would have loved this as a kid. Walkie-talkie range and battery life made them useless for my adventures.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Monday – A personality experiment"

TheDudeMan — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:37:49 +0000

Interesting. You just articulated why Chandler was annoying rather than funny.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "“The Bitter Lesson” is wrong. Well sort of"

TheDudeMan — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 22:33:29 +0000

The Bitter Lesson is saying, if you're going to use human knowledge, be aware that your solution is temporary. It's not wrong. And it's not wrong to use human knowledge to solve your "today" problem.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

TheDudeMan — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:37:53 +0000

No.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

TheDudeMan — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:33:10 +0000

System prompts enable changing the model behavior with a simple code change. Without system prompts, changing the behavior would require some level of retraining. So they are quite practical and aren't going anywhere.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion"

TheDudeMan — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:48:19 +0000

This is because coders didn't spend enough time making their tests efficient. Maybe LLM coding agents can help with that.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs"

TheDudeMan — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:19:54 +0000

If "LLMs" includes reasoning models, then you're already wrong in your first paragraph:

"something that is just MatMul with interspersed nonlinearities."

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B"

TheDudeMan — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:08:16 +0000

Losing some bitcoin is effectively equivalent (over the long term) to distributing it to all other holders (proportionally). So this is fine.

New comment by TheDudeMan in "Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?"

TheDudeMan — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 00:35:39 +0000

This guy makes cool stuff and releases the source code.

https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton

New comment by TheDudeMan in "How can AI researchers save energy? By going backward"

TheDudeMan — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 05:31:26 +0000

No. It is a purely theoretic result. It has zero real-world applicability.