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New comment by agnishom in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

agnishom — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:33:06 +0000

It means data that was downloaded from our servers.

They are not claiming that the data was their intellectual property. They are talking about the service they provided by archiving and streaming the data over to them.

(I can't decide whether you are pro-LLM companies or being the devil's advocate)

New comment by agnishom in "VLC, FFmpeg, Video Codecs, Assembly Programming (Lex Fridman Podcast)"

agnishom — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:09:27 +0000

This is such an incredible and inspiring episode!

New comment by agnishom in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

agnishom — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:13:57 +0000

This is a bit of a strawman. When people say "writing code", they don't necessarily mean [pressing the keys on the keyboard that produces the necessary bytes in a text file].

New comment by agnishom in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

agnishom — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:15:07 +0000

The article is not about those use cases. There are plenty of use cases for which local models are already pretty good

New comment by agnishom in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

agnishom — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:52:33 +0000

On the flip side, there are people (like me) far less skilled that do (take joy in the appreciation of mathematics as art).

New comment by agnishom in "Getting arrested in Japan"

agnishom — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:59:49 +0000

I strongly suspect that the author's legal counsel advised them not to discuss their actual charge in explicit detail

New comment by agnishom in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

agnishom — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:56:24 +0000

1. It matters because there are human mathematicians who pride themselves for their mathematical achievements. Mathematics is art to them.

2. Yes, it is. Because pre-LLM era computer-aided proofs were about using the computer to either solve a large number of cases or to check that each step in a proof mechanically follows from the axioms.

New comment by agnishom in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

agnishom — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:33:23 +0000

I agree but unfortunately there are more and more young people who seem to think that not doing this challenge is okay :(

New comment by agnishom in "Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction"

agnishom — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:20:28 +0000

The main difference here is the scale

Indie English Bookstore in Tokyo

agnishom — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://featherheartbooks.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958689

Points: 3

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New comment by agnishom in "Where the goblins came from"

agnishom — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:17:46 +0000

Humans also take a lot of time in producing output, and do not feed into a crazy accelerationistic feedback loop (most of the time).

New comment by agnishom in "OpenAI Privacy Filter"

agnishom — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:10:39 +0000

One could chain a regex based system together with this

Thinky Games

agnishom — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:31:51 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkygames.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874978

Points: 1

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New comment by agnishom in "Stephen's Sausage Roll remains one of the most influential puzzle games"

agnishom — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:48:45 +0000

If anyone enjoys snarky long videos critiquing games, they might enjoy Joseph Anderson's review of this game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dsQtBHk0eE

New comment by agnishom in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

agnishom — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:15:07 +0000

I don't know how this benefits humanity. In what way was ChatGPT Images 1.0 not already good enough? Perhaps some new knowledge was created in the process?

New comment by agnishom in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

agnishom — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:33:18 +0000

I don't agree with this advice. Reading and Listening are different mediums and they have different strengths and weaknesses. When writing, one should take advantage of the written medium.

For instance, with writing, you can use different variable names. With speaking, you are limited to using 'this' and 'that'. When speaking, you can using different intonations, but while writing you cannot.

New comment by agnishom in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

agnishom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:49:44 +0000

I think this is a genuinely interesting question that the boom does not explore.

One possible antimemetic truth is "Most people are not good at what they care about".

New comment by agnishom in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

agnishom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:44:31 +0000

I listened to 30% of the book on audio.

I don't see a coherent plot so far. The first chapter is very fun to read. So is the second chapter, but to a lesser extent. But all the chapters seem to have the same gimmick, [Consider shocking scenario X if people were just forgetting certain things].

I also don't understand why the antimemes have physical manifestations. There doesn't have to be a reason, but this means that the story is no longer about the exploration of the central concept (antimemes).

New comment by agnishom in "Gonon: Building a Clock with No Numerals"

agnishom — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:34:48 +0000

It would be great if this could be a clockface for Pebble

New comment by agnishom in "I use Excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

agnishom — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:37:07 +0000

That's an interesting article. I was being snarky, but I still think your article about Excalidraw images is still interesting.