Hacker News: agolio

New comment by agolio in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

agolio — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:26:57 +0000

Tangent point, I think more broadly this is a big piece of AI-cynicism in general- “x isn’t special anymore”.

It’s tough staying motivated on a craft when an AI is nearly as good as you. Chess players manage to do it at least.

New comment by agolio in "Auth.js is now part of Better Auth"

agolio — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 07:31:29 +0000

That may be true but doesn't contradict the point of the parent commenter.

If Auth.js wanted to give up, that would be fine (although disappointing, since multiple options is always healthy, especially for something as critical as auth)

but this deal where they are "becoming part of BetterAuth" and recommending that new users use BetterAuth on the project README is concerning to me

New comment by agolio in "Title drops in movies"

agolio — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:54:28 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that".

New comment by agolio in "I couldn't find a free, no-login, no-AI checklist app–so I built one"

agolio — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 18:33:17 +0000

Notes (builtin to iOS)

Reminders (builtin to iOS)

New comment by agolio in "Show HN: AI assistant that makes you learn quickly by asking questions"

agolio — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:15:37 +0000

Very cool! Definitely has growth potential...

Since you asked for feedback, maybe a user portal, with a document library would be the tips from the top of my head. Maybe with something to track learning over time. Though this would surely increase hosting costs.

New comment by agolio in "JustAsk – The $1 Experiment"

agolio — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:45:20 +0000

Nice try, but it's been done.

eg. https://www.giveusadollar.com/

Though the first version I remember is now offline - from 1998:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980111063301/https://givemeado...

New comment by agolio in "Learning to Reason with LLMs"

agolio — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:17:04 +0000

There was a hackernews post a few days ago, pointing to a reddit thread where some guys proved that the founder/s of relection AI were faking their model by just passing the input to Claude (Sonnet 3.5) and stripping the word "Claude" from the output, amongst other things. Then when they got caught they switched it to GPT 4-o.

After this, I will be very skeptical to anything they claim to achieve.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41484981

New comment by agolio in "We need to liberate the Postcode Address File"

agolio — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 08:15:50 +0000

I am a bit surprised by how hard this article makes out the problem to be.

Crowdsourcing should make short work of the problem, with the right incentives, which the government will be able to offer.

Additionally private map providers (e.g. Google, Apple) must surely have this data (since they are able to route navigation to private addresses). Why not just negotiate with them?

New comment by agolio in "PyScript: An open source platform for Python in the browser"

agolio — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:23:20 +0000

Cool site!

> Many businesses I work with use Tableau free versions, and just manually update the data

Why not just use e.g React/ Angular?

Or is it a question of needing python for the data analytics, and for server cost reasons not wanting it to be run on the server side?

New comment by agolio in "True Defamation [pdf]"

agolio — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:25:35 +0000

I know nothing of Swedish law, but do these rulings not conflict with Section 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights?

New comment by agolio in "Elon Musk drops suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman"

agolio — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 09:39:02 +0000

> It doesn't take much more than showing up and taking responsibility when no one else does.

Your argument aside, I am interested to hear you found it straightforward to run a successful non-profit.

Any tips for someone who is interested to enter that space?

New comment by agolio in "On a great interview question"

agolio — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:18:46 +0000

Good point, though I guess the point of the disagreement is then for me that the question's "dictionary words" implies to me an english dictionary, rather than an abstract dictionary of words of potentially infinite length

New comment by agolio in "On a great interview question"

agolio — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 21:09:12 +0000

> I then push them on this until they realize that any implementation of the dictionary lookup function of a string would be o(n) at best, and as such the total runtime of the solution is O(n²).

Is that true?

I am actually siding towards the candidates on this one

presumably it would be O(n_words_in_dictionary) for the dictionary check, which as the number of words in the dictionary is constant, would make the overall algorithm O(n) ...

Twitter will open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31st

agolio — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:53:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1636835209587949570

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35254574

Points: 10

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New comment by agolio in "Bing Image Creator"

agolio — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:50:58 +0000

Amazing, same as the chatGPT effect - seeing these images in papers is one thing. But having an interface where you can try it and realise that the paper examples weren't cherry-picked and the technology really is that good is something else.

First try https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-dog-driving-a-taxi/6419...

New comment by agolio in "ChatGPT's Chess Elo is 1400"

agolio — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:02:28 +0000

Chessnetwork did a video about this a few weeks ago FYI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svlIYFpsWs0

Seems its strength is mostly in memorisation of the book openings. Still impressive nonetheless.

New comment by agolio in "The Hyperreal"

agolio — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:02:30 +0000

Are you reading his works in French? If not, the criticism of the language doesn't hold up. I do agree with the recommendation though - enjoy his work.

New comment by agolio in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

agolio — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:18:52 +0000

Looks great. Good work DDG!

New comment by agolio in "I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]"

agolio — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:26:11 +0000

Seems you are right and I would have saved my criticism with that knowledge. Though I do think that information should have been in the submission title then.

Ah well, best wishes to her.

New comment by agolio in "I broke a wine glass with my voice (2018) [video]"

agolio — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:49:21 +0000

I have nothing against the video, and I am all for making science exciting for the broader audience. I just am not sure why it is at the top of HN.