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New comment by aqfamnzc in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

aqfamnzc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:01:31 +0000

The solution is clear: Offer the red car option as a trap, banning anyone who chooses it.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

aqfamnzc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:41:25 +0000

I suspect this is much more common than you're imagining. I think it'd be silly for publishers of any kind, really, to not use AI tools for things like fact checking and so on.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:40:16 +0000

I wrote it myself, adopted from xkcd 1447.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:26:20 +0000

I hope you're joking. In case you're serious, the same argument could be made about typing, speaking, or really any related activity. Or communication in general.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:41:15 +0000

> Many benchmarks include the task of analyzing coding agent aptitude tests. This has led to bench-benchmarks comparing LLM test benchmarking methods, e.g. M Sampson (2025), PL Royle (2024). We performed a bench-bench-benchmark analysis using Mythos Ultra Max 9.6 of these bench-benchmarks.

> Methods: We instructed various LLMs to perform the task "Write a prompt instructing a variety of LLMs to write a benchmark for benchmark analysis, including the instructions 'Create a benchmark for...

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:26:04 +0000

Perhaps the old recommendation of "Deliver a resume in person, shake their hand" that many of us younguns have rolled our eyes at will actually come back?? How else to prove your humanity to the hiring manager?

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

aqfamnzc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:44:40 +0000

Why use Fable at all then?

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Claude Sonnet 5"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:17:19 +0000

Why?

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:41:51 +0000

Sadly, yes.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:23:33 +0000

A couple years ago I realized that I had somewhat subconsciously made the same assumption. The thing that snapped me out of it was my awe in watching Clickspring (YT) try to recreate the Antikythera Mechanism. That device's complexity and craftsmanship is proof to me that despite the lack of technology, there were some astonishingly smart and resourceful people living thousands of years ago.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:56:03 +0000

You have linked to your own comment.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:31:24 +0000

> I won't rehearse their ideas here

Is there an accessible way for a layman such as myself to read about some of these ideas (Really I mean philosophical discussion in general) without having to read entire books? Is there an active HN-equivalent or wiki or something?

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

aqfamnzc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:29:33 +0000

Wow, seems surprisingly balanced. I would guess that if it was 50% longer distance than humans would win reliably, and 50% shorter would allow the horses to win?

New comment by aqfamnzc in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

aqfamnzc — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:37:48 +0000

I'll be honest, I carefully scanned your comment for a similar mispelling.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:53:47 +0000

Yeah, I feel like unless you run a site large enough for google monkeys to write a special case for your site specifically, why not just password protect the entire site but put the password on the login page? Or any other rudimentary captcha I suppose - like the old days.

Doesn't keep out anyone even mildly interested in your site specifically, including scrapers, but at least it blocks googlebot etc.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "AI slop is killing online communities"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:41:55 +0000

I've always thought the "strict invitation trees" or vouch trees would be an interesting way to moderate a community, even before the LLM era. A user can vouch for an unlimited number of new accounts, but if more than 10% of the vouched accounts are banned or flagged down the line, the parent voucher acct is also banned/flagged.

Since it creates a tree structure, you can wipe out entire armies of bot/spam/otherwise accounts by following the vouches up the tree.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

aqfamnzc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:46:25 +0000

A "reasoning" LLM is just an LLM that's been instructed or trained to start every response with some text wrapped in or similar. The UI may show or obscure this part. Then when the model decides to give its "real" response, it has all that reasoning text in its context window, helping it generate a better answer.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

aqfamnzc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:09:33 +0000

I just append something like "Throughout our conversation, keep your responses brief. Avoid emojis, followup suggestions, and other unnecessary commentary." to every starting prompt. Seems to work OK. I'm sure sibling's recommendation of turning down the niceties sliders would work similarly for someone with an account.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

aqfamnzc — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 03:52:28 +0000

Even funnier when you remember that they own github, the place where arguably markdown was popularized.

New comment by aqfamnzc in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

aqfamnzc — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:01:16 +0000

Is the data stored on the card, or on the player? My guess is that each card just holds an id?