Hacker News: b1n

New comment by b1n in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

b1n — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:42:21 +0000

Archive now, make public after X amount of time. So, maybe both publisher and archiver are happy (or less sad).

New comment by b1n in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

b1n — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:37:28 +0000

This answer is the most important one.

The future of state LLMs is not censoring subjects - it's slowly but surely persuading people using your LLM that your version of events - or your spin on that event - is the truth.

New comment by b1n in "The Atelier: Craft, Code, and the Coming Guild"

b1n — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:33:51 +0000

Core of the article: the cathedral, the bazaar, and the workshop - https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft-...

The Atelier: Craft, Code, and the Coming Guild

b1n — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft--code--and-the-coming-guild.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761556

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by b1n in "The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop"

b1n — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:26:25 +0000

Apologies if this is against the rules.

I linked to a sub-heading of the article (which I think is the core and most important part of the article) and named the link after that.

Re-submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761556

The Cathedral, the Bazaar and the Workshop

b1n — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:34:08 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesmunsch.com/words/2026-01-18-the-atelier--craft--code--and-the-coming-guild.html#the-cathedral-the-bazaar-and-the-workshop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46761196

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by b1n in "OpenAI is building a social network?"

b1n — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:42:47 +0000

Also, what is their USP? "Join our social network so we can train our models on your data!"

New comment by b1n in "Linux running inside a PDF file via a RISC-V emulator"

b1n — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 04:32:44 +0000

I've invented a replacement for the PDF format.

It's called Locked Markdown. `*.lmd`.

It provides 98% of the functionality most people use PDFs for, without all the extra bullshit.

The Spec:

- The most popular Markdown Spec (git flavour?)

- At the top of the page place a hash sum of the markdown below a marker on the page.

LMD Reader:

- Prevents editing the markdown.

- Warns user if the hash sum is not valid.

Example:

```lmd

sha256 77ec0f678315f8a207c3501137e1dfc9642b79a9c93e21807df7b5242846c05c

-------------------------------

# Header 1

Paragraph of text about how bloated the PDF format is.

```

Zip .lmd together with images/videos if required.

New comment by b1n in "Goodbye, Slopify"

b1n — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:27:17 +0000

Cory Doctrow goes into the reasons behind the rise of playlists and the control it gives the platform over their users/artists. Worth a read.

https://craphound.com/category/internetcon/

New comment by b1n in "The UX of Lego Interface Panels (2020)"

b1n — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:14:41 +0000

What is modulex: https://www.newelementary.com/2017/11/old-bricks-what-are-mo...

New comment by b1n in "[dead]"

b1n — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 03:42:54 +0000

You should be embarrassed by the obviousness of this spam.

New comment by b1n in "Medieval"

b1n — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:21:46 +0000

Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI

New comment by b1n in "G1 AR Glasses"

b1n — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:07:35 +0000

Maybe you would never misuse this technology, but if it becomes widespread and normalized then plenty of people are going to be walking into public toilets (other previously private spaces) with this tech on. We're creating the conditions for total surveillance of the physical world.

Is this the future you want to live in? It's not too late to back down.

EDIT: As pointed out by those below, these glasses don't have cameras. Which I think is much more preferable to the alternative.

New comment by b1n in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

b1n — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 22:02:42 +0000

Maybe "contactcode" would be better in this situation, as it doesn't imply any specific relationship between participants.

New comment by b1n in "Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit"

b1n — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 05:56:06 +0000

Complaints about TailwindCSS always remind me of this quote:

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/21810-it-is-difficult-to-ge...

The Chinese mafia's downfall in a lawless casino town

b1n — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 07:22:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67471138

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38419841

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by b1n in "AI App Graveyard"

b1n — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 07:03:10 +0000

These companies are not designed to last forever. Many wrappers can make decent amounts of money for their creators for months and then die. Under these conditions a company can close down and still be considered a big success.

The weird aliens of early science fiction

b1n — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 02:06:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231019-the-weird-aliens-of-early-science-fiction

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37980818

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by b1n in "Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs"

b1n — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 22:55:28 +0000

I will have to update my belief that LLMs would not be practical for use by citizens of authoritarian regimes.

New comment by b1n in "Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud"

b1n — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 22:49:48 +0000

What happens when you ask about Tiananmen Square?

(Asking for redwood, who's comment was inexplicably flagged).