<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bagful</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bagful</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:54:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bagful" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like the chip-software in Gibson’s sprawl, from the micro-soft to the ROM cowboy to the Aleph, the endgame of computertool distribution is via single-use chunks of quasi-biological computronium</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:04:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111103</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111103</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Self-help gets philosophical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can’t say; this set of genes didn’t produce a consciousness that cares to pass them along, I suppose</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 03:52:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787741</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45787741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Self-help gets philosophical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This assertion relies a bit much on overloading the definition of “life”, and I for one care more about spreading my ideas than my genes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 23:42:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786545</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45786545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are the other axes in your theory?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454630</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Artificial colorants make it easier to design visually hyperstimulating foods without having to compromise on flavor. What could the upside for the consumer be, to disrupt our evolved associations between appearance and flavor?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442859</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I dare say autism is the <i>pride</i> of human intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:21:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438789</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "The Death of the Student Essay–and the Future of Cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I regret never having written a single essay in my decade of being homeschooled; it wasn’t until the last year of my bachelor’s I could even begin to appreciate the benefit to the writer that composing an essay has. I find it sad that future cohorts of students will have even less of a chance to lay hold on that power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407893</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45407893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I simply ask that Apple let me plug my phone into any USB-C dock and use it as if I had done the same with a MacBook.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 22:25:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399866</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45399866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "303Gen – 303 acid loops generator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Learn by imitation ; if you want to make DnB tracks, try and inevitably fail to recreate existing DnB that you admire. With time your failures-to-imitate will congeal into a novel and personal style.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:24:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817325</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "18% of all new music uploaded to streaming is fully AI-generated"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uh, too bad for them? What if I want a hot muscular body, but don’t want to spend the hundreds of hours running, lifting weights, planning and executing a healthy diet; and I certainly don’t want to use steroids?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:16:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176379</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I should rather have said, “we will solve it no sooner than …”, because certainly there are countless other ways society constrains desire to the detriment of the subject’s capacity to relate to others. I’m sure our musical culture would do well to cast off twelve-tone equal temperament, which trades a dimension of artistic expression for a certain fungibility; pitch classes have no particular identities because their internal relations a
have been flattened, every perfect fifth is as perfect as it will be, every major third sounds equally inflamed, and so on.<p>But as for matters of mental health; I assert that every man exhibits desires which we have decided fates him to be a homosexual. Any suppression of true desire (as opposed to that which society grafts upon us) introduces a schizm in the personality. Consequently, there is not a man alive who is spared from this issue; all men are divided against themselves, and so they are divided against each other and against really anyone they ought to be vulnerable with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137519</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137519</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44137519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Long live American Science and Surplus"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AllElectronics in CA, too. I bought out their 10k dual-taper A/C pots during their closing sale; an unusual but powerful taper for audio electronics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 04:38:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123175</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Charted: The Decline of U.S. Software Developer Jobs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t regret my math minor but that didn’t go on the paper diploma …</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 23:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368247</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43368247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Soviet Shoe Factory Principle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an American, I would not call our system healthy from a practical sense; certainly not for society, if this past decade of mounting instability, distrust, and profiteering is any indication.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:14:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872594</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42872594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid's origins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No greater horror has ever been dispensed upon the martyrs of truth but a downwards pointed thumb</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:23:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825515</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For one, a brain can’t do anything without irreversibly changing itself in the process; our reasoning is not a pure function.<p>For a person to truly understand something they will have a well-refined (as defined by usefulness and correctness), malleable internal model of a system that can be tested against reality, and they must be aware of the limits of the knowledge this model can provide.<p>Alone, our language-oriented mental circuits are a thin, faulty conduit to our mental capacities; we make sense of words as they relate to mutable mental models, and not simply in latent concept-space. These models can exist in dedicated but still mutable circuitry such as the cerebellum, or they can exist as webs of association between sense-objects (which can be of the physical senses or of concepts, sense-objects produced by conscious thought).<p>So if we are pattern-matching, it is not simply of words, or of their meanings in relation to the whole text, or even of their meanings relative to all language ever produced. We translate words into problems, and match problems to models, and then we evaluate these internal models to produce perhaps competing solutions, and then we are challenged with verbalizing these solutions. If we were only reasoning in latent-space, there would be no significant difficulty in this last task.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:01:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523250</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Maybe Bluesky has "won""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many people hold worldviews which are ontologically incapable of co-existence with other viewpoints. By reducing discourse to intergroup sparring and affinity signaling, the intermingling of various such extremists only solidifies the status quo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:58:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150959</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the former case it is a list of performances characterized by including Anthony Hopkins; in the middle, it is a list of performances belonging to Hopkins. The latter reads incorrectly to me as an American but as a possessive nonetheless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:54:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798852</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Self-experiment with L-theanine: effect on sleep and cognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For my biology, L-theanine (200 mg) rounds out caffeine by stamping out the anxiety-inducing effect. By itself it just gives me a headache sometimes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:25:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768459</link><dc:creator>bagful</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41768459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bagful in "Golang – when programmers had smaller egos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>False humility is a form of egotism; every stated upside of Go can be equally construed as a paternalistic concession to our general failure to produce capable programmers, let alone at a sufficient volume to fulfill Google’s commercial ambitions that require the production of Lots Of Code.</p>
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