<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: bebb</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bebb</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:36:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bebb" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bebb in "KDE onboarding is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've not used KDE for a very long time, are you saying that they now have shareware-style nag dialogs in KDE itself? Or is this just something on the KDE website, like Wikipedia does?</p>
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<p>Depending on the task, the tool can, in effect, demonstrate more intelligence than most people.<p>We've just become accustomed to it now, and tend to focus more on the flaws than the progress.</p>
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<p>It is in the UK. Perhaps it's different in other parts of the world.</p>
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<p>There was one on HN a few weeks ago, tailored towards loops: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072280">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072280</a><p>One interesting feature is it has built-in vibe coding, to produce an LLM-generated loop program to start one's creative journey.</p>
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<p>It's a good example. People have been fired, reprimanded, blacklisted from their field, harassed and stalked for publicly objecting to the gender identity viewpoint. It somewhat reminds me of the tactics scientologists used to suppress dissent. I'm glad that era is starting to come to an end now.</p>
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<p>I find that's a good reason, other than looking for an increase in salary, to seek out new employment opportunities every few years, while nudging your resume more towards the career you want rather than the career you've experienced.</p>
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<p>> <i>many cultures across the Americas and Oceania had and have non-binary systems,</i><p>As I understand it, this is because these cultures had deeply sexist ideas about how women and men should behave, so they created additional categories to shovel everyone who didn't conform into. In practice this tended to mean that gay men would be placed in some sort of "non-man" male category. So while sexuality and gender are different things, in practice they end up linked through this mechanism of othering.</p>
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<p>Read the article, felt worried.<p>Came back here and read all the cynical and critical comments, felt a lot better.<p>Thanks guys.</p>
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<p>What about the amyloid plaques, tau aggregation and neuronal cell death?</p>
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<p>Because it's a genuinely good idea, and hopefully one for which the execution will be improved upon over time.<p>In theory, using LLMs to summarize knowledge could produce a less biased and more comprehensive output than human-written encyclopedias.<p>Whether Grokipedia will meet that challenge remains to be seen. But even if it doesn't, there's opportunity for other prospective encyclopedia generators to do so.</p>
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<p>Wikipedia isn't even the only one online. The Encyclopaedia Britannica still exists.</p>
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<p>I did the same to some old tracks, feeding them into Suno with different style requests, and it was fascinating. It didn't quite hit the mark on a whole-song scale but I enjoyed the exploration of ideas and genres.<p>If I could compare Suno to anything it'd be like having a studio full of rather disobedient and unpredictable session musicians available 24/7.<p>Even that's not quite what one gets as if you listen closely enough it doesn't really sound like a recording. Like the reverb is all over the place and there are certain other artefacts that are hard to describe but gratingly noticeable once you've spotted them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775872</link><dc:creator>bebb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45775872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bebb in "How AI gave me my voice back – an artist's review of Suno Studio"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've not used Suno Studio but I did put some of my own piano improv recordings into Suno and asked it to apply different styles. Fascinating results, hearing my work translated into disco, funk, acid jazz, marching brass band, film scores, 8-bit chiptunes, cor anglais solos, and more. It's given me a deeper appreciation for the broader musical landscape and has somewhat helped me out of a creative rut.<p>That said, I don't like the idea of generating entire songs and/or lyrics from scratch with AI. That's a step too far, as it diminishes creativity rather than supplements it. So I have mixed feelings overall about products like Suno.</p>
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<p>It's funny to see where that number ends up. Even on government websites, e.g. <a href="https://staging.housingbayarea.mtc.ca.gov/listing/ext/40d6d4be-ccbb-45c4-adab-2cbb973c2b55" rel="nofollow">https://staging.housingbayarea.mtc.ca.gov/listing/ext/40d6d4...</a></p>
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