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New comment by block_dagger in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

block_dagger — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:07:06 +0000

Thanks for the math. My mind was more on the transportation pollution (moving all the people and stuff into the desert and then back out again, every year). The amount of CO2 spent on flying people around for business and vacations blows my mind. Using jet engines should be something like 10x more expensive than they are to reflect the actual burden on future generations of humans and other species.

New comment by block_dagger in "Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs"

block_dagger — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:24:19 +0000

Ah, I misunderstood this, thanks for the link. You are correct. I was assuming this system worked like CLAUDE.md in that it was deterministically added to the context without the LLM choosing to add it. My mistake.

New comment by block_dagger in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

block_dagger — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:20:28 +0000

I like this but doesn't Burning Man itself constitute a hugely inefficient use of fossil fuels and unsustainable material use? The name has "burning" right in it. The climax is a bonfire. What about the air pollution? Perhaps it would be better for the planet if Burning Man didn't exist at all.

New comment by block_dagger in "Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs"

block_dagger — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:27:33 +0000

Define “load.” It follows the instructions in the prompt - its natural behavior.

New comment by block_dagger in "Show HN: Agent-skills-eval – Test whether Agent Skills improve outputs"

block_dagger — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:26:05 +0000

The skill is deterministically added to the prompt by the harness before the target model is invoked. There is no “choosing” to load a skill. You might be confusing skills with tools (MCP etc).

New comment by block_dagger in "Zugzwang"

block_dagger — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:06:19 +0000

One of the pieces in chess looks like a horse. Checkmate.

New comment by block_dagger in "Zugzwang"

block_dagger — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:05:23 +0000

Sounds like a quagmire.

New comment by block_dagger in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

block_dagger — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:37:50 +0000

The ceiling will soon be super-human.

New comment by block_dagger in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

block_dagger — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:09:26 +0000

When I was beginning to use AI for everything, as most of us had, I would start dreaming that wall of text that had a personality sat between me and reality. For several nights I would dream this way with the wall becoming translucent and displaying text but the "real" actions (other people, scenes) was happening on the other side of the wall. I've dreamed in videogames as well. I'm not sure if I was getting any learning done, but I'm pretty sure my brain was exercising modes of thought that would push knowledge from "system 2" down into "system 1."

New comment by block_dagger in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

block_dagger — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:03:59 +0000

Let’s cook, Jessie.

New comment by block_dagger in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

block_dagger — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:05:36 +0000

The 90s truly were a wonderful decade for human creativity.

New comment by block_dagger in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"

block_dagger — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:30:29 +0000

Pseudonymously

New comment by block_dagger in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

block_dagger — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:48:18 +0000

Decentralized networks benefit from hubs if they benefit a subset of the network, which GitHub has for a long time. A hub is a focal point and there can (and should be) many of them in the git "network."

New comment by block_dagger in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

block_dagger — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:05:29 +0000

In my mind the software would be written such that it could enable a new social norm. You'd just sort of offer your phone and the other person could decide to touch it with theirs or not. I get that's a pipe dream in terms of existing software, though.

New comment by block_dagger in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

block_dagger — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:40:05 +0000

I attended a concert last night and was wishing for this exact kind of app, being able to quickly exchange a follow with someone you just met in real life but will otherwise never see again unless you specifically ask for their name/number, which is awkward. Could spawn some special relationships.

New comment by block_dagger in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

block_dagger — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:27:34 +0000

I bought a Mac Mini, installed OpenClaw, and was impressed with the overall design and functionality. Then the problems started. Sometimes the gateway would crash, sometimes Signal (a channel I setup) would stop working. Upgrades seemed to break stuff. I had to dip into the terminal a lot to fix various things. It's quite useful if you don't already have Claude Code or similar tools setup, but frankly I haven't found a compelling use case that I can't get done in another more mature agentic harness.

New comment by block_dagger in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

block_dagger — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:26:58 +0000

Biphasic/polyphasic sleeper here (not by choice). Makes the work week a lot trickier. I will be reading through this article for insight on how to get the most out of my situation.

New comment by block_dagger in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

block_dagger — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:26:36 +0000

Try https://phish.in

New comment by block_dagger in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

block_dagger — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:25:33 +0000

Thats why projects like Relisten exist

https://relisten.net

New comment by block_dagger in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

block_dagger — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:02:17 +0000

War accelerated evolution, it’s why it exists.