Hacker News: blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blueridgeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 02 May 2026 08:59:16 +0000<![CDATA[The Index and the Vector]]>Article URL: https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-index-and-the-vector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665471

Points: 2

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]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:21:36 +0000https://newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-index-and-the-vector/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665471https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45665471<![CDATA[Large Language Muddle]]>Article URL: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45459573

Points: 2

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]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:11:58 +0000https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45459573https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45459573<![CDATA[The Sad World of Tech Blogging During an Era of Technological Stagnation]]>Article URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-world-of-tech-blogging

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298002

Points: 3

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]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:37:58 +0000https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/the-sad-sad-world-of-tech-bloggingblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298002<![CDATA[New comment by blueridge in "Read to forget"]]>We See from the Periphery, Not the Center: Reflections on Literature in an Age of Crisis, Alfred Kazin:

"How in 1977 can any great book help me to live better, I who am a creature of anxiety, involved against my will in all twentieth-century injustices and cruelties? How can Kafka relieve me of guilt, he who knew as a Jew even before the Nazis murdered his sisters, since powerlessness is a crime that invites exploitation, that "not the murderer but the victim is considered guilty"? How can Proust, who died to the world in order to live again through his great book retracing the past-how can he relieve me of my dread of death, when I can no longer accept the next world, the world of imagination, promised to me by his last-minute discovery of art in the volume Time Recaptured? But these are rhetorical questions whose emptiness I do not wish to conceal.

Because no book has enabled anyone to live better. The influence of any book on my consciousness is necessarily intermittent, a flash, a hope, an illusion, a picture. No more than any other external agent can a book effect a transformation that lasts.

What a great literary work does do for me is to clear my mind, to rearrange the order of my thinking, to show me, in the immortal words of Porgy and Bess, that "it ain't necessarily so." The real power of a literary work consists in presenting us with alternatives. If the work is emotionally effective enough, it can be an antidote to our usual mental confinement. It is the vision of another mind, another way of thinking, not a lasting way out."

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40133281

]]>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:18:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245389blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245389<![CDATA[Whistleblower says DOGE officials copied Social Security numbers]]>Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035856

Points: 94

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]]>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:50:24 +0000https://www.npr.org/2025/08/26/nx-s1-5517977/social-security-doge-privacyblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035856https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45035856<![CDATA[Websites That Work (1997) [pdf]]]>Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20130331062828/https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/pdf/WebSitesThatWork.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999998

Points: 4

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]]>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:40:44 +0000https://web.archive.org/web/20130331062828/https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/pdf/WebSitesThatWork.pdfblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44999998<![CDATA[Authenticate Thyself]]>Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-age

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980386

Points: 6

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]]>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:15:25 +0000https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-ageblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44980386<![CDATA[Due Diligence]]>Article URL: https://blog.ayjay.org/due-diligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44947375

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:40:09 +0000https://blog.ayjay.org/due-diligence/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44947375https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44947375<![CDATA[LLM Hallucination Seems Like a Big Problem, Not a Mere Speedbump]]>Article URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llm-hallucination-seems-like-a-very

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883601

Points: 8

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]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 01:08:49 +0000https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/llm-hallucination-seems-like-a-veryblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883601https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44883601<![CDATA[Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens]]>Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872850

Points: 160

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]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:52:47 +0000https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/researchers-find-llms-are-bad-at-logical-inference-good-at-fluent-nonsense/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872850<![CDATA[ChatGPT-5: A Review]]>Article URL: https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/chatgpt-5-a-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872844

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:51:29 +0000https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/chatgpt-5-a-reviewblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872844https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44872844<![CDATA[New comment by blueridge in "James Gunn's Superman Feels Like the Product of AI"]]>https://archive.ph/Jtjv2

]]>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:42:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694480blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694480<![CDATA[James Gunn's Superman Feels Like the Product of AI]]>Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/09/james-gunns-superman-feels-like-the-product-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694465

Points: 3

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]]>Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:41:11 +0000https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/09/james-gunns-superman-feels-like-the-product-of-ai/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44694465<![CDATA[Is SoftBank Still Backing OpenAI?]]>Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/softbank-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689829

Points: 4

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]]>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:42:03 +0000https://www.wheresyoured.at/softbank-openai/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689829<![CDATA[Yes, College Students Can't Read Good]]>Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-college-students-cant-read-good

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667253

Points: 3

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]]>Thu, 24 Jul 2025 05:30:49 +0000https://www.persuasion.community/p/yes-college-students-cant-read-goodblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667253https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44667253<![CDATA[Layers of Lawyers and Liars]]>Article URL: https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/layers-of-lawyers-and-liars.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521804

Points: 7

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]]>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:54:47 +0000https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/layers-of-lawyers-and-liars.htmlblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521804https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44521804<![CDATA[Mind Donation]]>Article URL: https://blog.ayjay.org/brain-donation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295351

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:56:28 +0000https://blog.ayjay.org/brain-donation/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295351https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44295351<![CDATA[What happens when the intelligence goes out?]]>Article URL: https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/brittle-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123397

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 29 May 2025 05:33:31 +0000https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/brittle-intelligence/blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123397<![CDATA[Conversations with Claude]]>Article URL: https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/conversations-with-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123391

Points: 3

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]]>Thu, 29 May 2025 05:31:51 +0000https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/conversations-with-claudeblueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123391https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123391<![CDATA[New comment by blueridge in "Stuff I Learned at Carta"]]>Seems like Will hasn't stayed anywhere for more than 2-3 years?

]]>Sat, 24 May 2025 14:22:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081317blueridgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081317https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081317