<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: cuttothechase</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cuttothechase</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:08:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cuttothechase" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>calc, stat etc from a text book is something they would naturally be good at but I don't think book based computations thats in the training set and its extrapolations is what is at question here.<p>They are not great at playing chess as well - computational as well as analytic.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444">https://twitter.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884959">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884959</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/zan2434/status/2046982383430496444</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884959</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well the same logic can be used to justify bias too. I am surge pricing a person of religion X or race Y because I am increasing the supply for All races / religion in a equitable way!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:37:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869606</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "3.4M Solar Panels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you have a blog or a writeup about this?<p>What would have been the cost if it was not DIY'd? Is this doable only in a rural/semi-urban settings?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:21:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866497</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As one commenter put it: "You can fake a star count, but you can't fake a bug fix .. "<p>The way to beautify the pig is to put lipstick on the pig!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:09:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838282</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One could take anything like a cell and split it into genes, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic wave functions (with infinite value range) and take time which can be split into another infinite entity say even within a finite interval. How does this analysis account for that?<p>I could split this object into 10^500 or 10^50^500^5000 etc., with imagination being the limit.<p>These values Id'd at whatever imaginable resolution are far from practically useful but at a cosmic scale, there is no telling what is a useful value?<p>So this framework seems to be more limiting because we define a resolution ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:22:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070523</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47070523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> Incidentally, San Francisco public schools had a combined admission rate of just under 20%, well below the state average. Mission had the highest rate (26.5%) and Balboa the lowest (15.4%). It may or may not be a coincidence that 90% (the most of any SF school) of the applicants from Balboa were Asian whereas only 25% (the fewest of any SF school) of the applicants from Mission were Asian.<p>In order to promote diversity of the freshman classroom the college needs to suppress merit to achieve their diversity targets?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:41:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571130</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46571130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sergey's challenge looks like is not in retiring early or with non-work.<p>We had a high performing co-worker who was scared witless after a lay-off episode and this was not because he was worried about lacking money or loss of prestige., but because he could not come to terms with the simple fact of facing the 9 am on a Monday morning with absolutely no expectations.  It freaked so much to not feel the hustle and the adrenaline rush of experiencing the blues Monday morning!?<p>Another colleague used to drive up to the parking lot of their previous employer, post lay-off., so that he could feel <i>normal</i>., and he did this for well over 6 - 8 months. Pack bags, wave to his wife and family, drive up in his Porsche to the parking lot and I guess feel normal !?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522893</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>>This was a five-minute lightning talk given over the summer of 2025 to round out a small workshop.<p>Glad I noticed that footnote.<p>Article reeks of false equivalences and incorrect transitive dependencies.</p>
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<p><a href="https://gizmodo.com/replacement-study-mit-2000692601" rel="nofollow">https://gizmodo.com/replacement-study-mit-2000692601</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:44:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093459</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[MIT Report Claims 11.7% of U.S. Labor Can Be Replaced with Existing AI]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://iceberg.mit.edu/">https://iceberg.mit.edu/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093458">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093458</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 10</p>
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<p>I am pretty sure you wouldn't have touched anything from google and meta as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080506</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46080506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Unexpected things that are people"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't this sort of defense a weak argument by the courts. If your abstraction is to override a well known common usage/function of a term, then the abstraction doesn't hold much water?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:24:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880481</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What kind of blue collar work gets you $335K? What would be a 10 - 20 year average wage / year look like?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:47:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871797</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45871797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it fair to categorize that it is a pyramid like scheme but with a twist at the top where there are a few (more than a one) genuine wins and winners?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:44:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532864</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly agree but with one big exception. The real issue seems to be that the figuring out part is happening a bit too late. A bit like burn a few hundred billion dollars [0] first ask questions later!?<p>[0] - <a href="https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/economy" rel="nofollow">https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532234</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that we now have to write cook book about cook books kind of masks the reality that there is something that could be genuinely wrong about this entire paradigm.<p>Why are even experts unsure about whats the right way to do something or even if its possible to do something at all, for anything non-trivial? Why so much hesitancy, if this is the panacea? If we are so sure then why not use the AI itself to come up with a proven paradigm?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:29:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532033</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45532033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The title says - "Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI"<p>Didn't have it on my bingo card that running AI on a microcontroller is what people are salivating for!<p>Not sure if the strategy is to cram AI into every little shoe box out there and keeping fingers crossed for the stock price to trend upwards!?</p>
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<p>Isn't this just fiber optics! Exciting turn of the century tech hitting HN boards in 2025</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:39:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440604</link><dc:creator>cuttothechase</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45440604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cuttothechase in "Context is the bottleneck for coding agents now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is pretty clear that the long horizon tasks are difficult for coding agents and that is a fundamental limitation of how probabilistic word generation works either with transformer or any other architecture. The errors propagate and multiply and becomes open ended.<p>However, the limitation can be masqueraded using layering techniques where output of one agent is fed as an input to another using consensus for verification or other techniques to the nth degree to minimize errors. But this is a bit like the story of a boy with a finger in the dike. Yes, you can spawn as many boys but there is a cost associated that would keep growing and wont narrow down.<p>It has nothing to do with contexts or window of focus or any other human centric metric. This is what the architecture is supposed to do and it does so perfectly.</p>
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