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New comment by d0mine in "Human Emacs"

d0mine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:34:20 +0000

These are orthogonal:

- there are people who do not want LLM contributions being accepted into emacs itself (legal, maintainers burnout, etc reasons)

- there are projects (such as gptel, pi-coding-agent) that enable LLM usage from within emacs

Both may be true at the same time.

New comment by d0mine in "Anthropic says Alibaba used 25k accounts to mine Claude"

d0mine — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:39:44 +0000

How many accounts Anthropic used to mine the web

New comment by d0mine in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

d0mine — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:25:24 +0000

It is more like an ability to recognize the word when it is used in context.

I got ~1/3 that is very generous estimate even for "recall" case (recognize), and it obviously false for the "generate" case (using in speech) where I guess my vocabulary is likely ~1/90 of all English words.

New comment by d0mine in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

d0mine — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:19:32 +0000

Mimocode(opencode), Pi Coding Agent

New comment by d0mine in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

d0mine — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:51:36 +0000

It is how these agencies operate. They mask malevolent activity behind good front (“think of the children“, “age verification“ -> censorship/total surveillance. Medical aid -> overthrowing governments).

New comment by d0mine in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

d0mine — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:25:48 +0000

As I understand RL makes foundation models stupider (less capable, not more) but better at following instructions.

New comment by d0mine in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

d0mine — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:46:20 +0000

U.S. Military Turned GPS into a Global "Numbers Station" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414479

New comment by d0mine in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

d0mine — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:26:11 +0000

In practice, when conventional commits are used with git emojis, they look like “scope: what is done” already (“ scope: …”)

New comment by d0mine in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

d0mine — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:18:03 +0000

Conventional commits (especially with git emojis) show at a glance the blast radius of the change (eg whether it breaks the product itself or just some internal dev tools). Emojis help immensely when looking at dozens of commits at a time.

New comment by d0mine in "MCP is dead?"

d0mine — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:34:21 +0000

If you need a network boundary, what MCP provides that REST API + llms.txt can't do?

New comment by d0mine in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

d0mine — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:42:08 +0000

In practice, you would use an already written implementation, maintained by somebody else. An option that is often ignored by LLM (copy-paste galore).

For example, imagine if textual-serve author would reimplement xterm.js What effect it would make on quality.

LLMs increase technical debt rapidly. It is unclear whether they can deal with the mess they create. But we'll know soon (no need to wait years, to get immovable mess).

The positive side of LLMs is that they confirm experimentally the usefulness of many software engineering practices (testing,docs, adrs, design, formal specs etc)

New comment by d0mine in "Russian Troops' Fear Grows as Ukraine AI "Slaughterbot" Drones Headhunt Them"

d0mine — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:07:41 +0000

Almost everything you see on the topic is propaganda. Alternative views are suppressed (though I’m surprised on the relative diversity I’m seeing in this thread)

New comment by d0mine in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

d0mine — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:19:41 +0000

“Either or” is too extreme. Both can be true at the same time even if at different levels of abstraction eg a table and atoms it consists of may exist at the same time. Depending on the task different levels of abstraction may be useful. It is ridiculous to claim that a table doesn’t exist just because we can prove it is made of atoms (or strings excitation—doesn’t matter here)

On the other hand, "consciousness" concept might be as much useful for modeling thinking as “the four elements” for describing anatomy (not useful at all)—and we create better models eventually.

New comment by d0mine in "The Emacsification of Software"

d0mine — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:24:12 +0000

“Those who say they lack time to build tools are precisely the ones who cannot afford not to.”

New comment by d0mine in "Little magazines are back"

d0mine — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:08:47 +0000

Unlike Kindle, Amazon can’t shutdown your bookshelf

New comment by d0mine in "A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury"

d0mine — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:36:32 +0000

“Parse don’t validate“ seems like the same idea

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...

You do not need Haskell for that eg it works in Python (via pydantic, attrs data classes)

New comment by d0mine in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

d0mine — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:18:49 +0000

Here's github statistics from 2015 https://github.blog/open-source/open-source-license-usage-on...

MIT is used by more projects than GPL.

New comment by d0mine in "Be Alexandra Elbakyan"

d0mine — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:07:40 +0000

What part of the reply is not factually correct? (premium gold+ open access article for $50000?)

New comment by d0mine in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

d0mine — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:02:00 +0000

You are called terrorist only until you win then you are a freedom fighter.

You even may be called freedom fighter from the start if you are trying to displace government in the right country. There are plenty of examples.

New comment by d0mine in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

d0mine — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:01:46 +0000

> how our brain construct

is the only part i.e., we perceive what brain predicts no more no less. Optical illusions demonstrate it well.

Sometimes that prediction (our perception) correlates with the light reaching the retina. But it is a mistake to think that we can perceive it directly. For example, we do not see the black hole in our field of vision where there are no receptors (due to our eyes construction).

Another example that makes the point clearer: there are no "wetness" receptors at all but we perceive wetness just fine.