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New comment by dingdongditchme in "Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:22:41 +0000

I like your list of "challenges" but have a personal issue with two of them:

1. "improve uniteds' plane shedule" -> the word "improve" does a lot of heavy lifting there..

2. Turing test for me is solved: "AI expert" is just moving the goal posts imho. The original turing test to my knowledge is about passing notes under a door. Obviously, llms can't communicate via hand-written notes and if that is the bar it will take a long time (or a specifically designed hand-writting machine) to really do this. As far as how much writing back and forth you can do it is clear that turing test is beat: I am wondering often enough on text sent to me from colleagues if it is generated, the same goes for comments here or any ol' website. In a standard llm session I don't really communicate differently than with a human and would not be able to tell the difference in an hour texting session or so. Of course if I ask it to count words or do something ridiculous I can find sus it out; but for all intents and purposes the chat-bot exists.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake"

dingdongditchme — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:22:22 +0000

I completely agree with everything you say here. I felt the critique in the article was way more strawman falacy than everything else. I use(d) git much more locally, and would never run into this problem because I would only use sha-256 on new repos. Rewriting the entire history is also not so much of a pain depending on organisation size and how it is done (if an org decided to do it). It may be a pain for git-hosts, but even there i think reasonable solutions can be found. Still not sure if I care about the switch though sha-1 worked and the security implications seem minor to my use-cases. I am much more concerned with code leaking online...

sidenote: i hate the term "forge", is it too late to settle for something less... cringe??

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Agents.md speaks Unix, and you should too"

dingdongditchme — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:41:39 +0000

lul what? As a linux fanboy who "speaks unix" (presumably, do I? not sure...). I find it humorous that we have gone full circle. The newest tech shit is recommending I learn almost 50 year old technology? Time for me to log off.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "I said no and Apple said yes"

dingdongditchme — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:02:21 +0000

these days to me a device is bricked if I need to spend +1h recovering it. Happy linux user though through and through.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:03:27 +0000

certainly! There are pro's and con's to fire still today. Us fireless plebs prefer a life much closer to nature, eating our meat raw and bathing in the mud.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Learning Programming in an Age of LLMs"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:06:34 +0000

I think bill gates summarized it pretty well in a recent letter [1]. There are pro's and con's to every new technology. Learning can be greatly accelerated with the use of llm's but you have to use them the right way. Just like calculators help further down the line, they do not help you when you are still trying to learn the basic concepts of arithmetic. I personally think I have found a way of working with llms that really accelerates getting stuff done while i am still able to learn. It means reading more, and (although I hate this in part) reading generated text. What is infuriating is when I suspect people writing to me with generated text, it is insulting and should be banned. Makes me want to spend more time offline (probably a good thing in my case).

[1]https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/a-tur...

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

dingdongditchme — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:58:50 +0000

slop confirmed.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:46:01 +0000

I like the analogy but can't believe it is not generated slop. Just curious how deep the integration of agentic LLMs is in your social media presence?

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:35:50 +0000

Clearly the author is not a native english speaker (from the other blog posts) i found skimming it interesting nonetheless, i hate slop as much as the next guy but appreciate the language barrier braking qualities of llms.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:30:37 +0000

sounds like a douche

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Reverse-Engineering Claude Web's MicroVM: Uncovering Anthropic's Hidden Antspace"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:29:17 +0000

I believe that what the previous commment is trying to say is that even when we identify phrases highly attributable to llm output we can never be certain. Which is the nefarious thing about broad use of computer generated text. I noticed comments here on hacker news containing conspicous mistakes which llms hardly ever do anymore and was wondering whether it was people purposefully adding mistakes to identify as noslop or whether llms got worse or if it was bots trying to fool me. My misspelling of conspicuous was left in on purpose in this case. All i can say is "trust me bro, I am not ai".

New comment by dingdongditchme in "What a time to be alive"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:16:59 +0000

oh we do! At least they google is quite good at adhering to robots.txt.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:16:10 +0000

Who the fuck is going to hold these AI companies responsible for running these gigantic semi-autonomous botnets on investors dime?

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:13:48 +0000

I haven't touched it in ages. But I always felt that it SC2 was more successful in taking out APM and "Deathball" mechanics. I remember a lot of cheese options and nuances. I guess there is just a big spread between balancing the pro players and the bronze league fuckers like myself. I have more nostalgia for SC:BW but only played online thanks to SC2 matchmaking. I think making an RTS that ticks all the boxes is incredibly difficult.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:55:11 +0000

Congrats on your map! I am leaning more towards the optimism side. Like you I've had some real breakthroughs myself. Personal akin your garden map, no where near solving millennium problems. My take is that all these (Fable solves this, OpenAI does that, AI will take over the world) Marketing Stunts will fade some day when the true cost of tokens hits the market. You and I may have to contend with lesser models, but will probably get work done just fine.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

dingdongditchme — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:49:40 +0000

You know, it could have been more than one person. At this point I don't think it really matters, unless he/she starts selling their coins.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

dingdongditchme — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:49:31 +0000

A game changer for me was the link hints extension on firefox and chrome: instantly enabled a lot of websites to be keyboard-driven.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

dingdongditchme — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:10:41 +0000

Michael Burry managed just fine, I believe. Secondly, I think the "in every case" is too strongly worded. I am working in an org right now where it has not happened yet. Perhaps it is only a matter of time, but let me have my optimism.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

dingdongditchme — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:01:43 +0000

My take is that when the bubble bursts good software will remain. Right now all the big players are hiding the cost. Anthropic (in my mind) is especially egregious at tokenmaxxing without telling you whats going on. A simple request to edit a text file launches multiple agents which takes ages, and burns tokens. All the while it calles it "Sautéeing" or whatever random verb they spew out as you wait for your answer.

New comment by dingdongditchme in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

dingdongditchme — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 02:57:29 +0000

Thank you for the insight! Are you going back to the changelog and editing the CVE-PENDING? I think this would be a justifiable edit of the release history that I'm not sure is possible on github.