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New comment by dragandj in "Disagreement Among Frontier LLMs on Real-World Fact-Checks"

dragandj — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:35:09 +0000

LLMs can and will provide inaccurate answers to questions where data is included in their training sets too, that's in the nature of neural networks. It's just less likely that when the data is not in the training set...

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

dragandj — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clojuriststogether.org/news/q2-2026-funding-announcement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990789

Points: 145

# Comments: 26

New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:54:11 +0000

I forgot to put /s in my comment :)

New comment by dragandj in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

dragandj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:51:32 +0000

None of the numerous existing human-coded X11 tray icons showing battery charge level is good for you? Why? What are they missing?

New comment by dragandj in "Why isn't AMD's MI300X competitive?"

dragandj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:55:48 +0000

FWIW Back in 2015 OpenCL 2.0 performance was quite good on then-current AMD GPUs (IMO), but the problem was that 1. You had to implement everything yourself, from scratch, since AMD's GPU BLAS was barely compilable, and 2. They abandoned OpenCL that year, and switched to HIP (or whatever their copy of CUDA was called) which didn't even compile (in practice) for quite some time, and 3. Even with HIP, you were on your own when it comes for any BLAS and other standard library implementations because AMD provided nothing of the sorts for a long time.

All in all, it's not that the drivers performance was poor per se, but AMD did nothing about providing a software ecosystem, which amount to its hardware wasn't realistically usable unless your pockets were so big that you can do AMD's job and fund the re-development of the whole ecosystem from scratch.

In other words, it made MUCH better ROI to just use Nvidia, pay a little bit more for the hardware, and save millions on software :)

New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:57:41 +0000

Who's gonna pay $20,000 for labor that can be done by anyone with a $200/mo subscription?

New comment by dragandj in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

dragandj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:12:53 +0000

Now let's think about how much money it costs Anthropic to make that $60k. :)

New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:49:38 +0000

I find it works even better with "/effort ultra".

New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:46:55 +0000

And when it doesn't, it politely apologizes, at least :)

New comment by dragandj in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

dragandj — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:44:18 +0000

If the main problem is programming languages incompatibility with QWERTY, that problem has been solved many decades ago. The programmers can switch to Colemak, and save many trillions of dollars of AI expenses.

New comment by dragandj in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

dragandj — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:06:05 +0000

> An app is often much more than a CRUD interface. "I could have written Facebook over a weekend" syndrome :)

Clojure: The Documentary[official trailer] [video]

dragandj — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547282

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

dragandj — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46927441

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by dragandj in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

dragandj — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:37:23 +0000

Perhaps music that at least the author would listen to? To this day I haven't heard an AI song that made me wish I press the rewind/play to listen it again. Granted, most human-generated songs are crap, too, but at least they are not crap to their authors.

New comment by dragandj in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

dragandj — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:29:23 +0000

IMHO, it would be solved by just making AI "art" un-copyrightable. Fine, make "AI art" as much as you wish. Sell and buy it as much as you please if you find it to your taste. BUT, you can NOT participate in organizations that take royalties from radio stations, TVs, movies, records, etc. for publishing, performance, etc.

New comment by dragandj in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

dragandj — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 21:53:45 +0000

As an avid reader of BDs, I would agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, and for the general public, these two are indistinguishable. Even to the actual translation, which is (pardon my rusty French) somewhere in the ballpark of "cartoon strips".

New comment by dragandj in "Clojure Land – Discover open-source Clojure libraries and frameworks"

dragandj — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:56:56 +0000

OTOH, 1% of a large group is still quite a lot. How many programmers are there in the world? Google says estimated 47 million. 1% of that is almost half a million people. If there are half a million Clojure programmers, Clojure is quite a successful technology! (Sadly, I doubt there are that many)...

New comment by dragandj in "Open source can't coordinate?"

dragandj — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 14:20:34 +0000

I was pointing out that when we talk about reinventing the wheel, it wasn't the Emacs who was doing that, but the other guys. Whether they reinvented better or worse wheels is up to debate.

New comment by dragandj in "Open source can't coordinate"

dragandj — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:25:25 +0000

Emacs was there way before GTK and Qt appeared, though.

New comment by dragandj in "Writing documentation for AI: best practices"

dragandj — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 10:58:06 +0000

Software business is a business because it has customers, not users. In this case, you're left with the users, while OpenAI takes them as customers.