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New comment by hcks in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

hcks — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:32:39 +0000

PSA: not making safe environments where you can skip all permissions and instead wasting time monitoring agents == incompetence

New comment by hcks in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

hcks — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:46:12 +0000

Guy who made millions selling ads has a meltdown over one (1) spam email

New comment by hcks in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

hcks — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 11:10:31 +0000

I know!! Also we could have given an IPhone to 500 million of people for the amount!! It’s such a waste to think they’re investing it in the future instead

New comment by hcks in "Calm tech certification "rewards" less distracting tech"

hcks — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:38:17 +0000

At this point why not go low-tech and use healing crystals?

Polling by asking people about their neighbors: When does this work?

hcks — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:27:18 +0000

Article URL: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/11/09/polling-by-asking-people-about-their-neighbors-when-does-this-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42101666

Points: 2

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New comment by hcks in "Jump Trading, Virtu and the 'hidden optical fibre cable' under an Ohio field"

hcks — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:00:19 +0000

Well either volume weighted or randomised then

New comment by hcks in "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]"

hcks — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:49:01 +0000

Could you please list say the top 5 Nobel worthy achievements of this backlog

New comment by hcks in "Meta Movie Gen"

hcks — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 10:54:02 +0000

You're right, Meta shouldn't invest in a breakthrough technology. They should focus on what really matters: delivering short term value to shareholders

New comment by hcks in "Meta Movie Gen"

hcks — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:18:19 +0000

Round of applause for this useless unsubstantiated comment

New comment by hcks in "Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes"

hcks — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:45:39 +0000

This outrage talk is ridiculous, you don’t have the morale high ground to judge people, they didn’t break anything, taking VC money isn’t bad, the incident was caused by sore losers looking for drama, etc etc

New comment by hcks in "SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS"

hcks — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:35:12 +0000

This is actually an incredibly stupid thing to say which reflects poorly on NASA management

New comment by hcks in "I Am Tired of AI"

hcks — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:47:42 +0000

Hackernews when we may be on the path of actual AI "meh I hate this, you know what’s actually really interesting? Manually writing tests for software"

New comment by hcks in "I Am Tired of AI"

hcks — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:44:32 +0000

And by nowadays you mean since ChatGPT got released, that is less than 2 years ago (e.g. a consumer preview of a frontier research project). Interesting.

New comment by hcks in "Why wordfreq will not be updated"

hcks — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:30:10 +0000

Okay but how big of a sample size do we even actually need for word frequencies? Like what’s the goal here? It looks like the initial project isn’t even stratified per year/decade

New comment by hcks in "Terence Tao on O1"

hcks — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:44:04 +0000

> I recently built a Brainfuck compiler and TUI debugger

Highly representative of what devs make all day indeed

New comment by hcks in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

hcks — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:36:11 +0000

> HN on LLMs "meh not real reasoning, in fact it's exactly the same thing as ELIZA"

> HN when someone makes a trivial LLM-wrapper (but cynic!! I hate corporate ahah): 9999 comments 9999 points "this is the best thing since sliced bread"

New comment by hcks in "Founder Mode, hackers, and being bored by tech"

hcks — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:15:18 +0000

> The young ones don't understand why we oldies roll our eyes at hearing the 13th iteration of "this is ground breaking new idea"

Why not constructively contribute by explaining what could be different for the idea to work this time? Or if you hate innovation (i.e. retrying age old ideas slightly differently - hoping this time it will work), why don't you pick another industry?

New comment by hcks in "Ask HN: Will AI make us unemployed?"

hcks — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 13:09:45 +0000

Yes software dev has 10 good years left

New comment by hcks in "You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"

hcks — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 14:09:48 +0000

“We thought academia was not soul crushing enough so from now on you will additionally spend 10 hours a week replicating dumb papers from 1993”

New comment by hcks in "You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?"

hcks — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:48:07 +0000

The introductory example is quite illuminating. No theory behind, just a random hypothesis tested (by comparing the preferences of 10 fishes from populations separated from as little as 50 meters, what effect size did the authors expect?), with claims of generalisation (climate change ok bad?? Or climate change bad bad??)