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New comment by hlynurd in "The worst job interview I ever had"

hlynurd — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:14:35 +0000

The Isle of Man’s toxic culture of dominance shines through again...

New comment by hlynurd in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"

hlynurd — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:57:43 +0000

Because everyone does?

New comment by hlynurd in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

hlynurd — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:14:35 +0000

> "if you want other people to care about you and your desires, you need to care about them and theirs and SHOW them that this is the case: here's how."

Isn't this highly manipulative?

Iarpa Trojans in Artificial Intelligence

hlynurd — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:20:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07152

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006758

Points: 2

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Epic Games lays off more than 1k amid slowing Fortnite engagement

hlynurd — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:02:21 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/epic-games-layoffs-fortnite-video-games-6a15e7c3f7916ecba10150a767295549

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hlynurd in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

hlynurd — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:14:25 +0000

The title alone maximizes the word-to-LLMism ratio

My Search for the Kaleidacousticon [pdf]

hlynurd — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:57:36 +0000

Article URL: https://midnightsledding.net/documents/Kaleidacousticon.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216746

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hlynurd in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

hlynurd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:30:01 +0000

I mean it was a lucky guess but still just a guess.

New comment by hlynurd in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

hlynurd — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:51:13 +0000

Oh yeah, Bluetooth headphones, I think this might actually explain it.

New comment by hlynurd in "Why are my headphones buzzing whenever I run my game?"

hlynurd — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:04:26 +0000

I have this weird thing whenever I have headphones and open the Dota2 settings on my Mac, then I not only get buzzing but the overall sound quality plummets!

New comment by hlynurd in "Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man"

hlynurd — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:51:10 +0000

I suspect that being born into money is a much stronger predictor of becoming ultra-wealthy than IQ.

New comment by hlynurd in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

hlynurd — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:28:44 +0000

Seems like this is about something other than LLMs?

New comment by hlynurd in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

hlynurd — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:57:54 +0000

I'm still not seeing it. It's immoral because it's resources not spent on some particular problem you have in mind?

New comment by hlynurd in "Hypercapitalism and the AI talent wars"

hlynurd — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 09:49:42 +0000

I'm really struggling with seeing how this is immoral.

New comment by hlynurd in "Andrew Ng says vibe coding is a bad name for a real and exhausting job"

hlynurd — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:40:35 +0000

Just call it coding? Like how we don't have a particular word for using stack overflow while coding.

New comment by hlynurd in "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"

hlynurd — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:29:01 +0000

I often look moist after I use a moisturizer.

New comment by hlynurd in "Deep Learning Is Not So Mysterious or Different"

hlynurd — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:04:42 +0000

>smash with something better

Not a fan of the aggressive rhetoric here...

New comment by hlynurd in "The New York Times Has Spent $10.8M in Its Legal Battle with OpenAI So Far"

hlynurd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:31:47 +0000

Because people are willing to pay that amount

New comment by hlynurd in "Launch HN: Karsa (YC W25) – Buy and save stablecoins internationally"

hlynurd — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:14:33 +0000

After following the work of Zeke Faux I would not touch Tether with a 10 foot pole.

New comment by hlynurd in "Jürgen Schmidhuber – Can All-Purpose Robots Fuel a Comeback?"

hlynurd — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 11:31:12 +0000

>What many people don't know: The current boom in "Generative AI" using artificial neural networks has its roots in the early nineties at the Technical University of Munich, especially the "G" and the "P" and the "T" in "ChatGPT." At that time, we published "Artificial Curiosity" through what's now called "Generative Adversarial Networks" (1990, now widely used),

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