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New comment by htnthrow11220 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

htnthrow11220 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:28:45 +0000

Sure. I took it as I think you intended - a statement of your understanding. I guess I just was irritated in, the moment as people are constantly reacting to unverified assumptions when there are many real things to react to. Apologies if I added to the pile of annoying things on the internet for you!

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

htnthrow11220 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:00:09 +0000

Complete assumption on your part.

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

htnthrow11220 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:33:18 +0000

I see it all the time in basically every form of text communication. What makes you think you are not seeing it?

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "I'm Not Consulting an LLM"

htnthrow11220 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:39:31 +0000

Even a small % of incorrectness quickly produces compounding effects, if you view LLMs as an information source. True or false statements are made with equal confidence, because the LLM can’t distinguish true from false.

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "I Don't Like Magic"

htnthrow11220 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:25:17 +0000

To be fair, if all you need is to add elements to a child you don’t need React.

Maybe nobody needs React, I’m not a fan. But a trivial stateless injection of DOM content is no argument at all.

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

htnthrow11220 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:38:06 +0000

They said each time they want something to be easier, not each time they do something. And they didn’t mention it has to be one-shot. You might have read too quickly and you’ve responded to something that didn’t actually exist.

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

htnthrow11220 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:40:07 +0000

Are you an LLM yourself?

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

htnthrow11220 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:54:34 +0000

It’s good to keep your skepticism but at some point you have to be able to recognize normal human usage of these conventions.

And as we all read more AI content and talk to chatbots, that will influence how we do our own writing as well, humans will start to sound more like LLMs.

New comment by htnthrow11220 in "Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs"

htnthrow11220 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:24:27 +0000

It’s like that but if the blindfolded free throw shooter was also the scorekeeper and the referee & told you with complete confidence that the ball went in, when you looked away for a second.