Hacker News: jacobedawson

The Stochastic Parrot Argument Considered Harmful

jacobedawson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:56:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.verysane.ai/p/polly-wants-a-better-argument

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447565

Points: 1

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New comment by jacobedawson in "Simple screw counter"

jacobedawson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:14:59 +0000

Soon to be banned in the UK no doubt

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

jacobedawson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:31:18 +0000

https://xcancel.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/trump-anthropic-ai-pentagon....

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677

Points: 1362

# Comments: 1085

New comment by jacobedawson in "The age of Pump and Dump software"

jacobedawson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:38:39 +0000

FWIW the creator of Clawd (now Molt) is staunchly anti-crypto and has been from the start.

Accusing him of a pump & dump or being in on the scam is really unfair imo, he's been working very hard (and publicly) on Clawd, and has visibly had to deal with a massive influx of attention / hype and a wave of crypto grifters trying to force unofficial tokens down his throat. It must be hugely stressful.

The Ralph & Gastown devs embraced (but did not create) associated crypto projects (Yegge later distanced himself after criticism). They made their software, it gained in popularity and crypto bros latched on of their own accord. It would be interesting to see how many highly principled hners here would turn down mid six figures being offered to them for a tweet or a post acknowledging a token..

As an aside: meme tokens are an attention economy mmog - you may not like the game, but I can assure you those who play it know the rules.

Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture (2016)

jacobedawson — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hostile-urban-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715128

Points: 3

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New comment by jacobedawson in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

jacobedawson — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:35:10 +0000

Of course the next step beyond that is "leaking" false information as a decoy by placing large bets on certain events. If that happens enough times it seems like it should wash away the value for agencies hoping to act on "privileged" information.

We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor

jacobedawson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:38:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mntruell/status/2011562190286045552

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624871

Points: 10

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New comment by jacobedawson in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jacobedawson — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:40:56 +0000

https://www.jacobedawson.com/

Just started blogging again, starting the cadence with a weekly '5 quick links for devs' post just to make sure I'm building the habit.

Reflections on 2025

jacobedawson — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:56:08 +0000

Article URL: https://samuelalbanie.substack.com/p/reflections-on-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437888

Points: 1

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DeepMind Researcher's Summary of 2025

jacobedawson — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://zhengdongwang.com/2025/12/30/2025-letter.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46432105

Points: 4

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New comment by jacobedawson in "The optimal public transit price is near zero [pdf]"

jacobedawson — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:29:54 +0000

Thread discussing the paper here: https://x.com/captgouda24/status/2000826607934824847

The optimal public transit price is near zero [pdf]

jacobedawson — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:29:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32185/w32185.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309511

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

Director of MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, Dies at 47

jacobedawson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-plasma-science-and-fusion-center-dies-1216

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295344

Points: 8

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Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input

jacobedawson — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:14:31 +0000

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/tinker-general-availability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46259554

Points: 2

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New comment by jacobedawson in "GPT-5.2"

jacobedawson — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:10:27 +0000

This mirrors my experience, the non-technical people in my life either shrugged and said 'oh yeah that's cool' or started pointing out gnarly edge cases where it didn't work perfectly. Meanwhile as a techie my mind was (and still is) spinning with the shock and joy of using natural human language to converse with a super-humanly adept machine.

Please, Don't Automate Science

jacobedawson — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:08:07 +0000

Article URL: http://togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/please-dont-automate-science.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46225307

Points: 1

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New comment by jacobedawson in "Australia's teen social media ban has unofficially begun"

jacobedawson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:56:04 +0000

From 10 December 2025, anyone under 16 in Australia won’t be able to keep or make accounts on social media apps like TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, X, Facebook and more. The rule doesn’t punish young people or their families, instead, social media companies have to stop under-16s from having accounts or risk serious fines (up to about $50 million).

Australia's teen social media ban has unofficially begun

jacobedawson — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:56:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/when-is-the-teen-social-media-ban-what-apps-are-banned/106086152

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46200405

Points: 6

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The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

jacobedawson — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:14:33 +0000

Article URL: https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/09/08/the-hardest-program-ive-ever-written/

Hacker News: jacobedawson

The Stochastic Parrot Argument Considered Harmful

New comment by jacobedawson in "Simple screw counter"

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

New comment by jacobedawson in "The age of Pump and Dump software"

Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture (2016)

New comment by jacobedawson in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor

New comment by jacobedawson in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Reflections on 2025

DeepMind Researcher's Summary of 2025

New comment by jacobedawson in "The optimal public transit price is near zero [pdf]"

The optimal public transit price is near zero [pdf]

Director of MIT's Plasma and Fusion Center, Dies at 47

Tinker: General Availability and Vision Input

New comment by jacobedawson in "GPT-5.2"

Please, Don't Automate Science

New comment by jacobedawson in "Australia's teen social media ban has unofficially begun"

Australia's teen social media ban has unofficially begun

The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

The Rise and Fall of Urbit