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New comment by jdthedisciple in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:43:57 +0000

Presumably, Wordpress knows more about the identity of the buyer and will initiate legal action against them... right?

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

jdthedisciple — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:26:38 +0000

By announcing it?

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Artemis II is competency porn"

jdthedisciple — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:26:24 +0000

Racist too now, interesting. Anyway I see you been fighting people left and right on here recently so I'm gonna assume you're just havin a rough time lately and show some sympathy. Enjoy a fresh drink in the spring sun and breathe a little perhaps, cheers!

New comment by jdthedisciple in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:53:03 +0000

Opus 4.6 is already incredible so this leap is huge.

Although, amusingly, today Opus told me that the string 'emerge' is not going to match 'emergency' by using `LIKE '%emerge%'` in Sqlite

Moment of disappointment. Otherwise great.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

jdthedisciple — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:27:24 +0000

So instead we must side with another regime that slaughtered 72'000 innocent civilians of another country, most of whom were women and children?

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

jdthedisciple — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:27:30 +0000

it's Google, so is it really private?

remember, megacorps are dying for infinite amounts of analytics data

New comment by jdthedisciple in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

jdthedisciple — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:33:00 +0000

Idk why you are being downvoted, what you said is factually correct.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

jdthedisciple — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:42:07 +0000

The challenge to me seems quality assurance:

I'd rather have it source the original document everytime, then an LLM-generated wiki which I most likely wouldn't have the time to fact-check and review myself.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

jdthedisciple — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:33:04 +0000

But SQLite is notoriously 35% faster than the filesystem [0], so why not use that?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14550060

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Cursor 3"

jdthedisciple — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:29:22 +0000

I don't understand what problems this release is solving.

I'm happy w my VS Code harness which has also improved A LOT just with the last update alone.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:41:14 +0000

people are overthinking this stuff.

use up ur monthly quota at your pace, call it quits til' the 1st, relax with a drink, and read a book

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:37:11 +0000

I agree when it comes to highly niche applications with a generous SNR.

Universal models though?

And I haven't even mentioned the fact that en mass forecasting ITSELF may influence the subject of forecasting.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:32:56 +0000

always thought it seemed flawed

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:26:44 +0000

Let me be blunt: Shannon would tell us that time forecasting is bullshit:

There is infinitely more entropy in the real world out there than any model can even remotely capture.

The world is not minecraft.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code"

jdthedisciple — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:28:27 +0000

I always add instructions INSIDE of both `Readme.md` and `*-instructions.md` to "update this file if anything major changed".

Additionally, after implementing a feature, I tell it to summarize the major decisions in either / both of those files.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Show HN: A plain-text cognitive architecture for Claude Code"

jdthedisciple — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:25:01 +0000

Why don't people just simply use the combination of

    - copilot-instructions.md / CLAUDE.md
    - the Project's Readme.md
    - Chat history feature (e.g in VS Code)

it works perfectly well for me to continue where I left off for any project I'm working on.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:44:42 +0000

Absolutely vital insight, yes. Male beauty is arduously acquired, which necessarily means it correlates with other virtues such as great work ethic, persistence, not quitting easily, etc.

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:41:52 +0000

Btw, anonymous grading would improve boys' grades as was shown in an interesting study (no link at hand but should be trivial to find).

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

jdthedisciple — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:36:34 +0000

> Culturally

Surely you mean biologically

New comment by jdthedisciple in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

jdthedisciple — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:46:02 +0000

very important observation indeed, if that wasn't accounted for it means much less to me