Hacker News: jimauthors

Story of Attention

jimauthors — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/21/story-of-attention.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50191563

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea

jimauthors — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:27:51 +0000

Article URL: https://rumple.github.io/blog/2026/10/20/asking-llm-for-confidence.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50176082

Points: 208

# Comments: 100

New comment by jimauthors in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

jimauthors — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:21:17 +0000

My take: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/81970b33-4697-4226-aef6-c...

Tool or automation? You make the decision each time

jimauthors — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:44:19 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/81970b33-4697-4226-aef6-ca669d900d68

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50083366

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jimauthors in "I am often wrong"

jimauthors — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:21:09 +0000

Bayes spotted in the wild.

New comment by jimauthors in "Show HN: Voice controlled 2048"

jimauthors — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:27:59 +0000

Did it just to join the bandwagon. Click on the mic and give voice commands. Anything with "up", "down", "left" and "right" moves the pieces. "Restart" restarts the game.

Show HN: Voice controlled 2048

jimauthors — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:26:31 +0000

Article URL: http://rumple.github.io/2048voice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7440297

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jimauthors in "Hackerlist: 1st Batch (last call)"

jimauthors — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:40:42 +0000

x = sha256(); x.update(str(0xcafebabe)); exec("[x.update(x.hexdigest()) for _ in range(int(0xcafebabe * 1.1598231680392955e-07))]"); x.hexdigest()[50:54]

Show HN: Weekend project sunrise/sunset API

jimauthors — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 06:28:35 +0000

Article URL: http://astroapi.appspot.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271137

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jimauthors in "T-Shirt Printing API"

jimauthors — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:28:01 +0000

Can one product be part of multiple categories? Will (product_id, category_id) tuple ever change? Can I cache the ids and use it after sometime?

New comment by jimauthors in "Life: An Instructional Flow Chart"

jimauthors — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:36:47 +0000

How do you know if something I am going to say is going to improve someones life or harm someone?

New comment by jimauthors in "Gdb: graphic (tui) mode"

jimauthors — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:47:29 +0000

Amazing. Dint know about that!