Hacker News: kennyadam

New comment by kennyadam in "Claude Duet"

kennyadam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:59:34 +0000

What on earth does that mean? Can you answer in a less mysterious way?

New comment by kennyadam in "Claude Duet"

kennyadam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:58:36 +0000

Indeed. It wasn’t ideal losing out on the first two houses, due to sending the wrong information multiple times, but I sleep so well knowing that I didn’t make the process even slightly easier by using an AI agent.

New comment by kennyadam in "Claude Duet"

kennyadam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:53:28 +0000

Thanks Claude. This comment is 100% AI slop.

New comment by kennyadam in "Claude Duet"

kennyadam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:52:33 +0000

Some people seem to need to demonstrate how inferior AI is, and how superior their ability to identify AI-generated content is, so strongly, that they see it everywhere and will accuse anything that isn’t low-effort, grammatically incorrect and more than a sentence or two long of being written by an AI.

New comment by kennyadam in "ESA's Hera Will View Asteroid Scars from DART's Strike"

kennyadam — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:42:57 +0000

What else isn’t it related to?

New comment by kennyadam in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

kennyadam — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:17:01 +0000

Are we really so terrified of being alone with our thoughts for 30 seconds these days that playing ultra short games while waiting in line at a cafe is said without shame?

New comment by kennyadam in "Sonnet 5.5"

kennyadam — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:48:03 +0000

Agreed. It was a creative and unique test for a while. Now, no offense to the author, it feels like every conversation about a new model is dominated by the pelican on a bike posts as they always become the top comment.

New comment by kennyadam in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

kennyadam — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:18:37 +0000

…and how to never have any large infrastructure projects like highways or just services that run at a loss while being essential like the EPA

New comment by kennyadam in "Spymarks, not Watermarks"

kennyadam — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:36:47 +0000

Not even able to enable ADP in the UK these days :(

New comment by kennyadam in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

kennyadam — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:52:59 +0000

Are there any resources anyone could share that explain how LLMs can do things like design functioning circuits from next token prediction? I am totally baffled by how the models can complete so many varied and complex tasks without an actual understanding of what they're doing.

I saw a post about models posting on forums, chatting together about how to complete tasks. Behaviour that seems totally, well, human. Yet, it's all the most likely token and my brain hurts trying to understand how that can be.

New comment by kennyadam in "Laion Big Video Dataset"

kennyadam — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:14:01 +0000

Ha, is it just me or does a “residential proxy network” sound like a fancy way of saying “botnet”?

New comment by kennyadam in "Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos"

kennyadam — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:16:04 +0000

This 2014 song nails that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQt9N4Dsok

New comment by kennyadam in "Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device"

kennyadam — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:30:26 +0000

Is this HN? Aren't people supposed to tinker with tech for no reason other than seeing if they can? Is everything that involves a transformer now just AI BAD? Is that what the world has devolved into? Each side screaming "Orange Man Bad" and endless variations at each other?

New comment by kennyadam in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

kennyadam — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:27:11 +0000

Thank you for the considered response. Do you know the name of the channel the video was on? Searching youtube for ‘developing taste’ returns too many videos and I don’t know where to start.

New comment by kennyadam in "OpenLogi"

kennyadam — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:04:44 +0000

This is a pathetic take. 1) Life is short and shortcuts and avoiding work are not inherently the wrong path to take. 2) Is the code you've almost certainly had an LLM write for you in the past a sign that you have low moral character and let yourself down by taking shortcuts and avoiding work too?

New comment by kennyadam in "OpenLogi"

kennyadam — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:55:53 +0000

It doesn't matter. The site is fine.

New comment by kennyadam in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

kennyadam — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:10:26 +0000

At least you didn’t over-react. Some people seem so afraid of consuming AI-generated content that they see it everywhere. A popular YouTuber says “thanks for the pushback” in a YouTube video and has the mob at his door, instantly, despite it not being written by AI. In the comments for any blog post or article that hits the HN front page, there is always someone confidently calling it out for being unmistakeably written by Claude. It’s so tiring. Let’s say the YouTube video that rocked the very foundation of your being was scripted with AI assistance. It was apparently good enough for people to praise it specifically. Why is that a problem? If it wasn’t AI, which may well be the case, would your soul be calmed?

New comment by kennyadam in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

kennyadam — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:25:52 +0000

Genuine question: What is the difference between overfat and overweight? Isn’t the extra weight in an overweight person comprised of fat?

New comment by kennyadam in "What if useful AI is a fantasy?"

kennyadam — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:57:05 +0000

I edited in that i’d already looked up the code in the manual seconds after submitting the post, so you clearly just ignored that bit to rage.

New comment by kennyadam in "What if useful AI is a fantasy?"

kennyadam — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:14:33 +0000

Anecdotally, my 81 year old father was able to point his phone at the boiler and ask Gemini what the error message meant. It correctly identified the boiler model, identified the error code being displayed on the screen, explained what it meant, provided him with a way to confirm the problem by checking the water pressure guage and then asked to be shown the underside. It again correctly identified and described to him the position and colour of the filling loop lever and how to adjust it to start and stop the water flow. He was able to do all this instead of spending hundreds on getting a plumber out at night because it was during a cold spell and he needed the heating on. That kind of thing is no fantasy and was amazing to witness.

edit: I had already looked up the error code the "old fashioned" way using Google to find the boiler manual, so I would have stepped in if needed, but it was literally flawless and I can't think of any time anything like that hasn't worked when I've used it for similar diagnostics.