Hacker News: kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kjhughesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:56:21 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by kjhughes in "Reinventing the Renaissance"]]>Related: Dwarkesh Patel recently interviewed Ada Palmer:

Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIhVfGbREA

]]>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:32:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600358kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600358https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48600358<![CDATA[Economists Weigh in on the Future of Work and AI]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/economists-weigh-in-on-the-future-of-work-and-ai-f59311e9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477134

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]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:47:52 +0000https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/economists-weigh-in-on-the-future-of-work-and-ai-f59311e9kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477134https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477134<![CDATA[Viète's Formula]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A8te%27s_formula

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388711

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]]>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:30:14 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A8te%27s_formulakjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388711https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388711<![CDATA[Google Seeks to Raise $80B for AI Infrastructure]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-seeks-to-raise-80-billion-for-ai-infrastructure-05a379be

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362891

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]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:29:00 +0000https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-seeks-to-raise-80-billion-for-ai-infrastructure-05a379bekjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362891https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362891<![CDATA[AI Dark Output: The Visible Cost of Invisible Output]]>Article URL: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dark-output-the-visible-cost-of

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359407

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]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:53:55 +0000https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/ai-dark-output-the-visible-cost-ofkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359407https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359407<![CDATA[Salesforce Touts AI Promise over Reality in SaaSpocalypse Fight]]>Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/salesforce-touts-ai-promise-over-reality-in-saaspocalypse-fight

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257522

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]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 14:25:43 +0000https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/salesforce-touts-ai-promise-over-reality-in-saaspocalypse-fightkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257522https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257522<![CDATA[New comment by kjhughes in "Welcome to Hell Developer"]]>There seems to be a debugging pattern that arises when problems are in proximity to a poorly understood, highly complex part of the system: We tend to think that's where the problem probably is. And we can lose an inordinate amount of time looking for it there. It's like an inverse streetlight effect.

I've seen coding LLMs do it too. I have a well-tested, but complex, subsystem that constantly draws their attention when something non-obvious elsewhere goes wrong.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:29:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989613kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989613https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989613<![CDATA[Coca-Cola, Walmart outgoing CEOs cite AI in decisions to step down]]>Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/coca-cola-james-quincey-walmart-doug-mcmillon-artificial-intelligence-step-down.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532386

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]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:19:00 +0000https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/coca-cola-james-quincey-walmart-doug-mcmillon-artificial-intelligence-step-down.htmlkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532386https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47532386<![CDATA[AI: A Bridge Toward Diverse Intelligence]]>Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-bridge-toward-diverse-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017804

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]]>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:59:11 +0000https://www.noemamag.com/ai-could-be-a-bridge-toward-diverse-intelligence/kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017804https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47017804<![CDATA[Andrej Karpathy: New art project. Train and inference GPT in 243 lines]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2021694437152157847

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994487

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]]>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:15:33 +0000https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2021694437152157847kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994487https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994487<![CDATA[Theorizer: Turning Papers into Scientific Laws]]>Article URL: https://allenai.org/blog/theorizer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825482

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]]>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:24:56 +0000https://allenai.org/blog/theorizerkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825482https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825482<![CDATA[Living Things Are Not Machines (Also, They Are)]]>Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782102

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]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:24:10 +0000https://www.noemamag.com/living-things-are-not-machines-also-they-totally-are/kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782102https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782102<![CDATA[Claude in Excel]]>Article URL: https://claude.com/claude-in-excel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770863

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]]>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:13:19 +0000https://claude.com/claude-in-excelkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770863https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46770863<![CDATA[New comment by kjhughes in "The Five Mules Pulling the 21st Century"]]>https://archive.ph/v19R6

]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:41:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422382kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422382<![CDATA[The Five Mules Pulling the 21st Century]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-five-mules-pulling-the-21st-century-ce1def18

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422367

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]]>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:40:34 +0000https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-five-mules-pulling-the-21st-century-ce1def18kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422367https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46422367<![CDATA[Evaluating Chain-of-Thought Monitorability]]>Article URL: https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337004

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]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:51:10 +0000https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability/kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337004https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337004<![CDATA[Agent Development Kit for TypeScript: Build AI Agents with a Code-First Approach]]>Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-agent-development-kit-for-typescript-build-ai-agents-with-the-power-of-a-code-first-approach/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325026

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]]>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:18:38 +0000https://developers.googleblog.com/introducing-agent-development-kit-for-typescript-build-ai-agents-with-the-power-of-a-code-first-approach/kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325026<![CDATA[A Roadmap for Federal AI Legislation]]>Article URL: https://a16z.com/a-roadmap-for-federal-ai-legislation-protect-people-empower-builders-win-the-future/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303829

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]]>Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:54:16 +0000https://a16z.com/a-roadmap-for-federal-ai-legislation-protect-people-empower-builders-win-the-future/kjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303829https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303829<![CDATA[Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review]]>Article URL: https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025#internet-traffic-growth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290546

Points: 5

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]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:27:36 +0000https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025#internet-traffic-growthkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290546https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290546<![CDATA[This Year's Hottest Toy Is Made by a Tech Startup You've Never Heard Of]]>Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/nex-playground-toy-game-console-holiday-shopping-af47125f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256522

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]]>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:04:55 +0000https://www.wsj.com/business/entrepreneurship/nex-playground-toy-game-console-holiday-shopping-af47125fkjhugheshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256522https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46256522