<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kmacdough</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kmacdough</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:36:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kmacdough" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "LLMs reward expertise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377653878_The_benefits_of_static_stretching_on_health_a_systematic_review" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377653878_The_benef...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173761</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "LLMs reward expertise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you probably just don't like to stretch.<p>Can you share the source? This seems dangerously wrong.<p>I see a specific review making the very narrow claim that it can have detrimental effects on power/strength activities immediately following static stretching.<p>But by and large I'm finding a great deal of evidence for a wide range of other benefits, particularly in range of motion and injury prevention. I can't find anything widely damning, and I certainly don't see any reviews contesting the validity of the very vast body of research supporting the many benefits of static stretching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171763</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171763</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its not about geometry, it's a parallel compute thing thing. CPUs typically don't have more than 10 or 20 cores. GPU have 100s to 1000s.<p>Matmul is very well parallelized. More, lower power cores will always pay off handsomely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918272</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is simple: qualified immunity has become a blank check. The officer can simply claim they didn't know the law. They somehow can't be expected to understand basic constitutional protections.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895384</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The government is not a monolith. Being owned by the city doesn't have to mean the cops are in control.  The municipality can determin by law exactly who operates the infrastructure, who has access to what, what process they must follow, and how that all will be monitored and enforced. "The government didn't handle this well, therefore they can't be trusted for anything like it again" is a misunderstanding of how governments are constructed and how power can be separated between legislatively mandated structures. Find the source of the abuse, then build a structure to check that abuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:48:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895350</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "GPT-5.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sold as learning, but that was a marketing term, not a technical one. From a technical perspective, the LLM is not learning. Only reacting based on its original training.<p>You might argue that the systems we've built around them are learning in a way, as they strategically condense and save artifacts from past interactions to pass into the LLMs context. But the LLM itself, which is the source of the intelligence, is not learning. It remains entirely unchanged throughout inference. This difference may seem trite, but it has significant impacts over the long term behavior.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:35:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862846</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "GPT-5.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Context is not the same as learning. It's easy to conflate because they're tightly coupled in our brains.<p>The underlying structure and tuning of the LLM are entirely unchanged by context. It merely affects the attention and activation of the network. The LLM will not be able to work with this hypothetical new language unless it is in context. This does not fit the computational meaning of learning.<p>Smart is not a well defined term. Nor is it's general idea formally understood. Use it freely, but you won't be saying anything meaningful unless you define your usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862516</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862516</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48862516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately doesn't cover scrolling HN while the agent toils away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:50:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735470</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With a striking lack of numbers, I'm not confident. I my experience, everything underspecified in a marketing release is unflattering. They're also not a chip designing company, but they're probably trying to keep up on the eyes of investors. As the article mentions, several of their competitors are chip designers and already have working procuction inference chips.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670912</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right, but the entire damn point is privacy protections enable people to be more honest. The entire point is supposed to be good data so we can make informed population wide decisions.<p>And race is a pretty big one under the current administration which has had hundreds of legal immigrants arrested for weeks to months off of "suspicion" that for lack of concrete evidence could only amount to racial profiling.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520966</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe there is hard evidence that role-playing prompts are effective at leading it towards particular strategies and trains of thought. Not sure that SWE has been specifically studied, but proper science is very slow in the context of rapid change and broad context. It's good to stay grounded in the science that has been done, but we're going to have to do our best in uncharted territory for a while.<p>"Don't make mistakes" does seem dumb. It's not guidance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:47:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473879</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah just watch out, they're trying to eat your 401k and they've got a powerful easily influenced friend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 09:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320962</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hate to break it to ya, but this is how most C-suites operate. Their job isn't to run a company well. It's to appear to the board/investors that they're running a good company.<p>It is a better play to do the popular thing in a way that measures as "ahead". Then it's hard to argue against a raise. But if you stick your neck out on your thoughtful expertise, it can take years or more for the value to come thru. You can easily be replaced by then.<p>The only antidote is a board that has a real working nuanced understanding of the entire industry. But this rarely happens, for many reasons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:28:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167927</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167927</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48167927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This is a separate issue, I think even Bambu Studio can't connect to printers in LAN mode on a different subnet.<p>Yes, that's the point. The nerworking is broken. The issue isn't unique to a specific slicer, their software sucks. Orca ran into the issue because they wanted to make a basic feature that works on every other printer on the market work on a bambu.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:55:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124449</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This formatting is intolerable on mobile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:18:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113925</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Ti-84 Evo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I learned much of what I know about computer and low-level systems engineering from Minecraft. Watched lots of videos making CPUs and built many components myself including a full ALU with a look-ahead adder and hardware multiplication.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 15:28:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987263</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's still circular. They will succeed or collapse together. And since they make up such a fraction of global market cap, we're in for the ride together.<p>And the circularity makes the actual investment numbers fairly meaningless. They don't mind if they end up overpaying for future services, as long as they overpay each other equally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:01:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901630</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have to. The device storage is itself encrypted, so the FBI already broke into the phone. When the device is unlocked, notifications are visible by design and therefore available in plain text to the user. The edge case is with disappearing messages, a feature Apple did not build for. The message is intended to be plainly visible to the user, but only for a controlled time on the assumption that the users privileges may eventually be compromised.<p>This makes for a very odd and specific  interaction with a 3rd party feature. Security is a hard problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:48:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872597</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm confused. What's your point?<p>Obviously economies that rely largely on second hand technology are going to have old technology. Much of Africa is in this bucket. But looking past the extremes, India is at nearly 80% right alongside Germany. They fall in very different average income brackets. So the correlation isn't tight.<p>I can't see any value in pointing out vague correlation between income and proliferation of a new technology. It's the most obvious of observations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:11:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814150</link><dc:creator>kmacdough</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kmacdough in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given adherence is a more significant practical barrier, it's probably the better signal. That is, if we decide too look for signal here.</p>
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