Hacker News: latentnumber

Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

latentnumber — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025206

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Knausgaard – The Reenchanted World

latentnumber — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:37:46 +0000

Article URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/the-reenchanted-world-karl-ove-knausgaard-digital-age/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732737

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Great Reckoning

latentnumber — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-great-reckoning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676138

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Enshittification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [video]

latentnumber — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:22:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EKQidRooc&list=TLPQMTgxMDIwMjX6qnNUjm7-_w&index=5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631293

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by latentnumber in "[dead]"

latentnumber — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:18:45 +0000

New comment by latentnumber in "Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite"

latentnumber — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:45:36 +0000

"the" is redundant is probably what GP means.

Topology of "China AI"

latentnumber — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:00:02 +0000

Article URL: https://afraw.substack.com/p/topology-of-china-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309404

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by latentnumber in "The hot new MBA hustle: 'I will never work in a corporate job ever again.'"

latentnumber — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:29:17 +0000

https://archive.ph/AVH29

The hot new MBA hustle: 'I will never work in a corporate job ever again.'

latentnumber — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:28:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-elite-mbas-ditching-corporate-america-2025-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44564888

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Fuck Willpower

latentnumber — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:19:09 +0000

Article URL: https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/fuck-willpower

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44516595

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

Seeing Like an LLM

latentnumber — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 02:17:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/seeing-like-an-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44516592

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work

latentnumber — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:18:01 +0000

Article URL: https://joincolossus.com/article/flounder-mode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44455933

Points: 341

# Comments: 82

Language Models in Plato's Cave

latentnumber — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 14:31:31 +0000

Article URL: https://sergeylevine.substack.com/p/language-models-in-platos-cave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44413466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by latentnumber in "MAGA Doesn't Mean Making Profits Great Again"

latentnumber — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:39:21 +0000

https://archive.ph/om3qr

GitHub Is Leaking Trump's Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government

latentnumber — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:52:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/github-is-leaking-trumps-plans-to-accelerate-ai-across-government/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292349

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by latentnumber in "AI: Accelerated Incompetence"

latentnumber — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:06:10 +0000

I would agree with this if the LLM never really modified the initial linear embeddings, but non-linearity in MLP layers and position/correlation fixing in the attention layers would mean that things are not so simple. I’m pretty sure there are papers showing compositionality and so on being represented by transformers.

New comment by latentnumber in "Why Everything Is CRUD"

latentnumber — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 07:57:14 +0000

Absolutely! Everything I design, I basically cast it as ER. I'm not even a backend developer but this is such a useful and universal framing (for me, at least, or so I thought) that I always used to wonder what the "real" backend engineers do.

New comment by latentnumber in "Looming Liability Machines (LLMs)"

latentnumber — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 01:18:59 +0000

Why not automate verification itself then? While not possible now, and I would probably never advocate for using LLMs in critical settings, it might be possible to build field-specific verification systems for LLMs with robustness guarantees as well.

Why Large Language Models Are a Commodity Now and What It Means for the AI Space

latentnumber — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:20:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-large-language-models-are-a-commodity-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41278068

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by latentnumber in "John Rawls, liberalism and what it means to live a good life"

latentnumber — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 06:36:15 +0000

When do you choose to moderate? Why is moderation an assumption for maintenance if you are maximizing over an individual anyway?