Hacker News: laybak

New comment by laybak in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

laybak — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:26:08 +0000

> AI can hallucinate, but I've been misdiagnosed by humans so many times too...

I've heard this experience from quite a few folks before, but this is my first time hearing about a mandatory 8 months quarantine as a consequence... damn

New comment by laybak in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

laybak — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:12:56 +0000

how representative are Semgrep's benchmarks? everyone seems to have their own benchmark these days (guess it's good "content marketing") I'm honestly losing track

New comment by laybak in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

laybak — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:28:55 +0000

agreed. we should normalize this level of skepticism/scrutiny for all claims from big AI labs

New comment by laybak in "The "S" in MCP Stands for Security"

laybak — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:53:41 +0000

yeah smells AI generated to me too

Devin 2.0: IDE UX at $20/month

laybak — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:58:26 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/cognition_labs/status/1907836719061451067

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43574620

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Models That Prove Their Own Correctness

laybak — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:32:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15722

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40487349

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

How would you tokenize digits of pi?

laybak — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:37:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.artfish.ai/p/how-would-you-tokenize-or-break-down

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482501

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A ConvNet for the 2020s

laybak — Sat, 25 May 2024 03:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.03545

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472553

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

Tips for Machine Learning Engineering Interviews

laybak — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 02:20:40 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@yennie.jun/tips-for-machine-learning-engineering-interviews-as-of-winter-2021-c24d79f420c7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31649149

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by laybak in "Tools for Better Thinking"

laybak — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 02:20:03 +0000

haha same! "# new tabs opened" is a poetic metric

New comment by laybak in "Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise"

laybak — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 23:31:27 +0000

wow didn't realize background noise can get so sophisticated haha

New comment by laybak in "The Infinite Drum Machine"

laybak — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:59:58 +0000

Nice! Has anyone figured out a good way to export the sounds and the MIDI?

Data Factories

laybak — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 00:53:36 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2018/data-factories/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535621

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by laybak in "Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it"

laybak — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:34:05 +0000

That's the idea! :)

New comment by laybak in "Identify a remarkable trait in anyone, then either copy or avoid it"

laybak — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:30:23 +0000

Author here. Wow this got a lot more attention than I had expected. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts, including critical ones.

The point about not being superficial/artificial and instead "just being yourself" sounds fair. To clarify, the copying/imitating I was referring to was much closer to the "imitate, then innovate" sense. That is, even if you make the best attempt to copy someone you admire, you end up with a mutated copy that is uniquely yours (because of your biases and life experience).

And to the point about it being shallow and simplistic — I agree, and the brevity was intentional. I treat this a mental model that is not universally correct, but is sometimes useful. To make sense of the world, I would use an ensemble of these models.

And I love the quotes in the comments!