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mbanerjeepalmer — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://anatole.fyi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47052624

Points: 6

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New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "I’m joining OpenAI"

mbanerjeepalmer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:26:14 +0000

Unclear what this truly means for the open version.

We can assume first that at OpenAI he's going to build the hosted safe version that, as he puts it, his mum can use. Inevitably at some point he and colleagues at OpenAI will discover something that makes the agent much more effective.

Does that insight make it into the open version? Or stay exclusive to OAI?

(I imagine there are precedents for either route.)

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

mbanerjeepalmer — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:51:00 +0000

https://anatole.fyi

Hyper relevant business news.

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

mbanerjeepalmer — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:38:12 +0000

Given that push notifications haven't worked in AnkiDroid for years, it doesn't feel good to me?

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

mbanerjeepalmer — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 11:09:43 +0000

I strongly disagree.

They even mark their own Arts & Culture email as spam: https://x.com/MBanerjeePalmer/status/1962538753328664693

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Are we all plagiarists now?"

mbanerjeepalmer — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:57:26 +0000

> Universities are increasingly turning to AI to spot AI-written work (even as students use services like Dumb it Down to make their AI-fuelled work sound more believable). It can be detected. Chris Caren, the boss of Turnitin, a popular plagiarism detector, describes plagiarised prose as “beige”: “well-written, but not very dynamic”. It has verbal tics: it is keen on dreary words like “holistic” and notably keen on “notably”.

I don't think you can say that AI-written can be reliably detected. Turnitin is only ~90% effective: https://teaching.temple.edu/sites/teaching/files/media/docum...

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

mbanerjeepalmer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:05:29 +0000

maurice.fm

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "YouTube Is Degraded"

mbanerjeepalmer — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:30:20 +0000

Is it bias, or are outages genuinely becoming more common? If the latter, why?

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Build with Specs – Spec-Driven Development Workflow for AI-Assisted Software"

mbanerjeepalmer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:25:45 +0000

ha, did something with an oddly similar colour scheme earlier this year: https://feltaro.com

Stratechery Year in Review

mbanerjeepalmer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:24:21 +0000

Article URL: https://stratechery.com/2025/the-2025-stratechery-year-in-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311381

Points: 3

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New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "ElevenLabs is giving $22k to open source projects it relies on"

mbanerjeepalmer — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:45:33 +0000

Good point -- not me but I'll pass it on to the author

ElevenLabs is giving $22k to open source projects it relies on

mbanerjeepalmer — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:26:46 +0000

Article URL: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/elevenlabs-oss-engineers-fund-supporting-the-open-source-projects-that-shape-our-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46278338

Points: 5

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New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent"

mbanerjeepalmer — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:43:22 +0000

Makes me wonder whether you can just give agents [Taskwarrior](https://taskwarrior.org/).

Set the TASKDATA to `./.task/`. Then tell the agents to use the task CLI.

The benefit is most LLMs already understand Taskwarrior. They've never heard of Beads.

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Lettrss.com syndicates public domain books via RSS"

mbanerjeepalmer — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:32:46 +0000

We started reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum on November 11, 2025.

Lettrss.com syndicates public domain books via RSS

mbanerjeepalmer — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://lettrss.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45885572

Points: 3

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New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Feed me up, Scotty – custom RSS feed generation using CSS selectors"

mbanerjeepalmer — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 16:15:35 +0000

This looks neat. Will try it out and report back.

Added to my list of converters: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1ntvtb2/rss_converter/

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement"

mbanerjeepalmer — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:01:14 +0000

I've used Typst to produce books (for https://printstack.net) and it's been excellent.

I started with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271078

But wouldn't recommend going via Pandoc, for example for this reason: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions/10438

Some things like #show rules can be a bit confusing. And obviously LLMs can't really help you.

New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "My favorite use-case for AI is writing logs"

mbanerjeepalmer — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:04:44 +0000

LLM-written code is typically over-commented and under-logged. So much so that I've given up pleading with them to stop commenting and start logging. Instead I say 'Great, now that you've written the code please replace the comments with logs.'

RSS is dead. Long live RSS

mbanerjeepalmer — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:20:50 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalfrontier.com/articles/rss-dead-protocols-internet-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44456629

Points: 2

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New comment by mbanerjeepalmer in "About AI Evals"

mbanerjeepalmer — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:19:41 +0000

Yes I'm not sure I really want to vibe code something that does auto evals on a sample of my OTEL traces any more than I want to build my own analytics library.

Alternatives to Opik include Braintrust (closed), Promptfoo (open, https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo) and Laminar (open, https://github.com/lmnr-ai/lmnr).