Hacker News: mellosouls

New comment by mellosouls in "Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]"

mellosouls — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:01:03 +0000

We can call it Coding Canutism.

New comment by mellosouls in "Decision models like Jev don't beat LLM-as-a-judge or traditional classifiers"

mellosouls — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:54:45 +0000

Jev (or equivalent) seem to me ideally placed for prototyping - prove the classification (say) works or is useful, then decide on how that should be made robust and economic with other options (eg local) brought in to the evaluation. Much quicker to get up and running, especially in greenfield scenarios.

Phylogeny, ontogeny and epigenesis: 3 sources of biological inspiration (1996)

mellosouls — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:49:31 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-63173-9_37

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941920

Points: 1

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Introducing Griffin – The First Human Interaction Model

mellosouls — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:32:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tavus.io/griffin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938860

Points: 1

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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest

mellosouls — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:48:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck4gjn1yzprno

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49919333

Points: 6

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New comment by mellosouls in "The Beatles have permeated research papers across academic disciplines"

mellosouls — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:58:04 +0000

Both I think. There are always innovators in every cultural form, and there is a spectrum from the actual first movers/avant-garde through early adopters to forward-thinking mainstream popularisers to trend-followers and mass adoption; the Beatles were unusual in at least two ways:

1. They had feet in avant-garde and early adopter camps.

2. They had a popular impact that has arguably never been matched (I include eg. Sinatra, Elvis, MJ and Madonna etc) which lifted the normal "populariser" contribution to your cultural shift.

So there are other huge bands or artists in the progressive, influential respect, people like eg. James Brown, Nirvana, Kraftwerk, NWA etc etc and lots of influential but not commercially successful or mainstream acts.

The Beatles though were arguably more progressive than even those, and on a completely different level in terms of cultural reach. That's what makes them special.

Btw they're not really a band I listen to much, in case there are any "you're just a fanboy" suspicions motivating counters to this. :)

New comment by mellosouls in "America.gov"

mellosouls — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:39:27 +0000

I haven't tried this but in principle I think this sort of finding a needle in a haystack situation (finding the correct path to assistance in a government service) is one of the rare circumstances where a well-crafted chatbot can be genuinely useful rather than just irritating.

New comment by mellosouls in "OpenAI: Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscription"

mellosouls — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:11:54 +0000

Same price, half the power.

Basically same move as Github Copilot a few months back when their golden rates ended.

They just refunded pro rata if you wanted out from the annual contract which they'd changed the terms on drastically, presumably OpenAI will offer the same to existing subscribers.

A shame that Tibo feels the need to BS like this. I predict another "we heard you...we handled comms badly...here's some resets" style post in a few days.

What If Automating AI R&D Triggers an Intelligence Explosion?

mellosouls — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thefai.org/posts/what-if-automating-ai-r-and-d-triggers-an-intelligence-explosion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883467

Points: 1

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Snowmoon

mellosouls — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:09:42 +0000

Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/snowmoon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49867312

Points: 2

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The Cryptographic World Computer

mellosouls — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:43:40 +0000

Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/09/27/the_cryptographic_world_computer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49865805

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

An open letter to Scott Alexander

mellosouls — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:07:42 +0000

Article URL: https://quillette.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-scott-alexander

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49864798

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by mellosouls in "Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview"

mellosouls — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:46:59 +0000

So, regardless of what else you ask in the interview, this question makes the interview two-way instead of one-way

No it doesn't - there's nothing in the article about asking for feedback in return. The only reference to somebody actually doing that is extremely negative.

If the author reads this, they may be well-motivated but should consider quite seriously that they are not understanding "two-way" as they intend.

ThePrimeagen Joins Omarchy

mellosouls — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:52:38 +0000

Article URL: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/theprimeagen-joins-omarchy-core/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49859400

Points: 11

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Philosophy Bench

mellosouls — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:34:29 +0000

Article URL: https://philosophybench.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841750

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Francis Fukuyama: Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk

mellosouls — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 02:54:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-ai-risk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49796300

Points: 3

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No More Code Dumps

mellosouls — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1wkmzun/no_more_code_dumps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775819

Points: 17

# Comments: 5

The Evidence for AI Consciousness, Today (2025)

mellosouls — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 05:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.ai-frontiers.org/p/the-evidence-for-ai-consciousness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763523

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by mellosouls in "Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse"

mellosouls — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:03:07 +0000

I would find it strange for anyone who's seriously interested in AI to have never heard of...

Those people you name are important only to the very recent micro-culture being discussed, not "AI".

Of all the names somebody interested in the subject would actually associate with the development of AI over the last century, those would be footnotes only.

I think that's part of the problem and why its seen as cultish, the obsession with the social over the scientific, and a lack of historical perspective.

New comment by mellosouls in "Why Does the Universe Expand?"

mellosouls — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:35:35 +0000

I'm not sure what you mean or why you have science in quotation marks.

I think he is trying to say that the fewer things we need to tune the better, but if so that's trivially Occam's razor and a standard part of the scientific toolkit.