Hacker News: metadat

New comment by metadat in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

metadat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:27:22 +0000

Genius idea.

New comment by metadat in "Clojure Hosted on Go"

metadat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:07:21 +0000

68 comments

I wonder how it’s progressed in the past two years?

New comment by metadat in "AI is slowing down"

metadat — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:12:04 +0000

Agreed. I am open to the possibility of the bubble bursting or whatever, but this piece is like 3,000 words and cites everything as evidence the sky is falling. It's just as bad as the pro-AI grifters, just in the other direction.

Does the truth normally lie somewhere in the middle of it all?

New comment by metadat in "Three of our worst VC stories"

metadat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:35:55 +0000

Tell us one or two, then!

New comment by metadat in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

metadat — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:44:41 +0000

Not a great comparison; those apps have serious network effects.

New comment by metadat in "Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts"

metadat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:29:48 +0000

When the title is too editorial HN staff will fix the title to be more accurate. But probably only if you email hn@ycombinator.com and ask for it! Without your help surfacing issues, there is too much volume day in and day out to keep up.

New comment by metadat in "Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts"

metadat — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:41:54 +0000

Already on the front page:

The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359102 - 180 comments

New comment by metadat in "Aircraft owners lease out engines rather than whole planes as prices soar"

metadat — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:58:55 +0000

https://archive.today/VT3D3

New comment by metadat in "Various LLM Smells"

metadat — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:36:43 +0000

Don't forget about Contrastive Negation:

> Contrastive negation is a rhetorical structure that denies a specific idea in the first half of a sentence and asserts an alternative in the second half.

> It typically follows an "It’s not X, it’s Y" or "not just X, but Y" formula.

Wikipedia also has a great resource which covers many of the common LLM patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

New comment by metadat in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

metadat — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:36:26 +0000

Your numbers are a little off but the point remains- 2PB is nothing, not newsworthy imo. What’s special about this?

New comment by metadat in "GPU Memory Math for LLMs: Formula That Tells You What Fits on Your GPU"

metadat — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:48:38 +0000

This is super useful. Most of the time I go to run a model off Hugging Face on my 64GB MBP I run into issues where I drastically overestimated what it could do. :>

New comment by metadat in "Anthropic will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in SpaceX Colossus 2"

metadat — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:25:42 +0000

https://xcancel.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375

Read Meta's Layoff Email to Employees

metadat — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/read-meta-layoff-email-employees-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214286

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by metadat in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

metadat — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:35:16 +0000

Showing up is a trap for Anna - who doesn't have 5 billion dollars to settle.

New comment by metadat in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

metadat — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:46:49 +0000

It's called "constrastive negation", and both GPT and Claude tend towards it.

New comment by metadat in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

metadat — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:52:11 +0000

Now make it for consumers. Storage capacity per dollar has really stalled.

New comment by metadat in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

metadat — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:18 +0000

Same people, actually. It’s a Dario move.

New comment by metadat in "See every car the second it's towed in San Francisco"

metadat — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:59 +0000

https://xcancel.com/rodinrooh/status/2054253422971703568

See every car the second it's towed in San Francisco

metadat — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:52:47 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/rodinrooh/status/2054253422971703568

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124413

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by metadat in "148,421 posts later: A model to predict the Hacker News front page"

metadat — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:39:52 +0000

I tested it on an oldie but goody:

The Bullshit Web https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

But the results were really lackluster compared to what happened IRL (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17655089).

Am I missing something? Definitely a neat idea!