Hacker News: michaelfm1211

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:08:23 +0000

"Yes your honor, I copied it pixel-by-pixel."

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Stealing Is a Skill"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:03:20 +0000

This feels wrong.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance"

michaelfm1211 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:57 +0000

> The core insight of Moebius can be summarized in a single equation: Synergy × (Architecture + Distillation) = Shattering the "Impossible Triangle" of Low Parameters, Fast Inference, and High Quality

Is it just me or is it weird seeing these clickbaity AI-generated taglines in an otherwise scientific work?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

michaelfm1211 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:15:53 +0000

This sounds very reasonable. If you stop paying then they stop serving you. Am I missing something?

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report"

michaelfm1211 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:17:59 +0000

> The data also reveals a misalignment in resource allocation. More than half of generative AI budgets are devoted to sales and marketing tools, yet MIT found the biggest ROI in back-office automation—eliminating business process outsourcing, cutting external agency costs, and streamlining operations.

Makes sense. The people in charge of setting AI initiatives and policies are office people and managers who could be easily replaced by AI, but the people in charge not going to let themselves be replaced. Salesmen and engineers are the hardest to replace, yet they aren't in charge so they get replaced the fastest.

Show HN: Self-hosted Brainfuck compiler (for macOS)

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:38:14 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/michaelfm1211/bf.bf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44934281

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills"

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:13:13 +0000

> Try again. I've inherited relatively little.

Most people inherit nothing. Actually, most people end up spending money taking care of their parents.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Americans Are Ignoring Their Student Loan Bills"

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:10:43 +0000

Congrats on not having to take out a loan. Most people aren't that lucky.

Most people taking out student loans are still teenagers. Does anyone really expect a teenager to make good financial decisions? Also, most people can't get a solid job without going to college, so they're forced to take out loans.

That "negligence subsidy" is really helping people who were put in an unfair situation by colleges and banks.

Are the Busy Beaver numbers independent of mathematics?

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 13:25:17 +0000

Article URL: https://risingentropy.com/are-the-busy-beaver-numbers-independent-of-mathematics/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44480616

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Ad Completorium

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://adcompletorium.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43767069

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)"

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:30:18 +0000

I saw this post a while ago: https://benkaiser.dev/can-llms-accurately-recall-the-bible/

While LLMs are in generally fairly good at recalling bible verses, they can't do it perfectly. If the Bible truly is the infallible word of God that we believe, then shouldn't we use more caution than just "welp, sometimes it makes mistakes"?

You could counter this by saying a person can't remember Bible verses, and this is true, but a person usually recognizes when they can't remember something instead of making something up. If you asked me to recall any random Bible verses, chances are I wouldn't be able to do so. However, unlike an LLM, I would admit I don't know for sure and I would pull out a Bible or look online for an authoritative source rather than adlibbing something on the spot.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Should we use AI and LLMs for Christian apologetics? (2024)"

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:09:47 +0000

"Can. 747 §1. The Church, to which Christ the Lord has entrusted the deposit of faith so that with the assistance of the Holy Spirit it might protect the revealed truth reverently, examine it more closely, and proclaim and expound it faithfully, has the duty and innate right, independent of any human power whatsoever, to preach the gospel to all peoples, also using the means of social communication proper to it." From a Catholic perspective, it is the duty of the Church to share the good news and therefore it is also the duty of the Church to protect it against misinformation (heresies). More specifically, the faithful who have received the sacrament of confirmation have the "power to profess faith in Christ publicly and as it were officially" (CCC 1305, quoting St. Thomas Aquinas) and the spiritual wellbeing of the faithful is the responsibility of the diocesan bishops and the whole Church hierarchy (Jn 21:15-25, per the Catholic interpretation of those verses).

Because an LLM does not have a soul and cannot receive the sacrament of confirmation it has no power to spread the gospel. Furthermore, it would be irresponsible for a bishop to approve of the use of an apologetic chatbot, even if it were only trained on the arguments of confirmed faithful, because its thinking cannot be explained coherently.

For those asking "Why does this even matter?", remember: the salvation of souls is at stake.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Advent of Code 2024"

michaelfm1211 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 15:01:23 +0000

Sure, but it starts to get hard a few days in so beginners won't be able to finish. However, I think that makes it an amazing learning opportunity. There's plenty of write-ups on solutions on the internet.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "Wait Until 8th"

michaelfm1211 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:20:52 +0000

I see the good intentions, but it's too idealistic. In many families both parents work and kids are expected to get home by themselves (such was the case for me from 3rd grade onwards). Smartphones are simply a necessity for communication and Google Maps. I can only ever see this working with upper middle class nuclear families with a stay at home parent.

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "A deep history of Halloween"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 00:39:31 +0000

A lot of this can be said for most, if not all, of the stolen-Paganism claims, not Halloween. If you excuse the inherent bias, Fr. Casey Cole has a good recent video on the matter, however, he focuses more on Christmas than Halloween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpYNQgb_IAE

Ironically, most of the anti-Christian and Pagan symbols you see today were actually copied from Christianity. The upside down cross was originally the Cross of St. Peter (St. Peter asked to be crucified upside down because he thought himself unworthy to die as Christ did), until anti-Christians used it in intentionally sacrilegious mock-rituals (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mass).

New comment by michaelfm1211 in "How I Built My Blog"

michaelfm1211 — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:24:51 +0000

No one needs 100,000 LOC for a blog. A while back I wrote a blog generator for myself that took one markdown file per post and a template and turned it into a directory of static HTML files. The whole thing is 46 lines of shell script. The only dependency is a markdown parser.

Recurrence Relations and Linear Algebra

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 22:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://krinkinmu.github.io/2020/10/23/recurrence-relations-and-linear-algebra.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41439882

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Mhttp

michaelfm1211 — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 12:13:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/michaelfm1211/mhttp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434162

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Ec – a small tool to inline build commands in stand-alone source files