<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: msdz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=msdz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:55:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=msdz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by msdz in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, my first thought as well. How are they supposed to improve and iterate on this model?</p>
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<p>Ah, much better, then – I mean it’s not like the US is already in debt or anything.</p>
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<p>I wonder how the Helium [0] project solves this, since they also work off of an opinionated-ish Chromium base.<p>[0] <a href="https://helium.computer" rel="nofollow">https://helium.computer</a></p>
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<p>> normies<p>The tinfoil hat explanation for
this is that everyone at Apple is using iCloud for everything, and thus would never encounter a bug with locally-hosted services.</p>
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<p>True that (I just recently saw an ad again promoting the equivalent of “grade and explain tasks, get paid”, clearly for training material).<p>But I should’ve clarified, I meant the scraping aspect of it, since more and more content on the open web will be LLM output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094112</link><dc:creator>msdz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by msdz in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> LLMs cannot be pre-trained on LLM outputs because LLM output diversity is low.<p>And with ever-more LLM usage both in labs and the real world, the task of finding new/“creative” out-of-average-distribution material will only continue to increase in difficulty. Meaning if this continues, in the future, all output becomes the equivalent of the color brown?</p>
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<p>> it sucks<p>Exactly. From the page about the requirements for the app under 1) in your link:<p>> System requirements<p>> Android 12 or iOS 16<p>So one of four methods is, by default, already completely dependent on having an account with $american_megacorp.<p>4) is another app where it doesn’t outright say, but I’m guessing the requirements are also a mainstream OS, mobile at that as well since they seem to use biometrics.<p>That leaves 2) dedicated hardware and 3) dedicated hardware. Great. (see the “my house burned down” article/thought experiment as to why I’m against that.)</p>
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<p>You bring up an excellent argument there, however, <i>haven’t you thought about the money?</i><p>I mean, who cares about the developing minds of the next generation when there’s <i>money</i> to be made involved?</p>
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<p>> And I also wonder what the hiring process was like to hire someone with that mental frame.<p>Remember, this is only the company responsible for potentially building and aligning AGI. No need to be setting high expectations toward their sandboxing or hiring capabilities.</p>
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<p>A good while ago, I also read about a company [0] using a legal framework for the company structure/charter, the Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), specifically to ensure how they want “best interests” to be defined. Sounded very fitting for the purpose, and cool that such a system exists (at least in some states, I believe?).<p>[0] <a href="https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi#4" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kagi.com/what-is-next-for-kagi#4</a></p>
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<p>> people do feel some tension about staring at their phones all day<p>That, plus the crowd who <i>would</i> want or like
to hack on a device like this, or at least use a non-Apple app or service, is probably far outnumbered by people who don’t care what (and whose) software can run on their screen in the home as long as it looks nice and works well, which is typically the case for Apple.</p>
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<p>Really? You guys have laws that mandate profit-maximization?</p>
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<p>Column-staggered keyboards are cool, but I think having one puts you in the vast, <i>vast</i> minority of all computer users.<p>> I don't see a single objective benefit for choosing hjkl on its own.<p>“j looks like a down arrow” is easy to remember as a sort of anchor key :-)</p>
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<p>While I agree on the premise – (written*) lawyer activity being reduced to putting signatures under things – I’m not so sure the gilded part is how it’ll actually play out in practice.<p>It might also become a race to the bottom, since you can’t deliver on quality better than others anymore, you’ll have to put effort towards quantity.
That <i>could</i> mean firms might pressure lawyers to sign as much as possible in a given time, while they’re <i>still</i> personally at risk/responsible for the documents they put out. That means either very hectic reading, and missing details, or no reading at all.<p>*And like socializer said, the written documents are only one part of the job.</p>
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<p>> hairy realtime concurrent system programming<p>On the other hand, I’ve heard a direct quote from the longtime (25+ YoE) colleague of someone I know, that in their mostly embedded/some realtime work, the LLM code quality (specifically, this was about Opus 5.5 IIRC) has now surpassed his own. And that person is an excellent programmer, and the model is faster <i>and</i> cheaper!<p>So it’s definitely not <i>just</i> standard CRUD that is on the way to – or already – “solved”. As with all things, the truth is probably somewhere in between.</p>
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<p>Correct.<p>Circa earlier this year I found this blog post, and have – as a paying customer nonetheless, mind you – continued to expect a 180-degree turn (which to be clear, this not yet is) ever since:<p><a href="https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-quiet-renovation-at-bitwarden</a></p>
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<p>Agreed. Better yet, call it "free (as in beer)" to distinguish from the other meaning of free when talking about software :-)</p>
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<p>Have you heard of/tried using Helix [0]?<p>It’s a modal editor, so the basic vi/vim motions are of course there almost by necessity, but then it does a drastic shift to actions that <i>were</i> indeed engineered and thought-through intentionally, instead of being made up long ago and then accepted as gospel (love the analogy, by the way).<p>It’s now my favorite editor by far (not just because of how you use it to shuffle text around, but that is a big part of it), and has solved many of the gripes I had had with trying not to learn the basics, but getting really “at home” with standard vi/vim/neovim controls.<p>Your example would be <g-h> and <g-l> instead of 0 and $, which I find highly intuitive: Reuse the known left/right motion for a character, and prepend it with a “goto” to signify the whole line.<p>[0] <a href="https://helix-editor.com" rel="nofollow">https://helix-editor.com</a>,
also see default keymap: 
<a href="https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.helix-editor.com/keymap.html</a></p>
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<p>There are licenses which allow you to use open-source work, <i>with attribution</i>.<p>There’s a reason why so many concepts in the sciences are named after somebody. Usually it’s the discoverer.<p>I’ve got no idea what this implies about learning for humanity as whole, though.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning</a></p>
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