Hacker News: myhf

New comment by myhf in "Expertise in the age of AI"

myhf — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:59:40 +0000

Hacker News is like an enclave of soldiers who haven't heard that the war is over. Those who don't make an effort to rejoin society will be left behind after "AI" companies bankrupt all of their customers and "AI" investors move on to the next fad.

New comment by myhf in "The sigmoids won't save you"

myhf — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:07:28 +0000

According to this article: whenever someone games a benchmark to make an upward chart on some y-axis, it's YOUR responsibility to prove how and why that trend can't continue indefinitely.

emoji face with eyes rolling upward

New comment by myhf in "Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea"

myhf — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:09:41 +0000

Billing Medicare for services that never get performed is a particularly offensive kind of fraud. I hope these criminals get a harsh sentence.

New comment by myhf in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

myhf — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:18:52 +0000

Don't believe this imposter. I'm the real Cliff Stoll and I died in 2024.

New comment by myhf in "Show HN: Ableton Live MCP"

myhf — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:19:21 +0000

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

New comment by myhf in "Average is all you need"

myhf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:16:35 +0000

Nobody wrote this.

New comment by myhf in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

myhf — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:15:43 +0000

I thought it was a reference to "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominu....

New comment by myhf in "A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing"

myhf — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:18:05 +0000

Did you read an LLM summary of the article? It mentions all of those topics but none of them in the way you say.

The article describes a reverse-engineering effort in Bulgaria during Soviet times, but doesn't say anything anti-communist, just that direct commerce with the West was not possible at that time. It relates that effort to the author's motivation for working on an open-source circuit analyzer, and takes a pretty strong stance against uncritically adopting technology without any attempt at understanding how it works.

New comment by myhf in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

myhf — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:58:15 +0000

Car parts are tangible. Even if the product doesn't stay onshore forever, it has to enrich people onshore in order to move.

All the output of a datacenter effectively goes offshore immediately.

New comment by myhf in "Copilot is 'for entertainment purposes only', per Microsoft's terms of use"

myhf — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:31:01 +0000

On the contrary, the first companies to acknowledge the new AI Winter will have a big competitive advantage over those still dumping money into the bottomless pit.

New comment by myhf in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

myhf — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:51:41 +0000

> you could set up a tarpit generating trash content

and you could call it "EmDash"

New comment by myhf in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

myhf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:19:28 +0000

There's an extra digit in your timestamp.

New comment by myhf in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

myhf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:16:22 +0000

exploiting the ambiguity in date formats by releasing a package during a leap second

New comment by myhf in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

myhf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:12:49 +0000

A big trend in AI spam is to take achievements in one field that could be called "AI" and use them as evidence of advancement in other fields that happen to be called "AI".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package-deal_fallacy

Tao has been doing a lot of demonstrations of using LLMs for search and translation by experts who already know enough about a field to judge whether generated text is valid or meaningful. Those are valid demonstrations, but they don't justify the LLM-as-intelligent-agent narrative being pushed by most of the reporting on the topic, so the whole situation reeks of payola.

New comment by myhf in "Arm AGI CPU"

myhf — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:47:42 +0000

finally, a CPU capable of making API calls to cloud providers

New comment by myhf in "Life as an OnlyFans 'chatter'"

myhf — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:32:56 +0000

A little bit of real content goes a long way toward getting people to pay for something unknown, which then turns out to be AI-generated. Even if they are not satisfied, that counts as AI content making a sale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke

New comment by myhf in "Looks like it is happening"

myhf — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:32:49 +0000

The last-modified-date effect is even more important, because it can be used to support whatever the latest fad is, without needing to adapt data or arguments to the specifics of that fad.

New comment by myhf in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

myhf — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:40:46 +0000

Why would you expect it to generate more effective skills when you aren't even making a salt circle or lighting incense?

New comment by myhf in "America Isn't Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs"

myhf — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:52:43 +0000

LLM-generated blogslop is getting published in The Atlantic now?

New comment by myhf in "Faster Than Dijkstra?"

myhf — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:52:17 +0000

"ordering" means arranging things in order by some metric.

"sorting" means assigning things into bins (which are usually ordered).