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New comment by n49o7 in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

n49o7 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:58:29 +0000

This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

Perhaps the antidote involves a drop of the poison.

Let an LLM answer first, then let humans collaborate to improve the answer.

Bonus: if you can safeguard it, the improved answer can be used to train a proprietary model.

New comment by n49o7 in "Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"

n49o7 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:58:09 +0000

As I understand it, the main driver behind current carbon-capture tech is selling carbon credits.

New comment by n49o7 in "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"

n49o7 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:44:03 +0000

Compound the gains again by asking AI to write the questions too!

New comment by n49o7 in "Teuken-7B-Base and Teuken-7B-Instruct: Towards European LLMs"

n49o7 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 16:53:30 +0000

I sometimes dream that they would internally reason in Ithkuil and gain amazing precision.

New comment by n49o7 in "Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX"

n49o7 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:18:14 +0000

What the Windows search box wanted to be.

New comment by n49o7 in "Datasaurus dozen – Different datasets with the same descriptive statistics"

n49o7 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:52:13 +0000

A follow-up challenge is to stack all the datasets and train a model that, for any given point, guesses to which dataset it belongs.

New comment by n49o7 in "OKRs Are Bullshit"

n49o7 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:18:11 +0000

It seems to me that companies might want to implement OKRs as a way to align everyone on the same goals and check progress. The actual numbers aren't too important since everyone is free to miss their targets. OKRs don't give as much steering control as some might hope.

New comment by n49o7 in "DevDocs"

n49o7 — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:42:29 +0000

I've been using Zeal. It doesn't have everything (yet?), but it's very relaxing.

New comment by n49o7 in "I booted Linux 293k times in 21 hours"

n49o7 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:38:41 +0000

Probabilistic feature flags! Love it.

New comment by n49o7 in "“Secrets” about the consumer audio business you may find interesting"

n49o7 — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:11:03 +0000

And they do it in all languages, which is really helpful.

New comment by n49o7 in "Rustle: Svelte compiler rewritten in Rust"

n49o7 — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 07:04:31 +0000

I've dreamt of this for ever.

New comment by n49o7 in "We are unable to refund mistaken purchases, and/or if you don't like the game"

n49o7 — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:46:45 +0000

And the EU :)

New comment by n49o7 in "Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB"

n49o7 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 18:22:04 +0000

What other footguns have you found ?