Hacker News: nadetastichttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nadetasticHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:06:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nadetastic in "The Microeconomics of Artificial Intelligence (2025)"]]>> Applied statistics is a far more precise descriptor, “but no one wants to use that term, because it’s not as sexy.”

This really hit me some time back when I was explaining AI to a friend. After about 10 mins of rambling about LLMs and mentioning the attention paper like I knew what I was talking about, it ended with “oh so it’s just a really advanced auto correct”

]]>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:17:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619492nadetastichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619492https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619492<![CDATA[New comment by nadetastic in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"]]>To me its felt like the LLM sort mirrors what you say to it and how you say it, to the point where I now include additional instructions to steer the model "Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect". It feels like I get a better experience but to be honest i haven't really done any benchmarking especially on newer models

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:05:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140092nadetastichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140092<![CDATA[New comment by nadetastic in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"]]>Biggest take away here is that in the age of AI long lived credentials are no longer a valid option

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