<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: nimonian</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nimonian</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:43:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nimonian" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimonian in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a tangent but I'd also mention sli.dev -- slideshow-as-website is really great and fun to make with llms</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 08:22:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145956</link><dc:creator>nimonian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimonian in "The AI Zombification of Universities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read a lot of AI prose three days and this bears none of the hallmarks. If this is AI, if really live to see the prompt.<p>I'm confident this is human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 20:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140473</link><dc:creator>nimonian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimonian in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a delightful counterintuition that your gut feeling is mostly wrong: <a href="https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://webhomes.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf</a><p>Far from being motivated by some applications, the most useful discoveries in mathematics are usually discovered "for their own sake" and their application is only discovered later. Sometimes centuries later!</p>
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<p>If you think of it as being an accumulator function it can feel a bit more natural - the _definition_ of this accumulator is that, F(x) is the area from 0 to x<p>The fact that the derivative of this accumulator function is equal to the original function, this is the fundamental theorem of calculus, and I violently agree with you that this part is shockingly, unexpectedly beautiful</p>
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<p>I'm with you on this (I think). Digitising my org is much easier if I can assume my colleagues' agents will be acting on their behalf. Even if I can't convince most humans to cooperate with solutions, I can usually trust their agents to do so. MCP hides the wiring somewhat, which I enjoy.</p>
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<p>I am building _exactly_ this for my org for the past month, using Nuxt Content.<p>A "draft" is a row in a database with live preview. Users can click a button to make a checkpoint (git commit, by GitHub API, but they don't know that). When they click "publish", the PR for their draft is merged.<p>Writers in my team can use a nice Tiptap editor with custom components. I get the change management of git.<p>The API for reading content and editing drafts is also exposed over MCP meaning AI can collaborate in the authoring process from anywhere that can connect to MCP.<p>Loving it so far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646952</link><dc:creator>nimonian</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nimonian in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Writing to the board is not customary. When you do so, it is customary to do it through the secretary.</p>
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<p>I still believe looking up the answer in the back of the book is completely fine. It creates a moment of tension. It invites you to justify in your own head that the answer is right before checking. The cognitive dissonance when you see your answer is wrong and really have to challenge yourself, or ask your neighbour, to see why - is all really valuable.<p>I just don't think "instant feedback" is as important as we think in mathematics education, and might even rob us of moments to practice mathematical behaviours like justifying, communicating and accommodating. Slow feedback does have benefits.<p>I am a tech enthusiast to put it mildly. I also taught maths in schools from roughly 2010 to 2020 so saw the iPad/app revolution in my classrooms. Anecdotally, I think it made my lessons and my students worse. Books, paper and each other are the best tools (in my very personal opinion).</p>
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<p>Sorry for the late reply. When I was studying my A Level physics me and my teacher read Angels and Demons at the same time. It is a silly story really but just scratched that sci-fi bit of my brain in the right way at the right time. It is pulp fiction but sometimes that's just what you want.</p>
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<p>I have a vitepress package in most of my repos. It is a knowledge graph that also just happens to produce heat looking docs for humans when served over http. Agents are very happy to read the raw .md.</p>
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<p>The mention Dan Brown in the article! This book occupies a special place in my heart and I was glad to see it mentioned.</p>
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<p>I consider this a form of performance art. To really expose the absurdity of the system, you can't just point at the cracks; you need to actually stick your fingers in.</p>
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<p>I completely agree. This is a good list, but a poor prompt.<p>Also, I sometimes find a sort of Streisand effect: when you tell the LLM to avoid something is starts doing it more. Like, if you say "don't use delve" it contains the words "use delve" which, amongst a larger context, seems to get picked up.<p>I have more success telling the LLM to write in the style of a particular author I like. It seems to activate different linguistic patterns and feel less generic.<p>Then, I make an "editor agent" comb through, looking for tropes and rewording them. Their sole focus is eliminating the tropes, which seems to work better.</p>
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<p>I hope the irony of this comment isn't lost on the author of the article</p>
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<p>This seems crazy to me. I am a PM and I am busier than ever. People are waking up to the idea that code is cheap and things can change faster now, so deciding _what_ to make and prioritise in the deluge of ideas coming to prod is becoming completely essential.<p>One thing LLMs don't have is taste. That's on me.</p>
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<p>> I asked his thoughts on the matter because I assumed<p>Kindly, I think this is where you went wrong</p>
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<p>I've been on hn for years and I see this kind of sentiment raised all the time. It is not my understanding of the guidelines.<p>Politics and ideology are not off topic, provided the subject matter is of interest, or "gratifying", to colleagues in the tech/start-up space.<p>What's important is that we don't use rhetoric, bad faith or argumentation to force our views on others. But expressing our opinions about how policy affects technology and vice versa has always been welcome, in my observation.<p>So, what do you think about the US government's decision, and why?</p>
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<p>> 40%<p>More to your point, to get from 6,000 back up to 10,000 requires a 67% increase in productivity on the remaining 6,000!</p>
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<p>I completely agree with you. There's something conspicuous about this particular use of the "group of three" device. It's trying but it's goofy and conspicuous. I think it's not human, it's 52 trillion parameters in a trenchcoat.</p>
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<p>I really liked biome but it kept murdering my .vue files</p>
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