Hacker News: nphardon

New comment by nphardon in "Sony Retires Its Last 4K Blu-ray Player in Japan, PS5 Is All That's Left"

nphardon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:42:55 +0000

I quit all streaming services about 6 months ago and am strictly on CD's DVD's and records. I recommend it. The library has a ton of stuff, and if enough demands comes back maybe dvd shops will open back up. Its really nice, no ads, no data mining, no supporting awful streaming services, no subs, finite choice. Again, I recommend it.

New comment by nphardon in "Apple HomeView"

nphardon — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:21:07 +0000

that's all i see as well: self surveillance. when I read other comments like "the family in this ad is exactly like mine" or "oh if it had app store access then itd be great" it makes me think of that scott alexander essay "i can tolerate anything except the outgroup" where he makes the analogy of living side by side with people who exist in entirely separate and impenetrable social bubbles, like light and dark matter.

New comment by nphardon in "Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic"

nphardon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:31:26 +0000

Is a special hardware setup required to run open weight models? It's not clear to me from the article. Also, what does paying for inference mean? I thought the inference step happened during the training of the models, and that by the time I am interfacing with an LLM all the inference has been long done.

New comment by nphardon in "I Did Not Leave Nazi Germany in Time (1982)"

nphardon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:08:10 +0000

Makes me wonder what is going on in the Dilley Detention Center (and others) and if we will find out of atrocities only after they are shut down and the people detained are released back into the population.

New comment by nphardon in "More gears in my hands, but fewer beats in my heart"

nphardon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:08:37 +0000

A full translation appears in the comment section.

More gears in my hands, but fewer beats in my heart

nphardon — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/o8roRrdisBAjngHJN/a-summary-of-a-viral-chinese-essay-on-what-a-deepseek-kernel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059379

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by nphardon in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

nphardon — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:25:51 +0000

Does Tao profit off Ai labs?

New comment by nphardon in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

nphardon — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:19:28 +0000

"OpenAi *virus* found on Wikimedia projects" ?

New comment by nphardon in "Ask HN: What Skills Are Important Today?"

nphardon — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:37:23 +0000

I'm wondering how this plays out in the interview process though, just a year or two ago it was still leetcode and hours upon hours of technical interview. Has that changed in the context of LLMs? If you were hiring, how would you go about it? Does knwoing python really matter anymore? In my shop it 100% does not, and I'm guessing that in the 75% of posts in Who's Hiring that are for Ai startups it also does not, just curious to find out if thats true.

Ask HN: What Skills Are Important Today?

nphardon — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:20:39 +0000

Browsing through the Ask Hn: Who Wants to be Hired and Who's Hiring, and I'm still seeing coding skills like python being listed as attributes, especially on the Who Wants to be Hired. In the presence of an LLM, are these skills still relevant to the hiring process? What are the technical skills needed to pass interviews now?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925191

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

New comment by nphardon in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

nphardon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:20:10 +0000

Can't wait for refrigerators to require 2FA.

New comment by nphardon in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

nphardon — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:45:18 +0000

I would not be surprised if an LLM could have generated this conjecture, since it's such a natural extension of the integers, does it hold for surreal integers is not a big leap. It's totally predictable / probabilistic and thats what they do at a high level.

My read on the current sitch is that the drama is more around the humans behind the LLMs, like the OpenAi *people*, who are dishonest, thieving, technocrats, stealing human mathematicians work and claiming credit for it. Since the LLMs are only trained on finite amounts of data on the internet I don't think anyone expects them to replace mathematicians in a serious way. But surely the field is changing dramatically, people will adapt.

New comment by nphardon in "I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture"

nphardon — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:06:19 +0000

My experience has been similar; I find ChatGPT to be much stronger and more precise at math and in communication. I also can not do better with a multiple agent flow than I can with a single agent.

New comment by nphardon in "Show HN: Hacker News, Without AI"

nphardon — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:31:42 +0000

This is the first attempt I've seen that seems to be working. I like that it's just a acting as a filter and the comment section is linked to the hackernews source. It's really satisfying to not see any Ai bs. I do like how hackernews is limited to 30 front page posts.

New comment by nphardon in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

nphardon — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:05:32 +0000

Bots trained on human behavior express proclivity for cheating? I'm shocked.

New comment by nphardon in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

nphardon — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:27:24 +0000

Same. But if I could go back, I would add skating as well. I slept on that one and spent too much time trying to be a hacker.

New comment by nphardon in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nphardon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:50:18 +0000

I know surveillance is on par in the UK, but is the UK also building and populating massive detention centers where people are kept without due process*? Are they flooding the streets of liberal cities with soldiers*? Killing citizens on the streets of liberal states (Minnesota) out in the open? Has nationalism completely overtaken the government and citizenship? Has the opposition party been completely neutered? Does your leader openly break any laws of their choosing while plundering national coffers?

*https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/la-family-120-days-...

*https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/08/20/...

New comment by nphardon in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nphardon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:39:05 +0000

He's lucky they didn't ship him right off to the Dilley Detention Center

New comment by nphardon in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

nphardon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:38:05 +0000

> Republicans might as well rename their party the Democratic Fascists of America at this point.

I'm reading Stefan Zweig right now, he was a prolific Jewish author from 1890s until his suicide in 1942, living as an exiled Jew from Austria in South America. He has written many words, over a century ago, that would support your claim.

New comment by nphardon in "Thousands of Soldiers Now Roam Washington's Streets at $1.6M per Day"

nphardon — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:41:47 +0000

...the sight of armed troops in *democratic* or *non-MAGA* cities