Hacker News: paddw

New comment by paddw in "Do_not_track"

paddw — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:15:29 +0000

an LLM would do a fine job for most common things, doesn't really matter if a few of them get hallucinated

New comment by paddw in "Meta made scam ads harder to find instead of removing them"

paddw — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:48:00 +0000

> The scrubbing, Meta teams explained in documents regarding their efforts to reduce scam discoverability, sought to make problematic content “not findable” for “regulators, investigators and journalists.”

This seems to be the "smoking gun"... but it's unclear from the article what the source or context of the quotations are.

New comment by paddw in "How I think about Kubernetes"

paddw — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:19:50 +0000

> Thinking of Kubernetes as a runtime for declarative infrastructure instead of a mere orchestrator results in very practical approaches to operate your cluster.

This is a pretty good definition.

I think part of the challenge is the evolution of K8s over time sometimes makes it feel less like a coherent runtime and more like a pile of glue amalgamated from several different components all stuck together. That and you will have to be aware of how those abstractions stick together with the abstractions from your cloud provider, etc...

Joyce Project

paddw — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:32:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexchunt90/joyce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46395341

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI "Assisted" Reporter

paddw — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannett/CANDIDATEPORTAL/jobs/80394

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794906

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by paddw in "Why our website looks like an operating system"

paddw — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 01:16:23 +0000

It's all marketing. But it's good marketing.

New comment by paddw in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

paddw — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:38:12 +0000

Anthropic should drop the deal and take the battle up the court system, they'll probably win

New comment by paddw in "It seems like the AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges"

paddw — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:24:25 +0000

Who exactly is Huawei corporate interested in mending bridges with? Seems like that tie is long severed

New comment by paddw in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

paddw — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:12:40 +0000

For me the responses just seem a lot more terse?

New comment by paddw in "Helion begins work on Washington nuclear fusion plant"

paddw — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:38:08 +0000

Presumably, if it's just a per-agreement to purchase power, there's no downside in the likely case the project implodes.

New comment by paddw in "Compiler for the B Programming Language"

paddw — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:46:14 +0000

I think Rust is quite a recreational language.

The least recreational languages are probably like Java,C#

New comment by paddw in "Ask HN: How do you programmatically track changes in SEC filings?"

paddw — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:12:25 +0000

Preprocess the documents to extract certain key features like "Cited Risk Factors", and have the AI model use that instead of each whole document as context?

New comment by paddw in "I'll backtest your trading strategy for free"

paddw — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:35:28 +0000

https://growbell.com/strategy/public/mkxvyv > This strategy could not be found or has expired.

New comment by paddw in "Data Breach at LexisNexis Risk Solutions"

paddw — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:29:27 +0000

sure sounds like it

“An unauthorized third party acquired certain LNRS data from a third-party platform used for software development. The issue did not affect LNRS’s own networks or systems,” the company said

New comment by paddw in "Oxide’s compensation model: how is it going?"

paddw — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:13:07 +0000

I'm more curious how the business is going? Have they got a Fortune 1000 on board yet?

New comment by paddw in "Time to quit your pointless job, become morally ambitious and change the world"

paddw — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:19:54 +0000

> Now, you might be thinking: that’s all well and good, but I’ve got a full-time job, two kids and a mortgage. I’m happy to recycle and eat some tofu now and then, but a “fundamental transformation”? No thanks.

In that case, moral ambition may not be for you. I mean, once you have a labradoodle, a set of cheese knives or a robot mower, there’s generally no going back

New comment by paddw in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

paddw — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:34:16 +0000

I don't read it as saying run by *women*, I think it's just saying "run by women" in the same mode as "run by guys from".

New comment by paddw in "Maybe Meta's Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act"

paddw — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:31:36 +0000

it claims to be open source because the weights are freely available, and whether or not that conforms to the definition some consortium of folks cooked up for what "Open Source" means, anyone who can put aside their feelings of ire for Meta for 2 seconds can tell that making the weights available is meaningfully different than keeping them locked up, and exposes most of the value to the public to use, for free.

Ask HN: Strategies for LLMs to Generate Stories

paddw — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 20:03:24 +0000

Interested in folks who have played around with this and had success in getting it to generate longer form narratives. Any strategies for keeping a narrative "on track" and remembering context you give it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43596392

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by paddw in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

paddw — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:05:47 +0000

What's unclear is who the buyer is supposed to be? Chrome's entire monetization is centered around its synergy with Google's ad business. Cutting off Chrome is so much messier, than the obvious, (although I fear it would itself have bad repercussions) decision to force them to sell Youtube.