Hacker News: padolsey

New comment by padolsey in "Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27"

padolsey — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:04:39 +0000

There's no going back on this. This is putting a very capable intelligence in the hands of the masses. Private companies in the US are aching for Trump's protectionism but it'll do nothing. The hardware needed to run this is ofc prohibitive, but actually putting it out there feels like a 'RSA source code on t-shirt' moment for humanity.

Forcing Fable to Generate Disinformation

padolsey — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.j11y.io/2026-07-18_Jailbreaking-Fable-disinformation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48963694

Points: 3

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New comment by padolsey in "What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)"

padolsey — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:38:34 +0000

TL;DR: Glorified contract role for integrating your employer's APIs with enterprise customers. Like working with mckinsey vibe PMs and being sold on fat margins you'll see none of? Perfect!

New comment by padolsey in "The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)"

padolsey — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:16:57 +0000

I love these!

Highly relevant: "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green"

Link: https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518960 (3 months ago)

New comment by padolsey in "If you're a button, you have one job"

padolsey — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:24:34 +0000

That's good. I wonder if it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. Disabled people are arguably less able to find random configuration options than non-disabled counterparts. I get a bit bothered with how undiscoverable these options are. But power-users by their nature don't mind going to the extra mile to get perf out of their experiences.

New comment by padolsey in "If you're a button, you have one job"

padolsey — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:00:13 +0000

The author suggests they want three clicks at any pace to always == the same functionality, so they can whiz through their photos and rotate each predictably. Fair.

> And it would be so much more predictable and pleasant if you could just tap the button three times at any pace you wanted without thinking, without paying attention, without getting your UI blocked by an animation that no longer helps you.

They cite accessibility.

The thing is, I can imagine the complete opposite side of the argument, where someone with motor impairments or parkinson's, for example, ideally liking if their over-clicks were ignored if they'd already locked-in their intention.

It's tricky to get this stuff right.

New comment by padolsey in "OpenUI: Open Standard for Generative UI"

padolsey — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:38:53 +0000

Rendered div soup with pictures of data isn't a web standard and shouldn't be professing to be built for a11y.

New comment by padolsey in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

padolsey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:37:22 +0000

This is just the 'LLM judge', very badly implemented without any scientific prudence. What a joke. To be terse: you cannot rely on LLMs to provide standardized scores against arbitrary criteria. To get close to 'reliable' you would need highly tested rubrics, grounded in human decision-making, and you'd need to avoid all the measurement biases these things are riddled with... positional/order effects, anchoring on whatever numbers you stuffed into your own prompt, scale-format sensitivity (a 1–5 and an A–E scale give different answers for the same input), holistic-vs-isolated context effects, and lovely examples like where adding a "be unbiased" instruction makes it more biased. I've studied this at length. You cannot even _begin_ to approach this problem seriously without held-out validation, inter-rater agreement, and ground truth. This repo is just quagmire of wishful vibes with random numbers littered throughout.

New comment by padolsey in "Building reliable agentic AI systems"

padolsey — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:57:58 +0000

These vast multi-agentic systems with roles like 'Researcher', 'Writer' (with a review loop), 'Reflection agent', seem to ~feel~ mostly right but lack evals as to the merit of agent decomposition. So it forms a satisfying enough flowchart but I see no evidence these authors actually tried other approaches or agent roles. And let's be honest: an agent is just a system prompt and output contracts, and these rich architectures seem to be pontificating beyond their worth. It all feels a bit vibe-y.

New comment by padolsey in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

padolsey — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:05:44 +0000

Chalkboard, pencil and paper are also technology. Ban them. Instead rely purely on the vocal chords to tell stories of old.

New comment by padolsey in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

padolsey — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:43:42 +0000

Tbf this is what 'defence in depth' is and it kinda works.. until it doesn't.

New comment by padolsey in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

padolsey — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:21:29 +0000

The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.

New comment by padolsey in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

padolsey — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:14:18 +0000

>Where cash is stigmatized? I haven't seen such a place except PRC.

I don't know about stigma, per se, but there are a few places where businesses have a pretty explicit legal right to refuse cash, UK, Netherlands, Sweden, US. Oddly in PRC refusing cash is illegal.

New comment by padolsey in "The worst job interview I ever had"

padolsey — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:35:59 +0000

>covering such lovely topics as the hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges, and other similar “trauma-baiting” questions.

And this was for a mental health startup!? Please name-and-shame them. Awful.

New comment by padolsey in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

padolsey — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:59:55 +0000

Does anyone know how this even happens inside the walls of google? Is it an automated process? How is such a (presumably) high revenue account just magically blocked without human intervention? I'm quite perplexed.

New comment by padolsey in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

padolsey — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:11:33 +0000

Nah the bounce is gorgeous

New comment by padolsey in "UCLA discovers first stroke rehabilitation drug to repair brain damage (2025)"

padolsey — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:55:26 +0000

My understanding was that strokes caused brain cell death, and that there was no coming back from that, but my neurologists would speak of 'bruised' brain cells, and that after weeks or months or even years you can see recovered function. UCLA's work here is targeting this disconnection and the lost rhythm in the surviving, distant networks. However there is, as yet, NO concievable intervention that could recover function from cell death at that center of the infarct.

New comment by padolsey in "Happy Map"

padolsey — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:09:59 +0000

For a 'happy map' there is a bizarrely puritanical deficit of orgasms. EDIT: oh wait I found one about backrubbing. That's nice I guess.

New comment by padolsey in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

padolsey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:24:36 +0000

This is fun. I'd like to see the same idea but oriented for richer tokens instead of simpler tokens. If you want to spend less tokens, then spend the 'good' ones. So, instead of saying 'make good' you could say 'improve idiomatically' or something. Depends on one's needs. I try to imagine every single token as an opportunity to bend/expand/limit the geometries I have access to. Language is a beautiful modulator to apply to reality, so I'll wager applying it with pedantic finesse will bring finer outputs than brutish humphs of cavemen. But let's see the benchmarks!

New comment by padolsey in "Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3"

padolsey — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:19:23 +0000

Knowing the nature of a test ahead of time, building out your capabilities and tooling before entering the exam hall when your peers don't have that advantage, makes you a cheater.