Hacker News: pbui

MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

pbui — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:07:45 +0000

Article URL: https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464314

Points: 127

# Comments: 74

Trump administration moves to impose more than $100k fee for H-1B visas

pbui — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 15:13:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-administration-moves-impose-more-than-100000-fee-h-1b-worker-visas-2026-08-24/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49420945

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Investing in automated C to Rust translation

pbui — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:26:16 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/investing-in-automated-c-to-rust-translation/86369

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49361334

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by pbui in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

pbui — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:14:12 +0000

I'm not sure what to think... I uploaded a PyHPC workshop paper I wrote in 2011 and it said 27% machine.

I also uploaded my PhD dissertation from 2012 and got back 40% machine, which is just barely below the 42% threshold.

I don't publish anymore... but does this mean I wrote like a LLM or did LLMs learn from me? :p

Update: I also uploaded a IEEE CLUSTERS paper I wrote in 2015 and it came back 74% machine written :|

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

pbui — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://andyljones.com/posts/horses.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46199723

Points: 581

# Comments: 629

Inside Yale's Quiet Reckoning with AI

pbui — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:24:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/inside-yales-quiet-reckoning-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963722

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Trump confirms US is seeking 10% stake in Intel. Bernie Sanders approves

pbui — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:56:13 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/bernie-sanders-backs-trumps-plan-to-buy-stake-in-intel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44965741

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New executive order puts all grants under political control

pbui — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 02:37:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/new-executive-order-puts-all-grants-under-political-control/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44832829

Points: 229

# Comments: 207

Experience Embracing GenAI in an Engineering Computations Course

pbui — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11104179

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44813487

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

NSF faces shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions

pbui — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-faces-radical-shake-officials-abolish-its-37-divisions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43932678

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

pbui — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sigarch.org/the-academic-pipeline-stall-why-industry-must-stand-for-academia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925485

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Framework "temporarily pausing" some laptop sales because of new tariffs

pbui — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/framework-temporarily-pausing-some-laptop-sales-because-of-new-tariffs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616937

Points: 19

# Comments: 4

Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

pbui — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:12:24 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43344756

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders

pbui — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://new.nsf.gov/executive-orders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858528

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Improving online advertising through product and infrastructure

pbui — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:34:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/improving-online-advertising/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736182

Points: 21

# Comments: 3

More than calculators: Why LLMs threaten learning, teaching, and education

pbui — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 12:29:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743751

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

System76's Lemur Pro Laptop Is Just a Nice Linux Laptop

pbui — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/review/system-76-lemur-pro-laptop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38204872

Points: 176

# Comments: 139

New comment by pbui in "We Don’t Do Legacy (2012)"

pbui — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:40:52 +0000

For me it was at a big house in a wealthy suburb, and we talked one on one in the living room. There was no real guidance or explanation other than here is the time and place.

From what I could remember, the alumni interviewer was kind, I just couldn't articulate answers to his questions as I was unprepared and didn't know what to expect. With some insight on the process, I probably could have done better, but it doesn't really matter.

I ended up on a different path and am content with where it lead.

My larger point is that there are many little ways where legacy advantages can leak through even if you have an explicit policy of not considering it.

I think alumni interviews are such a possible mechanism of still factoring in legacy status or making this advantages stand out without it being on the application.

New comment by pbui in "We Don’t Do Legacy (2012)"

pbui — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:30:28 +0000

To me, using alumni to do interviews is just a form of indirection in regards to legacy admissions.

Who is better prepared to discuss MIT with alumni? A student with no idea about college or admissions, or someone who grew up with experience and knowledge of the institution.

The push back against legacy is that is gives an advantage and thus less meritocratic. In this interview situation, a legacy is still at an advantage, and from my experience, a significant one.

Again, I'm not sure this practice is still a part of the admissions process. My point is that non legacy were at a disadvantage when they had alumni interviews.

New comment by pbui in "We Don’t Do Legacy (2012)"

pbui — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:15:22 +0000

Maybe this is true now, but when I applied to MIT for undergrad in 2002, I had to meet with an alumnus at their house near me for an interview. Being from California and first generation American and the first of my family to go away for college, I had no idea how admissions worked nor did I know much about MIT. Because of that, I basically bombed that interview as I was unprepared (didn't know what to expect and didn't have the cultural knowledge to converse properly). I was subsequently rejected from MIT despite having pristine credentials for the time (however, I was accepted at other schools such as Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and my eventual choice Notre Dame).

Moreover, a classmate of mine from a wealthier family and who was on the football team was admitted to MIT, despite having worse grades and a lower SAT score (he was smart and deserving, I'm just pointing out that my numbers were better).

So while it is nice that MIT claims to not use legacy now, the process I experienced 20 years ago suggests that alumni still had influence then and even athletics mattered too.

To be clear, I'm not necessarily against legacy admissions or athletic preferences. I just wish schools were upfront about it and things were explained clearly to applicants.