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New comment by politician in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

politician — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:56:02 +0000

Try to automate the adversarial PR review-rebuttal loop "for productivity", so the back-and-forth between the AIs can run over night.

New comment by politician in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

politician — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:08:17 +0000

I think this is why reasoning chains and reasoning chain verifiers are so important. We need to be able to see an argumentation, not just an answer. The paper below goes into this in more detail.

HeavySkill: Heavy Thinking as the Inner Skill in Agentic Harness

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.02396

New comment by politician in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

politician — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:59:33 +0000

Hahaha, ok yeah I see where you're coming from.

It helps me to think about it like a different type of function call. We've got normal functions, async functions, there's a Go project that turns HTML templates into "templ" functions. JSX functions. LLMs are just a new `infer` function type.

A few years ago if I suggested that you should write a program to help you with time tracking, I imagine that might get a few responses with pointers to some existing open source projects. In a few years, someone might point to support for infer functions in nightly rust.

In other words, I think that we're dealing with really poor packaging right now and it's stressful, and that in the future this will all be normalized and integrated into our existing workflows.

New comment by politician in "I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus"

politician — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:45:17 +0000

Hey Joe, I think the solution to your problem is in your post. You said that when you were tracking your time it killed your idea, and that when you stopped tracking your time you became unfocused.

Try letting AI classify your idea into a time-tracking bucket for you, and to generate a beginning of day report describing how you spent your time yesterday.

If you write down your idea, then it'll be harder to forget it. You can let the AI figure out where to put it and fix it the next day if it's wrong.

If you look at where you spent your time yesterday each morning, then hopefully it'll help you figure out a better place to spend your time today.

You can easily set this up with any harness. Just copy and paste my comment and tell the AI to make some skills.

New comment by politician in "Show HN: Open Envelope – an open schema for defining AI agent teams"

politician — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:25:29 +0000

It's clear that you understand that releasing a schema with this much documentation makes the AI-assisted reverse engineering loop trivial. I'm interested in understanding why I should trust/use/pay for your hosted runtime versus rolling my own to run on cheap VPS?

New comment by politician in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

politician — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:30:03 +0000

This doesn't make sense as a rebuttal.

Article is OK with people moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe. Article is NOT OK with data moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe.

It's stupid. It's quintessential luxury belief thinking.

The article supposes that there exists people that fear their data being misused but don't fear their taxes being misused on welfare for a random population of benefit seekers.

The article would have been better without the self-own "problematic baggage" language.

New comment by politician in "Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)"

politician — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:08:16 +0000

Which is mightily funny because in the opening paragraph the article equates "anti-free movement" with "problematic baggage". It's a problem if people can't move freely in and out of Europe, but not data -- that's our red line!

New comment by politician in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

politician — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:52:53 +0000

"ethical" is not a word that carries the connotation of a universally agreed upon set of behaviors. Different peoples, groups, and cultures vary in what they consider acceptable behavior.

New comment by politician in "Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day"

politician — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:33 +0000

I wonder how many gallons of polluted wastewater are discharged per day by overseas refineries. Does anyone know where Tesla stacks up in the global list of lithium refiners?

New comment by politician in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

politician — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:16:14 +0000

_underscore_ for italics conflicts with most identifiers in most languages.

Markdown was created in an era before the web had easily used components for structural syntax highlighting (tree-sitter) and where reliance on regex-based approaches was more common.

New comment by politician in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

politician — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:25:13 +0000

I think we'll be able to quantify sentiment from the data, and I look forward to doing so. There's a few other datasets that I want to look at such as whether there is evidence of participation suppression via rate limiting on a per-profile basis.

New comment by politician in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

politician — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:10:15 +0000

This is great. I've soured on this site over the past few years due to the heavy partisanship that wasn't as present in the early days (eternal September), but there are still quite a few people whose opinions remain thought-provoking and insightful. I'm going to use this corpus to make a local self-hosted version of HN with the ability to a) show inline article summaries and b) follow those folks.

New comment by politician in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

politician — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:54:17 +0000

You’re not missing anything. I’ve worked with many developers that are clueless about error handling; who treat it as a mostly optional side quest. It’s not surprising that folks sees the explicit error handling in Go as a grotesque interruption of the happy path.

New comment by politician in "OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Defends Pentagon Work to Staff"

politician — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:04:22 +0000

In your understanding of the constitution, is the executive branch subordinate to the other two branches?

New comment by politician in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:23:29 +0000

The OP said that they kept what they liked and discarded the rest. I think that's a reasonable definition for signal; so, the signal-to-token ratio would be a simple ratio of (tokens committed)/(tokens purchased). You could argue that any tokens spent exploring options or refining things could be signal and I would agree, but that's harder to measure after the fact. We could give them a flat 10x multiplier to capture this part if you want.

New comment by politician in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:58:10 +0000

"Most of the code gets discarded." If you don't mind sharing, what's your signal-to-token ratio?

New comment by politician in "Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD)"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:31:23 +0000

This is a decent approach. My concern with TDD is that writing tests necessarily implies designing an API upon which those tests operate. Here, the agent is instructed to "not write code, write tests", and yet, in doing so it defines an API. This will cause the AI to hallucinate the API. Layering in yet more tests on top of this will cause that API to deform in strange ways that pass tests but that the adversary will not be able to cope with because it runs too late in the VSDD process.

I've seen this exact process play out in my own work. The AI generates code and tests that pass with high code coverage and honors invariants set by spec. I look at the code and find a rats nest / ball of mud that will cost 10x more tokens to enhance should I ever need to add a feature.

So, I think you're on to something, but I think the process might be discounting extensibility and resilience under change.

New comment by politician in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:15:56 +0000

Bingo. You don’t have to read much into this if you remember how the DoD uses the word trust. In their world, a "trusted" system is one that has the power to break your security if it goes wrong. So when they say "unrestricted use," the likely meaning isn’t just fewer guardrails it’s that the vendor doesn’t get to monitor or audit how the system is being used. In other words, the government isn’t handing a private company visibility into sensitive operations.

New comment by politician in "We Will Not Be Divided"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:50:50 +0000

No individual, whether a colonel or a CEO, has inherent authority over national security decisions. Authority flows through democratic institutions. A contractor can choose whether to participate, but national defense policy is determined by elected institutions, not private executives. If society believes AI should or should not be used for certain military purposes, the venue for that decision is democratic governance not unilateral corporate refusal or approval.

On a CBS interview this morning, Dario defended his position with the claim that he must act because "Congress is slow." CEOs can and should make decisions about what their companies build or refuse to build. What they cannot do is substitute their judgment for the constitutional processes that govern national security. We must not vest de facto policy control in unelected corporate leaders.

New comment by politician in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

politician — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:36:57 +0000

The posters question was itself a deflection - and your response is moral blackmail. Why don't you answer my question? Why are you deflecting? See how that works?