<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rickyhatespeas</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rickyhatespeas</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:11:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rickyhatespeas" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rickyhatespeas in "Wacky Fun Physics Ideas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The base tone of the post is written for chronically online right-wingers, the dog whistles are really obvious.<p>"Purple hair", "retarded", "media bad", "post 1945 order".</p>
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<p>Traffic on the sidewalk is a daily occurrence and often necessity in NYC. I'm not sure exactly how every area in LA is but often (as in pretty much constantly every day) in Manhattan or Brooklyn drivers don't obey the lines on the road, don't care to bump objects and cars to fit into a spot, literally threaten to hit other cars to get anywhere.<p>There's a bit of a "do what you have to" mentality with NY traffic that I haven't seen in any other east coast or mid-western city. I think that poses some unique challenges that I've often seen video of Waymos freezing up when facing similar scenarios, which could cause huge issues in most of the city.</p>
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<p>That's part of the dangers of using them for software engineering. Writing more code does not make things better, just like hiring more devs does not make projects complete faster. I've already witnessed devs who are overwriting code for solutions, while at the same time some devs responsibly use it as needed.<p>It's literally the same pain point with low code solutions like WordPress page builders/plugins. Adding more becomes a hindrance, and even models with long context that can fit whole codebases will try to make up new functions that already exist. Just a couple weeks ago I had o3 continually try to write a new debounce function, even when I told it explicitly I had one.</p>
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<p>The value is the UX/DevX. Though, they are essentially just a fork of VS Code so it's hard to justify using instead of VS Code + Copilot or Continue which is almost the same UX now.<p>That's the problem with most "AI" products/companies that still isn't being answered. Why do people use your tool/service if you don't own the LLM which is most of the underlying "engine"? And further, how do you stay competitive when your LLM provider starts to scale RL with whatever prompting tricks you're doing, making your product obsolete?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:27:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570921</link><dc:creator>rickyhatespeas</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44570921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rickyhatespeas in "Beyond Semantics: Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's definitely not explicitly writing out everything it's "thinking" if you are considering all dimensions of the latent space that are connected, that can't really be exhibited with a sentence.<p>CoT builds on existing prompt engineering techniques by adding it to reinforcement learning to force the models to build their own CoT prompt essentially. So it's not what it's thinking but all indications are that it does guide the reasoning abilities of LLMs through the output distribution.</p>
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<p>You're incorrect. 4o was not trained on knowledge of itself so literally can't tell you that. What 4o is doing isn't even new either, Gemini 2.0 has the same capability.</p>
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<p>I don't think the number of takeout orders will reduce much unless restaurants need a reason to seat customers. Many restaurants didn't have good or any pickup systems prior to COVID and many users hadn't experienced the ease and cost benefits of app-based ordering (reward programs, etc).</p>
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<p>I'm not sure if emergence is the correct cause but they can form relationships between data that aren't stated in the training set.</p>
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<p>It will do harm to their own site considering it's now un-indexable on platforms used by hundreds of millions and growing. Anyone using this is just guaranteeing that their content will be lost to history at worst, or just inaccessible to most search engines/users at best. Congrats on beating the robots, now every time someone searches for your site they will be taken straight to competitors.</p>
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