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Admitting a Mistake

rubycollect4812 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@petervandermeersch/p-191457282

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493250

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New comment by rubycollect4812 in "Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily"

rubycollect4812 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:57:52 +0000

Looks interesting. At the end of the newest post there is a npm update alert. That should be an easy fix though :)

New comment by rubycollect4812 in "Mathematical secrets of ancient tablet unlocked after nearly a century of study (2017)"

rubycollect4812 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:01:29 +0000

>”He bought it from Edgar Banks, a diplomat, antiquities dealer and flamboyant amateur archaeologist said to have inspired the character of Indiana Jones – his feats included climbing Mount Ararat in an unsuccessful attempt to find Noah’s Ark – who had excavated it in southern Iraq in the early 20th century.”

A little off-topic, but as a non native English speaker this sentence in the article made me look up whether there’s scientific consensus that Noah’s Ark has been found and I’d just never heard about it. Turns out there isn’t, and the end of the sentence actually refers to the tablet. Was still a fun rabbit hole to go down.

New comment by rubycollect4812 in "OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery"

rubycollect4812 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:34:38 +0000

That’s why I always use a system prompt and tell it to be critical and call me out when I’m talking bullshit. Sometimes for easier queries it’s a bit annoying when I don’t actually need a “critical part” in my answers but often it helps me stop earlier when I’m following an idea that’s not that’s not as good as I thought it would be.

New comment by rubycollect4812 in "Agents built from alloys"

rubycollect4812 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:36:24 +0000

I often do this in cursor, just select a different model during a chat. It seems to work somewhat for me. Sometimes a bit of context gets lost though. But often it can give a different angle or I notice the better code understanding when switching from gemini to sonnet.

New comment by rubycollect4812 in "The European public DNS that makes your Internet safer"

rubycollect4812 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:44:49 +0000

How does this differ from a service like quad9? Has someone done speed tests? One key difference is probably quad9 being under Swiss privacy laws and dns0 being under gdpr laws in the EU.

Quantum and the unknowable universe – R. Penrose, S. Hossenfelder, S. ŽIžek

rubycollect4812 — Tue, 06 May 2025 23:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdzXbIW9kxY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910567

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