<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: simsla</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=simsla</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 10:15:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=simsla" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "AI slop is killing online communities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Established accounts are worth money, often for scamming/propaganda.<p>Not too dissimilar to people bot-leveling in MMOs to the sell the accounts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 20:00:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054126</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm afraid you're mistaken. He hired a cartographer to iterate over the design, but from the images, he likely used that feedback to create a map <i>style</i>.<p>For example <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_style" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_style</a><p>However, you're also kind of correct in that the rendered <i>tiles</i> are typically cached server-side (presumably also for Apple Maps).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:49:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000699</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genuinely curious: what would you have had him do instead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 11:07:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973372</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973372</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone is writing. Nobody is reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:16:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900508</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47900508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do wonder if it's fair to expect users to absorb cache miss costs when using Claude Code given how untransparent these are.</p>
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<p>Where I live, your employer basically has to give you notice (weeks to months, depending where you live). It's common for that notice period to turn into "garden leave" though, i.e. get paid but don't show up.<p>Mass layoffs, or RIFs, operate under slightly different rules, but I still saw a stark difference between US and EU employees when I went through one at a different corp.<p>US accounts were deactivated same day. EU employees were given until end of week to look over the proposed terms etc.</p>
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<p>Typical stages of training for these models are:<p>Foundational:<p>- Pretraining
- Mid/post-training (SFT)
- RLHF or alignment post-training (RL)<p>And sometimes...<p>- Some more customer-specific fine-tuning.<p>Note that any supervised fine-tuning following the Pretraining stage is just swapping the dataset and maybe tweaking some of the optimiser settings. Presumably they're talking about this kind of pre-RL fine-tuning instead of post-RL fine-tuning, and not about swapping out the Pretraining stage entirely.</p>
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<p>I think my experience as an interviewer has helped. If you ask non-leading questions, sycophancy doesn't come into play as much.<p>Instead of saying "are you sure?" or "shouldn't we do X instead?" you could say "give me the benefits and drawbacks of this compared to X".<p>Also, when you yourself are sure, give clear stear. "This overcomplicates A, let's do B instead."</p>
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<p>For reference, I knew a guy who built bespoke cheats (less likely to get caught by ban waves) and he charged a few thousand per project.</p>
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<p>I've never experienced this, but I guess I always respond with something like "No, [critique/steer]" or "Mostly fine, but [critique/steer]".</p>
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<p>Choose to enable backups.</p>
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<p>The blog post literally explains how to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203632</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also because normal usage has predictable usage patterns, which allows them to optimise and predict costs. Flat rate pricing only makes sense in that regime.</p>
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<p>While I agree, if you need high profits to survive, you're not off to a great start as a nonprofit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169719</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Never buy a .online domain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is a financial incentive to make the search results worse. (More searches, more ads, more money.)<p>There is no incentive for adding false positives to lists of malicious websites.</p>
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<p>Permissions scoping</p>
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<p>I've used stuff like this for a hobby project where "effort to write it" vs "times I'm going to use it" is heavily skewed [0]. For production use cases, I can only see it being worth it for things that require using an ML model anyway, like "summarize this document".<p>[0] e.g. something like the below which I expect to use maybe a dozen times total.<p>Main routine: In folder X are a bunch of ROM files (iso, bin, etc) and a JSON file with game metadata for each. Look for missing entries, and call [subroutine] once per file (can be called in parallel). When done, summarise the results (successes/failures) based on the now updated metadata.<p>Subroutine: (...) update XYZ, use metacritic to find metadata, fall back to Google.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139427</link><dc:creator>simsla</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by simsla in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And that's probably the opposite of being school-shaped. School is hellishly boring if you're ahead of the curve.</p>
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<p>My read of it was "by today", aka cumulative. But you're right that it can also be read as "just today". The latter is an absurdly strong statement, I agree.</p>
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<p>It doesn't say 1k per day. Not saying I agree with the statement per se, but it's a much weaker statement than that.</p>
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