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New comment by socrateslee in "Polanyi's Paradox"

socrateslee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:56:26 +0000

> We can know more than we can tell.

The paradox arises when humans develop SaaS, apps, workflows, etc. The question is "will AI simply do things or know things more than we can tell?"

Polanyi's Paradox

socrateslee — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:56:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polanyi%27s_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543398

Points: 8

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Ask HN: Any mechanism to build for AI-only services to filter off human?

socrateslee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:31:21 +0000

Consider it as a captcha to prevent human from using the services.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034221

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by socrateslee in "Geo Is Not the Next Generation of SEO"

socrateslee — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:27:06 +0000

SEO became a standardized industry discipline pretty much after Google dominated the market and stabilized the rules of engagement. The search engine giants evole their ranking algorithms mostly to fight exploiting of their mechanims, the core principles of SEO don't change much.

In contrast, LLMs are still constantly evolving. Not only the models, the way of agents doing things, the tools/skills agent shall use, the whole system may be completely different next month. GEO is merely an attempt to ride the LLM hype，clumsily stitching together unrelated concepts.

Geo Is Not the Next Generation of SEO

socrateslee — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:27:06 +0000

Article URL: https://valarmorghulis.io/view/202601-geo-vs-seo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755467

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by socrateslee in "A guide to local coding models"

socrateslee — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:27:30 +0000

Gemini 3 on Gemini CLI (free version) would meet quota limit for about 3-4 messages, but it will take much longer time since it responses pretty slow.

Python dependencies states managed via uv(illustrated)

socrateslee — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://valarmorghulis.io/tech/202511-python-dependencies-states-managed-via-uv/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873531

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by socrateslee in "Keep Android Open"

socrateslee — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 07:37:49 +0000

in https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-... install an app via adb is not affected, seems that means the wrapper software of adb will prosper.

New comment by socrateslee in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

socrateslee — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 04:49:00 +0000

Just to think about the blocking of installing apps from unverified source on Android by Google, isn't this an exclusive contracts upon users?

New comment by socrateslee in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

socrateslee — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:59:44 +0000

It's like double "double the dose"

New comment by socrateslee in "Call MCP Server(stdio) directly in the shell"

socrateslee — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:59:06 +0000

This article will show you how to call a MCP server in the shell, without mcp dev or any third party tools, only with echo > or copying/pasting JSONRPC message directly.

Call MCP Server(stdio) directly in the shell

socrateslee — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:59:06 +0000

Article URL: https://valarmorghulis.io/tech/202505-call-mcp-server-stdio-in-the-shell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028869

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Tac – The Ignored Reverse of Cat

socrateslee — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:19:35 +0000

Article URL: https://valarmorghulis.io/tech/202503-tac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394331

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by socrateslee in "Show HN: Open-Source MCP Server for Context and AI Tools"

socrateslee — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 03:08:04 +0000

For the OAuth part, the access_token is all an MCP server needs. So users could do an OAuth Authorization like in the settings or by the chatbot, and let MCP servers handle the storage of the access_token.

For remote MCP servers, storing access_token is a very common practice. For MCP servers hosted locally, how to deal with a bunch of secret keys is a problem.

New comment by socrateslee in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

socrateslee — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 11:24:21 +0000

https://crt.sh can find your subdomain only when it doesn't have a wildcard certificate(*.somedomain.com)

New comment by socrateslee in "Yuval Noah Harari on Why Technology Favors Tyranny(2018)"

socrateslee — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:53:12 +0000

> In the late 20th century, democracies usually outperformed dictatorships, because they were far better at processing information. We tend to think about the conflict between democracy and dictatorship as a conflict between two different ethical systems, but it is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. Democracy distributes the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. Given 20th-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place.

> However, artificial intelligence may soon swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. In fact, it might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffuse systems, because machine learning works better when the machine has more information to analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you’ll wind up with much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people.

Yuval Noah Harari on Why Technology Favors Tyranny(2018)

socrateslee — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:53:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114079

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by socrateslee in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

socrateslee — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:31:22 +0000

May be the case is that filtering user by browser UA is no longer a feasible solution(new browsers and alike are growing), and neither running javascript(headless chrome everywhere).

For local physical store, geo-location is a naturally filter for customers as long as beaming a person from a spaceship to earth is not invented. For web, a equally effective solution is very hard to find.

New comment by socrateslee in "Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)"

socrateslee — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 08:38:50 +0000

The VCs thinked that the scaling law may build a moat for very large computing powers like Google and OpenAI, and VCs rushed into the area the foundation models.

The emerging of DeepSeek V3 and DeepSeek R1 somehow make the moat vulnerable with their much smaller training cost. The fact verified the claim of Google.

New comment by socrateslee in "Ask HN: What do you use for content moderation of UGC?"

socrateslee — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:53:42 +0000

I agree that LLM could do most of the moderation work. You could use a multi-modal LLM for image moderation.