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New comment by thmorriss in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

thmorriss — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:46:26 +0000

love the simple css of this. very tasteful and beautiful, even if its just simple.

New comment by thmorriss in "Gemini 4 Argon"

thmorriss — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:38:42 +0000

me too. it's like a fingerprint of ai. I think ai should be proud to be itself and be ai.

New comment by thmorriss in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

thmorriss — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:58:17 +0000

google wave!!! so good

New comment by thmorriss in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

thmorriss — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:53:42 +0000

i was obsessed with google wave... so cool

New comment by thmorriss in "LLMs understand nullability"

thmorriss — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 15:26:28 +0000

very cool.

New comment by thmorriss in "A Tour of the Lisps"

thmorriss — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:37:33 +0000

the clojure loop construct is often cleaner than code written to be tail recursive

New comment by thmorriss in "Building GPT-based AI agents today, and their implications for tomorrow"

thmorriss — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 02:11:17 +0000

I the analogy that GPT is improvising/speaking, like you would in a normal conversation. When I talk out loud (quickly), I only have ~1 word of lookahead just like GPT. But if I want good answers to hard questions, I need to slow down and actually write[1] something down. So the wrapper script that iterates/recursive on responses that OP describes is analogous to the slowing down process of writing.

I'm also curious what sort of results the iterative process can lead to. The movie script example in OP is impressive, but does it reach a stable state? Does it work for other types of prompts (coding related/other) that i've seen on twitter? All very interesting.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html

New comment by thmorriss in "Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title"

thmorriss — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 20:10:49 +0000

that is a cool story, thanks for sharing

Ask HN: Quirky Hardware Setups?

thmorriss — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:39:04 +0000

any interesting hardware setups?

For example my laptop's boot drive is empty, I boot off of an external/portable usb ssd always. This lets me boot into my setup on any computer (useful for connecting to PC with gpu when I need it), but its annoying to keep a usb drive constantly connected.

Would love to hear more things like this.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30805654

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New comment by thmorriss in "Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?"

thmorriss — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:57:00 +0000

I like this mindset, thanks for sharing.

New comment by thmorriss in "Show HN: The Brutalist Report – A rolling snapshot of the day’s headlines"

thmorriss — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 19:02:19 +0000

I like this a lot. I set it to open every morning at 8am using an extension :)

New comment by thmorriss in "Ask HN: Best 2-player co-op gaming fun for mental health"

thmorriss — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 01:07:22 +0000

Monaco. Top down heist simulator that’s very silly with amazing music.

Minecraft with buddies online is amazing.

Towerfall ascension campaign. Made by developers of Celeste (so it has A++ feeling controls). Single screen single hit kill defend against waves of enemies in several worlds. Good difficulty progression. And 4 player VS is a blast.

Not coop but vs: Duck game. Works best with 4 ppl, high skill based, super silly single screen instant hill tournament. Playing this with buddies is consistently the most fun I have had in 10 years of playing games.

Gang beasts. Very very silly, not skill based last man standing brawler on interactive maps.

Party games like jackbox can be super fun, including gartic phone, skribbl.io, cards against humanity.

New comment by thmorriss in "Google is wrong. Apple’s iMessage is a failure"

thmorriss — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 01:26:26 +0000

blue bubble fomo is very real. It is the main reason ~5 of my friends have switched to iphones in my age group (~21) in the last two years

New comment by thmorriss in "Launch HN: Joon (YC W22) – A mobile game that teaches kids to build good habits"

thmorriss — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:41:12 +0000

Would you rather delegate your child’s attention to YouTube/Reddit/Instagram, which will inevitably happen the moment they get their own devices?

New comment by thmorriss in "Finding a Creature in Ethereum's Dark Forest"

thmorriss — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 23:02:56 +0000

This was fun

New comment by thmorriss in "Once poor, always poor?"

thmorriss — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 16:37:32 +0000

Agree. Laughed when I saw that

New comment by thmorriss in "Wish HN: Happy Holidays"

thmorriss — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:39:54 +0000

i like the blobs

New comment by thmorriss in "Ask HN: How to travel by train without vibrations / getting shaken up"

thmorriss — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:12:09 +0000

I think a native English speaker would describe it exactly as you did.

New comment by thmorriss in "My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file (2020)"

thmorriss — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 19:06:01 +0000

That is a cool system, thanks for sharing.

New comment by thmorriss in "Introducing Surface Laptop"

thmorriss — Wed, 03 May 2017 00:50:57 +0000

Literally the first law?