Hacker News: tipsytoad

New comment by tipsytoad in "AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them"

tipsytoad — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:28:13 +0000

And the goalposts must move once again..

New comment by tipsytoad in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

tipsytoad — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:25:25 +0000

I think this comes in with the wrong assumptions from the start. The thing that US vs Apple taught us is to not demand access publicly, this puts companies in an awkward spot. If approached more tacitly, gag order etc the company has nothing to gain but everything to lose.. and more likely to comply. I hugely doubt that intentional backdoors don’t exist for the most powerful countries / people

New comment by tipsytoad in "Monitors for Work"

tipsytoad — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:07:31 +0000

Bit of a counter point, but I ran a very nice wfh setup at a previous job, 4k monitor and ergo keyboards. I was a bit dismayed when I joined a new co and found that we had 1080p monitors and a generic Logitech keyboard. After a week of the text looking pixelated I entirely got used to it and think maybe complaints about monitors being a health hazard and rsi are a tad overblown by a vocal minority.

New comment by tipsytoad in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

tipsytoad — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:59:28 +0000

Stylistically ugly code that is globally consistent (ideally across the entire ecosystem) >> locally beautiful code that is inconsistent with the rest of the codebase / up to authors taste. No one likes black formatting, but it’s at least consistent. “Your car can be any color you like as long as it’s black”

With regards to your example, adding a comma to the final element should preserve multi-line. You just don’t know the formatting rules yet apparently

New comment by tipsytoad in "The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)"

tipsytoad — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:10:23 +0000

Yeah came here to comment exactly this. And this is generally why I dislike/avoid this type of first principle analysis: it can make very convincing arguments that are just totally wrong due to some misleading assumption

New comment by tipsytoad in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

tipsytoad — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:41:32 +0000

1.0 is actually pretty arbitrary and way too high as a general rule. Something like 0.3 is a more sensible default

New comment by tipsytoad in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

tipsytoad — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:02:11 +0000

And yet the monologue is a complete work of fiction, a script delivered by a talented actor that we still find moving. So what are these authentic experiences to you, or does it not matter if we can’t tell the difference?

New comment by tipsytoad in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

tipsytoad — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:54:57 +0000

Curious how they do a “blind” preference test. To any evaluator I’m sure it’s quite clear which answer is AI vs human.

New comment by tipsytoad in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

tipsytoad — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:16:54 +0000

Who designs a website like this?

New comment by tipsytoad in "A History of IDEs at Google"

tipsytoad — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:31:31 +0000

We can use jj now, thank goodness. But I still miss my old git workflows + lazygit

New comment by tipsytoad in "A History of IDEs at Google"

tipsytoad — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:55:12 +0000

I joined gdm recently, and previously used (neo)vim exclusively. Begrudgingly Cider-V is very, very good. It might be possible to get by without it, but the system is so locked down you’re going to make a lot of sacrifices. (very few authorised extensions, codebase is so large it’s going to break whatever tools your used to using anyway, no git)

I’m well thinking I may as well trade my brick of an m5 pro for a 13” chromebook, it’s a strange time.

New comment by tipsytoad in "Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room"

tipsytoad — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:27:17 +0000

As someone who basically only hangs out on HN, what are the trends on Reddit? I thought it would vary by channel

New comment by tipsytoad in "Two different tricks for fast LLM inference"

tipsytoad — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:09:00 +0000

Throughput is a metric for the total number of tokens/sec for all users in the system. Latency (ITL,TTFT) are individual user metrics.

New comment by tipsytoad in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

tipsytoad — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:09:11 +0000

The guys previous post was how rabbit r1 is revolutionising the smartphone. So I would take this post with a grain (heap?) of salt

New comment by tipsytoad in "We mourn our craft"

tipsytoad — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:50:29 +0000

Made it to the 5th stage of grief

New comment by tipsytoad in "I miss thinking hard"

tipsytoad — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:29:26 +0000

While I large agree, when I rely too much on agentic llm usage I come away feeling that I haven’t really learnt much over the session, and the code wasn’t really “mine”. It’s also easy to let your skills atrophy over time if you’re not careful, and for the hardest / interesting problems I often turn the llm off entirely and write out the code by hand, and come out a lot happier than just guiding Claude

New comment by tipsytoad in "LLMs will never be alive or intelligent"

tipsytoad — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:21:54 +0000

Someone not familiar with the field rediscovering the stochastic parrot argument from 3+ years ago

New comment by tipsytoad in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

tipsytoad — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:03:52 +0000

Clearly not from the UK. By US standards Labour would be socialist, and conservative (right) liberal at best.

New comment by tipsytoad in "NeurIPS 2025 Best Paper Awards"

tipsytoad — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:55:27 +0000

It’s a quite deceptive paper. The main headline benchmarks (math500, aime24 /25) final answer is just a number from 0-1000, so what is the takeaway supposed to be for pass@k of 512/1024?

On the unstructured outputs, where you can’t just ratchet up the pass@k until it’s almost random, it switches the base model out for instruct, and in the worse case on livecodebench it uses a qwen-r1-distill as a _base_ model(!?) that’s an instruct model further fine tuned on R1’s reasoning traces. I assume that was because no matter how high the pass@k, a base model won’t output correct python.

New comment by tipsytoad in "The blissful Zen of a good side project"

tipsytoad — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:20:24 +0000

I get the same feeling that I'm "not being productive" while playing video games, watching tv, etc that seems to kill any enjoyment from doing these things.

For me learning piano has been a great alternative to programming in the off hours (typing is quite transferrable too!). Highly recommend if you're like me on screens all day.