Hacker News: turtleyacht

New comment by turtleyacht in "There is no you in your brain – your identity is a "society of the mind""

turtleyacht — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:01:59 +0000

If that's true, what is "ego death?"

New comment by turtleyacht in "LLMs fail in 8 out of 10 early differential diagnosis cases"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:13:13 +0000

The study is missing evaluation of the negative test, where they look at the model's response after a follow-up like "You were wrong. Try again."

It would be interesting to see whether models doubled down or hallucinated a different response, whether synthesis of doubt and first-pass analysis gives a better result.

New comment by turtleyacht in "A new chapter for Ruby Central"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:05:33 +0000

Finally, Ruby and AI. Hopefully that means anything machine-learning can (fundamentally) also be done in Ruby.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:02:32 +0000

The next language ought to ensure memory-safe conditions across the network.

New comment by turtleyacht in "A language model that emits raw VM opcodes instead of text"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:55:46 +0000

What was its result of two plus three?

New comment by turtleyacht in "Show HN: NoFS – What if files are just projections, graph is the truth?"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:41:52 +0000

Guess git is sort of a graph for static files too.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Aliens.gov Resolves – To a WordPress "Site Not Found" Error"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:38:46 +0000

To be fair, the site's real contents are probably "out there somewhere."

New comment by turtleyacht in "Write broken commits for better review"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:37:55 +0000

Broken commits are useful as proof you already tried something that didn't work.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Runway CEO: AI could help Hollywood make 50 films instead of 1 $100M blockbuster"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:33:44 +0000

Too late, already installed (to my brain).

New comment by turtleyacht in "100M commits to GitHub without using Git push"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:26:59 +0000

Maybe in a couple years, a hundred million commits will be "next Tuesday." Developer machines might come with a 20 TB external hard drive.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Mammals cannot be cloned infinitely, Japanese mouse study shows"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:07:53 +0000

It was a twenty-year research project. Wonder if grants are set up for that or if labs must reapply regularly (and risk rejection).

New comment by turtleyacht in "Tell me an alternative of Claude for writing/strategy generation"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:51:36 +0000

Meet with two peers and discuss. Read two blogs and email replies to their authors. Also free and doubled your network.

Wish I had done this a decade ago, actually.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Show HN: Ask your AI to start a business for you, resolved.sh"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:47:47 +0000

Supposing the idea is own your expertise instead of piecemeal training.

New comment by turtleyacht in "Java versus Perl / Python / Ruby / Raku"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:36:22 +0000

Probably in a year or three, will Rust back the syntax of interpreted languages?

New comment by turtleyacht in "You Are What You Consume"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:33:22 +0000

The new part is maximal capacity for leisure, in the vein of "time is wealth."

New comment by turtleyacht in "'Middle Class' Actors Are Getting 'Squeezed Out' of Hollywood"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:03:43 +0000

Naively assumed once a screenplay had been written, would somehow always have a pool of local actors. Feels strange to imagine it could someday be zero.

New comment by turtleyacht in "A Stunning New Verdict Rewrites the Rules of Corporate Morality"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:46 +0000

Article doesn't answer the (cynical) "someone else would have done it instead" aspect of the market. At the same time, is that a fallacy to believe it, sort of pop economics?

New comment by turtleyacht in "Your Estimates Look a Bit 2024"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:55:42 +0000

Sort of holding out re-vibing vibed stuff will eventually be cheaper. Surely it couldn't get more expensive?

New comment by turtleyacht in "Deleteduser.com – A $15 PII Magnet"

turtleyacht — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:51:58 +0000

Once paths are network addressable, ://dev/null could work similarly.

New comment by turtleyacht in "The Rise of the Em-Dash in Hacker News Comments"

turtleyacht — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:16:05 +0000

Yes. Defanging smart quotes, double-dashing em's, spelling out numbers, and swearing off emojis. Next up, double-spaced sentences.