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New comment by velox_neb in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

velox_neb — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:19:21 +0000

> the naive logic that because LLM execution speeds or benchmarks marginally improved over the last 24 months, (...)

"Marginally improved"? Are you really going to sit there tell me that an appropriate way to sum up the difference between the AI we had access to in Sep 2024 and the AI we have access to now, is "the benchmarks marginally improved"?

New comment by velox_neb in "OpenLogi"

velox_neb — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:09:05 +0000

> you should not run code you don't trust, period.

This reduces to "you should not use a computer, period." No-one can audit all the code they run daily.

New comment by velox_neb in "Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro"

velox_neb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:43:33 +0000

> It wasn't AI generated.

You're lying: https://www.pangram.com/history/94678f26-4898-496f-9559-8c4c...

Not that I needed pangram to tell me that, it's obvious slop.

New comment by velox_neb in "LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet"

velox_neb — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:51:55 +0000

I bet some guy just told Claude Code to archive all of LWN for him on a whim.

New comment by velox_neb in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

velox_neb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:14 +0000

My crackpot theory is that what stops newcomers is how unergonomic "(" and ")" are to type on typical keyboards. If mainstream lisp dialects used square brackets instead, we'd all be programming in it!

New comment by velox_neb in "Bashbro – Make Any Comp a Web-Based File Server"

velox_neb — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:03:11 +0000

One does not "simply" use Emacs.

New comment by velox_neb in "FUTO Keyboard"

velox_neb — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 01:44:45 +0000

I do, for over a decade. Hope it doesn't die. Can't fathom how people live with these tiny qwerty keyboards on a touchscreen.

New comment by velox_neb in "Exodus Bitcoin Wallet: $490k swindle"

velox_neb — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 12:04:12 +0000

Still, most people who have a crypto wallet on their desktop computer don't get hacked. I always found this interesting because it puts an upper bound to how many machines out there are compromised (at least by an agency that's motivated only by money).

New comment by velox_neb in "Show HN: Auto Wiki – Turn your codebase into a Wiki"

velox_neb — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:46:07 +0000

Reading these wikis makes me feel we need to invent some visual convention to indicate AI-generated text. Like a particular color or font. This would make it so people don't feel cheated after they realize they just spent several minutes trying to make sense of something churned out by an LLM. (I mean this as a voluntary design enhancement for sites that want to be nice, of course people can always cheat.)

New comment by velox_neb in "Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars"

velox_neb — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 15:11:34 +0000

You sound like ChatGPT.

New comment by velox_neb in "Bad NEWS, Emacs"

velox_neb — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:44:31 +0000

Looks like the Emacs developer community needs a Linus to talk some sense into these Mauros

Referring of course to https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

New comment by velox_neb in "Scrollbars are becoming a problem"

velox_neb — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:32:21 +0000

> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools

Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.

New comment by velox_neb in "What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023"

velox_neb — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:19:37 +0000

Errata: In the table under "How many bytes are in UTF-8?", bottom row, "10000" should be "100000".

New comment by velox_neb in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

velox_neb — Wed, 31 May 2023 12:47:15 +0000

I get "The model: `gpt-4-0314` does not exist".

New comment by velox_neb in "916 Days of Emacs"

velox_neb — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 17:11:45 +0000

I'm an emacs fan but there's no excuse. It's insane that an editor from the 1970's is perceptibly laggy on the latest Macbook Pro.

This is a good article about the problem https://discourse.doomemacs.org/t/why-is-emacs-doom-slow/83/...

New comment by velox_neb in "Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leaked Pentagon documents"

velox_neb — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 23:42:03 +0000

Surely at this point half the content on /pol/ is from professional propagandists and LLM-powered bots, trying to create the impression of a "4chan consensus" to sway anyone stupid enough to be taken in by that.

New comment by velox_neb in "Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified"

velox_neb — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 10:30:49 +0000

How well can you use this as utility from your current shell, without replacing it? Something like "nu " to execute nu commands from inside bash?

New comment by velox_neb in "The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999"

velox_neb — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 13:43:47 +0000

Similarly, the best source for nutrition information used to be whfoods.org. Unfortunately it's been down for a while now, and while there are some imperfect archives, you can't easily search through the site anymore.

New comment by velox_neb in "Discord, or the Death of Lore"

velox_neb — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 04:19:25 +0000

A middle ground would be to offer public searchable logs, but strip the usernames. I would be fine with that.

New comment by velox_neb in "EmailTriager"

velox_neb — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:22:01 +0000

Rather than a GPT-3 generated email, I would rather receive the prompt that the sender would have used to generate the email.

We could even come up with a conventional shorthand for this.

Imagine you send me a message that just says [[personalized thank you note for the pair of socks you got me for christmas]]. Then I just imagine a long GPT-3 generated message in its place. And I reply with [[gracious acknowledgment and well wishes for the new year]].

Exactly the same intention is communicated, and we both waste less time :)