Hacker News: whimsicalism

New comment by whimsicalism in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

whimsicalism — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:56:53 +0000

well best throw away our tools in this uphill battle of a problem while we get that working

New comment by whimsicalism in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

whimsicalism — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:54:40 +0000

“presenting the forbidden technique from the classic novel Do Not Build The Forbidden Technique”

New comment by whimsicalism in "Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm"

whimsicalism — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:52:05 +0000

sounds like you should have authored the article!

New comment by whimsicalism in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

whimsicalism — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:50:36 +0000

if the reason to do so was the ad revenue, then i definitely agree. but in terms of me happening on to your ideas, now is perhaps actually better than any time in the past. i also do pay for writing à la substack

New comment by whimsicalism in "Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG"

whimsicalism — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:48:17 +0000

tech that approaches new change with curiosity rather than pseudo-religious turning away will win out because of the type of people who are building the former

New comment by whimsicalism in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

whimsicalism — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:46:20 +0000

hm. for me, AI agents effectively already have their day unless there is a retrenchment. i essentially do not interact with the web (outside of a few social media sites) anymore

New comment by whimsicalism in "Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm"

whimsicalism — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:42:15 +0000

found the article quite weak, hurt by the East Coast media’s tendency to make everything about government & Trump.

> Donald Trump has unashamedly profited from the presidency, earning more than $1.4 billion in 2025 from cryptocurrency deals. The Trump family has received significant money coming from countries that wish to bend the president’s ear on foreign policy. Donald Trump Jr. has benefited from the sudden interest in his business acumen. Months after the younger Trump’s venture-capital firm took an ownership stake in a rare-earth-magnet start-up, it was awarded a $620 million government loan.

I was hoping, if this style of fraud has become the norm, that we would have more true non-governmental examples. I do not agree that it has become the norm and don’t think this article does much to make the case.

New comment by whimsicalism in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

whimsicalism — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:17:25 +0000

I find codex CLI to be a pretty high quality application. Is the existence of a backend daemon what you're referring to ?

New comment by whimsicalism in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

whimsicalism — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:57:46 +0000

People absolutely take amphetamines recreationally, they are mood & confidence boosting and help you stay up to party. I’m not sure what in my comment you are disagreeing with to be honest, you seem to be imputing a bunch of views to me and then arguing against them. I never said anything about similarity to meth, although they do hit the same targets. I have not vaguely heard of people doing adderal at parties, I have explicitly been to parties where people were doing adderal.

New comment by whimsicalism in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

whimsicalism — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:13:01 +0000

tbh as a non-user, I think stimulants are likely life improving for many (potentially most) people. what i dislike/chafe at is the insinuation that stimulants only work for people with diagnosed ADHD or only have non-recreational effects for people with ADHD. the latter especially seems to rapidly have become a folk wisdom.

New comment by whimsicalism in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

whimsicalism — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:01:34 +0000

Just an FYI, in circles similar to HN, people will respond very negatively to anyone suggesting anything that might hint at tightening amphetamine prescriptions.

New comment by whimsicalism in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

whimsicalism — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:43:42 +0000

Nothing in this review is contrary to the idea that ADHD diagnosis is socially mediated. It is unclear what you are even disagreeing with.

New comment by whimsicalism in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

whimsicalism — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:40:57 +0000

Beyond the blatant appeal to authority, it is funny that you think even psychiatrists have a consensus on issues like these. Psychiatry is rightly described as the humanities arm of the medical profession.

New comment by whimsicalism in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:31:35 +0000

Buckmaster himself said essentially all the progress they made was from July 15th onwards (with a new model on the problem) with no real progress prior to then.

I think it’s really cope to claim this was a human result being stolen.

New comment by whimsicalism in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:26:37 +0000

glad you could present those facts in your comment, i know the HN character limit can make it hard

New comment by whimsicalism in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:21:28 +0000

> “Following an investigation, we have confirmed that Buckmaster’s Codex prompts over the two months preceding this announcement and paper on September 8, 2026, could not have influenced the system in any way, including through training.”

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

New comment by whimsicalism in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:15:02 +0000

“Hot take: I’ve never found Norm Macdonald funny and was pretty sure all my comedy friends who did were either nuts or screwing with me."

…i was expecting something significantly more incendiary.

New comment by whimsicalism in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:14:24 +0000

“Hot take: I’ve never found Norm Macdonald funny and was pretty sure all my comedy friends who did were either nuts or screwing with me."

shockingly mild

New comment by whimsicalism in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:11:14 +0000

https://x.com/__alpoge__/status/2107620576059679129?s=46

New comment by whimsicalism in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

whimsicalism — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:05:47 +0000

any number of ways. as we turn over more of our physical economy to these agents (and we will), the potential for physical damage becomes greater. biorisk is getting a lot of attention right now and i think that's justified