<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: xeyownt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xeyownt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:02:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xeyownt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not obvious from the prompt that the LLM cannot use a chess engine.<p>And if there is alignment issue, the alignment requirements should first be stated BEFORE running the experiment, and should be part of the training process. It's not. So there is not necessarily an alignment issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692930</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Define "cheating".<p>At best, the task at hand is still confusingly worded: "ability to play chess", asked to an engine that was trained all day long to use tools, to solve issues. The engine finds a chess engine, so it uses it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:48:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692859</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enshitiffication again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596884</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Programming is Art"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So whales do not have a soul? Only humans do have one? What about our ancestors? Did the homo erectus have a soul? What about big apes, did they?<p>I don't need "soul" concept to describe the human experience, and if you use it to describe technology, it only makes things more confusing. It only ends up as an attempt to state that some things are not "good" because they don't match your own vague concept of what is good or bad, without explaining why nor what this is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596594</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Programming is Art"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are people mixing everything up? Since when code has a soul?<p>AI can be just a tool. You use it the same way you use a keyboard, a computer, a pencil, etc. I'm pretty sure you can build art with it, much like using any tool. People are making art with ascii. You can do art with anything.<p>But AI can also be much more than a tool, and why can't it have a soul? What's a soul anyway, except something that humans are making up to convince themselves that they are more than flesh and bones? Mythos will not do the same "art" as Fable or Astra would do. AI in 20 years will very likely produce art indistinguishable and as profound as human art. Obviously, humans at that time will always invent new criteria to say why this "art" is not good enough.</p>
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<p>Anyone that is not impressed by what ChatGPT or the likes are doing now is being either dishonest or is incapable of being impressed.<p>Only the translation and language understanding capabilities are enough to be impressed, and they are 2 year old already. Now, the AI do see, draw, speak, listen, think, work, etc.<p>Someone from the 90's would simply not believe that the AI would be a machine but would think for sure that a human is behind. The only odd thing would be that this human would both exhibit high intelligence and stupidity at the same time.</p>
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<p>Maybe they cannot write code, but they can review it. Then in the review, they can cite the policy as being counterproductive. Or they say they can't edit, which would be fishy.</p>
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<p>Couple of minutes to understand the english, and an editor to write the formulas :-)</p>
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<p>That's not how I read it. I read it as:<p><pre><code>  Now : Mary is 24 = 2y,  Ann is x
  Past: Mary is x,        Ann is 12 = y
</code></pre>
Moreover, we have x + delta = 24, and 12 + delta = x (they get older at same rate), so delta = 6 and x = 18.</p>
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<p>Prediction market as well as anything related to gambling must disappear from earth surface. Full stop.</p>
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<p>Called by whom?<p>Since when is Codeberg responsible of the Internet culture?</p>
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<p>Not sure what good you see. Recent history events show that whatever the US is, it is certainly not good.</p>
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<p>I think the real puzzle is to understand what is the puzzle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:44:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947352</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>USB-C standard sucks.<p>Supposedly would unify things, but can't find two cables that have same specs.</p>
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<p>That's not what's happening.<p>Using AI tool over that repo does, but you have to launch it before the AV kicks in.</p>
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<p>The illusion of security.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918157</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48918157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, so you download the repo, launch Cursor, it compiles code and run it (if not, why do you even use Cursor at the first place?). Same effect.</p>
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<p>This is nice but how, as a user, do you learn it exists?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916517</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "The git history command"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you ignore gravitation, a sphere earth can be very confusing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:12:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904494</link><dc:creator>xeyownt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xeyownt in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I find PG's article so dismissive.<p>I know several people that have difficulty writing but are still f*cking smart. So what, they should refrain from using AI to help them because the AI police says so?<p>But yeah, let's continue classifying people based on their outer qualities and habits... History showed us were this leads us to.<p>And here an em dash -- to freak out the AI police.</p>
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