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New comment by xgulfie in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

xgulfie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:44:02 +0000

Oh thank God I can still give Elon Musk more money and power but don't have to read about politics

New comment by xgulfie in "Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30k private Facebook photos"

xgulfie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:52:50 +0000

What is it that Zuck called people who trusted him? Oh right

New comment by xgulfie in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

xgulfie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:32:49 +0000

When I first look at this I think "hey it would be nicer if it wasn't falling apart", but you could argue that's kind of the point. Well done

New comment by xgulfie in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

xgulfie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:24:35 +0000

The author mentions urban decay and dilapidation multiple times and very clearly worked that into the design here

New comment by xgulfie in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

xgulfie — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:01:22 +0000

You're absolutely correct! Having the LLM using more tokens does improve its output. Here's why this works:

## More tokens = smarter outputs

When an LLM uses tokens, it is putting more information into its context

## Better context, better results

The more information the LLM has in its context, the more complete and well thought-through the outputs will be

## More complete thinking

When an LLM is able to iterate on itself, results improve

## Better shareholder value

Numbers need to go up in order for us to maintain our shareholder value. This means instead of focusing on results that are qualitative, instead the brand should focus on quantitative, hard results

New comment by xgulfie in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

xgulfie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:46:16 +0000

It's because we only really know one economic system but we've known many people

New comment by xgulfie in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:46:31 +0000

It must be intentionally obtuse, nobody could ever confuse copilot for copilot

New comment by xgulfie in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:15:12 +0000

OBS + kdenlive can also get you here, but this product is meant to be purpose-built and time-saving specifically for the computer instructions use case

New comment by xgulfie in "Talk like caveman"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:58:27 +0000

Funny how people are so critical of this and yet fawn over TOON

New comment by xgulfie in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:14:19 +0000

Ah so obviously making the LLM repeat itself three times for every response it will get smarter

New comment by xgulfie in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:11:27 +0000

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New comment by xgulfie in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:09:10 +0000

LLM quirks are not something all humans have been experiencing for thousands of years

New comment by xgulfie in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

xgulfie — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:48:21 +0000

Thinking about music mathematically is at least a good way to understand music

New comment by xgulfie in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

xgulfie — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:43:56 +0000

But build steps suck

New comment by xgulfie in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

xgulfie — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:48:10 +0000

If only we could fix how it writes like garbage

New comment by xgulfie in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

xgulfie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:12:55 +0000

An esp32 image that makes http api calls is like, the first thing you do with an esp32, it's what they're made for

New comment by xgulfie in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

xgulfie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:01:40 +0000

I remember hearing you can't even get government clearance if you admit you have ever smoked weed. Incredible

New comment by xgulfie in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

xgulfie — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:49:33 +0000

Wow we even have the "HN commenters bad" post! We've truly run the gamut

New comment by xgulfie in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

xgulfie — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:05:30 +0000

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary (power, class) depends upon his not understanding it

New comment by xgulfie in "Claude's new constitution"

xgulfie — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:10:09 +0000

Oh good, maybe in the future I can get a job doing erotic roleplay for hire when my software dev job gets devoured