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New comment by yodon in "Adafruit Receives Demand Letter from Fenwick Legal Counsel on Behalf of Flux.ai"

yodon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:29:13 +0000

> Adafruit’s reporting concerns a matter of public security interest and was conducted in the ordinary course of responsible disclosure

Trump admin to block Ebola-exposed Americans from US

yodon — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/us-walls-itself-off-from-ebola-beefed-up-travel-ban-no-citizen-repatriation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299548

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by yodon in "Show HN: Six legendary marketers walk into a workflow"

yodon — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:11:30 +0000

Very cool - I'd love to hear Andy ("greatest sales deck I've ever seen" blog post author) Raskin chime in as part of that conversation.

New comment by yodon in "What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)"

yodon — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:37:30 +0000

Real question, not intentionally meant from a tinfoil hat perspective: now that it's been shown the censorship can be viewed, how long before we see serious obfuscation of censorship circuits in LLMs?

New comment by yodon in "I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens"

yodon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:50:17 +0000

>Everything was parallelized on Burla, on a single dynamic cluster that scaled to ~1.7K CPU workers for photo download and CLIP, with 20 A100 GPUs running embedding clusters in parallel on the same cluster.

That's a lot of budget - would have been nice if they'd made an actual donation to the project, instead of pounding the project's servers and bandwidth when there are much better ways to interact with the data.

New comment by yodon in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

yodon — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:53:51 +0000

Server load issues? Home page loads. Individual states don't seem to.

New comment by yodon in "We need a federation of forges"

yodon — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:01:53 +0000

GitHub is a huge and almost 20 year old company suddenly experiencing massive scale growth as a result of an externality it didn't cause and that no one predicted. That is an incredibly difficult scenario for any long-running, established organization to handle.

Yes, GitHub is temporarily breaking under the increased load, yes, it's likely to still be a thing in 2 months, and no, it's unlikely to still be a thing in 12 months.

It's very unlikely a cool new thing will peel enough developers off GitHub in the next six months to survive long term as GitHub inevitably gets its ability to handle the new normal scale back.

New comment by yodon in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

yodon — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:07:30 +0000

>it should be pretty clear that if you provided the tool the specification for the code you want, you have already provided creative input.

If you provided a human contractor with the specifications for the code you want, the courts have repeatedly made clear you have not provided the creative input from a copyright perspective, and the contractor needs to explicitly assign those rights to you if want to own the copyright on the code.

New comment by yodon in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

yodon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:00:04 +0000

The most important entry I found in my physical copy of the 1911 Britannica is for Eavesdropping[0], detailing the original historical origins of the term and how it was thought about just before our modern era.

> Though the offence of eavesdropping still exists at common law, there is no modern instance of a prosecution or indictment.

Thanks for posting this resource, I've often wanted to share a link to this and other entries.

[0]https://britannica11.org/article/08-0867-eavesdrip/eavesdrip...

New comment by yodon in "Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits"

yodon — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:19:41 +0000

So excited to see this - the big advantage of 1.58 bits is there are no multiplications at inference time, so you can run them on radically simpler and cheaper hardware.

New comment by yodon in "Respect to the Man Chasing AI Immortality, While Freeloading Off Our Platform"

yodon — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:00:29 +0000

Fascinating article. I'm genuinely unclear whether the avowedly fictional security team is detailing a real or fictional postmortem.

New comment by yodon in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

yodon — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:05:14 +0000

More people read the Atlantic than read books on college admissions. It is possible and often useful to increase the number of informed people even without adding net new information.

New comment by yodon in "Claude Managed Agents Overview"

yodon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:28:29 +0000

Wow - as a JetBrains customer I've been waiting for JetBrains to show what a good Agentic IDE should look like.

Excited to try it and surprised to find out about it in a random HN comment.

EDIT ADDED: bummer - looks like this only works with API keys, not Claude Pro or Max or similar for Codex

New comment by yodon in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

yodon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:48:20 +0000

This is so insightfully and powerfully written I had literal chills running down my spine by the end.

What a horrible world we live in where the author of great writing like this has to sit and be accused of "being AI slop" simply because they use grammar and rhetoric well.

Gas Town from Clown Show to v1.0

yodon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:58:52 +0000

Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-from-clown-show-to-v1-0-c239d9a407ec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660337

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yodon in "Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs"

yodon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:38:28 +0000

Is Bonsai 1 Bit or 1.58 Bit?

New comment by yodon in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

yodon — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:22:39 +0000

Can I drag an email directly onto a Kanban or a Todo list, and prioritize it like a task, and then click on the card or task to go directly to the mail message, in the context of its thread?

New comment by yodon in "Show HN: Nit – I rebuilt Git in Zig to save AI agents 71% on tokens"

yodon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:44:34 +0000

It defaults to being a wrapper around git when it's not custom implemented, and it's recommended that you alias nit as git so the agent can work the way it normally would, just faster and cheaper.

New comment by yodon in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

yodon — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:09:54 +0000

Not sure if that's intended as sarcasm. Losing a >$100M asset is far from insignificant.

New comment by yodon in "LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?"

yodon — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:33:21 +0000

Apologies if I missed this in the article (or in the first article in the series) - what happens if you add two copies of the layer set? Does performance improve over adding one copy of the layer set?