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Re:Ask HN: What is one simple thing LLMs are insanely bad at? on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:36PM (#49530705)
Solving word problems like suggesting solutions to scrabble. every time it'll just hallucinate that you can put Work in the lower left, off of the word 'Bad' - and when you point it out, it'll just tell you the same thing again. Tried this over the course of the last 6-12 months on various platforms, and it just does even get close. so we have that going for us.
Built a wifi checker for my Piaware remote servers. Checks if the internet and router connection are present. If router connection is up but internet is down it’ll restart the network but if nothing works for like an hour after a few checks it reboots the whole pc. Way better than my chrono if ping else reboot loop lol
noticed the same when I first boot-camped into windows and my retina MacBooks fonts were Jacked. never noticed how nicely MacOS displays fonts till I was met with the nonsense that is windows high resolution font rendering yuck
Check out Butkus.org - my dad has had it since before 2000 and updates it regularly, with an ancient copy of frontpage.