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Re:I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guar...
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:49PM (#49176346)
Seems there is more details here https://gwern.net/guardian-angel
Re:Global Intelligence Crisis
on Sunday February 22, 2026 @04:26PM (#47114872)
Good scary read
Re:The Illustrated Transformer
on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:41PM (#46358003)
Kudos also to Transformer Explainer team for putting some amazing visualizations https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
It really clicked to me after reading this two and watching 3blue1brown videos
Re:Coursera to combine with Udemy
on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:19PM (#46302450)
Hallucinations has made huge progress over last 3 years
Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
on Monday December 15, 2025 @11:11AM (#46276373)
This will destroy low margin business (ex Supermarkets?), they will be forced to increase prices. There is a million downstream bad consequences
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:24AM (#46275673)
Love this! Will give it a try
Re:US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @03:10PM (#45597062)
yes?
Re:Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev
on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:20PM (#44867566)
Author just choose a nice number and give no argument to it
Re:Historical Tech Tree
on Friday August 08, 2025 @08:49AM (#44836391)
Most comments here seems to be historical complaints.
But I love this!)
Re:Push Ifs Up and Fors Down
on Saturday May 17, 2025 @01:17PM (#44015672)
You notice this quickly after working on codebases efficiency is important. Filter pushdown is one of the first database optimizations
Money Is the Map
Re:SQL Injection Isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level
on Tuesday August 13, 2024 @02:04PM (#41237813)
Very smart!
Re:TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK
on Monday September 06, 2021 @10:02AM (#28433713)
Sadly, only HN users care about this kind of stuff
Re:Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count
on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:12PM (#26654393)
I think social media companies underestimate the value of negative feedback.
Also ranking-wise is a very strong signal to have
Re:Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)
on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @04:05PM (#26559732)
> constant
Yeah about that..
Re:Nyan Cat on the Blockchain
on Friday February 19, 2021 @02:22PM (#26196901)
I still don't understand this. Who is buying art at this ridiculous prices? My only explanation is money laundering but if someone has another explanation please comment
Re:How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:10AM (#25657864)
> except for social network effects
In the social networks app world this is all that matters
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:48PM (#25637693)
Flightradar24 use raspberry pi's? Wow!
Re:I Feel Like I Have No Real Interests; My Only Interest Is Making Money
on Monday November 30, 2020 @09:18AM (#25253921)
> germany
That's why, just check how tech is pay in USA http://levels.fyi
Re:I sold Baremetrics
on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:46AM (#25045816)
kudos for the transparency, a really interesting post
Re:Which Cities Have the Highest Risk of a Housing Bubble?
on Monday October 26, 2020 @04:51PM (#24901237)
click looking for SF, disappointed
Re:Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped l...
on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:44PM (#24665034)
I mean relaying in something (gold price stability/limited quantity) that technology could eventually change dramatically from one day to another seems a bad move. But I guess that happens to everything anyways :) .
The platinum process seems interesting, any link/name about that?
Re:Researchers show how to transform materials using a finely shaped l...
on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:07PM (#24664682)
Gold is good to store value until you can create it. I guess that a good point to Bitcoin value
Re:Palantir S-1
on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @05:23PM (#24276303)
only?
Re:Single Page Applications using Rust
on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:15AM (#24121160)
waiting for a rails like framework that would let me use only one language full-stack.
Re:Philosophers on GPT-3
on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:59PM (#24003749)
so what's intelligence then? it seems like you're saying humans are not intelligent?
Re:Facebook's employees reckon with the social network they've built
on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:22PM (#23931228)
In that case twitter is way more toxic than FB.
Re:I Am Deleting the Blog
on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @09:00AM (#23613285)
If you have not read Scott Alexander blog posts before I only can say you are missing out of an internet gem. Some personal favorites:
- Meditations On Moloch
- I can tolerate anything except the outgroup