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Re:Ask HN: Why Is Phil Wang / Lucidrains Off GitHub? on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:41AM (#47298217)
Lucidrains (Phil Wang) GitHub account has been suspended

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47009749

Re:The case against conversational interfaces on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @03:48AM (#43543962)
(assuming privacy is handled correctly) i like the idea of my pc always having a side-channel for communication of "simpler" things.

I m not sure how it could fit in to my 2 modalities of work: (i) alone in complete focus / silence (ii) in the office where there is already too much spoken communication between humans... maybe it s just a matter of getting used to it

Re:Efficient Reasoning with Hidden Thinking on Monday February 03, 2025 @12:24PM (#42920546)
isn't this dangerous? isn't the efficiency given at the expense of safety and interpretability?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093 (Alignment faking in large language models)

https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-fakin...

PS I m definitely not an expert

Show HN: How I would love to search my bookmarks

https://github.com/byschii/nonoiseplease

hii m experimenting with a little website to "enhance" my web searches and simplify deep dives. It lets you save pages from the web and makes them searchable through a full-text search engine. Eventually, with an extension, it can show indexed pages onto google results.because sometimes i lose nice page i find on internet and google is terrible at finding them backdecided to share cause i m a...

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Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:56PM (#39830108)
https://github.com/byschii/nonoiseplease - trying to give my (browser's) bookmarks another chance to pop on google searches. very early, very slow development
I tried to repeat the "experiment", now GPT-4 has appeared. https://chat.openai.com/share/08ae3a28-4f30-4e8c-a3cb-ac9480...

Ask HN: Do anyone knows why ChatGPT “talks” about GPT-3.5?

I was trying to ask ChatGPT some advice on how to engineer my prompts (maybe its futile, but nevermind, that is not the point), hit 'enter' and noticed that the response mentioned GPT-3.5 [1]. When trying to dig deeper ChatGPT wrote that <<I mentioned "GPT-3.5" based on the phrasing used in your initial question, but it appears that there may have been a misunderstanding or a mix-up in...

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Re:Ask HN: Deciding between Ask HN and Show HN on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:55AM (#36859311)
Yep, you are probably right. My doubts on where to post are a sign that i'm in the wrong place. thank you

Ask HN: Deciding between Ask HN and Show HN

Hi everyone! I almost finished writing yet another bookmark manager in go. It's a little website i wrote to learn go, but i keep stumbling into problems related (i guess) to go. What is more appropriate to ask for help? should i post as - ask hn, describe my problem and eventually put a link to github - ask hn, describe my problem in detail, avoid any link - show hn, link to github and...

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Re:Ask HN: How to Classify Websites? on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:28AM (#35119290)
Maybe you can take inspiration from this https://youtu.be/z6ep308goxQ?t=187

It's not an explanation, but show a possible way to cluster (thus classify) websites based on the how they appear, if you want your classification based on content... Maybe you need something different

Re:Ask HN: Anyone making money through algorithmic trading? on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:36AM (#33176010)
i m not, but maybe you can look at https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading
i'd like that the channels i m subscribed to to has more influence on my feed. I mean, i would like to see more video liked, commented or watched by those channel. I can't say for sure this isn't already part of the algorithm...but still, more influence
Re:Sound of Colleagues on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @05:11AM (#32067375)
also, from a previous post: https://soundsofthepub.com
maybe https://vatapi.com ? (actually never tested)
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