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Re:Deficient executive control in transformer attention on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:54PM (#48484460)
this is a nice study but i don’t think it’s actually good argument
Re:Show HN: Hallucinopedia on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:55PM (#48043540)
kinda cool but kinda lame, no overall consistency over articles
Re:The advantages of an email-driven Git workflow (2018) on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @07:07AM (#47946685)
Idea that you can change sender email just revelation to me, I can’t really even comprehend it
asking to do PR into ur repo is definitely a choice of “human connection”
I will not be surprised to see less than 20% of all traffic being human. All social media platforms become unbearable at this point. From what I see video hosting like tiktok or insta at least still feels human because requires human face(talking head content) even if they generate scipts with llms they still need to record themselves, that is a bottleneck for army of chatbots taking over discussion. imho of course, and the motivation of particular ppl is completely different discussion.
Re:Ask HN: Would you buy a red-pixel only screen? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:41PM (#47712981)
Me drinking 4 cups of coffee and blaming phone light for my sleep problems.
Re:I don't use LLMs for programming on Thursday March 12, 2026 @08:49PM (#47359369)
Obviously I familiar with RL, written multiple training pipelines in my day. and in order to gain that “super human skill” using RL you need to define fit functions and provide environments that will provide you with feedback that used for training. Go and chess are have clear rules and environment that provide you with a signal of success, I waiting to see this for coding, I don’t say it’s impossible just orders of magnitude harder
Re:I don't use LLMs for programming on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:53AM (#47348955)
Well it’s not obvious that is true. If you ask LLM to write tests, it will generate versions of them that code passes, that doesn’t guarantee good code. If you write tests yourself and just pray for great LLM pull, it’s easier to just write code yourself, in my humble opinion
Re:I don't use LLMs for programming on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:25AM (#47348706)
I genuinely don’t understand how anyone (with technical background) can see LLMs anything more then fancy autocomplete. If you know anything about NNs and about average code quality, that LLMs never will be able to generate high quality code.

Im ready to get downvotes again for my takes, but as a person who writes and trains DL models, I will die on the hill: “people need to produce high quality data” it can be code it can be art, but we can’t rely on those models and trust in the things that they provide.

Re:Nvidia Will Spend $26B to Build Open-Weight AI Models on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:03PM (#47344356)
I will just leave here article that open-weight is not open-training.

when i use model i wanna be able to see and modify it, i don’t want another 12Gb black box.

https://www.workshoplabs.ai/blog/open-weights-open-training

Re:Poor Man's Polaroid on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:06AM (#47259842)
this is a great idea and wonderful execution, inspiring others(me) to build one!
Re:Smalltalk's Browser: Unbeatable, yet Not Enough on Thursday March 05, 2026 @05:02AM (#47259808)
when i was in uni in 2014 i learned that smalltalk became obsolete, later i went to industry to see that no one use smalltalk(or prolog) and yet on this site ppl bringing up smalltalk every single month, why is that i wonder
Re:Ask HN: How are you all staying sane? on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:47AM (#47216248)
real answer is touching grass
Re:The Pentagon's UFO Psyop on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @11:47PM (#47147447)
damn that’s funny, they pretend that aliens are real. I wonder if there was a layer that sent commands on military personnel deception
I like washing dishes.

Every time I start with forks and spoons, then I wash cups, next plates and the big pans and pots last.

Every time I get to do anything I try to get small wins and increase difficulty over time.

Just ask what is the easiest task that can be done, and when you finish, next easiest task will be more difficult because you selecting tasks from a finite list of tasks.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @10:09PM (#40580769)
Location: Taiwan, Hsinchu

Remote: Yes, also hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

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