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Re:A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf] on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:13AM (#50256864)
Not quite, a minimum effort before making such accusations would have led you to e.g.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kybwg2oAAAAJ

Where you can see fairy cited work already before 20010

Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians on Saturday September 26, 2026 @05:20PM (#49860652)
> If an AI can replace me on the mental aspects of work, and robotics are on their way to replacing humanity on the physical aspects of work... then what's left?

At the risk of sounding new age, my answer to this is "emotional work".

What exactly that would mean in the equivalent of the post-agrarian society that LLMs might bring, I cannot know.

The link does not seem to be working
Re:How we made hit video game Prince of Persia on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:12AM (#48501304)
As I see many others like me, full of nostalgia: You can play it on the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990

Once every couple of years I dive into it, I still cannot complete it without cheat codes, but I love the mouse animation, the "mirror" prince, and many other amazing details!

This should be the first comment. I wrote some criticism, mostly because many internal contradictions in the article. Then, I notice the structure...

"The accountability gap" Here’s the question nobody’s asking: when it goes wrong, who carries the bag? (..)

"What to do instead"

"The craft still matters"

> It hasn’t thought about the problem at all. It’s pattern-matching against its training data and producing the most plausible-sounding response.

The article kind of lost me here. Agents are way more than that, today. And the author knows it, as later it says stuff like

> Claude will never do this. It’s trained to be helpful.

But the first phrase just tell me author just have a deep dislike for agents and it's looking for rationalizations for that feeling.

Part of the criticism is on point, sure. But if it "being trained to be helpful" is a problem, it's fixable. It can "be trained to be more critical".

Later:

> But it wasn’t designed for your team. (..) It was designed for the median of everything Claude has seen. A generic best practice for a generic problem at a generic company. Which is to say, it was designed for nobody.

That's non-sense. Anybody who understand algorithms know that, sure, on a first instance you have a "good algorithm" that has a good performance on average, or in worst-case. But then, you can design algorithms that are adaptive to the input. Same applies here.

Re:Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem on Friday January 23, 2026 @04:36AM (#46730426)
could you tell more details or links about that ?
Re:Sampling at negative temperature on Sunday January 11, 2026 @03:50PM (#46579887)
From the article:

"As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but this time, the least likely tokens will be output."

I understand this as, a negative number far from zero is also quite random (just with a distribution that will produce unlikely tokens).

Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop on Monday August 25, 2025 @07:58AM (#45012891)
> Personally, I hate it; I don't like magic or black boxes.

So, no compilers for you neither ?

(To be fair: I'm not loving the whole vibe coding thing. But I'm trying to approach this wave with open mind, and looking for the good arguments in both side. This is not one of them)

That's simply not true.

There are plenty of smart devices (including lighbulbs, sensor movements, and what not)t hat use bluetooh, or protocols like Zigbee that enable all kind of functionality without wifi password.

Re:Succinct Data Structures on Friday March 07, 2025 @01:29AM (#43287765)
The most emblematic application in real life is in bioinformatics. BWA and Bowtie are two widely used softwares built upon them.
Despite the appearance, they do: despite the training, neurons, transformers and all, ultimately it is a program running in a turing machine.
Re:Phantom Vibrations of a Lost Smartphone on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:30PM (#42391054)
> Power it off

This has been the real game changer for me. As instant gratification is not so instant, I can go way larger stretches of time without checking the phone. Also, as nowadays most people message, and calls are not so common (at least in my circles), there is no "harm".

Of course there are tons of open questions, yet you made a huge false dichotomy.

I would bet that most people agree with banning sales of alcohol, cigarettes and opioid to kids.

Re:Google Made Me Ruin a Perfectly Good Website on Sunday April 28, 2024 @02:56PM (#40190876)
How about Wikipedia's approach?

Of course Wikipedia is way smaller than the internet, but still one way to go could be by having themed "human curated niches"

Ask HN: Who is working on solutions to reduce phone usage?

Is anyone working on something related to decreasing/controlling the amount of time people use their phones?I'm aware of the CPH Foundation, but I'm wondering if there are more ambitious efforts underway.E.g., I want to believe that there's a market opportunity here: if there were an alternative to Android/iPhone that would only have "non-addictive apps," I would definitely choose that brand...

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Re:Generation Junk on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:00AM (#38790532)
Are you saying that none of their original appliances have died?

If not, do you realize that you claiming " If it was survivorship bias some of these appliances would've died." When "these" refers exclusively to those who haven't died is the very definition of survivorship bias?

Re:Metric Time on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:59AM (#37856014)
Except 13×28 = 364, so you get the "free day" every year, and two of them on leap ones
Re:What Type of Exercise Is Best for Mental Health? on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:47AM (#36477294)
I don't know how common is that story... Either I know you, or I know someone with a similar story.

Anyways, as someone who identifies both as a computer scientist and as a dancer, I can definitely relate to your experience:-)

That's really an example of bad journalism. What you find in the text is quite distinct from the title:

> Hawking announced: “I have changed my mind. My book, A Brief History of Time, is written from the wrong perspective.”

What about phone companies ?
Re:Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @04:24AM (#33327726)
Seems global outage: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/whatsapp-is-down-globally.ht...

Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.

“They’re doing a 15-year follow, and I would expect to see a significant reduction in cancer mortality in the long term,” Dominitz said. “Time will tell.”

After all the debate here in HN about the interpretation of the data and the statistics, I'm really looking forward to see a post in 15 years with the new study.

Re:Magnus Carlsen publicly accuses Hans Niemann of more cheating on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @09:40AM (#32995083)
The following part is puzzling to me:

"The Norwegian insisted there was more he wanted to say but was limited in what he could do without explicit permission from Niemann to speak openly."

Anyone has the original source?

Re:Cppfront, Herb Sutter's proposal for a new C++ syntax on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:55PM (#32880269)
From the link:

"I'm sharing this work because I hope to start a conversation about what could be possible within C++’s own evolution to rejuvenate C++, now that we have C++20 and soon C++23 to build upon."

Clearly this is relevant for c++ itself (coming from Sutter), so I'd say it's quite unfair/misguided to call it "just a distraction from more relevant efforts."

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