wbradley
Re:Signs of introspection in large language models
on Friday October 31, 2025 @10:36PM (#45778812)
I’m guessing they adjusted the activations of certain edges within the hidden layers during forward propagation in a manner that resembles the difference in activation between two concepts, in order to make the “diff” seem to show up magically within the forward prop pass. Then the test is to see how the output responds to this forced “injected thought.”
Re:Superpowers: I'm using coding agents in October 2025
on Saturday October 11, 2025 @04:04PM (#45552239)
I think the point is that ~/.claude should be dispersed among ~/.config/claude, ~/.local/state/claude, etc
I agree with this, it’s frustrating that in 2025 apps are still polluting my home dir.
Re:Show HN: Every Breath You Take – Heart Rate Variability Training
on Saturday September 16, 2023 @11:33PM (#37541254)
> error: PyObjC requires macOS to build
Looks like this depends on macOS.
Re:Math for kids outside of the Calculus Sequence
on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:00PM (#37039100)
I ended up going the opposite direction. My 11th grade trigonometry teacher forced me to repeat trig despite my having gotten a B. I was angry at the time! She did me a favor because by the time I got to Calculus in University it was very intuitive and I didn’t have much of a problem with it.
Re:Let ChatGPT run free on random webpages and do what it likes
on Sunday March 26, 2023 @05:15PM (#35319712)
So, uh… what happened?
Re:System – A resource that aims to explain how everything in the worl...
on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @12:08AM (#30695220)
I went looking for mentions of Semantic Networks, RDF, triplets, taxonomy, or other common knowledge-related terms but I found nothing. Thoughts about pre-existing knowledge graph systems and how they may or may not apply to System? Thanks!
Re:Compile-Time Sort in D
on Saturday February 12, 2022 @07:15PM (#30317736)
The idea of static meaning “fully evaluate this at compile time” in D is a good one.
Re:Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python
on Friday July 09, 2021 @01:36AM (#27780743)
Please do not promote the use of wildcard imports.
Re:Modern C++ gamedev: thoughts and misconceptions
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @08:31AM (#23202870)
Here's a link to the named parameters spec. http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n417...
Re:Show HN: Bel
on Saturday October 12, 2019 @10:08PM (#21237819)
Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls
on Monday October 07, 2019 @01:20PM (#21183414)
Yeah, that's true. I could have chosen a better example there. I was trying to pick a tech that Apple tended to prevent competition in back then. Perhaps Safari/Webkit would have been a better example.
Re:The Troubling Economics of Food Halls
on Monday October 07, 2019 @09:25AM (#21180484)
My brain kept leaping to this analogy...
Chef : Software Engineer
2017 : 2010
Donaldson : Apple
Alcohol : iMessage
Food Hall : App Store
30% : 30%
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)
on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:58PM (#18114491)
Looks interesting! However, there is some confusion over whether it's truly REMOTE or not. The job description page says
> Live or be willing to move to Mexico City - this is not a remote position
Re:Charles Simonyi on Intentional Software Joining Microsoft
on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:40PM (#14427408)
For about three years I maintained the official internal coding conventions documentation for the Microsoft Word development team. This was when we were working on Office 2007. I remember loving the spirit of Hungarian notation. Using it in practice was also a major lesson and shaped my valuation of naming variables and types.
That same timeframe we ported Word's codebase from C to C++. That meant rewriting a bunch of manually ordered vtables for COM as regular virtual member functions on classes, and sadly, the elimination of anonymous unions from the codebase. But, type systems have really taken over and I think that's a good thing.
Because Word was written in C it followed a beautiful pattern of functions calling other functions all the way down. It treated data as data, and did not utilize classes or inheritance. I later came to understand the value of that way of thinking but at the time I thought it was so old fashioned. Of course, lacking the OO mindset meant that Word also lacked a great deal of encapsulation, and had horrible coupling across certain modules. Most notably, Undo, and Display.
I suppose that's enough reminiscing for now.
Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?
on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:13PM (#12964012)
http://timedelta.com/
My wife and I made it so that I could quickly paste timestamps from various log files and see the relative time between then and now. It also allows for a pretty basic relative time entry, like "2 weeks ago", etc...
Re:A Guide to Setting up Gmail Inbox Actions
on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:54PM (#7769422)
Cool idea.
Re:FundersClub Unveils Venture News
on Monday January 27, 2014 @06:18PM (#7134091)
This is Will from FundersClub. We're considering that. Thank you!
Re:FundersClub Unveils Venture News
on Monday January 27, 2014 @06:16PM (#7134080)
This is Will from FundersClub. Thanks for the feedback. We will consider ways to improve contrast and legibility.