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Literally read this on the toilet. Thanks!

I don't think power law distributions are the same thing. However, actually, in different fields, power law distributions are descriptive enough you can use them as targets for abs…

Better to have made imperfectly and learned than to not have made at all. :)

Thank you for your work on Ninja. It's just really good.

Skin is so interesting as a surface to think about how light passes through and bounces off of. There is at least one article published by a technical artist at Pixar who describes…

Seems like we could lead in AI development, and then immediately get trounced by economic factors. But yeah, autonomous cars, solar infrastructure, hell, general education. The mos…

I think YC has an image problem. With its companies, and here, too.

I haven't personally seen it, but I think us operators need to take entire registered ranges and hook 'em up to fail2ban. Maybe maintain lists of offenders and document it and bloc…

People are building state-of-the-art harnesses in private right now that outperform the average developers' harnesses, people using Claude Code, OpenCode, etc.

They all use the same pill glowy status light header eyebrow to immediately tell you they have no actual design skills and follow the herd. Posers took over the industry.

I've repeatedly said this almost year after year, but Servo is not a "real" project. It's weird, but whatever the case is, after it left Mozilla, it has clearly oriented around bei…

I think the small community stuff is useful, even on the scale of HN, which is only small when you think about the regulars posting, which people recognize. Now that we have functi…

I always feel like stuff like this is more or less intentional. Projects make their priorities known based on the priorities of their work.

Reminds me of telling employees to not discuss their wages. If voting here is such a toxic experience, maybe HN needs to wake up and smell the garbage.

Don't you find it surprising that seemingly the largest firms don't use RLHF to prevent LLM writing from sounding like LLM writing?

There's some guy advertising a toothpaste on Instagram right now that supposedly does kill one(?) of these specific microbes, but it's like, OK, so what? You still have to brush yo…

I feel like we're going to see a lot of cool reimplementation stuff like this in coming years because the barriers to replicate output are so much lower with generative tech. Reall…

I wonder if it's primarily that developers are too lazy to design anything? I remember low-quality developers relying on Bootstrap and not making a modicum of effort to design a we…

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