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Why would this be the case when the text that produces binaries (code) is usually both more token efficient and vastly more effectively organized for modification/extension? Unless…

The term "conflict" implies "there is a problem here". I would say it's very lightly disparaging, because it implies the author didn't even do basic research on other things that a…

Almost every possible name that is not a portmanteau, made-up word, or combination of N words has a naming "conflict". This is not an interesting thing to say and I wish that peopl…

At least for me, I often have a hard time believing people’s stated reasons for whatever they’re doing. The substance narrative relationship is backwards a lot of the time. Someone…

Someone from Y Combinator made some software. Must there be narrativization of everything?

Well, it’s up to the user or post-trainer of the LLM what they believe to be above average. Then they can design around that. In the case of real world LLMs and post-training, what…

LLMs learn a distribution during pre-training, not only an average. Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution…

I checked out your agent and it looks pretty well designed. Congrats on starting to share it with others! One thing I noticed: "Your Tools: Aether agents get tools exclusively via …

Why does its architecture or you knowing how AI is architected cause thoughts of it being conscious to go out the window? It seems like the biggest factor has nothing to do with AI…

That’s the most common time control on chess.com according to this article: https://www.chess.com/article/view/time-controls-and-game-re... It sounds like a good idea to me!

Hey! I played against a bot and it was pretty fun. Small suggestion: too many queues can make it very difficult to build up a network of players at first. I'd suggest, for now, low…

AI comments are against Hacker News rules.

The sheer em dash density of this post really struck me, so I asked Claude to write a script which ranked text post Show HNs over the last week in order of em dash density. Script …

Are you trying to imply that humans don’t need generalized knowledge, or that we’re not “rewarded” for having highly generalized knowledge? If so, good luck walking to your kitchen…

> that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities These are not incompatible realities. I would be willing to accept the stateme…

When I hear "coding agent", I think of both the harness and the LLM as a pair. Like, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code is a coding agent, or Gemini 3 Pro and Pi is a coding agent. "H…

LLMs are not "average text generation machines" once they have context. LLMs learn a distribution. The moment you start the prompt with "You are an interactive CLI tool that helps …

It is not a "narrative", "philosophical paradigm", or him "getting high on his own supply". It is simply him sharing his thoughts about something.

It really doesn’t, at all. Every sentence has a clear, non-equivocative meaning and it doesn’t use any LLM tropes. Your LLM sensor is seriously faulty.

What is the goal of doing that vs using L2 loss?

So, I have heard a number of people say this, and I feel like I'm the person in your conversations saying it's a coarse description and downplays the details. What I don't understa…

> Boglehead > 140% gain on your holdings this year Choose one.

Why would one have motivation to not use activation functions? To my knowledge they’re a negligible portion of the total compute during training or inference and work well to provi…

Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation!