evil-olive

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by evil-olive 8d ago
> But until now, each machine needed a separate Herdr client, usually in a different terminal tab. You had to remember where each agent was running and switch between those tabs to check on them. That was the bottleneck. is it, though? I
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by evil-olive 14d ago
emphasis added: > NBC News' Tom Llamas speaks with Tau Robotics CEO and co-founder Alexander Koch about how the robots work and the challenges of making them fully A.I. powered. sounds like it's another "oh, it's to
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by evil-olive 18d ago
by focusing your question on "what is China doing?" you're already buying in to the framing that this propaganda is pushing - that Chinese people are sneaky and deceitful and we should be worried about what they're doing
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by evil-olive 18d ago
> X said Thursday night. this is a news story reported as unambiguous fact, but only based on claims from a single source. and that single source has a pretty strong motivation for why they might lie or exaggerate the claims - X runs AI
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by evil-olive 23d ago
> At this point, I do not see much value in sitting alone and building more projects just to prove that I can build software. did you see value in doing this, before LLMs? if so, why?
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by evil-olive 23d ago
> pro tip: if you don't understand a word that appears, and it turns out to be physics jargon, perhaps take a step back and consider the person may actually know what they are talking about. if you're going to be condescending
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by evil-olive 23d ago
> you just construct a parallel lock next to the existing ones that can remain in use. are you aware that they did that already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project and that it took almost 1
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by evil-olive 23d ago
> The operation as currently described is so inefficient, even for the 1960's! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal Construction began: 1 January 1881 Date completed: 15 August 1914 > The energy releas
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by evil-olive 24d ago
> But don’t call them Enron. Enron caused the Enron crash. it needs to come from the Enron region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling creative financial engineering. > It’s highly unlikely that fraud at that level is being p
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
> I've been using it as an internal tool on many projects that's interesting, because your LLM decided to put this in the readme: > Things that didn't work - kept in the repo on purpose. ...which is not what I'd ex
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
initial commit 50 minutes ago, containing 12k lines. "Show HN" really needs a dedicated subcategory for vibe-coded slop.
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
> taking full responsibility ... is uncomfortably risky I look forward to someone building an agent, getting criminally charged for actions it takes, and then trying to use this argument in court. "your honor, I'm uncomfortable
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
egregious AI slop. you even had your LLM generate you a "launch kit" [0] with posts for HN, multiple subreddits, Linkedin, and X, with a four-week recommended posting schedule. 0: https://github.com/schapman1974&#x
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
> Go still has not yielded a correct implementation of Raft or Paxos while there are dozens in Java, C++, and Rust. Antithesis found some more bugs in HashiCorp's Raft implementation recently[0]. the source you link to contradicts y
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
> And, of course, I had an AI throw together a few images of what a Grand National version of the new Electra could look like. I know you hate it, I know it’s wrong, but like a bucket of deep fried crispy chicken, I just couldn’t resist.
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
again - who decides the system prompt? "it generated a complicated math proof" doesn't mean anything in this context, because the prompt was uncontroversial, it was "try to solve this math problem". you have your
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by evil-olive 1mo ago
> an intelligence with no campaign to fund, no donors, and no cousin in the oil business, built to optimize a single goal of human prosperity. I'm sorry, but come on. this is ludicrously naive. who writes the system prompt? who&#x27
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
that's a study published in 2023, analyzing data that ended in 2018.
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
for context, 2 days ago: Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49123208 )
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM? yes, an LLM can write you a web crawler. whose hardware are you going to run it on? what is the bill for that storage and compute going to look like, just
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
> The energy would be better spent on zoning and building code reform. you've constructed a false dichotomy here. the government of a city with ~8 million people is capable of doing multiple things at the same time.
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections - 613 points, 305 comments, 14 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720924
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
> The goal is to make Postgres easier to change from the inside uh-huh, sure. you want to show off "look what the LLM can do / look what I burned a bunch of tokens on"? you want to brag about how your LLM-generated slop is
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
> A central result of this study is that generative AI can learn the latent structure of food design directly from large-scale, human-generated recipe data wow, if you feed a bunch of burger recipes into an AI, it's able to output b
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
there are at least 100 threads on /r/askreddit and similar places about "what's your favorite short joke" and all of these LLMs have that in their training data.
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by evil-olive 2mo ago
> It all happened today. Only 15-20 pics total think about the distribution for "number of pictures a new Instagram user posts on their first day" then think of how far of an outlier your behavior was.
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by evil-olive 3mo ago
yeah, I'm also getting some cartel / illegal-or-should-be-illegal anti-competitive practice vibes from this coordination of having the "Alliance for Automotive Innovation" push out the message. because do I believe that
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by evil-olive 3mo ago
article from Reuters instead of a 12 minute video from some random lawyer in Michigan: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/automa... > A group representing major automakers warned on Tuesday t
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by evil-olive 3mo ago
uhhh yeah keep the source [0] in mind here > On 30 June 2025, Lowe launched a political organisation named Restore Britain to advocate the deportation of all illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom, protecting British culture and restor
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by evil-olive 3mo ago
> Why is Grok just so sexualized? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_sexual_deepfake_scandal > An analysis of 20,000 images ge

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