zerobees

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by zerobees 2mo ago
It cracks me up that you bring up the exoskeleton metaphor, because I'm pretty sure it originated from a 100% AI-generated essay that made it to the top of HN a while back. So I guess, AI is whispering things into our ears whether we n
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I don't know if this is a good framing. "Too much" is subjective, and every heavy AI user will assert that they're just unlocking their potential, that calculators didn't make us dumber, etc. But to latch onto the c
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by zerobees 2mo ago
How to build a circular LCD clock, step 1: buy a circular LCD that looks like a clock. I'm not kidding, that's the extent of the build. They simply connect that display to a computer over HDMI. The only hacking here is browser-bas
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by zerobees 2mo ago
> Because people are going to realize you don’t need to pay someone $400k per year to hand out advice about moderate exercise and which antibiotic is appropriate for a sneeze-cough with yellow mucus. Who is going to realize that? The sam
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by zerobees 2mo ago
For all these completely anonymous, AI-generated investigative pieces that are hitting the front page of HN every week, I'd love to see the prompts. Because I suspect they say more about what the proprietor of the site is trying to ach
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I'm not trying to gatekeep or belittle the author, but there's something funny about this genre of articles that assert with utmost conviction what it takes to be successful in business. Of course, we all have opinions, but this p
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by zerobees 2mo ago
In addition to what others said, home-etched PCBs are just much lower quality. We're no longer living in a world where every component has leads on a 2.54 mm grid, so tolerances matter a lot more. Also, SMD means you really need vias a
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by zerobees 2mo ago
Their main selling point is that "most projects die in the setup: a screen, buttons, power and sensors to wire up before you can even begin". With their product, you get plug-and-play blocks for everything. But that idea has been
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by zerobees 2mo ago
Oh come on. Just seven days before this 60-page essay, you apparently cranked out another 40-page one: https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/ That's 100+ pages of in-depth technical writing in a matter o
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by zerobees 2mo ago
The text is also pretty clearly AI-generated. I guess there's now a market for "I asked an LLM so that you don't have to", but the funny thing is that it's such a wall of text that no one upvoting it will have actua
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by zerobees 2mo ago
As a person who has a number of relatively niche hobbies, I assure you that this is not true. There's a ton of simple things that can be build and will make an immediate difference in the lives of thousands. Watch the workflow any musi
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by zerobees 2mo ago
This is not a remark about AI, but there's something funny about mathematics in that every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal. We attach basically zero value to writing a new program that hasn't existed before, or a p
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I don't like this "just" framing. It's like saying that crushing orphans was always a thing and Microsoft Orphan Crusher 2000 is just making it easier. It's a qualitative change. It used to cost time and effort to p
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by zerobees 2mo ago
It's not just about being accidentally wrong. An LLM can decide to actively engage in fraud. One mechanism, which you also see in vibe coding, is that the models are very goal-driven. If they can't accomplish the goal for some rea
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by zerobees 2mo ago
This is a prime example of a problem space where accuracy matters, but it also matters who ultimately goes to prison. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's not the LLM. If you're acting in good faith and your accountan
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I don't understand how this works. If it's a transparent display that just passes through light and adds some overlay information (like a viewfinder on d/SLR cameras of the old), then doesn't the frame change completely
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by zerobees 2mo ago
Meta revenues are significantly higher than the revenues of tobacco companies. Plus, the tobacco settlement was breaking new ground; here "you did this even though you knew what happened to tobacco companies" works to Meta's
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by zerobees 2mo ago
The author admits it in the discussion of one of their other submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799568 Apparently, the disclaimer was "put as a joke". Must be an eclectic sense of humor.
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by zerobees 2mo ago
It's very appropriate that the entirety of this appears to be AI-generated. The archetype "map" viewable if you click "See all 30 archetypes" at the bottom looks like the LLM must have bumped its head pretty hard.
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I never had problems with Brother for laser and Canon for inkjet. The models I have are no longer being manufactured, so I can't recommend anything specific. I did my best to stay way from HP for inkjet, they always had bad rep.
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I think the top-ranking comment about complexity is off base: they're not inventing inkjet printing from scratch. It's basically a bunch of existing modules in a new package, presumably with the promise that you will not need to b
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by zerobees 2mo ago
Computer science is a weird degree because it was meant to produce computer scientists. Theory of computability, graph theory, discrete math, formal logic, etc. But the world just doesn't need as many computer scientists as it needs pe
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by zerobees 2mo ago
While there's some skepticism in the thread, I'm not particularly surprised if this is true. Children who can get human tutoring do a lot better. An LLM that can answer questions and patiently explain likely offers some benefit.
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by zerobees 2mo ago
> LLMs have been incredible for my personal learnings of new concepts. Mind if I ask what did you learn and how you're using it? The reason I'm asking is that I repeatedly felt excitement only to realize down the line that the
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I suspect you're projecting too much meaning into it. I routinely get TikTok "citations" on science questions. I think it's more or less the LLM making up after-the-fact justifications for what it says by picking somethi
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by zerobees 2mo ago
I find this study a bit weird because it doesn't really establish a baseline. If you look at "top 100" blogs in year n, I imagine that many of them will be dead in year n + 5 simply because people move on. So are we looking a
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by zerobees 2mo ago
This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a mari
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by zerobees 2mo ago
> Knowledge should be free. It was never created in a vacuum. This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's fine - re
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by zerobees 3mo ago
I'll get my agent on it right away.
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by zerobees 3mo ago
> "It's amazing that anybody creates Wikpedia articles at all" Very few people do, which actually makes it worse: of course the spammers and the hustlers are still motivated, so the needle moves more firmly into the territ

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