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Absonsonson

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Absonsonson··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
For some reason, every time I see something like that, I get major Ted Kaczynski vibes.
Absonsonson··on Whistle
Spread that cheer!
Absonsonson··on Ask HN: What do you do while your agent works?
Stretch and try to touch my toes
Absonsonson··on Ask HN: What do you do while your agent works?
Play guitar
Absonsonson··on Documentation is all you need - or how I stopped suffering with legacy code
Author here. In corporate engineering, nobody works from the same ground truth. Everything is planned on top of "ifs" and "I thinks." The person who actually knows is always in a meeting, on vacation, or just left and the next person has to redo the entire detective work from scratch.

The understanding never accumulates, it just resets. Does anyone actually solve this or do we all just accept the endless rework as normal?

Absonsonson··on Show HN: Magic Mango – Collaborative workspace to reverse-engineer ad creatives
Interesting approach — treating ads as something you can reverse-engineer instead of just “inspire from” is the real value here. Most creative tools generate content blindly; this actually tries to deconstruct what makes a winning ad work: structure, pacing, hooks, messaging patterns, etc.

If you can consistently break an ad down into reusable components (hook, setup, proof, CTA, visual pattern) and let people remix those templates, that’s powerful. It basically turns high-performing ads into a library of “design patterns” for creatives.

Curious how deep the reverse engineering goes: • Are you analyzing just text, or also visual rhythm, shot sequence, and narrative beats? • Can the system infer why an ad might be converting well, or just what it contains? • How do you avoid overfitting on trends from one platform/vertical?