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aqfamnzc··on Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)
The solution is clear: Offer the red car option as a trap, banning anyone who chooses it.
aqfamnzc··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
I suspect this is much more common than you're imagining. I think it'd be silly for publishers of any kind, really, to not use AI tools for things like fact checking and so on.
aqfamnzc··on Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
I wrote it myself, adopted from xkcd 1447.
aqfamnzc··on Proof of care in the age of AI
I hope you're joking. In case you're serious, the same argument could be made about typing, speaking, or really any related activity. Or communication in general.
aqfamnzc··on Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
> Many benchmarks include the task of analyzing coding agent aptitude tests. This has led to bench-benchmarks comparing LLM test benchmarking methods, e.g. M Sampson (2025), PL Royle (2024). We performed a bench-bench-benchmark analysis using Mythos Ultra Max 9.6 of these bench-benchmarks.

> Methods: We instructed various LLMs to perform the task "Write a prompt instructing a variety of LLMs to write a benchmark for benchmark analysis, including the instructions 'Create a benchmark for...

aqfamnzc··on Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
Perhaps the old recommendation of "Deliver a resume in person, shake their hand" that many of us younguns have rolled our eyes at will actually come back?? How else to prove your humanity to the hiring manager?
aqfamnzc··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Why use Fable at all then?
aqfamnzc··on Claude Sonnet 5
Why?
aqfamnzc··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Sadly, yes.
aqfamnzc··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
A couple years ago I realized that I had somewhat subconsciously made the same assumption. The thing that snapped me out of it was my awe in watching Clickspring (YT) try to recreate the Antikythera Mechanism. That device's complexity and craftsmanship is proof to me that despite the lack of technology, there were some astonishingly smart and resourceful people living thousands of years ago.
aqfamnzc··on Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity
You have linked to your own comment.
aqfamnzc··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
> I won't rehearse their ideas here

Is there an accessible way for a layman such as myself to read about some of these ideas (Really I mean philosophical discussion in general) without having to read entire books? Is there an active HN-equivalent or wiki or something?

aqfamnzc··on Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)
Wow, seems surprisingly balanced. I would guess that if it was 50% longer distance than humans would win reliably, and 50% shorter would allow the horses to win?
aqfamnzc··on DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent
I'll be honest, I carefully scanned your comment for a similar mispelling.
aqfamnzc··on Google Declaring War on the Web
Yeah, I feel like unless you run a site large enough for google monkeys to write a special case for your site specifically, why not just password protect the entire site but put the password on the login page? Or any other rudimentary captcha I suppose - like the old days.

Doesn't keep out anyone even mildly interested in your site specifically, including scrapers, but at least it blocks googlebot etc.

aqfamnzc··on AI slop is killing online communities
I've always thought the "strict invitation trees" or vouch trees would be an interesting way to moderate a community, even before the LLM era. A user can vouch for an unlimited number of new accounts, but if more than 10% of the vouched accounts are banned or flagged down the line, the parent voucher acct is also banned/flagged.

Since it creates a tree structure, you can wipe out entire armies of bot/spam/otherwise accounts by following the vouches up the tree.

aqfamnzc··on Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
A "reasoning" LLM is just an LLM that's been instructed or trained to start every response with some text wrapped in <BEGIN_REASONING></END_REASONING> or similar. The UI may show or obscure this part. Then when the model decides to give its "real" response, it has all that reasoning text in its context window, helping it generate a better answer.
aqfamnzc··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
I just append something like "Throughout our conversation, keep your responses brief. Avoid emojis, followup suggestions, and other unnecessary commentary." to every starting prompt. Seems to work OK. I'm sure sibling's recommendation of turning down the niceties sliders would work similarly for someone with an account.
aqfamnzc··on Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
Even funnier when you remember that they own github, the place where arguably markdown was popularized.
aqfamnzc··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Is the data stored on the card, or on the player? My guess is that each card just holds an id?
aqfamnzc··on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
It's just a metaphor.
aqfamnzc··on OSMAnd vs. Organic Maps
Caltopo is great for this. They require a subscription to download (raster) maps but you can cache a bunch of tiles before you leave to get the gist. These days this is one of the very scarce use cases I don't use OSMand for.
aqfamnzc··on Claude 4
Not even remotely true. It's part of the context window, so it greatly influences the final output. CoT is tokens generated by the LLM just like normal output.
aqfamnzc··on Claude 4
It's more hallucination in the sense that all LLM output is hallucination. CoT is not "what the llm is thinking". I think of it as just creating more context/prompt for itself on the fly, so that when it comes up with a final response it has all that reasoning in its context window.
aqfamnzc··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
The calculator is an extreme example, but I've wondered in the past if the reason they scrub everything is so you can't take the manufacturer part number to buy elsewhere. McMaster is undoubtedly more expensive in many cases, but the service they offer is consolidating a million parts into one catalog with CAD drawings, specs, etc. Hiding branding prevents you from taking advantage of that without making a purchase.
aqfamnzc··on Tailscale has raised $160M
> It’s a bit like saying Dropbox is just a GUI on top of TLS.

Well, it is. After all, for a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially...

aqfamnzc··on Piranesi's Perspective Trick (2019)
Great article. And thanks for the correct OSM attribution in your map images. :)
aqfamnzc··on FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
As it is now, unethical AIs have a huge advantage over ethical ones.
aqfamnzc··on Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb
Hi, I've considered changing careers to rope access or similar for a while now. Can I interview you about your job? Please email me, see profile. (This request extends to other RATs reading this too!)
aqfamnzc··on "Nvidia is so far ahead that all the 4090s are nerfed to half speed"
What does a "pretty bad" h265 implementation look like? Buggy? Inefficient or what?
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