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benatkin··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
Indeed, for some code, CPython and this interpreter produce identical output. I gave it an upboat.
benatkin··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
I like python subset. However, many don't see it that way.
benatkin··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
The rate at which the value accumulates depends on release of new models and admittedly it's a small community, so you may be in for a wait! But I still mean it, it is a small but enduring stream.
benatkin··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Hmm, the face makes it not work as a one shot artifact.
benatkin··on GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
It's actually not just valuable, but infinitely valuable. Because it's imaginary, there is no way to do it perfectly, and thus the possibilities are endless, and it tests out both the formulation and execution of ideas.
benatkin··on Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived
It makes the premise of the entire site flawed, though. And it defeats the purpose of the convenient button provided to redraw a year. That is what should allow you to find a pick that might be more interesting, rather than messing up the randomness promised by the site and the HN title.
benatkin··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
Not even the best agent that starts with a G
benatkin··on Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Not really. Whether you agree with LeCun's assertion that "LLMs Are a Dead End" or not, world modeling is the same domain. "World Modeling" in this post is confusing because it seems to reference the deep, specific machine learning that goes into these frontier world models and self-driving cars, where it's really just vibe coding turned at the problem of modeling the sort of 3D worlds you'd find in a video game.
benatkin··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Indeed, but that likely wouldn't have stopped someone from submitting it with a misleading title. HN is known to get a lot of misleading titles submitted and to have to change them. The <title> tag is better, it doesn't say "a full copy". In the screenshot it shows "headless" in the filename. I would simply add the tiny detail of headless to the <title> and use this title for HN: Codex Bundles Headless LibreOffice
benatkin··on Dyson Launches Toothbrush
The HN title makes it sound like Toothbrush is their brand, and with the appropriation of common terms for the sake of the brand, I bought it.

I would be disinclined to use it. It reminds me of the Astral Codex Ten Article about the Midjouney Scanner https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/preliminary-thoughts-on-the... , as well as those who've had problems with AirPods. https://discussions.apple.com/verify-human/verify.html?next=... (42 pages) What sounds the most amazing in a press release is often not the most medically sound.

Edit: it's hard to find clear info on the risks of using an electric toothbrush or even on overbrushing, because a lot of search results are blogspam. To me it's unclear, but there is a point of pressure at which the cleaning effect stops, and it is better not to go beyond that.

benatkin··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Not in this thread, the joke is in an aunt comment.
benatkin··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
It's deliberately hostile, in the way that Facebook is to its userbase. I guess Claude doesn't have nearly the grip on their users that Facebook does. Facebook can make it hard to communicate with (via WhatsApp) or stay connected with some of your friends or relatives, while Claude can just make you use the second-best model for cheaper (if Fable is the best).
benatkin··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
Indeed, the disclaiming of it being human-coded isn't the problem with their commit messages, them using it as a growth hack mechanism is. BTW to say it's attributed to Claude, I don't give that much importance, but I think it's useful to other coders to know what model was used. A simple assisted by AI would mostly handle the plaigiarism problem, because Claude's training data didn't come from Claude.
benatkin··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
For a good chunk of my AI coding work, I make my own commits. I add Assisited-by: to them. I glance at the AI commit messages, and though I usually come up with my own messages sometimes I paraphrase. This would just make it a bit more annoying to review the AI commit messages, though I could hide it.
benatkin··on Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude
It's interesting because Anthropic chose to put it on their Claude blog.
benatkin··on Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude
Seems to be, but I find it hard to believe. It's like if Five Below had announced they came out with a better forklift than Toyota.
benatkin··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
It's going to be tough for Origin, their code hosting platform, to follow in the footsteps of GitHub, if they can't be treated as a neutral party.
benatkin··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
I'd recognize the emotional robot if it was like Marvin the paranoid android.
benatkin··on Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards
This reminds me of a provocative YouTube video title I read the other day, one that makes me want to fight factory farming injustices. The title is "Animals to me are "Philosophical Zombies" - Destiny" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpLbmr4ijY I agree with Destiny a lot of the time but not here, though he seems to come around somewhat as the video goes on.

If a sheep or a pig isn't thought of as conscious because it doesn't have a name, like someone's pet dog or cat, indicating that we care about them, then that feels problematic to me. So this isn't a way to neatly solve the problem of AI consciousness.

benatkin··on Stripe acquires Clerky
AI is making it a low-moat industry too. It's a lot quicker to build some API docs, a behavior tracking JavaScript library, and some fraud detection, with LLMs.
benatkin··on New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro
No 8GB option? Oh the horror.
benatkin··on ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs
57 could be a reference to the Chevy. Get it while it's hot... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Chevrolet
benatkin··on Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
FWIW I saw the original posts, knew who wrote them, and know that Cloudflare OS is open source. It's because Sandstorm is about running anyone's apps, while where you introduce it you say this:

> the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183266

That suggests running your own apps, which is a different thing.

benatkin··on Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
It isn't the only wrong thing they're calling it. They're also calling it a successor to sandstorm.io, which it clearly is not.
benatkin··on Show HN: I canceled my AI code reviewer and wrote a free local one
Seems to be mixing up linting with code review - though this does lint only the changes which is an option (I prefer to lint the whole codebase though)
benatkin··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
They talk so much about freshness. That is an indirect and unnecessary and probably unintentional dig at dry beans, grains, seeds, nuts, etc. While I can entertain the idea that they're more reasonable in their diets this makes them bad nutrition communicators.
benatkin··on Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Flâneur psychosis?
benatkin··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
To Michael Pollan it seems they aren't worth mentioning right in the first breath when talking about real food, but perhaps an afterthought. "Shop the peripheries" causes them to be lumped in with potato chips and oreos and other stuff that aren't in the peripheries of a supermarket. I don't accept the same real food dichotomy that they do.
benatkin··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Eh, the "real food" of Jamie Oliver and Michael Pollan (shop the peripheries) and such isn't very health promoting. So I'll pass and keep eating a mix of fresh food and cheap food that keeps for a long time like legumes. Kthxbai.
benatkin··on Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
They should have vetted ViolentMonkey instead of TamperMonkey the last time around.
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