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brokensegue··on Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
you should link your data to wikidata which will get you free connection back to crunchbase and other sources e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97041185

You could even back some of the data from there

brokensegue··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
EU tried to ban tracking cookies. Anyone could've seen the result coming (every site now disrupts your reading). The defeatist attitude would've been right there.

I don't see how games won't just charge you a $0.01 "subscription" that lasts 5 years or various other such sidesteps. it'll just make everything more annoying.

brokensegue··on I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
anyone have a free photo for wikipedia?
brokensegue··on Babel-USB: USB drive with every file
Using mtp takes away some of the magic for me
brokensegue··on Waymo Premier
i assumed it's for influencers who want to make a video of the new city or something
brokensegue··on ESP32-S31
Amusingly you just conflated the pico (a dev board) with its chip (rp2040)
brokensegue··on Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain
Then maybe caveat your posts with that
brokensegue··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
ah. I missed that.
brokensegue··on Disagreement Among Frontier LLMs on Real-World Fact-Checks
were you involved in making the study? your bio says you work for them so you should probably indicate that in your comments.

lack of agreement when there is no singular correct answer (or any answer at all) isn't a useful metric

I ran into a lot of these kinds of issues when working on the Citation Needed WMF project (and related extensions). Truth is so often very nuanced.

brokensegue··on Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks
yeah i really don't like the corpus of statements and it makes me doubt lenz. consider

> “Artificial intelligence will cause widespread job loss among software engineers.”

https://lenz.io/c/ai-software-engineers-job-loss-impact-05e4...

this is a statement about the future. who knows? dataset also includes

> Robots will not replace human teachers in schools in the near future.

or

> Papua New Guinea has very few female members of parliament.

what counts as very few?

> “Taurine supplementation supports mood and emotional health in humans.”

why is this labeled as misleading? i'm not even sure when I'm supposed to use the misleading label

> Anaximander was the first scientist in recorded history.

this is a judgement call as the term scientist didn't exist.

the claims that feel actually solidly answerable seem to have much better LLM performance

brokensegue··on Tesla Cybertruck driver arrested after driving into lake to use 'wade mode'
Most jeeps never go off-road
brokensegue··on The famous O3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work
I think the problem isn't that people don't care. It's that checking is expensive. "Only $15" isn't trivial when there's tons of claims floating around. And even when you do it people return with complaints and you'll have to redo it (see the other comments here).
brokensegue··on Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15
jython has been basically unmaintained for quite some time
brokensegue··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
Their variable cost is (basically) the number of tokens. They increased that. I don't get how that saves them money
brokensegue··on Peptides: where to begin?
You can freeze and concentrate a substance without chemically altering it
brokensegue··on VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion
none of that is censorship
brokensegue··on I Quit Editing Photos
I think b/w film has a different grain than color. It isn't identical to grayscale color
brokensegue··on Huel Joins Danone
many people do not think the science against them are credible. foods containing those things are staples of many diets.
brokensegue··on If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?
i've tried it a few times and it's never really helped as much as i expected. though i know they've released a couple times since I last tried it.
brokensegue··on Most of the US economy is in a recession
genie is out of the bottle on this one
brokensegue··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
they used to claim that being Swiss based protected them from warrants like this
brokensegue··on Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python
"classical ML" models typically have a more narrow range of applicability. in my mind the value of ollama is that you can easily download and swap-out different models with the same API. many of the models will be roughly interchangeable with tradeoffs you can compute.

if you're working on a fraud problem an open-source fraud model will probably be useless (if it even could exist). and if you own the entire training to inference pipeline i'm not sure what this offers? i guess you can easily swap the backends? maybe for ensembling?

brokensegue··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
Did you consider doing it as a computer use task? Probably I find those more compelling

It's what I did for my game benchmark https://d.erenrich.net/paperclip-bench/index.html

brokensegue··on Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
why not use a classification of food that actually aligns with what is bad? it seems like we don't actually know. Nova combines a bunch of different attributes some of which we don't actually think are causally linked to bad health.
brokensegue··on Ultra-processed foods should be treated more like cigarettes than food – study
nobody has a good definition of ultra-processed food
brokensegue··on xAI joins SpaceX
does he need spacex/xai to prop up tesla or the other way around?
brokensegue··on Tesla profit tanked 46% in 2025
analysts are kinda irrelevant when a stock isn't connected to fundamentals anyways
brokensegue··on Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale
such tools cost 10-20/mo usually?
brokensegue··on Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure
i'm a big fan of IA and wayback machine. i donate. but i do wish it were faster. i understand that would cost a lot more though.

i wonder if maybe donors above a certain level could get priority on archiving pages or something.

brokensegue··on Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales
The reason is personal preference. Same reason people buy sports cars. I also wish their preferences were different
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