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j_bum··on ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds
Is it public? Would love to try it!
j_bum··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
Yes. It’s called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM).

I suffer from it quite badly. I can remember broad and important details, but struggle to remember even moderate details from anything beyond the past 2-3 months, with sharp falloff after that.

Once I started using Immich and was able to see my old photos from across adulthood and childhood (I used to just dump them onto HDDs), I experienced a sharp reconnection with myself and my past.

Maybe they could find something similar (Apple Photos, Google Photos, Immich, etc.)!

j_bum··on Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer
Ive aligned to literally the exact same lineup. Amex blue cash preferred for our 6% groceries.
j_bum··on Vehicle Motion Cues
Please expand… how does this help you find ticks?
j_bum··on Vehicle Motion Cues
Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been saying to my wife for about a year now that I wish MacBooks had the motion cues feature… turns out I just needed to search for it!
j_bum··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
My conspiracy theory is that Reddit intentionally makes the iOS Safari experience awful to drive people to download the app.

I’m sure it works.

But for me, it drove me to stop using Reddit on my phone.

j_bum··on Watching a language model think before it speaks
I’d love to see a recording of this in action for a complicated question.

This article also reads with many LLM-isms, so I can’t tell if a human actually produced it.

j_bum··on What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
I wish a human would’ve written the overview.

Nonetheless, this is disturbing.

j_bum··on Write code like a human will maintain it
This drives me nuts as well. I hate also hate when LLMs use plan-document references in comments/doc strings too. “Landed in stage 1…”

I have a lot of CLAUDE.md rules to restrict this stuff, but realize the “encapsulation” language is something I’m missing.

j_bum··on Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust
Dick Cheney passed away in 2025, just an FYI.
j_bum··on I think I have LLM burnout
Agreed. I am working hard to restrict myself to only 1-2 agent workflows at a time. More is untenable, though it’s so easy to fall into the trap of deploying an agent “just for this minor fix.”
j_bum··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
I mean, have you looked for examples of things that people using local models to build and ship? Or are you just assuming it doesn’t happen?

I’ve used Qwen 3.6 27B for many things at work, and I’m regularly able use it for reasonably scoped tasks.

I’m not saying these models are perfect.

But you are complaining about people on the extreme, while at the same shouting from the opposite extreme.

j_bum··on Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Thanks for sharing. Were you able to resolve the Lyme?
j_bum··on Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Commenting for future reference in case OP ever responds. Would love to learn more
j_bum··on Dostoyevsky isn't difficult
Have you tried audiobooks?
j_bum··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
Interesting idea. What languages do you support? Can it be used without a subscription?
j_bum··on The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun
Sounds very Hemingway.

OP might benefit from using https://hemingwayapp.com/

j_bum··on The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python
This doc on Ilya Sutskever & Geoffrey Hinton gives a great background on the progression of deep learning over the past decades [0].

Tl;dr - compute was the bottleneck.

I am not associated with this channel/video, just love it. I’ve shared it here before.

[0] https://youtu.be/glWvwvhZkQ8?si=XjcwWWy43305tl6O

j_bum··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
Would you be willing to share the annotated example? I’m stunned to hear this, I didn’t know that vision had become so capable.
j_bum··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
From pictures alone? What are some examples?
j_bum··on My wife tried to log 1k phone-free hours but quit. So I vibe-coded an app
This is awesome OP.

Others interested in this but on iOS could check out Hank Green’s Focus Friend app.

j_bum··on Various LLM Smells
The one I hate the most is, “And this is what most people miss:”
j_bum··on We should be more tired than the model
Interesting idea.

It’s almost like a buffer space would be useful for code.

I’ve been using tuicr for agent code reviews and have been enjoying that. I think I’ll try your idea as part of my workflow.

j_bum··on I am not a black belt
Agreed it looks beautiful in those vids. It feels like almost more of a dance than something that might “work on the street”.

Hopefully not offensive, just my layman observation.

j_bum··on Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite
Fair point, wasn’t considering it from this angle.
j_bum··on Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite
Do you use Claude code on your machine? That seems mostly vibe coded
j_bum··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Oh my god, my two worlds just had an insane collision.

I learned speed cubing from badmefisto when I was in middle school, ~16yr ago (today my ao100 is ~15s).

I never knew it was Karpathy. What an insane knowledge drop. Thanks for sharing!

j_bum··on I’ve joined Anthropic
Curious what you mean by killing it? Products? Model quality?
j_bum··on Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries
Yes, the term is “sacrificed” is unfortunately used today in many research labs in the US.

My advisor had a *strict* policy against people using that terminology in the lab and in his department.

“We sometimes euthanize or kill animals in a part of the difficult process of research. We do not sacrifice them - we are not making offerings to some deity. We are conducting research, not participating in a religion.”

“Sacrifice” is a euphemism that serves only to disconnect the ethical and emotional burden of killing animals for research [0].

And I deeply sympathize with your ethical and emotional guilt. The research I did in my PhD contributed to the foundational knowledge in my field, but not without severe and serious tolls. The way people become normalized to euthanasia in research environments is scary.

[0] https://openworks.mdanderson.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?params=...

j_bum··on Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]
Would you be willing to pitch why you like jj and find it useful? How were you using git?

I use git mostly on single-dev projects, with branched development patterns.

Would someone like me with a simple git use-case find JJ enjoyable?

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