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manlymuppet··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
Am I hearing this right, that they made a decision model based on Typesafe's new paradigm, and actually made a model better than Jev based on Typesafe's own ranking?

And it's only been a few weeks.

manlymuppet··on America.gov
Elon has said that it's Grok. Take that for what you will.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2105060152919662622

manlymuppet··on Claude Opus 5.5
How does endless cynicism without purpose help this situation you describe?
manlymuppet··on Claude Opus 5.5
The endless cynicism in this thread is so very draining. Can we not do this terrible circle of excessive criticism?

The productive comments here are so far and few between. I have no issue with people criticizing Anthropic or AI companies in general, but for the love of everything, at least make worthy criticisms. Not these incessant sophisms.

manlymuppet··on Ask HN: My recent show HN post got flagged need guidance
"I've seen a lot of bitching about this lately. You will continue to be flagged... You have a karma of 3, therefore you are a worthless spambot."

If you really want to say that this is an attempt to reach out and teach a curious soul with tough love, then I believe you, because you've asked me to. But forgive me if the sheer crass of your words makes this a little hard to buy.

Was it really love going through your mind when you typed those words, or were you trying to put down someone who you thought deserved to be put down, and "tough love" came as a later, retroactive justification?

I choose to believe your word regardless, but I would urge you to take heed of the "love" part of "tough love" more, next time.

manlymuppet··on Ask HN: My recent show HN post got flagged need guidance
There are a few reasons, it seems. If you address the following things, you should be much better off to post in this forum.

- You posted the same thing more than once. This could be seen as spam. Try one really good, detailed post, instead of many okay ones.

- Your account is pretty new, and newer accounts have no reputation. Again, people could think you are a spam account. Try looking around this forum more, and making some good comments. This will help build your reputation here and give you a better understanding of how things work.

- Your project seems to have been developed with heavy help from AI. This is fine, but AI coded projects can sometimes be poor quality and low effort. People likely assumed your project was poor quality and low effort. When using AI, try to at least do the writing yourself. Use AI for the code, but write the project description and things like the `README.md` by yourself.

- Your descriptions of the project were somewhat unclear. You could gain from crafting a better, shorter, more direct [elevator pitch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_pitch). This will help people understand what you've built better.

- A lot of your post and comments have poor grammar and spelling. Again, this a sign of low effort. You should try to make your writing more correct with grammar and spelling before posting. If you need help with this, a good idea is to ask AI to review your writing before posting, and then rewriting based on the grammar/spelling mistakes it brings up. (Please note though that you should still write everything in the final post yourself.)

People on this forum appreciate effort. That's probably why your posts were not received well. Some people on here saw a lot of signs in your posts that are common with low effort content. That's why you were flagged.

That all being said, personally, I wouldn't have flagged your post. It was a little rough around the edges, and I'd urge you to polish what you put out to the world more, but overall I think you did follow this site's rules.

Even if you didn't, that is no excuse for people on this site to insult you as they have. You are welcome here, and I wish you the best, friend.

manlymuppet··on Ask HN: My recent show HN post got flagged need guidance
A couple quotes from the guidelines of this site.

    > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

    > Don't be curmudgeonly. Thoughtful criticism is fine, but please don't be rigidly or generically negative.

    > Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

    > Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
This reply is as much deserving of a flag as any. Please be more kind; it really is worth the effort.
manlymuppet··on McMurtry Spéirling [video]
A record-breaking electric race car which is probably the fastest track car in the world, at least on some tracks. The distinguishing feature is an insanely powerful fan on the bottom of the car which allows for “active downforce” that greatly increases [grip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downforce).

What I found really interesting was that despite the active downforce system making the car stupidly fast in every way, this actually makes the car easier to drive overall, since turning is more responsive, braking is more consistent, and even spins when you lose control of the car immediately stabilize.

Amazing machine. Further reading below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurtry_Sp%C3%A9irling

manlymuppet··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
Is the file still fairly readable as plain text when opened with any old text editor? Is this asking too much?
manlymuppet··on List of people who have held office in all three branches of government
Too long to fit in title.

"List of people who have held constitutional office in all three branches of the United States federal government"

manlymuppet··on Steam Frame starts at $1059
I don't game much nowadays; can I just use this to replace my monitor, and work within high fidelity VR?
manlymuppet··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Also, if the concern here is safety, open models completely derail that.

Even if your someone who thinks open models are good for safety overall, a private model exposed only by an API point at least gives somebody control. How we should use that control is debatable, but at least it's there. Once you release that control by making a model open, you can't take it back.

If we think AI safety doesn't require closed weights, we should collectively decide on that and then move forward from there. But it shouldn't be something decided by default, by a few people from a few companies. We all have to live with the consequences of a choice like that, and since it is irreversible, we shouldn't decide it without consensus first.

manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
To be clear: I'm not trying to advocate for more corporate power.
manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Corporations certainly don't have the same goals government does, but human nature applies universally.

I'm not saying that corporations should have exactly the same rules and structure as government does, but perhaps many of the ideas used to design governments can be borrowed.

manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
I'm not advocating for corporations to have equal power with governments, though. I think that's generally a terrible idea.

Looking at any organization with power and people involved, perhaps we can use the same ideas that traditionally apply to government in more places. That's all I'm saying.

This is not some mindless intellectual exercise to distract from how things are. In fact, as a proposal for how to reform corporate power, it's the opposite.

(Also, even though I think corporate power should be limited to a very specific arm of society, and that we shouldn't encourage more corporate power, you are greatly exaggerating. Feudalism and the abolition of human rights are not right around the corner.)

manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
That was my intuition at first too, but the original comment specified that they weren't borrowing all this money they're spending. The article also says how this is part of NVIDIA's strategy to enable demand, not create it, so supposedly these investments into their customers are actually going straight to paying for things.

Even if this money eventually gets loaned out eventually by one of NVIDIA's customers putting it into a bank, it isn't NVIDIA inflating the money supply, it's the borrowers, no? Or is this an ineffective way to look at things?

manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
Maybe a dumb question but how is NVIDIA increasing the total supply of money? Only the fed can actually order more money to be "created". Private companies can only work within the existing supply, that is, their reserves, no?
manlymuppet··on Nvidia is the central bank of AI
I've always found it interesting when corporations start acting like public institutions. When traditionally philosophical, social contract ideas apply to things like corporate governance. Or like here, where private structures get powerful and important enough to resemble government structures.

The ideas we deal with when we discuss society and organization aren't exclusive to government, they relate to human nature in general. I wonder if in the future we will have more discussion of power and how to organize it in corporations, similar to what we discuss today about government.

manlymuppet··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Somewhat unrelated: is it wrong to say mathematics is not art, and that there is always a right answer? I know that's not romantic, but maybe it's true.

Before LLMS, programming was something I might've said required creativity and human input to do properly. It's not that creativity or human input isn't valuable anymore, but AI has forced me to realize that coding is much a means to an end, and that all things considered, the end matters much more than the means.

If we can make important mathematics progress faster and better with LLMs, I think it's wise not to fret over an apparent loss of our humanity. Perhaps that's only a loss we want to have.

manlymuppet··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
What changes exactly is this post asking for?
manlymuppet··on Neki – Sharded Postgres
I think this will become the new standard.
manlymuppet··on I have a theory that software drives people insane
Is it fair to say the same applies to writing? It feels like so often when I'm reading something (really anything--blog posts, essays, the news) the words I'm reading are there for their own sake, not because they need to be there.

Maybe it's because I'm reading work with a deadline, or from a half-hearted writer, or maybe it's because a lot of people have never been taught how to write well. Whatever it is, so much of writing is bad because the author hasn't done their due diligence with their purpose for writing.

Except unlike software, this fault is so prevalent and eternal that it has become the status quo.

manlymuppet··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
This is probably one of the things that excites me most about AI.

Companies can now just afford to maintain a hundred different native apps, rather than settle for a write once, run anywhere approach.

manlymuppet··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
Tailwind is still considerably easier to work with than vanilla CSS. You just have to write less.
manlymuppet··on Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)
I'm having a little trouble understanding what you mean.

    > I agree that there can be a tendency to conflate the two things: how advanced the technology is, and how aesthetically pleasing what it produces is. It's also important to remember that we're not obligated to like something just because it's "pretty" or has high aesthetic value in some abstract sense.
You're right that my problem is people conflating two things, but I have no issue with how people interpret the "aesthetic outputs" as you put it. The part I'm having trouble with is the obligation you imply, that we have to "like something just because it's 'pretty' or has high aesthetic value in some abstract sense."

I for one, think that LLM art looks terrible--the output is something I often dislike aesthetically. This is a matter of taste, and similar to the question of "do I like it and want to engage with it", you're free to make your own judgements here. There is no "right" or "wrong" answer with aesthetics.

However, with the questions of "do I like the technology" and "has the technology advanced", whereas one is similarly a matter of taste, the question of "has the technology advanced" is one that can be answered objectively. Of course it matters what your trying to measure, but take realism for example--something that AI image labs often try to perfect. The fact that the AI labs have gotten drastically better at generating realistic content is undeniable. While it's up to you if this matters, whether realism has advanced can objectively answered yes or no, without bringing taste into things.

I am making no claims here concerning the "high aesthetic value in some abstract sense". I don't think such an objective value of aesthetics exists. Does this clear things up?

manlymuppet··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
It never was a guarantee. But it is worth fighting for cooperation, rather than accepting it cannot be anymore.
manlymuppet··on Intellectual Fly Is Open
Perhaps the author is trying to distinguish themselves from LLMs.
manlymuppet··on Your intellectual fly is open (2025)
I agree. LLM writing is atrocious, but people also want LLM writing to be atrocious in many cases, because they don’t like LLMs.

The worst of this is with image/video AI models, where the results today, although still very imperfect, some people will still pretend like it’s awful and the worst thing they’ve ever seen. They refuse to admit the technology is at all impressive or making progress because they don’t like the technology.

I don’t like AI generated images and video either, but I can regrettably admit that the technology has gotten remarkably better over time.

manlymuppet··on Your intellectual fly is open (2025)
This post uses far too much punctuation. Makes it jarring to read.
manlymuppet··on Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
Allow me to be anal for a moment, but what is the point of doing “if I remember correctly” for something like this?

You can very easily look up exactly when Lina Khan was appointed and get answer very quickly. Is it not worth the effort checking these things before commenting?

Ok rant over. Sorry to be an asshole. This is not your fault as much a standard which should be changed.

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