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mnky9800n

3,647 karma · joined April 2, 2011

There's no such thing as right or wrong, only fun or boring. ~ @the_plague

Former Georgia tech, CU Boulder, and GFZ-Potsdam. Current UiO Njord Centre and xal.no. Recurser.

Current mood: puzzled.

Read my Internet magazine: https://lowimpactfruit.com

visit: https://johnspace.xyz

Experience ambient rain sounds at: https://rainy-city.com

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mnky9800n··on Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
Maybe you will like https://rainy-city.com. As mayor I have declared we will never have ads.
mnky9800n··on Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
It also got rid of being able to right click and open in a new window. Tabs only. Whyyyyyy.
mnky9800n··on Exit the Cave
Take two.
mnky9800n··on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Clearly you are not speechless.
mnky9800n··on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
How can you be sure it helps as opposed to biases and perhaps blinds?
mnky9800n··on Ask HN: Is there a shortage of talent at early-stage deep-tech startups?
I think you are over thinking this. Better to get a job and see if you enjoy it than try to predict your impact on the world around you before you actually do anything that would create an impact.
mnky9800n··on Columbia House Is Shutting Down
When I was a teenager in boarding school I sent away for these books. I got this fully illustrated Star Wars encyclopedia amongst other books of sci-fi interest to me. Suddenly I realized I could not afford the actual monthly fees I had signed myself up for. So a teacher at the school advised me to send a letter saying I was the parent of a young child who had managed to mail off for these books without my permission and that this service must be canceled immediately because no child can make such a decision. That worked and I got to keep the books.
mnky9800n··on Is Europe safer than America?
recaptcha wants you to download an app to access it through a qr code? are you kidding?
mnky9800n··on The Folly of Tokenmaxxing or Reinventing the Wheel
I met a guy who bragged about spending 10k euros a month on tokens out of pocket. He was unable to describe anything he built that had made the expense worth it except for the bragging rights that he was spending 10k a month on tokens.
mnky9800n··on US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged
Boomer politics has always been about me and not thee.
mnky9800n··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
Journalists have given up except for organizations like bellingcat, lighthouse reports, etc. that focus on data based reporting instead of narrative.
mnky9800n··on AFK – Command center for teams running coding agents
does anyone else feel like this kind of web design is like the em-dash of web design? im not trying to knock the project itself, just wondering because every website that claude makes me looks like this until i tell it to look like something else.
mnky9800n··on The USSR in 100 Photographs
It’s not so bad to keep your mouth shut. Americans blab about everything constantly.
mnky9800n··on Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF
This reminds me of my own project https://rainy-city.com
mnky9800n··on Should We Do More to Fight Lookism?
yes new yorker, ugly people are the next distraction from the vast transfer of wealth and class warfare that continues through wars, prisons, political corruption, etc.
mnky9800n··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
While this article is a summary of John Ioannidis’ work, I do find it kind of like Science magazine is complaining that they aren’t making enough of that AI revenue so come on submit your papers here. I doubt that was the intended message.
mnky9800n··on Europe's Ultra-Rich Could Fund a Substantial Part of the EU's Budget
I pay a progressive 47% in Norway. I am sick of having half my salary taken over ~600kkr (60k usd). It’s ridiculous. Plus 25% VAT on everything. And it’s not like salaries are through the roof. Why bother paying me a salary at all at this point? Just let the state give me everything if they are going to take it anyways.
mnky9800n··on I showed an AI an image it couldn't see – then caught it lying about what it saw
No I don't get it at all. But I think a lot of people are prompting LLMs then publishing their outputs these days. They need to jump on the hype train before it leaves the station. See any recently created "AI ethics" group/institute/startup/whatever. It's basically just this meme on repeat:

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/3229293-say-i-am-alive

mnky9800n··on You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention
why are you using braket notation?
mnky9800n··on Claude Opus 5
Yay just in time for neurips lol
mnky9800n··on Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Jaron Lanier on the AI Illusion
I saw ngt talk at the natural history museum. He is a crazy person. He ranted about the chinese, talked for too long about how he’s friends with “bob De Niro” and how bob has paid enough taxes to buy five F22s, he was completely unprepared and had nothing to say on the topic at hand, his own book about meeting aliens. Except to spend most of his time making fun of the critics who panned his book because his book was on the nytimes best seller list. The worst was that there were so many children there who clearly looked up to him and wanted to pursue science as a career. I have no idea why anyone cares what he has to say at this point. He has made a gross caricature of himself.
mnky9800n··on EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Is the EU planning on participating in the technological development of AI or just the regulation of it?
mnky9800n··on Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
I loved my time at RC. It changed me a lot. I wrote several blog posts about different projects and my time during my batch. I would strongly suggest applying if you like computers and want to talk about them constantly while building cool stuff.

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/rainy-citycom-a-side-projec...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/zork-bench-an-llm-reasoning...

https://www.lowimpactfruit.com/p/my-return-statement

mnky9800n··on Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
I never thought about it this way but this is true. But why can’t you delete things?
mnky9800n··on Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
I think those people are the ones in charge now and will be directing their ai resources to make even better ads.
mnky9800n··on Ask HN: As LLMs progress, how do you stay sharp and productive?
I like to generate a variety of personal crises to deal with since now coding agents seem to do most of my job. That keeps me on my toes.
mnky9800n··on Towards a harness that can do anything
good news. now you have a feature request.
mnky9800n··on Towards a harness that can do anything
i think the point is less about what agent you should or should not do and more about what is the natural harness for an agent to succeed in. And agents are often autonomously doing things right now, why would you want claude code doing such stuff for you?
mnky9800n··on European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
What are they?
mnky9800n··on How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State
I’m sure if you call the pentagon “central planning” enough times people will decide they are communists and get rid of them.
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