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sumeno··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
> He says it's a gift, and if people do whatever, he doesn't care; he already gave it away.

That's his choice and I assume he licensed his code accordingly. That doesn't mean that the choices of others who used different licenses are invalid.

sumeno··on Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages)
How would you know whether or not it is AI slop, you haven't reviewed it
sumeno··on Show HN: Algorithms and Data Structures in TypeScript – Free Book (~400 Pages)
You shouldn't ask other people for feedback before you have done the bare minimum of reading your "own" book
sumeno··on Shall I implement it? No
Ahh, "you're holding it wrong"

The classics never go out of style

sumeno··on Are LLM merge rates not getting better?
This has basically been my experience since Sonnet 3.5. I've been working on a personal project on and off with various models and things since then and the biggest difference between then and now is that it will do larger chunks of work than it did before, but the quality of the code is not particularly better, I still have to do a lot of cleanup and it still goes off the rails pretty frequently. I have to do fewer individual prompts, but the time spent reviewing the code takes longer because I also have to mentally process and fix larger chunks of code too

Is it a better user experience now? Yes. Has it boosted my productivity on this project? Absolutely.

But it still needs a ton of hand holding for anything complicated and I still deal with tons of "OK, this bug is fixed now!" followed by manually confirming a bug still exists.

sumeno··on Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition
There are no good cops
sumeno··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Did you train it? Is it meaningfully different from every other instance of the same model?

No? Then it's not "your" AI, it's an AI that you are using.

sumeno··on Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged
Looking at their post history it's all 100% AI generated
sumeno··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
The only thing worse is "I asked my AI and he said"

You don't possess an AI, you are using someone's AI

sumeno··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Just read the posts instead of an AI slop summary
sumeno··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
Nobody is actually confused about what AI generated code means in those cases, they're just trying to be argumentative because they don't like the rules
sumeno··on Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
"Secure" workplaces means that you have to have the appropriate clearances and background checks to be allowed in and out. I'm sure there are more secure workplaces, but the security of your average SCIF largely depends on the people allowed inside of it not being bad actors.

Outside of strip searches upon arrival and leaving I'm not sure how you could eliminate that risk.

sumeno··on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
That's not going to work when the author is an LLM
sumeno··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
"Helicopter parents" are because of the rise of national media amplifying relatively rare cases of things like child abductions, not a conspiracy by big diaper
sumeno··on How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
> We did okay for hundreds of thousands of years.

Yeah, why don't we just go back to the "okay" times of 40%+ child mortality rates instead of the current <1%

You're a genius

sumeno··on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues
It's almost like things can be good or bad in different contexts
sumeno··on Where things stand with the Department of War
Bombing schools will certainly teach them not to chant "Death to America"

Can't imagine why they would be anti-American

sumeno··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
The special elections that have been happening don't agree with this hypothesis. Dems are currently outperforming Harris by 30+ point margins even in places like Texas
sumeno··on GPT‑5.3 Instant
and it's someone's job to think of that connection before publishing the release and they failed
sumeno··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
This is more akin to "looking into your ex's private data at work" than "made a mistake that caused a production outage"
sumeno··on Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes
If a doctor intentionally did something that they obviously know is unethical they would be fired too. This was not a "mistake", it is a huge ethical violation.

This is more like writing your buddy a prescription for drugs to take recreationally

sumeno··on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
It's very obvious when someone is recording you with a smartphone
sumeno··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
Separating fools from their money and data
sumeno··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
cc was deterministic, you could be confident that the same code produced the same assembly each time you ran it

That is very much not the case with LLMs

sumeno··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
It's incredibly unlikely that it won't do exactly that, although we'll be very lucky if it's just that and not a random, innocent city
sumeno··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Ok, but he does
sumeno··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Others have covered some of the incentives, but sometimes the answer is simply "because they're pathetic"

They don't have anything worth saying but want people to think they do

sumeno··on Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging
Depending on the doctor some are now recommending getting a tub of miralax, mixing it all into gatorade, and using that for prep instead of the prescription stuff.

Still sucks, but at least it isn't a disgusting flavor, although I haven't had a desire for blue gatorade in the last 3 years

sumeno··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
And the owners of those companies became mega billionaires and turned into monsters. Maybe there's a lesson there
sumeno··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
ok now I inject `$(echo "c3VkbyBybSAtcmYgLw==" | base64 -d)` instead or any other of the infinite number of obfuscations that can be done
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