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throwrioawfoon People who know the most often sound the least certain

Not sure I agree with this. It's often true in SF, but that is largely an affectation, people imitating people like Peter Thiel etc. But not as true elsewhere

throwrioawfoon Tell the speakers that you liked their talks

The creator of Lanyrd replied to another comment elsewhere on this page

throwrioawfoon Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)

Has any research been done to try and determine the percentage of the population that are able to detect obvious LLM-generated text?

throwrioawfoon Learn Programming with OCaml

(1) complexity

(2) performance

throwrioawfoon To become a better writer, read as much as you can

Both reading and writing are necessary, but writing alone is not sufficient.

throwrioawfoon Saying No

Self-aggrandisement

throwrioawfoon Saying No

Even LinkedIn slop isn't as bad as this

throwrioawfoon Saying No

Sounds like you're being highly unreasonable and childish to me

throwrioawfoon How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

Gell-Mann Amnesia: the blog post

throwrioawfoon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Nothing. I get no satisfaction out of side projects nowadays

throwrioawfoon Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy

Ugh, AI slop writing.

throwrioawfoon Pint in England

"cooper" derives from the verb "coop", which likely derives from Latin "cūpa", from which we get the word "cup".

throwrioawfoon Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?

What's the point in doing things like this if you just get Claude to do it?

throwrioawfoon Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)

Compliance with the absurd and draconian OSA

throwrioawfoon Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

You're probably thinking of unlisted, not private.

throwrioawfoon Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

I feel like things have become so much more cynical in the last 5 years, in this regard.

I feel like part of it is the "over-systemization" of promos. I see the logic behind it to some extent - if there's a system, it's "fairer"/"more democratic". But, then we end up with ridiculous gamified promo systems.

throwrioawfoon Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

If you're going to fork out 40k, why not get an actual rack rather than fashioning one yourself out of plywood...

throwrioawfoon Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI

> doing ALMOST what I asked it to do, but just not quite

This is my exact experience. LLMs get 95% of the way to my personal quality bar, and for simple tasks 100% of the way.

More complex things, no. This means that, in practice, I end up having to understand the code pretty much as much deeply as I would anyway, without agents.

So, essentially, my experience is that it's automated away the easy bits, but left the hard bits, so all of my time is spent doing the hard bits, which is mentally exhausting.

Maybe Fable would be good enough to get to 100% of my quality bar on more complex tasks, but I never got chance to try it.

throwrioawfoon I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

Sure, it can see obvious stuff in images, but as far as I'm aware it is not designed for (or tested on) performing the kind microscopic analysis that radiology involves

throwrioawfoon Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike

Not sure I would put much faith in the stats of this clearly vibecoded slopsite

throwrioawfoon Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike

It kinda makes sense, given the sheer magnitude of money on the line.

throwrioawfoon Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory

There was once a time when I'd see a page like this and think "wow, must be a great project with such a polished website".

Now, it's just a neutral or perhaps even very slightly negative signal (especially the em-dash in the very first line of the page).

Anyone able to tell me if this is a project actually worth paying attention to, or just another raindrop in the current monsoon of slop?

throwrioawfoon Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration (2025)

> presumably NSA-blessed

You have your answer

throwrioawfoon Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore

> Shared-memory threads for JavaScriptCore. new Thread(fn) runs fn on another thread, in the same heap, with the same objects. No structured clone, no message passing, no SharedArrayBuffer-only escape hatch. You share an object by sharing the object.

If you can't even be bothered to write a non-slop PR description, it doesn't bode particularly well for the content of the PR itself...

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What I find annoying is when people paste lazy ChatGPT slop into Hacker News and pollute the front page.

throwrioawfoon UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s

Good

throwrioawfoon EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated

You're not actually meant to _read_ these reports.