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zygyon I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?

the Japanese language school I went to which is indeed still updated: https://sokogakuen.org/

check out their directions page: https://sokogakuen.org/info.html

zygyon Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor

Glad you're working on this. Duolingo is garbage and I've been hopeful that AI can help accelerate language learning in a way that is actually effective.

zygyon Sycophancy in GPT-4o

alternate title: "The Urgency of Interpretability"

zygyon A new type of neural network is more interpretable

Naive question: what's the intuition for how this is different from increasing the number of learnable parameters on a regular MLP?

zygyon Run llama3 locally with 1M token context

Noob here. How would I figure out whether my machine would handle a particular model?

zygyon Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108

My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream pt 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PciCWIGLE

zygyon What is the Demoscene? An interview

Thanks for sharing. Do you have similar side projects today?

zygyon A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)

The current Rust experts probably spent more than 10 years learning the concepts that made them Rust experts.

zygyon Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice

Have a particular one to recommend?

zygyon A new doorway to the brain

Any good publications to learn about this?

zygyon Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living

Congrats on the business, and thank you for sharing!

zygyon DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same

What's the tech advancement/invention that pushed mirrorless cameras past DSLR?

zygyon I Miss RSS

Seems like a good place to plug Fraidycat (not my project) https://fraidyc.at/

zygyon A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)

Had to check the year to realize this was referring to Flickr and not Slack :)

zygyon Helix: a post-modern modal text editor

https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-st...

zygyon Why I prefer making useless stuff

http://www.stupidhackathon.com/

zygyon Software engineering topics I changed my mind on

If one had to troubleshoot a bad standup meeting, how might you turn one that feels more scripted into one that feels more natural?

zygyon How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)

interested!

zygyon A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

Ah yup my mistake -- it's this kind of thing: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/INEO-Restaurant-Hood-...

Autoclaves are used in the food industry too, but you're right those are very different: https://www.steriflow.com/en/Autoclaves-sterilization-alimen...

zygyon A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher

Autoclaves! They're used in industrial kitchens and life science labs.

zygyon Did our early ancestors boil their food in hot springs?

A few years ago I visited Niigata and some surrounding semi-rural towns where people still do this. They have onsens that are designated for food, not people. :)

zygyon I Want to Fix Goodreads

Many thanks.

zygyon Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?

I never knew it was different elsewhere! What country are you based in, out of curiosity?

zygyon Why Privacy Matters

Nice work, this looks cool!

zygyon Making software engineering interviews predictive of job performance

What does your interview process look like?

zygyon Picking up glowing hot space shuttle tiles with bare hands (2011) [video]

Subscriber for several months, imo one of the few newsletters that's actually insight-rich. I learn something new and fascinating in each one, thank you for working on it!

zygyon Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?

We use and like https://www.scalyr.com/.

zygyon Introduction to Algotrading (2011) [pdf]

I enjoyed this, but I'm sure the strategies have evolved a lot. Anyone know of more recent resources like this?

zygyon Do the Simple Thing First: The Engineering Behind Instagram

Not to diminish their obviously amazing accomplishments, but Stanford's Symbolic Systems major does give a bit of a CS background.