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ctenb··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Or rather rate limit CI or something. Free repos that don't use large scale LLM activity to trigger a humongous amount of workload onto the github servers don't have to be caught in the crossfire.
ctenb··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
If that doesn't mean he's wrong, then it makes no sense to not take him seriously on this basis alone.
ctenb··on ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026
> What a weird one to pick. Do you think the US doesn't have massive ports like Europe?

Probably alluding to the fact that Europe owns the largest portion of the worldwide fleet.

ctenb··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
The linked wiki page lists the reasons. You can't just say these are not good reasons without saying why
ctenb··on Performance Improvements in .NET 11
That is not my experience. Sure, the background of .NET is windows, but in the last decade or so it opened up to other platforms, and so many shops prefer deploying their .NET based applications to linux for multitude of reasons. Along with this comes linux oriented culture. So windows culture is not tied to .NET per se, more so tied to certain shops I would say. Speaking from anecdotal experience, I have no numbers on this :)
ctenb··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
what sets it apart from scheme/lisp?
ctenb··on Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to give it a spin for a while. The downside is you cannot comment or vote on the external site so you are always juggling the two sites for that.
ctenb··on How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
They didn't write a traditional proof, but a lean program, which can be used to validate proofs formally, using a computer. It's still up to humans to check wether the formalization is sensible, but the proof is correct.
ctenb··on IBM Bob
Where did you find that it is based on sonnet? While I wouldn't be surprised, I'm curious if that is disclosed somewhere
ctenb··on Terence Tao: Speed in science isn't the same thing as progress [video]
Title of the video: The paradox at the heart of AI and science
ctenb··on How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+
I also never had battery issues with my fp4, except it sometimes starts draining really fast. Fix is too charge while phone is shutdown.
ctenb··on The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce
I'm not sure that your description of generalization coincides with the idea of modeling abstraction from TFA. Modeling abstraction is "about identifying what should leak and leveraging it". Generalization is about making something cover more cases. The technique to achieve these things can overlap of course, but the intention/goal is different.
ctenb··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
While I agree with the overall sentiment in this thread, it should be clear that any body of water is highly dangerous for kids until they can swim. It is not disclosed in TFA if the kid was able to swim, but the average 5 year old in the USA is not.
ctenb··on Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban?
Not using AI to write production code doesn't mean you can't use AI proactively to find vulnerabilities.
ctenb··on Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs
Soccer has no fixed pitch size, only upper and lower bounds on the width and height where the size must fall into
ctenb··on The End of Mathematics
Same. There is such a thing as a title being too ridiculous or provoking to want to read the article
ctenb··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
> I take my time unless I feel like I can do it quickly with the smaller amount of weight

What does that mean for you in practice, how long and how many reps?

ctenb··on The Dark Night of Mathematics
I never felt that the theorems were the most useful part of mathematics, strange as that may sound. In my professional experience, math offers a framework, a language of expressing ideas in an exact way. It clears things up for the writer and the reader. It is like speech; would we stop talking if a machine could utter all phrases?
ctenb··on G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
Looking at the code and the commit log, this is a large pile of slop
ctenb··on Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity
Link? I never heard of this and I'm very interested
ctenb··on Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code
Why not use an existing language with proper algebraic effects? This language seems to be a language with something that looks like algebraic effects, but it doesn't look like it properly implemented those.
ctenb··on What AI does to the minds of novice coders [video]
Read the research this video is based on about the "widening gap" here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3632620.3671116
ctenb··on Prism: An Impure Functional Language With Typed Effects
For a second I thought the syntax was Koka, which is also a language with effects. But it's not, there are some syntax differences later in the post.
ctenb··on Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)
If you literally can't quit your job, that's called slavery, you realize that?
ctenb··on Show HN: Zanagrams
Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.
ctenb··on IBM claims first sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Dupe news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967
ctenb··on My Opinion on RL
It's not good practice to use acronyms without introducing them. From the title alone it's unclear what this is about, from the text it still had me guessing for a while.
ctenb··on Flipper One – we need your help
I was hesitant to post my comment. It's the first time I've complained about this on HN I think. And it's not only about the flow of the words at all, it's more about reading something that no one wrote. Especially if it's about a project that seems interesting, having AI written text tells me it's maybe not the passion project I otherwise would think it was.
ctenb··on Flipper One – we need your help
Most articles I click on in the HN homepage turn out to be written by AI, judging from the phrasing. I'm weirded out by the fact that people don't seem to find it important to write their own thoughts down. The writing in TFA is clearly supervised by a human, but still, the wording is not human at all.
ctenb··on Building ML framework with Rust and Category Theory
Maybe expand ML to Machine Learning to avoid confusing with the programming language
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