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supermatt··on The Message Isn't the Medium: In Defense of LLM-Assisted Writing
Wow, totally missed the point. Maybe you not knowing where to start was a good thing and you should have left it there and not sullied the internet with your useless ramblings.
supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
> I don't agree that it's ableism to believe that you are far more worth talking to than a machine regurgitating attenuated averages.

Straw man. That literally wasn't what you said. You dismissed what I wrote as thoughtless. It wasn't about disagreement it was purely invalidation.

supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Huh, thats really interesting... That sounds a lot better than I expected, and is readable enough for me to edit it.

Thank you :)

supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I haven't always struggled so much, but my ability to read has severely diminished over the past decade. I find it much easier to communicate in short form. It has always been disproportionately time-consuming for me to write though.

It is the articulation of ideas that I struggle with and so I usually edit my comments multiple times. And to get rid of some of the more stupid stuff I say.

To be fair, that word salad would read more like this comment if I gave it some time, but it would take many hours to produce a simple post with the same readability as the LLM.

supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
> which is barely any at all

Clearly you either didn't read it, misunderstood it, disbelieved it, or just DGAF :)

supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
How is this? https://claude.ai/share/99bfee0f-bab9-4593-aabb-377e71f1151d
supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
> I believe you believe you did

Wow, peak ableism. It is a post about how I use an LLM as an accessibility aid for reading and writing. We're not all out here faking creative writing you know...

supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
The problem is that some people think all AI-assisted writing is prompting "write me a post about X", so they see LLM prose and assume there has been no thought or effort put into it.
supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Yes, I did. That was the whole point of the post.
supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Because some people are just ignorant and downvote anything they either aren't willing or able to understand :)
supermatt··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I submit pretty much the opposite of this, but it didn't gain any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332291
supermatt··on GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
It is a part of the rust codebase:

https://rustc-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/offload/internals.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/131513

supermatt··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
This is really nice! is it accessible somewhere to play with?
supermatt··on Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
I haven’t tried any larger models, but a 12B model on my Ampere A5000 gets around 4-5x the aggregate throughput with concurrency. I have the maximum context configured to 32k, but my actual requests are usually around 2-4k tokens.

No idea how that compares to running a larger model and context though.

supermatt··on Qwen3.8-27B at 256K on a 24GB RTX PRO 4000 SFF (432 GB/s): 50 tok/s with MTP
Can you please try and see how many tokens you get with some form of concurrency. Pretty much ALL the benchmarks I've seen on the more accessible cards are just single request.
supermatt··on Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
Indeed.

I LOVE reading LLM content. I find that they tend to present things in a way that keeps my attention - something I have struggled with my whole life. I also use LLMs to assist with managing my own thoughts and helping make things coherent overall.

Sure, there is a LOT of slop out there, but the promotion of quality content is what crowd-sourced curation like HN tends towards. Much of the LLM assisted content here has a high signal to noise ratio, and is clearly a lot more involved than simply prompting "write an article on X" - despite what the haters say.

supermatt··on Claude: System Prompts
How can they be so lazy with updating their prompts (or is it just a case of these not being current)? Surely the prompts are an integral part of tuning their offering?: “Above Opus sits Anthropic's new Mythos tier. The first Mythos-class model, Claude Mythos Preview, is not currently available to the public”
supermatt··on Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot
> just block the entire countries network range(s)

Why not just block all the inbound connections you don't need? Is there a particular reason your firewall policy needs to be xenophobic?

supermatt··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
So the concern is that the agent will discover a novel VM escape, exploit it and take control of your whole machine instead of working on its prompted task? That seems rather far fetched.
supermatt··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Why are 3rd party hosted VMs safer than your own?
supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Definitionally not?

"Microblogs, for example on Twitter..." https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/microblo...

"Some popular social networks such as X (formerly Twitter), Threads, Tumblr, Mastodon, and Bluesky can be viewed as collections of microblogs." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Honestly, I don't really care that much. The project looks like fun, and I wish you the best with it, but I don't really post on microblogging platforms myself.

I just wanted to give a bit of feedback as someone who reads them - and point out that on almost every twitter/bluesky submission to HN they are using ways to work around the 280/300 char limitations.

To play devils advocate - 500 also seems a bit arbitrary ;) If I were making a platform like this myself, I would go for a power of 2 that makes sense for storage/buffering. Maybe 1KiB including all meta, etc. You could comfortably fit a post the size of your about page, and all associated meta in that - even when serialised as JSON or something. I'd go from there and work backwards to come up with a size that has a real technical purpose.

supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
Sure, but I don't care that much. It is a Show HN, so I was giving feedback.
supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
For perspective: you just commented 404 chars. Your first paragraph alone was 346.

My comment on the about page was that it needed more than 280 chars to communicate what the app is about - even the title + intro exceeds the limit.

If it is truly believed that 280 chars is enough to communicate an idea, then the about page should follow that philosophy.

supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
But clearly not the microbloggers on twitter/x, Bluesky, etc, who use the patterns I mentioned.
supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
A limit that worked well for who?

Almost every twitter/x post submitted to HN has people labelling their posts as "X of Y" threads, using images as text, or using pro account posts.

You can see it yourself: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com Ive just looked at 30 and each of them exceed 280 chars by far.

supermatt··on Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS
The 280 char limit seems arbitrary, given you cant even keep the about page within that limit: https://textlog.cc/about

If you are going to limit it to short posts, maybe the length of a short post is the length to limit it to, rather than emulating the 2xSMS of every twitter clone?

Other than that, it looks really clean and neat - I just dont think being 280 chars adds anything other than resulting in people posting with pagination as per X 1/3.

supermatt··on Cyberpunk Video Games
I absolutely loved Burn::Cycle on the Philips CDi, where it was the definitive version (apparently the visuals were much better than the PC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoLw7SEmLYk

The gameplay itself was a bit rough, but the music and immersion I felt while playing it I still recall to this day.

supermatt··on Don't be a meat proxy
> NATS control-plane events: stream leader election / R3 quorum re-form during pod churn.

Whats is wrong with this?

I work with durable tracing (not using NATS, or k8s though) and this looks almost exactly what I would expect to see in a coordinator log after repartition of a storage cluster.

Obviously I don't know what your actual context was, though.

supermatt··on IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats
How does "shooting" on 70mm relate to the projection of the 70mm? I have absolutely no idea how any of this works, but are there no CGI effects in the movie or how does the CGI get on the film?
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