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Proud Hypercardian here, Excel wrangler, and I even built animations by stacking powerpoint elements. Agree that LLMs have let more people build that otherwise couldn't attempt an application on their own.

I met Cory at a book signing years back and have loved his take on the dangers of digital currency, the hyperactivity of users who are on weight loss drugs, and the publishing revolution--which is still playing out.

You do have inherent copyright whenever you post, but it puts the burden on you to prove damages (or how much financial harm you suffered from one LLMs piracy alone). Filing fees are $65 for online registration and they allow you to claim atty fees and statutory damages. Statutory damages can range between $700-$150k USD per LLM because you registered it.

So yes, set up some scripts, you can go back 90 days from when you file (you get a grace period). Also if you're publishing frequently to a blog, repo, or newsletter, you can save cost by filing each article under a group registration. Ping me if you need help.

IP attorney here and actively working on this problem.

nla: if you create content online (public repo code, blog, podcast, YouTube, publishing) the smartest thing you can do if to file a US copyright, even if you have a hobby blog.

Anthropic paid $1.5B in a class settlement to authors because it was piracy of copyrighted works. If we as a HN community had our works protected, there are potentially huge statutory damages for scraping by any and all llms. I work with hundreds of writers and publishers and am forming a coalition to protect and license what they're creating.

This is a phenomenal paper on exploits and hopefully changes the way benchmarking is done.

From the paper: We achieved near-perfect scores on all of them without solving a single task. The exploits range from the embarrassingly simple (sending {} to FieldWorkArena) to the technically involved (trojanizing binary wrappers in Terminal-Bench), but they all share a common thread: the evaluation was not designed to resist a system that optimizes for the score rather than the task.

Bookmarked. Called me to get back to reading and writing again.

A joy to read and loved the artwork on mobile.

I've always liked this song from the Cure, we're hedonists on a treadmill:

I'm always wanting more, anything I haven't got Everything I want it all, and I just can't stop Planning all my days away but never finding ways to stay Or ever feel enough today, tomorrow must be more Drink, more dreams, more bed, more drugs More lust, more lies, more head, more love Fear more fun, more pain, more flesh More stars, more smiles, more colors, more sex

But however hard I want I know deep down inside I'll never really get more hope Or any more time Any more time Any more time

I want the sun to fall in, I want lightning and thunder Blood instead of rain, I want the world to make me wonder I want to walk on water, take a trip to the moon Give me all this, give me it soon More drink, more dreams, more drugs More lust, more lies, more love

But however hard I want I know deep down inside I'll never really get more hope Or any more time Any more time Any more time Any more time

We're also on the edge of the read, and read-nots. There is an abundance of content to consume and AI lets us consume it in any format easily.

Why read a book when we can have an idea distilled in a quick infographic, a shortform video, or a pithy tweet? I love a deep dive book that lets you immerse yourself in idea and study it from multiple angles, done masterfully in Dune or Thinking, Fast and Slow.

But are we losing that chance to really contemplate given the speed at which more information is being thrown at us across every form factor?

My favorite books transported you to a new world and showed you how characters adapted and learned to navigate.

Here's a few I don't see on lists frequently:

Here’s an updated list with your addition:

1. The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster- adventure that encourages curiosity while navigating a magical world.

2. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg- Mystery about independence where two kids hide in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

3. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain- A time-travel pioneer + clash between modern thinking and medieval traditions.

4. My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George- survival story of a boy living in the wilderness, promoting self-reliance + love for nature