zorpner
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Comment · 1 month ago
Humans are social animals. It's true that not all of these interactions re positive, but so much of what drives us is not even related to acclaim or flattery, but merely interaction in a general sense. In a sense this is one of the true perils of LLM-style interaction (going back to Eliza, I guess) -- that we can not only potentially satisfy that drive mechanically, but do so in a way that's structurally produced by a commercial entity. Do you think that the models talking to you have your best interests at heart? They don't have any interest in you at all.
Comment · 7 months ago
Over 25% of the original ASCII specification is control characters.
Comment · 9 months ago
It provides no benefit, so even the smallest amount of added complexity or additional engineering effort required isn't worthwhile.
Comment · 9 months ago
Even given the other objections to your argument, there are an extraordinary number of examples of now-very-appreciated artists, writers, etc whose work was not valued at the time they were creating it.
Comment · 11 months ago
Here's a good summary of some recent stuff: https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
Comment · 1 year ago
Corey Quinn wrote an interesting article addressing that question: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/aws_outage_amazon_bra...
Some good information in the comments as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
DHH joined their board in 2024 [0], and is using this opportunity to purge people he disagrees with politically from the Ruby ecosystem. It really is as simple as that.
0: https://www.shopify.com/news/david-heinemeier-hansson-board
Comment · 1 year ago
Specifically, it was in a meeting called by Jason Fried to address people who were concerned about the ongoing existence of an internal list of "funny customer names" (which by all accounts was extremely racist), in which Ryan Singer (who had reportedly previously posted a fair bit of politically right-wing content on internal forums -- those were all deleted when the "no politics at work" policy was rolled out) repeatedly asserted that white supremacy/privilege did not exist (he then resigned).
In the aftermath, DHH dug through old chat logs to find a time in the past when one of the people complaining about the list participated in a discussion about same without complaint, and posted it in a way that was visible to everyone saying that their prior participation meant that their current complaint was invalid.
Then they rolled out the no-politics-at-work policy in this post dated April 26 2021 -- I would encourage anyone interested in the specifics to read through the various versions and edits of this post made in the week following, all without noting that it was being actively changed: https://world.hey.com/jason/changes-at-basecamp-7f32afc5
Comment · 1 year ago
Why would we think that intelligence would increase in response to universality, rather than in response to resource constraints?
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if those would be useful in identifying the potential contents of specific Marion Stokes tapes (my understanding is that they're sorted, but are only labeled with channel and date/time and are being archived slowly): https://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5393
Comment · 1 year ago
Not of companies. Of the people who choose to work for them (or, rather, choose not to stop working for them after they build these "features").
Comment · 2 years ago
In the spirit of HN, I guess I'll ask -- what did you think the point of the story was?
Comment · 2 years ago
Long story short, the sword was forged during the First Age by the famed Dwarven-smith Telchar of Nogrod -- later wielded by Elendil and shattered in the Battle of Dagorlad. Once this kid's dad gets around to reforging it, it will be known as Andúril.
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