In addition to what others said, home-etched PCBs are just much lower quality. We're no longer living in a world where every component has leads on a 2.54 mm grid, so tolerances matter a lot more. Also, SMD means you…
The core claim is that "most projects die in the setup: a screen, buttons, power and sensors to wire up before you can even begin". Now, you get plug-and-play blocks for that. That idea has been tried many times before.…
Oh come on. Just seven days before this 60-page essay, you apparently cranked out another 40-page one: https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/ That's 100+ pages of in-depth technical writing in a matter of days.…
The text is also pretty clearly AI-generated. But I guess there's now a market for "I asked an LLM so that you don't have to".
As a person who has a number of relatively niche hobbies, I assure you that this is not true. There's a ton of simple things that can be build and will make an immediate difference in the lives of thousands. Watch the…
This is not a remark about AI, but there's something funny about mathematics in that every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal. We attach basically zero value to writing a new program that hasn't existed…
I don't like this "just" framing. It's like saying that crushing orphans was always a thing and Microsoft Orphan Crusher 2000 is just making it easier. It's a qualitative change. It used to cost time and effort to…
It's not just about being accidentally wrong. An LLM can decide to actively engage in fraud. One mechanism, which you also see in vibe coding, is that the models are very goal-driven. If they can't accomplish the goal…
This is a prime example of a problem space where accuracy matters, but it also matters who ultimately goes to prison. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's not the LLM. If you're acting in good faith and your…
I don't understand how this works. If it's a transparent display that just passes through light and adds some overlay information (like a viewfinder on d/SLR cameras of the old), then doesn't the frame change completely…
Meta revenues are significantly higher than the revenues of tobacco companies. Plus, the tobacco settlement was breaking new ground; here "you did this even though you knew what happened to tobacco companies" works to…
The author admits it in the discussion of one of their other submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799568 Apparently, the disclaimer was "put as a joke". Must be an eclectic sense of humor.
It's very appropriate that the entirety of this appears to be AI-generated. The archetype "map" viewable if you click "See all 30 archetypes" at the bottom looks like the LLM must have bumped its head pretty hard.
I never had problems with Brother for laser and Canon for inkjet. The models I have are no longer being manufactured, so I can't recommend anything specific. I did my best to stay way from HP for inkjet, they always had…
I think the top-ranking comment about complexity is off base: they're not inventing inkjet printing from scratch. It's basically a bunch of existing modules in a new package, presumably with the promise that you will…
Computer science is a weird degree because it was meant to produce computer scientists. Theory of computability, graph theory, discrete math, formal logic, etc. But the world just doesn't need that many computer…
While there's some skepticism in the thread, I'm not particularly surprised if this is true. Children who can get human tutoring do a lot better. An LLM that can answer questions and patiently explain likely offers some…
> LLMs have been incredible for my personal learnings of new concepts. Mind if I ask what did you learn and how you're using it? The reason I'm asking is that I repeatedly felt excitement only to realize down the line…
I suspect you're projecting too much meaning into it. I routinely get TikTok "citations" on science questions. I think it's more or less the LLM making up after-the-fact justifications for what it says by picking…
I find this study a bit weird because it doesn't really establish a baseline. If you look at "top 100" blogs in year n, I imagine that many of them will be dead in year n + 5 simply because people move on. So are we…
This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a marine…
> Knowledge should be free. It was never created in a vacuum. This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's…
I'll get my agent on it right away.
> "It's amazing that anybody creates Wikpedia articles at all" Very few people do, which actually makes it worse: of course the spammers and the hustlers are still motivated, so the needle moves more firmly into the…
I'll take a contrarian view and probably get downvoted for it, but many people are adamant about the benefits of indiscriminate archiving, and I just don't see it. Do we have a moral right to keep a copy of everything…
In addition to what others said, home-etched PCBs are just much lower quality. We're no longer living in a world where every component has leads on a 2.54 mm grid, so tolerances matter a lot more. Also, SMD means you…
The core claim is that "most projects die in the setup: a screen, buttons, power and sensors to wire up before you can even begin". Now, you get plug-and-play blocks for that. That idea has been tried many times before.…
Oh come on. Just seven days before this 60-page essay, you apparently cranked out another 40-page one: https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/software/ That's 100+ pages of in-depth technical writing in a matter of days.…
The text is also pretty clearly AI-generated. But I guess there's now a market for "I asked an LLM so that you don't have to".
As a person who has a number of relatively niche hobbies, I assure you that this is not true. There's a ton of simple things that can be build and will make an immediate difference in the lives of thousands. Watch the…
This is not a remark about AI, but there's something funny about mathematics in that every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal. We attach basically zero value to writing a new program that hasn't existed…
I don't like this "just" framing. It's like saying that crushing orphans was always a thing and Microsoft Orphan Crusher 2000 is just making it easier. It's a qualitative change. It used to cost time and effort to…
It's not just about being accidentally wrong. An LLM can decide to actively engage in fraud. One mechanism, which you also see in vibe coding, is that the models are very goal-driven. If they can't accomplish the goal…
This is a prime example of a problem space where accuracy matters, but it also matters who ultimately goes to prison. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess it's not the LLM. If you're acting in good faith and your…
I don't understand how this works. If it's a transparent display that just passes through light and adds some overlay information (like a viewfinder on d/SLR cameras of the old), then doesn't the frame change completely…
Meta revenues are significantly higher than the revenues of tobacco companies. Plus, the tobacco settlement was breaking new ground; here "you did this even though you knew what happened to tobacco companies" works to…
The author admits it in the discussion of one of their other submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799568 Apparently, the disclaimer was "put as a joke". Must be an eclectic sense of humor.
It's very appropriate that the entirety of this appears to be AI-generated. The archetype "map" viewable if you click "See all 30 archetypes" at the bottom looks like the LLM must have bumped its head pretty hard.
I never had problems with Brother for laser and Canon for inkjet. The models I have are no longer being manufactured, so I can't recommend anything specific. I did my best to stay way from HP for inkjet, they always had…
I think the top-ranking comment about complexity is off base: they're not inventing inkjet printing from scratch. It's basically a bunch of existing modules in a new package, presumably with the promise that you will…
Computer science is a weird degree because it was meant to produce computer scientists. Theory of computability, graph theory, discrete math, formal logic, etc. But the world just doesn't need that many computer…
While there's some skepticism in the thread, I'm not particularly surprised if this is true. Children who can get human tutoring do a lot better. An LLM that can answer questions and patiently explain likely offers some…
> LLMs have been incredible for my personal learnings of new concepts. Mind if I ask what did you learn and how you're using it? The reason I'm asking is that I repeatedly felt excitement only to realize down the line…
I suspect you're projecting too much meaning into it. I routinely get TikTok "citations" on science questions. I think it's more or less the LLM making up after-the-fact justifications for what it says by picking…
I find this study a bit weird because it doesn't really establish a baseline. If you look at "top 100" blogs in year n, I imagine that many of them will be dead in year n + 5 simply because people move on. So are we…
This is a press release from a marine research organization, so the main implication here isn't that they're doing it because it's in any way relevant to humans. They're doing it because it's a cool thing for a marine…
> Knowledge should be free. It was never created in a vacuum. This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's…
I'll get my agent on it right away.
> "It's amazing that anybody creates Wikpedia articles at all" Very few people do, which actually makes it worse: of course the spammers and the hustlers are still motivated, so the needle moves more firmly into the…
I'll take a contrarian view and probably get downvoted for it, but many people are adamant about the benefits of indiscriminate archiving, and I just don't see it. Do we have a moral right to keep a copy of everything…