layer8's comments

On: Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source

[layer8]

Sure it is:

https://uspto.report/TM/78326416/

https://uspto.report/TM/74713937/

https://uspto.report/TM/74619284/

https://uspto.report/TM/87438245/

https://uspto.report/TM/77936273/

https://uspto.report/TM/86747705/

https://uspto.report/TM/78638776/

https://uspto.report/TM/73359604/

https://uspto.report/TM/98066821/

https://uspto.report/TM/97979922/

…and many more.

On: Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs

[layer8]

I think they just misspelled “Bland fonts”.

On: Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

[layer8]

Apparently no one tried the obvious: https://translate.kagi.com/en/linkedin/news.ycombinator.com

Now they need to add HN Speak so that we can apply it to LinkedIn.

On: Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

[layer8]

Sounds like there was a bad hiring process.

[usefulcat → layer8]

There's no such thing as a hiring process that avoids that problem 100% of the time.

After all, most people will be on their best behavior during an interview, and even a lengthy interview process is a very short period of time compared to working with someone for weeks or months.

[layer8 → usefulcat]

Not 100%, but well enough that it shouldn’t be a general expectation to have someone like that on the team.

[hinkley → layer8]

They’re all bad hiring processes. Some worse than others. Hiring known quantities can slip onto nepotism shockingly fast.

On: On The Need For Understanding

[layer8]

> deep, first-principles understanding that LLMs make obsolete.

I don’t think that’s the case. I agree with the rest of what you wrote. But it’s not a value out of thin air. You need understanding, unless all you ever do is “spin up a quick tool or PoC”. And even then it depends on what you want to quickly use the tool for, or what concept you want to prove.

On: Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

[layer8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Orchestra_of_Auschwi...

“The Germans wanted a propaganda tool for [SS] visitors and camp newsreels and a tool to boost camp morale.”

There were also several men’s orchestras.

On: Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

[layer8]

You can go to Reddit for everything. There’s even r/hackernews.

[DANmode → layer8]

Any strong signal left?

or just recycled points?

On: Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car

[layer8]

FWIW, you can read flagged posts and comments by turning on “showdead” in your profile.

[freedomben → layer8]

IMHO showdead often surfaces a lot of interesting info. It's one of my favorite things about HN, and I love and appreciate that HN has that feature.

One example: If you want to see how bad the LLM slop commenting is, showdead is very helpful. It's not as bad as some people think, but it's certainly non-zero. On the plus side, those comments do seem to get identified and flagged/killed pretty quickly.

On: Obsession with growth is destroying nature, 150 countries warn

[layer8]

Before the end of the century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_projections

On: Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily

[layer8]

Probably no sustainable pays-the-bills way to do it, though I would love to be proven wrong by a curator who happens to match my preferences.

On the other hand, the HN front page is already the result of collective curation.