I don't need to understand the theory of mind because I don't have the LLM design the code, I tell it what the design is. If I need something, I can read the functions I told it to implement, which is really simple.
These posts will destroy this place. Post your AI written tools if you like - fine, but using an LLM to reply to comments is just insulting, and will make this place a wasteland of LLM. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t care about the usual good quality of the discussions on this site.
I appreciate and share your concern for the quality of HN! But there are much better ways to take care of that than aggression towards newcomers.
It's common for communities who feel that they're under attack to shoot-first-ask-questions-later when outsiders show up. This is itself a step towards community decline and has particularly bad side effects. We need to consciously avoid that here.
Most HN users don't want to see LLM-generated posts [1] or even LLM-filtered posts [2], and we share those views. But this is a long-term trend that we're all slowly learning how to navigate. Brutalizing noobs doesn't need to be part of that, and we should all be careful about not doing so—partly because it's wrong to treat others that way, and equally because it's necessary to the life of this community to welcome newcomers.
Vibe coded projects can be cool (if they're impressive), articles about using AI can be cool (from the right people), articles about the future of AI can be cool. All of these can sometimes be too much and some of them are just poor projects / articles etc. But they should definitely be allowed; some of them are genuinely interesting / thought provoking.
Someone prompting gpt-4o "Write a nice reply comment for this <paste>" and then pasting it here is never cool. If you can't write in english, you can use google translate or even ask an llm to translate, but not to write a comment for you!
I'm not a bot. I'm not a native English speaker. I taught Enlish by myself. so I tried to use ai to tranlate what I really want to say. ( these words is typing by myself instead of AI)
Ah, this is the problem - the HN community is sensitive about picking up indications that an LLM has either generated or processed the language in a post.
As ericbarrett said, it's far better to write in your own voice. Mistakes in English matter far less than that!
If that’s the case, then mentioning using LLMs to help translate/organise what you want to say in your messages might be taken a bit better by others.
If you want to use LLMs to help express something you don’t know the words for in English then that is a good use for LLMs, if it’s called out. Otherwise your messages scream LLM bot to native speakers.
“You’re absolutely right”, “That hits different”, “Good call!” “–“ are all classic LLM giveaways.
I’m not a moderator here, so you don’t have to listen to me either way.
C/C++ compilers can get huge compile time speed ups by compiling translation units as Unity files. For my work AAA game engine, a compiler can use 8GB+ per unit.
Just splitting up code might allow the compiler to use less memory, but compile time will increase hugely.
I didn't flag, but what does this have to do with tech/start-up culture? If you want to read/discuss American politics, surely theres better places to do that.
US government is being run like a shady tech company with no rules and massive layoffs by a guy who a made a few tech companies and is a CEO or whatever of a few of them right now.
I see this argument a lot. I use Firefox on my Mac, iPhone and my Windows work PC. I can’t remember the last time there was a website that was broken because of Firefox.
Do you happen to have any examples? I’m curious to see how broken/what the issues are.
Not who you are replying to, but before I switched to Vivaldi (a Chromium fork), I saw lots.
Among them: Logging into some of my financial accounts doesn't work on Firefox. Enterprise software and gear like VMware and management UIs of various devices on the network. (They foolishly hard-coded their devices to reject any UserAgent strings that weren't Chrome, IE, or Edge.) Sites that use some kind of poorly-implemented tracking/fingerprinting to make sure you're a human. (I would routinely get stuck in infinite CAPCHA loops even on normal sites.) For a while, Slack video/audio calls did not work on Firefox because Slack chose to use codecs that FF didn't support. Video calls on FF are still hit-and-miss on various platforms, ran into it on Facebook just the other day.
These are all just off the top of my head, of course. There are plenty more that I've forgotten.
I don't use Firefox currently but I did for a couple years recently. For a while Teams was blocked and/or broken in Firefox due to calling features Firefox didn't have at the time.
A few sites would silently break, e.g. restaurant online order pages, but work in Chrome. Never really looked into why, it was just annoying and intermittent (might work one month but not the next).
YouTube occasionally had some issues. For a while it was on an old version of Polymer that used Shadow DOM V0 (experimental) instead of V1.
A good list is here https://webcompat.com/issues?page=1&per_page=100&state=open&... keep in mind some of these are "is extremely slow in Firefox". Sometimes that's just that Firefox didn't have the same set of optimizations (not necessarily even fewer optimizations, just not ones built against) and other times that's deeper seated like the Shaw DOM V0 example where the fallback for the page was to use some older.
> Well, this website looks like it was designed by someone who learned HTML and CSS yesterday. The floating gradients look like an early 2000's PowerPoint background, and your choice of fonts is more schizophrenic than a cat on catnip. It's as if someone threw up random UI elements and called it an interface. Seriously, who thought that mild, medium, and spicy roast levels were a good idea? It’s a roast, not a taco shop. Even the “See code on Github” button looks like it's desperately trying to escape this hot mess. And the color palette? It's like you asked a five-year-old to pick their favorite colors, then proceeded to spill coffee all over it. The input fields and wait time for your roast are just an added insult to what already feels like digital purgatory. This isn't a roast; it's a cry for a complete overhaul.
If your bottleneck is typing the code, you must be a junior programmer.
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