๐ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: Things LLM people can learn from Training method Since AlphaZero, lc0-style chess engines have been trained with RL. Specifically, you have the engine (search + model) play itself a bunch of times, and train the model to predict the outcome of the game. It turns out this isn't necessary. Good model vs bad model is ~200 elo, but search is ~1200 elo, so even a bad model + search is essentially an oracle to a good model without, and you can distill from bad model…
๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: While Cass is on target in pointing to the waste and abuse in the financial sector, the big question is where is the rest of the economics profession? Supposedly, eliminating waste and corruption was the mantra of โfree tradeโ neo-liberals. But the massive waste and corruption in the financial sector is easy for anyone with clear eyes to see. - Dean Baker Everyone who reads this publication knows what needs to get built. More grid transmission. More nuclear plants. More housing. More automated industrial…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Game developers didnโt have it easy in the 1990s. Because they had extremely limited computing power, they had to write their code as efficiently as possible. Consider the first-person shooter Quake III Arena, usually called Quake 3, for example: players navigated a three-dimensional world, so the programmers had to find the cleverest ways to handle 3D graphics and the associated calculations.Quake 3 released in 1999 and is considered one of the best computer games of its time. It had a lasting impact on the industry.…
โจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: David Oks published a well-written essay yesterday arguing that the current panic about AI job displacement is overblown. I agree with a few of his premises (and itโs nice to see that weโre both fans of Lars Tunbjรถrk), but disagree with most of them and arrive at very different conclusions. I see other economists with similar views to Oks, so I thought it would be best to illustrate my perspective on econ/labor and why I choose to research gradual disempowerment risks.My main claim is simple:…
๐ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: Continuing on from the previous series that began with Embodying the Nervous System.In your skull, there is a large organ that we call the brain. For the last hundred years, we have privileged it as the focal point for investigation into human nature and behavior.ExerciseIf you close your eyes, and point to where you feel you are in your body, where do you point? Do you have a focal point?Most of us locate ourselves in our head, somewhere behind the eyes.Much of the neuro-centric cognitive…
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๐ฅ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: ๐ฌ๐ง->๐ต๐ฑ Przejdลบ do polskiej wersji tego wpisu / Go to polish version of this post Table of contents: Introduction (feel free to skip) Just a year ago, I was really deep into the Apple ecosystem. It seemed like there was no turning back from the orchard for me. Phone, laptop, watch, tablet, video and music streaming, cloud storage, and even a key tracker. All from one manufacturer. Plus shared family photo albums, calendars, and even shopping lists. However, at some point, I discovered Plenti, a…
๐ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: โ BackFeb 17, 2026 ยท Arthur CnopsA few days ago I posted to Show HN. I had good fun building that useless little internet experience. The post quickly disappeared from Show HN's first page, amongst the rest of the vibecoded pulp. And to be clear, I'm fine with that. The behavior on Show HN was interesting to see though. So I pulled the data. The Short Version Show HN of course isn't dead. You could even say it's more alive than ever. What has changed…
๐ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out With Western Digital and Seagate, two of the three remaining hard drive manufacturers worldwide have confirmed that they have already sold their production quotas for 2026 completely or almost completely. The situation is likely to be similar for Toshiba. The statements come from the company CEOs in the analyst conferences on the latest business reports. They thus confirm speculation from September 2025. And there are already initial agreements for the year 2026. They largely…
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**What Youโll Learn**: Macroeconomics, DIY Hardware and AI-Driven Voting Pools I downloaded every Show HN post since the site was launched and ran them through a hierarchical topic model. I set out to discover what the Hacker News community finds interesting but in the process I ended up uncovering macro-economic trends, evidence of voting rings/fraud, and subtle shifts in behavior over the lifespan of the post What Does Hacker News Like? Figure 1: Treemap visualization of every Show HN posts. Grouped first by year, then by high level…
โจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐ ๐ **Category**: ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: This post is an elaboration of a shorter post I wrote about five years ago. The two management giants of the mid-twentieth century were Peter Drucker and W. Edwards Deming. Ironically, while Drucker hails from Austria-Hungary (like me, Drucker emigrated to the U.S. as an adult) and Deming was born in the U.S., it was Drucker that proved to be more influential in America. Demingโs influence was much greater in Japan than it ever was the U.S. If youโve ever been at an organization that…