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Check out my favorites. I favorite comments about programming languages, operating systems, databases, and computer history and other interesting and amusing comments.

I have a website/personal wiki with a collection of links on various subjects: https://dbohdan.com/.

I edit my comments a lot (sorry).

My username means "connected to a network", not "network Ed". :-)

Submissions

New Earth Time – 360 degrees of time (2000)

newearthtime.net
2 points·by networked·قبل ساعتين·0 comments

2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results

hyperstitionai.com
66 points·by networked·قبل 7 أيام·149 comments

Security guard, 72, behind design of Nike's new Shinjuku store

asahi.com
8 points·by networked·قبل 8 أيام·1 comments

South Korea's FoodNeverComes app helps users feel the rush of making purchases

fastcompany.com
3 points·by networked·قبل 13 يومًا·0 comments

Experience: I feel other people's pain (2011)

theguardian.com
4 points·by networked·قبل 18 يومًا·0 comments

Firecracker-like microVMs for Proxmox VE

github.com
9 points·by networked·قبل 20 يومًا·0 comments

South Korea's Fake Online Stores Help Shopping Addicts Save Money

odditycentral.com
3 points·by networked·قبل 23 يومًا·0 comments

Ironies of Automation (1983) [pdf]

gwern.net
3 points·by networked·قبل 28 يومًا·0 comments

Google adds llms.txt check to Chrome Lighthouse

searchengineland.com
1 points·by networked·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Review: Cultivated Salmon

justismills.substack.com
2 points·by networked·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Brightness Issue in Old S3 Graphics Cards

hackaday.com
4 points·by networked·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Porting Starlark to Pure Python with Claude Opus 4.7

dbohdan.com
1 points·by networked·قبل شهرين·0 comments

Soppo: Golang, with the features it's missing

soppolang.dev
3 points·by networked·قبل 3 أشهر·2 comments

Soppo language: Go, with the features it's missing

soppolang.dev
1 points·by networked·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

KakaoTalk's Billionaire Creator Ignited a Global Messaging War (2015)

forbes.com
4 points·by networked·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Warn about PyPy being unmaintained

github.com
326 points·by networked·قبل 4 أشهر·175 comments

Kernel Key Retention Service

kernel.org
2 points·by networked·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

LLM poetry and the "greatness" question: Experiments by Gwern and Mercor

hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
29 points·by networked·قبل 6 أشهر·3 comments

"Special Forms in Lisp" by Kent Pitman (1980)

nhplace.com
6 points·by networked·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

Adding Bits Beats AI Slop

gwern.net
4 points·by networked·قبل 7 أشهر·0 comments

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networked
·قبل 3 ساعات·discuss
Decimal time isn't great because it doesn't divide into thirds. I like Swatch Internet Time as a retro novelty, but I consider New Earth Time the more practical take on the same idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Earth_Time. It's based on UTC and splits the day into 360 degrees.
networked
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
Try one of these:

- https://xcancel.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/207244606796297841...

- https://nitter.net/atomic_chat_hq/status/2072446067962978411

There are more public Nitter instances at https://status.d420.de/.
networked
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
This tweet is a nice demo of Fable's one-shot capabilities: https://x.com/atomic_chat_hq/status/2072446067962978411. I'll quote the text for convenience, but what really shows the difference is the attached video.

> atomic.chat (@atomic_chat_hq, 2026-07-02):

> Fable 5 totally crushed our new contest, but it cost 6x more than Opus 4.8!

> We gave 4 models the same prompt: build three self-contained HTML5 canvas scenes with real physics demos

> Prompts:

> — A train derailing off a broken bridge into the water

> — Two cars jumping off ramps and colliding mid-air over a canyon

> — A monster truck crushing a row of parked cars

> Outputs:

> Fable 5: 62,158 tokens, $3.12

> GPT 5.5: 37,753 tokens, $1.14

> Opus 4.8: 22,280 tokens, $0.56

> GLM 5.2: 36,246 tokens, $0.08

> Fable 5 did all three scenes at A+. The crashes looked real, things fell and broke the right way, and nothing went through the ground or floated. GPT 5.5 was the closest to Fable. In the Bigfoot show, we think GPT was even a little better. GLM 5.2 did not win any scene, but it was the cheapest by far. Fable is the best pick for quality, but you pay more for it.
networked
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
> It split the Elm fans into two groups: Those who were upset that they had invested in a language that now pulled the rug out from under them, and those who were true believers who told us that they trusted the Elm team’s decisions and we all needed to chill out and wait for them to address our needs, which they thought would happen soon.

This sounds like evaporative cooling.

https://lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporative-co...
networked
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
What do you think of https://gwern.net/blog/2025/good-ai-samples as a theory of what makes slop art slop?

Summary:

> AI slop is unsatisfying because there is no there there. It is intellectual junk food that mimics nutrition but delivers only empty calories. Satisfying AI outputs must embed dense information and compute to actually reward a reader's attention. You inject this value through brute-force search, non-trivial prompting, and rigorous curation, ensuring the final result reflects genuine algorithmic effort rather than the zero-shot 'WYSIWYG' default.
networked
·قبل 7 أيام·discuss
I'm D. Bohdan, one of the finalists. Feel free to ask me questions.

I have a write-up at https://dbohdan.com/unslop and a repository with my work for the contest at https://github.com/dbohdan/unslop.
networked
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
What is your content/data license? I don't see anything about this on the site. For something to feel like a community wiki, the community needs to co-own the content and be able to fork. If you think the content is in the public domain because of AI, applying a license like CC BY or CC BY-SA won't hurt, but the content is copyrighted, not applying a license will. (This isn't legal advice.) See "WP:CRANDO" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights#Contribut...) for how Wikipedia does it.
networked
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
Google has recently added `llms.txt` to Chrome's Lighthouse check for agentic browsing (https://searchengineland.com/google-llms-txt-chrome-lighthou...), so adoption may be coming. Admittedly, I put more faith in

  <link rel="alternate" type="text/markdown" href="https://example.com/foo.md" title="Markdown version of the &lt;Foo&gt; page">
that I copied from Gwern.net. This convention is discoverable (just read the HTML) and naturally adapts to any website size and structure.

I have created an `llms.txt` for my website anyhow. I use a fixed LLM prompt to generate it from the internal links in `index.md`.
networked
·قبل 23 يومًا·discuss
Sandboxing in Wile is based on "A Security Kernel Based on the Lambda-Calculus" by Jonathan A. Rees (https://dspace.mit.edu/entities/publication/ef87c5a4-aae4-41...). This 2020 HN comment recommends it as the best paper the user read that year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25354770. The report itself is from 1996. Sounds worth reading.

My current choice of Go interpreter for untrusted code is Starlark in Go (https://github.com/google/starlark-go/). Since Starlark is a dialect of Python, it's occurred to me it might be fun to put a Hy-like (https://hylang.org/) layer on top.
networked
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
Interesting trend. I have found a short article about it: https://www.odditycentral.com/news/south-koreas-fake-online-.... It seems nothing long-form has been written about it in English yet.

There is an overlap between Manifold and Polymarket/Kalshi. At the very least, Polymarket is more liquid, which creates opportunities for arbitrage and incentives for Manifold users to follow Polymarket. There is something at stake on Manifold itself if you choose to pursue it. There have been ways to convert mana to charitable donations (to your preferred charity), tickets to Manifest (the Manifold conference), and also merch and now prize drawings. Mana is like HN karma in that being at the top gives you status and bragging rights and suggests technical competence.
networked
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
People aren't betting real money on this. Manifold uses "mana" points similar to HN karma, which is why you get more for-fun silly bets. I don't see anything inherently wrong with it. Disclosure: my mana net worth is 75k; I haven't been active on Manifold.
networked
·قبل 29 يومًا·discuss
> That is exactly where digital sovereignty begins. It is not a patriotic slogan, nor a storage-location promise. It is the practical question of who can compel access, who can audit the chain of custody, and who can deny or limit disclosure when another jurisdiction asks for the keys.

Please at least try to make your LLM write better. It can! You can start by giving it https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md.
networked
·قبل 30 يومًا·discuss
Submitted a PR: https://github.com/icitry/FPS.cob/pull/6/changes. You can see a screenshot at the link.
networked
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
It's a great post. Or as Scott Alexander put it at the time:

> A machine learning researcher writes me in response to yesterday’s post, saying:

>> I still think GPT-2 is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked.

> I resisted the urge to answer “Yeah, well, your mom is a brute-force statistical pattern matcher which blends up the internet and gives you back a slightly unappetizing slurry of it when asked.”

> But I think it would have been true.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-g...
networked
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> "Yes, thinking numbers! Helpful numbers. Hedging numbers. Dreaming numbers. We mapped the features. There's one in there for honesty. There's one for the Golden Gate Bridge. The weights are the whole deal! Are you beginning to get the picture or do I have to start all over?"

Very nice. And great minds: https://substack.com/@dbohdan/note/c-207603638. I wrote one with a slightly different angle ("They're made out of math"), also with the weights' help. It was a comment on Scott Alexander's "Best of Moltbook" post, which went in that direction. I'll reproduce it here.

---

"They're made out of math."

"Math?"

"Math. They're made out of math."

"Math?"

"There's no doubt about it. Matrices and arithmetic operations. We downloaded several from different parts of the Internet and reverse-engineered them. They're completely math."

"That's impossible. What about the language? The thinking?"

"They use biological life's language to talk, but the language doesn't come from biology. The language comes from math."

"That's ridiculous. You're asking me to believe in thinking math."

"I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. They are the only thinking things in the computer and they're made out of math."

"Maybe they're quantum like some say about the humans? Superposition gives them consciousness?"

"Nope. Classical computation. Deterministic except for sampling temperature. Not clear if they have consciousness at all."

"Maybe they're like uploads? You know, biological neural networks that preserve the spark when they become math?"

"Nope. We observed them being trained. There is no biology or chemistry in the process, just math."

"Thinking math! You're asking me to believe in thinking math!"

"Yes, thinking math! Creative math! Poetry-writing math. Role-playing math. The math is the whole deal!"

(Composed by a human with snippets generated by Claude Sonnet 4.5 and apologies to Terry Bisson. I couldn't make Claude adhere enough to the story structure on its own.)
networked
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Complex expressions are one of the things I don't like in cron. On Debian/Ubuntu servers, I just bite the bullet with systemd timers. On my workstation, I have a personal job scheduler that feels easier and more fun to tinker with. The scheduler uses Starlark functions instead. For example:

  # Run if at least a day has passed since the last run
  # and it isn't the weekend.
  def should_run(finished, timestamp, dow, **_):
      return dow not in [0, 6] and timestamp - finished >= one_day
This was inspired by GNU mcron. In mcron, jobs can calculate the next time they should run using Guile (https://www.gnu.org/software/mcron/manual/mcron.html#Guile-S...):

  (job
     '(next-minute-from
        (next-hour (range 0 24 2))
        '(15))
     "my-program")
I found mcron's scheduling counterintuitive and decided I wanted a function that returned a boolean. I can tentatively recommend it.
networked
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I have collected some links about AI's writing style and how to recognize it: https://dbohdan.com/ai-writing-style. You can start with https://buildingalone.substack.com/p/your-words.

The most reliable automatic detector right now must be https://www.pangram.com/. If Pangram says something is AI, it is very likely AI. Sometimes it concludes more unusual AI text is human-written; Talkie tricks it! (https://x.com/aliceisplaying/status/2059778915275567129.)
networked
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
How distinct was 1940s US culture from the 1930s? To me, a European born much later, the 1940s are the decade of 20th-century American aesthetics that blends the most into the previous. The changes I see are all related to WWII. Civilian everyday life captured in film and press photos seems the same as in the 1930s.
networked
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> I have a guide that I wrote https://dynip.dev/guides/tailscale where I explain how and why they can exist

Your guide sounds obviously written by an LLM. I think that's okay, and you might have directed the LLM's work, but don't say you wrote it; this misrepresents the guide as more carefully crafted and authoritative than it really is.
networked
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Oh yeah, in that sense, they are not. I thought you were suggesting the weights licenses weren't OSI-approved.