Yet another Hacker News

37 points tosh 2 hours ago 10 comments

stacktraceyo 58 minutes ago | parent

Great visualization. Side note their new c++ extension api is also gonna be faster from the perspective of development / distribution of those extensions

scythmic_waves 24 minutes ago | parent

I also love the visualizations but I'm getting heavy LLM vibes from the prose:

> One setting drives this,...

> The cost is now about the rows you actually touch, not rounds times table size.

Etc.

I get the brain scramblies [1] from trying to parse this writing style at work so I hate to see it elsewhere. Apologies if I'm wrong. But if I'm not then OP don't use an LLM to write for you. It's hazardous to your reader's health [2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipUJq-odt5Q

[2]: https://discourse.haskell.org/t/how-to-keep-enjoying-program...

j-pb 22 minutes ago | parent

Ask a llm to rewrite it in your preffered style.

This all feels like mass hysteria.

meerita 16 minutes ago | parent

Imagine invalidating facts just because the doc "maybe" was written by an AI. I agree with the hysteria. The good news is this hysteria will be over in the next years nobody will care.

scythmic_waves 12 minutes ago | parent

At what point did I "invalidate facts"?

status_quo69 9 minutes ago | parent

Where were the facts invalidated? Why can't a reader despise a writing style that LLMs converge towards?

I think you're right on your last point, btw, nobody will care and we'll be the poorer for it. Just like how McDonald's and Walmart have driven out and undercut localized taste and culture in the US, so it shall be with writing of all kinds. It's happening right now and readers are getting used to reading the intellectual equivalent of a Big Mac.

filcuk 6 minutes ago | parent

Why point it out if it doesn't matter then?

larodi 15 minutes ago | parent

...because Atlas and Fable took turns to go back and forth through it (source code and runtime) and track suspected bottlenecks.