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things about stuff
Personal blog · b.h4x.zip · on HN as neomaiculturephilosophy
things about stuff is a personal blog at b.h4x.zip about ai, culture and philosophy. Since 2024, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “How AGI-Lite Happens”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of boredom as a related post, on the relation between boredom and sadistic aggression. The comment only links it and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
things about stuff
Most-linked posts?
- How AGI-Lite Happens2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-20
- The Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-10
What Hacker News says?
It's complicated isn't it? A business doesn't care about you. It doesn't because it can't. Business doesn't have thoughts and feelings, business is clinical. Business is nothing more than the collection of processed and systems crafted to work together, facilitating the exchange of value between 2 parties. The problem is with the 2 parties part. The 2 parties part, that part very much does have thoughts, feelings, a…
Comment linking /dei/
on “I Met Paul Graham Once”Submitted Mikeal Rogers has died as a story · 324 points
HN discussionAfter I read attention is all you need, my first thought was: "Orchestration is all you need". When 4o came out I published this: https://b.h4x.zip/agi/
Comment linking /agi/
on “Building Effective "Agents"”Submitted UltraNet: Revisiting Ultrasound as a story · 12 points
HN discussionbrief, sadly not, round about reflection, certainly: https://b.h4x.zip/love/
Comment linking /love/
on “Human”Submitted The Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIndeed, and probably why Steve got fired and had to take timeout. I break down some more nuance of it here if you're curious: https://b.h4x.zip/inventors/
Comment linking /inventors/
on “Storytelling lessons I learned from Steve Jobs (2022)”Submitted Dear Founders as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy mum is a shrink, and very old, and smart, and hates technology. I was talking her through how some primitive "AGI" could happen with 4o (basically just explained this: https://b.h4x.zip/agi ) That got us talking about consciousness, and at the end, she thought about it for about a minute and then said "if I can't give it lysergic acid and make it see god, it's not conscious" and went back to making her dinner.
Comment linking /agi
on “Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain”Submitted How AGI-Lite Happens as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI mean I was diagnosed with a salad of things. And then different doctors tell me different things about how they're all related or unrelated. It was honestly a very amusing situation. The only sense I got out of the whole long ass process was: neurological sensory difference "combo" in the roll of the dice, some of it given hereditarily, some this that and the other. I really see why this stuff is so frustrating fo…
Comment linking /autism-thinking-and-whiteboards/
on “Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins”Submitted We Got Here as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot really, well kinda, although lots of people skip the first step (well, most people try to skip a lot of steps sadly). You're describing something closer to early stage customer validation (ux/ui or otherwise) imo, (although experienced folks will tell you the playbooks and motions matter a lot, I agree, but that would be too much to get into), and while that iterative process is crucial, there's a key difference…
Comment linking /founders/
on “Is outbound going to die?”Or recently: The Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression https://b.h4x.zip/zzz/
Comment linking /zzz/
on “Should We Embrace Boredom?”I think it's coupled differential equations where each growth factor amplifies the others, I posted about it in 2024 - https://b.h4x.zip/ce/ - sent it around a bit but everyone thought I was nuts, look at that post from 2025 and think about what was happening IRL under the graphs line, then go look at where METR is today. I'm not trying to brag, I don't work for anthropic, but I do think I'm probably right.
Comment linking /ce/
on “Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential"”