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New comment by 0x20cowboy in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

0x20cowboy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:18:55 +0000

> There's no 'rigorous comparison' that puts CNNs over Vits

That’s not accurate. My team wrote a paper for school in which a resnet model out performed a ViT model of the same size on almost all metrics. These were smaller models, but depending on the use case that might be what you want.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

0x20cowboy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:27:02 +0000

I agree, but I’d extend that to any language using a package manager at this point. “A little copying is better than a little dependency” even more correct now.

All my current projects have all the code needed in the repo (unless impossible, and aside from a compiler which I guess could also be compromised)

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:46:12 +0000

> I’ve never understood the “if I don’t enable bad behavior, someone else will, so I might as well enable bad behavior” argument.

If someone is going to make a lot of money (fame, etc), it might as well be me.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

0x20cowboy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:02:02 +0000

If your codebase is pure golang it’s trivial to cross compile for different OSs (aside from binary signing on macOS). If you add some kind of C code you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get a binary. Funny enough, I was looking for this exact project for that reason last week.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:13:50 +0000

To help with any survivorship bias, 30 years in still no where close to success.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Stress disrupts hippocampal integration of overlapping events, memory inference"

0x20cowboy — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:12:00 +0000

What is it?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”"

0x20cowboy — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:22:39 +0000

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:43:20 +0000

Life is undefined behaviour.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

0x20cowboy — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:04:21 +0000

I dont know what CTF stands for so I dont know if I am interested in this article or learning anything about it. Maybe I am.

Are you really arguing for not just typing out whatever 3 words this stands for once in the name of clarity?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:08:36 +0000

So much this. Lisp can do things other languages have a hard time with. I think a resurgence is in order.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

0x20cowboy — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:39:19 +0000

I wouldn’t give a junior drop access to the prod database (or anyone for that matter from a dev machine), let alone an LLM.

How do people keep doing this?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

0x20cowboy — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:37:20 +0000

If that were true, industry interview processes would be very different.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "VisiCalc Reconstructed"

0x20cowboy — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:29:06 +0000

sc has been around for quite a while: https://github.com/robrohan/sc there are several versions floating around.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:39:04 +0000

“Here's the part I think a lot of people miss:”

:-/

The same argument could be made about people writing articles and influencing actions in other humans. Something, it seems, people want to use AI for. Have AI write articles for them.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

0x20cowboy — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:54:20 +0000

Maybe have a play with them a bit more. LLMs are quite good at coding, but terrible at software engineering. You hear people talk about “guiding them” which is what I think they are getting at. You still need to know what you are doing or you’ll just drive off a cliff eventually.

At the moment I am trying to fix a vibe coded application and while each individual function is ok, the overall application is a dog’s breakfast of spaghetti which is causing many problems.

If you derive all your pleasure from actually typing the code then you’re probably toast, but if you like building whole systems (that run on production infrastructure) there is still heaps of work to do.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Show HN: µJS, a 5KB alternative to Htmx and Turbo with zero dependencies"

0x20cowboy — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Not exactly what you’re saying, but a bit closer. With this library you set what css classes on the page are “hot”, it fetches the next page state and replaces that part of the page with the new state: https://github.com/robrohan/diffy

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:49:41 +0000

"'If I wished,' O'Brien had said, 'I could float off this floor like a soap bubble.' Winston worked it out. 'If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens'".

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up"

0x20cowboy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:14:21 +0000

Lol, I like that as a joke, but I wouldn’t think you are saying “a person who has no idea how something works” their opinion should be given equal weighting as someone who actually knows? Maybe you are - that seems to be how things work now.

I think you already get what I am saying, but it seems that there are maybe 3 groups. 2 who know how things work under the hood and have differing opinions and are curious to hear the other side, and one group who have no idea how things work, are very loud, have sci-fi fantasies, and spout strong opinions.

I wouldn't call that discourse i would call it ignorance.

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "OpenClaw is basically a cascade of LLMs in prime position to mess stuff up"

0x20cowboy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:26:27 +0000

I think that the tribalism is one sided.

On one side you have people who know how to build deep nn saying one thing, and on the other there seems to be people who don’t even know what tanh is and are very sure of their “strong” opinions.

Do you have an example of someone who actually knows how LLMs work who has a tribalistic view?

New comment by 0x20cowboy in "Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages"

0x20cowboy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:54:47 +0000

The levels would be great. I’ve tried prompting general purpose LLMs to only use words at particular levels, but they pretty quickly diverge from the prompting guardrails. One might just need to building a custom model trained only on a limited vocabulary.