Hacker News: AlexeyBrin

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "90% of CEOs Say AI Changed Nothing. The Other 10% Have a PR Team"

AlexeyBrin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:47:36 +0000

It would be great to give anti-capitalists a forced one year vacation in a paradisiac communist country at the end of the 80's in say Eastern Europe or USSR. To say nothing of life during the "revolution" years in the 20's USSR.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat"

AlexeyBrin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:24:14 +0000

> How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support for Ukraine, but Poland and Slovakia remain.

I don't follow, Poland is anti-Russian and pro-Ukraine. Where do you see the similarity between Orban regime and current Poland government ?

QB64 Tutorial A beginner's introduction to game programming

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:26:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qb64tutorial.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730916

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Ubuntu MATE Is Seeking a New Primary Maintainer"

AlexeyBrin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:59:24 +0000

Worst case scenario if Ubuntu MATE is discontinued, you can switch to Linux Mint MATE. AFAIK, Linux Mint MATE does not depend on Ubuntu MATE.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church"

AlexeyBrin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:05:50 +0000

AFAIK, babies can survive on goat milk (barely). I think I read that this was used in the past when the mother died and there was no wet nurse available.

New Edition of FreePascal from Square One (2025)

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.contrapositivediary.com/?p=5399

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466327

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Building the Olimex RVPC Retrocomputer

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://needlesscomplexity.substack.com/p/building-the-olimex-rvpc-retrocomputer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466079

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Z80-MBC2: a 4 ICs homebrew Z80 computer

AlexeyBrin — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:28:02 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.io/project/159973-z80-mbc2-a-4-ics-homebrew-z80-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387186

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

The Forth Language [Byte Magazine Volume 05 Number 08] (1980)

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:21:28 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375935

Points: 45

# Comments: 6

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

AlexeyBrin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:03:35 +0000

You mean like what Anthropic announced yesterday ? Code Review can review your code for $15 - $25 per review.

So now, you can speed up using Claude Code and use Code Review to keep it in check.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

AlexeyBrin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:47:36 +0000

I wonder how this will work in practice. Say I'm a senior engineer and I produce myself thousands of lines of code per day with the help of LLMs as mandated by the company. I still need to presumably read and test the code that I push to production. When will I have time to read and evaluate similar amounts of code produced by a junior or a mid level engineer ?

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

AlexeyBrin — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:07:26 +0000

The solution is for the users to be able to mute/hide accounts. It won't matter if an account has 10k points, once you mute it, you won't see what it posts.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

AlexeyBrin — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:02:42 +0000

Agree, HN can't be immune to what happens in the programming world. Would be great though if we can have a way to mute or hide accounts. This way each HN user will be able to clean his own feed of articles.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

AlexeyBrin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:38:06 +0000

> What are those neurons experiencing?

A reasonable explanation is that a few neurons probably don't have conscience so they can't really experience anything.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

AlexeyBrin — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:06:00 +0000

Their code is written by their amazing models (this is what they claim anyway).

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE"

AlexeyBrin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:25:52 +0000

Didn't FreeBSD recently dropped their 32 bits x86 version ? At some point every open source OS will remove the parts for which no one is willing to put the work on maintaining it.

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Build Your Own Forth Interpreter"

AlexeyBrin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:36:46 +0000

I doubt you will want to code professionally in Forth unless you work on embedded, so the dialect you learn doesn't matter too much. But it is interesting to implement a small interpreter and play with it.

I Use Forth

AlexeyBrin — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:57:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bernd-paysan.de/why-forth.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111495

Points: 21

# Comments: 3

New comment by AlexeyBrin in "Large Language Model Reasoning Failures"

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:20:24 +0000

How do you know GPT-5 does not call a Python interpreter remotely on OpenAI servers when you ask it to do arithmetic ? Your prompt goes to their servers, you have no way to know what happens there.

The only way to be sure a model calls no tool is to run it locally and control the network.

Build Your Own Forth Interpreter

AlexeyBrin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:14:08 +0000

Article URL: https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/challenge-forth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101034

Points: 87

# Comments: 27