Hacker News: BinRoo

New comment by BinRoo in "Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D"

BinRoo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:03:21 +0000

I ventured out to better read Qiskit code, and came back with this fun idea of 2D expressions

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

BinRoo — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:03:21 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007018

Points: 100

# Comments: 37

New comment by BinRoo in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

BinRoo — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:01:05 +0000

> In the AI era...

Back in my day, you could also just Google the problems and find the solutions. What mitigated cheating at UVA was the honor code and each professor's faith and trust in our integrity. That culture was enough to not cheat.

Imo, the fix should be to work on culture. Cheating should always be a tempting choice, so that the student may challenge their integrity, which is a muscle that can atrophy.

Show HN: A no-back end webpage that lets users bring their own coding agent

BinRoo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:31:53 +0000

Compared against MCPs, CLIs, and SKILL.md files

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541874

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by BinRoo in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

BinRoo — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:37:07 +0000

Beautiful write-up, thank you.

One aspect that still bothers me is that you claim the just-say-no-engineer "was a critical role during ZIRP." I might be in the minority here, but I don't hold that same stance. I wonder if I am alone in that?

New comment by BinRoo in "Rewriting C code until it's quantum code"

BinRoo — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:19 +0000

Ever read a quantum circuit? It's all so foreign, so let me introduce to you a simple one (no speedup) called rank-select, described through an interactive story.

Rewriting C code until it's quantum code

BinRoo — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:34:19 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-05/rank-select.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48122486

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by BinRoo in "If I could make my own GitHub"

BinRoo — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:26:53 +0000

Great ideas, though not a huge fan of pre-commit hooks that run full CI locally :)

I'd like to add another idea: automatic PR merge contingent on another PR getting merged.

Show HN: B01T – What if quantum computing had Rust-style safety guarantees?

BinRoo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:29:04 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-04/b01t.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751686

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by BinRoo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

BinRoo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:03:37 +0000

Python DSL for safe quantum programming that compiles to Qiskit, where the type system enforces coherence and ancilla cleanliness

https://github.com/binroot/b01t

Show HN: Sway, a board game benchmark for quantum computing

BinRoo — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:20:36 +0000

A popular philosophy in the HN community is that inventing problems to be solved by a technology is antithetical to the user experience. Much to the horror of some, I did just that to discover/invent this game.

I started with the structure of quantum com putation and asked what kind of problem benefits from it. The answer was surprisingly narrow, but this was one of the results. Enjoy!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388880

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by BinRoo in "A Survival Guide to a PhD (2016)"

BinRoo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:07:48 +0000

LLMs fall victim to "garbage in, garbage out." Claude can solve open problems if you know what you're doing, but it can also incorrectly convince you it's right if you don't know what you're doing.

A PhD teaches you how to think, how to learn, and how to question the world. That's a vital set of skills no matter what tool exists.

Grammar models are back, baby

BinRoo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-02/grammar.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871739

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An algebra bedtime fable to fall asleep to

BinRoo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2021-11/algebra-notes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839456

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by BinRoo in "Nano Governments"

BinRoo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:05:40 +0000

Rousseau said "mathematical precision has no place in moral calculations," so I was tempted to see how far I could go. Started it during the holidays, but finally came around to putting a bow on it :)

Nano Governments

BinRoo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://shukla.io/blog/2026-01/nano-gov.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577946

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by BinRoo in "Bored of It"

BinRoo — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:26:54 +0000

The human still needs to think, of course. But, I can get to my answer or my primary source using a tool faster than a typical search engine. That's a super power, when used right!

New comment by BinRoo in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

BinRoo — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 22:11:00 +0000

One of my favorite tricks in elementary school was to convince people I can calculate any logarithm for any number of their choosing.

> Me: Pick any number.

> Friend: Ok, 149,135,151

> Me: The log is 8.2

Of course I'm simply counting the number of digits, using 10 as the base, and guessing the last decimal point, but it certainly impressed everyone.

New comment by BinRoo in "Every line is a potential bug (2009)"

BinRoo — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:40:34 +0000

Huge fan of minimizing Kolmogorov complexity [1]. There's a balance, but typically if the same behavior can be described in less code, then the simplicity will yield dividends.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity

New comment by BinRoo in "Notes on OpenAI o3-mini"

BinRoo — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:36:49 +0000

Simple example: o3-mini-high gets this [1] right, whereas Gemini 2.0 Flash 01-21 gets it wrong.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/679d9579-5bb8-8008-ac4a-38cef65b45...