Hacker News: BiraIgnacio

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:39:07 +0000

Nice work and thanks for sharing it!

Now, I ask, have LLMs ben demystified to you? :D

I am still impressed how much (for the most part) trivial statistics and a lot of compute can do.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:57:32 +0000

I never got OpenClaw and I'm unsure what this means exactly. Would it be just that you can't put your Anthropic API Key/credentials in OpenClaw and use it? Sounds like something easy to bypass, if it's just that.

CoolIT Systems to be acquired by U.S. company Ecolab

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:33:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/coolit-sale-tech-deal-calgary-9.6941841

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608029

Points: 2

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New comment by BiraIgnacio in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:05:09 +0000

If C++29 was exclusively about quality-of-life improvements, improving what exists, I'd bet the community wouldn't mind too much.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:02 +0000

my absolutely-non-expert guess is that it would work much like any other fuel? Combine with matter, get a lot of head out of it and use that in the best way we know.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them [audio]"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:24:05 +0000

There's an interesting bit about talking to LLMs to help dispel conspiracy theory ideas. I can see how that would work but also, how that could backfire as well.

Great podcast episode in any case.

Unthinkingness, Conspiracies, and What to Do About Them [audio]

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/10/27/333-gordon-pennycook-on-unthinkingness-conspiracies-and-what-to-do-about-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520424

Points: 3

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New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:10:49 +0000

I'm happy to see so many philosophy or philosophy-adjacent books on that list. And I also wonder why that is.

AI firm Anthropic seeks weapons expert to stop users from 'misuse'

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:39:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74721xyd1wo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411299

Points: 2

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New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Stop Sloppypasta"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:17:40 +0000

I ran into a similar case recently, there was a ticket describing what needed to be done in detail. I was written by a human and it was a well written spec. The problem is that it removed some access controls in the system, essentially given some users more access than they should have.

The ticket was given to an LLM, the code written. Luckily the engineer working on it noticed the discrepancy at some point and was able to call it out.

Scrutinizing specs is always needed, no matter what.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:21:45 +0000

There's nothing wrong in being nice and some chit-chat. Any kind of work, well most kinds of work, are about people and relationships. Building something with people when people can't relate to one another is quite hard.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The Bread Code"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:56:32 +0000

Open source book dedicated to helping you to make the best possible sourdough bread at home.

The Bread Code

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:56:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/hendricius/the-sourdough-framework

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113078

Points: 5

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New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:48:29 +0000

Oh thanks, this is a pretty good elevator pitch, now I see the connections I was missing.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:39:47 +0000

That's a very sensible, realistic and non-BS response.

I'm glad to see this coming from a company that is so popular these days.

Thanks!

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "AI makes you boring"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:53:20 +0000

One of the down sides of Vibe-Coded-Everything, that I am seeing, is reinforcing the "just make it look good" culture. Just create the feature that the user wants and move on. It doesn't matter if next time you need to fix a typo on that feature it will cost 10x as much as it should.

That has always been a problem in software shops. Now it might be even more frequent because of LLMs' ubiquity.

Maybe that's how it should be, maybe not. I don't really know. I was once told by people in the video game industry that games were usually buggy because they were short lived. Not sure if I truly buy that but if anything vibe coded becomes throw away, I wouldn't be surprised.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The History of Sushi"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:47:02 +0000

> It was the fast food of the chōnin class in the Edo period.

The History of Sushi

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:47:02 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sushi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068508

Points: 1

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New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Using go fix to modernize Go code"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:32:11 +0000

I definitely see that with C++ code Not so easy to "fix", though. Or so I think. But I do hope still, as more and more "modern" C++ code gets published

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)"

BiraIgnacio — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:05:34 +0000

It is joyful. I think of it like a proof being written and that is confirmed to be correct (most of the times) in the end.