Hacker News: Byamarro

New comment by Byamarro in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Byamarro — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:15:09 +0000

That's a clever observation and is very true. Development time tho historically was also very expensive hence push for easy to work with dev stacks such as js

New comment by Byamarro in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

Byamarro — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:10:51 +0000

Depends on a type of company, I work at a mid-sized startup and through lifecycle of this company there were times when we've had architects and there were times when we haven't. Rn we don't have and a lot of decisions is made within teams and we just try to keep communication about what's needed for business tight

New comment by Byamarro in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

Byamarro — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:13:08 +0000

This is no charity, this money largerly comes back to the countries that are biggest spenders on these funds. It's basically an equivalent of FDI

New comment by Byamarro in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

Byamarro — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:41:37 +0000

Security through obscurity is mitigation basically. You reduce risk/impact, not eliminate it. There are problems - such as denial of wallet attacks - where you can only mitigate and can't eliminate the problem completely

New comment by Byamarro in "Cursor 3"

Byamarro — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:09:16 +0000

How does Zed compare to let's say vsc

New comment by Byamarro in "Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)"

Byamarro — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:21:08 +0000

All of logic and math is a convincence tool. There are no, circles, quantities. Reality just is. We created these tools because they're a convinent way to cope with complexity of reality. There are no "objects" in a sense that chair is just atoms arranged chair-like. And atoms are just smaller particles arranged atom-like and yet physics operate in these objects treating them as something that exist.

So, now we have created these mental tools called mathematics that are heavily constrained. Then we create models that are approximately map 1:1 to some patterns that exist in reality (IE patterns that are roughly local so that we can call them objects). Due to the fact that our mental tools have heavy constrains and that we iteratively adjust these models to fit reality at focal points, we can approximately predict reality, because we already mapped the constrains into the model. But we shouldn't mistake model for the reality. Map is not territory.

New comment by Byamarro in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

Byamarro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:34:31 +0000

I blame syntax. It's too unorthodox nowadays. Historical reasons don't matter all that much, everything mainstream is a C-family memember

New comment by Byamarro in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

Byamarro — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 09:30:25 +0000

In fact, automated regression tests done by ai with visual capabilities may have bigger impact than formal verification has. You can have an army of testers now, painfully going through every corner of your software

New comment by Byamarro in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

Byamarro — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:13:04 +0000

A hybrid will likely emerge. I work on a chat application and it's pretty normal that LLM can print custom ui as part of the chat. Things like sliders, dials, selects, calendars are just better as a GUI in certain situations.

I've once saw a demo of an AI photo editing app that displays sliders next to light sources on a photo and you are able to dim/brighten the individual light sources intensity this way. This feels to me like a next level of the user interface.

New comment by Byamarro in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

Byamarro — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:18:40 +0000

There's actually a research showing that llms are more accurate when questions are in Polish: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01996

New comment by Byamarro in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

Byamarro — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:37:04 +0000

I think we can do better than to have this level of argumentation. Regardless if the pretending comment had a merit to it or not

New comment by Byamarro in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

Byamarro — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:35:29 +0000

What he refers to is more specifically called phenomological consciousness afaik (just skimmed through tho)

New comment by Byamarro in "The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive"

Byamarro — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:49:22 +0000

Math is about creating mental models.

Sometimes we want to model something in real life and try to use math for this - this is physics.

But even then, the model is not real, it's a model (not even a 1:1 one on top of that). It usually tries to capture some cherry picked traits of reality i.e. when will a planet be in 60 days ignoring all its "atoms"[1]. That's because we want to have some predictive power and we can't simulate whole reality. Wolfram calls these selective traits that can be calculated without calculating everything else "pockets of reducability". Do they exist? Imho no, planets don't fundamentally exist, they're mental constructs we've created for a group of particles so that our brains won't explode. If planets don't exist, so do their position etc.

The things about models is that they're usually simplifications of the thing they model, with only the parts of it that interest us.

Modeling is so natural for us that we often fail to realize that we're projecting. We're projecting content of our minds onto reality and then we start to ask questions out of confusion such as "does my mind concept exist". Your mind concept is a neutral pattern in your mind, that's it.

[1] atoms are mental concepts as well ofc

New comment by Byamarro in "I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video]"

Byamarro — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:55:15 +0000

It is a bit of a clickbait since they used commandblocks, not just redstone. But it's still impressive

New comment by Byamarro in "Next.js is infuriating"

Byamarro — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:50:33 +0000

What I've found is that NuxtJS is miles ahead in DX. In NextJs it feels like their architecture stands in your way while in NuxtJS everything just works.

New comment by Byamarro in "GPT-5"

Byamarro — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:26:18 +0000

It should be almost obligatory to always state which definition of consciousness one is talking about whenever they talk about consiousness, because I for example don't see what language has to do with our ability to experience qualia for example.

Is it self awarness? There are animals that can recognize themselves in mirror, I don't think all of them have a form of proto-language.

New comment by Byamarro in "GPT-5 for Developers"

Byamarro — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:39:35 +0000

More of a question is its context rot tendency than the size of its context :) LLMs are supposed to load 3 bibles into their context, but they forget what they were about to do after loading a 600LoC of locales.

New comment by Byamarro in "Everything You Need to Know About Grok 4"

Byamarro — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 19:23:07 +0000

That's langchain terminology. LLMs usually are exposed to a set of tools. It's usually pretty obvious which are obvious, since there's only one tool that's even remotely associated with the task at hand.

New comment by Byamarro in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

Byamarro — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 09:51:50 +0000

I work in web dev, so people sometimes hook code formatting as a git commit hook or sometimes even upon file save. The tests are problematic tho. If you work at huge project it's a no go idea at all. If you work at medium then the tests are long enough to block you, but short enough for you not to be able to focus on anything else in the meantime.

New comment by Byamarro in "The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf]"

Byamarro — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 07:12:50 +0000

And we have a good example of a dimwitted, brute-force process creating intelligent designs - evolution.