Hacker News: ForgotIdAgain

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

ForgotIdAgain — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:44:54 +0000

I guess the point of view is that if a department is well running, it means it is overressourced. So you reduce the ressources until it's breaking point, just enough for it to not fail. A jaded service manager told me it was part of its official training: if the clients was too satisfied that meant that human ressources were wasted on them, so he had to spin plates between clients. I guess it was economically optimal.

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

ForgotIdAgain — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:35:46 +0000

I come from a developping country, and this whole schtick about "being concerned by tech addiction is a western luxury" is tiring.

PhysicsIntern: From an Autonomous Benchmark-Runner to a Research Sidekick

ForgotIdAgain — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:46:40 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/dlouapre/physics-intern

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48493768

Points: 2

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New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

ForgotIdAgain — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:08:55 +0000

I think that engineering progress made while building those machines are maybe more relevant for practical technical development than the discovery they make.

Mitchell Hashimoto considering closing external PRs to his OSS projects

ForgotIdAgain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2018458123632283679

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875940

Points: 1

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New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ForgotIdAgain — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:52:09 +0000

Moreover, till to this day at an advanced level knowing how to drop at the assembly level or knowing computer architecture is a valuable skill

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "A New Kind of Computer (April 2025)"

ForgotIdAgain — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 08:53:59 +0000

It's always cited as an example, and it's highly impressive yes, but it's also highly focused, with a very partial feature set, I'm not sure that type of coding is applicable to mass scale software.

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level"

ForgotIdAgain — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 11:34:05 +0000

I have not tried it yet, but seems nice : https://leetgpu.com/

Ask HN: What product could have only been made with LLM

ForgotIdAgain — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:54:54 +0000

LLM has been a boon for productivity of a lot of developer, but I have yet to see a radicaly novel product that could have only been made with LLM, do you have any example?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41535031

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

Wicked Problem

ForgotIdAgain — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:13:45 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41444744

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: MathAcademy for Physics

ForgotIdAgain — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:36:07 +0000

Is there an equivalent of mathacademy but for physics? I am especially interested in the hierarchical spaced repetition system

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998980

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI"

ForgotIdAgain — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 20:30:49 +0000

Isn't the role of a concept artist mainly to do worldbuilding and drawing second? AI does not seem to have a good world model, they make pretty pictures but they lack thought behind them.

Ask HN: How do you integrate everyday data into your working knowledge?

ForgotIdAgain — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:11:53 +0000

Like a lot of people here I assume, I tend to read lots of stuff about lots of things. While It's pleasing to learn about all those nice nuggets of data, It all turns in the end in some sort of mushy paste that I find hard to leverage.

How do you actively read information? do you have any procedures or way to build a solid and integrated web of knowledge?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230290

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Tragedy of return to hostile offices"

ForgotIdAgain — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 14:35:52 +0000

I don't think the fact that remote work is not possible for other professionals is relevant. If it is about fairness, you could say it is even an advantage for other workers since it means less traffic congestion, better access to restaurant and less land use.

Ask HN: Interested in game engine programming, not gamedev

ForgotIdAgain — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:34:39 +0000

Hi HN,

Let's suppose that I have the chops to get such jobs, how should I demonstrate skills?

Following ideas are:

- Contribute to opensource engine such as Godot - Build my basic game engine - Reverse engineer old games and make a port/remake (could get in trouble, but coming from an infosec background that and finding exploits in them could scratch an itch)

As I said i'm only interested in game because of the nice problems they seem to produce. Gamedev is a notoriously harsh place to work, is engine programming less exploitative?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37123036

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Why it’s necessary to shoot yourself in the foot"

ForgotIdAgain — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 06:24:08 +0000

That's the issue with a lot of educational ressource, they don't tell about the problems that are to be solved. For OOP for example, I would an iteratively built ressource that present a problem then a first solution, and the new problems that it introduces, and so on.

Game Development Budgets and Customer Value [video]

ForgotIdAgain — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 10:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUtdAtSA29s

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457263

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Paul Graham GPT

ForgotIdAgain — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:05:00 +0000

Article URL: https://paul-graham-gpt.vercel.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35007016

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "I don't like making the best things"

ForgotIdAgain — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:41:38 +0000

Damn, I tried really hard to be good at computers and only achieved mediocrity. It was lonely, made me miss lots of other stuff in life and now I can only try to just be barely competent. I am really happy for you, but it just reminded that I have almost surely missed my shot at life and at getting those kind of memories. Hey at least I get to live in interesting times.

New comment by ForgotIdAgain in "Choose your fighter (Advent of Code)"

ForgotIdAgain — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:48:08 +0000

It just lack the GPT powered "prompt engineer".