Hacker News: M4v3R

New comment by M4v3R in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

M4v3R — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:23:52 +0000

I’m so lazy I just type `ping 1.1` and it still works (apparently 1.0.0.1 is also always up).

New comment by M4v3R in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

M4v3R — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:50:25 +0000

> Don’t good generals know how everyone else in their army does their jobs?

They most certainly do, but on a mid-higher level. They don't probably know every single motion and definitely lack hands-on experience. But they know enough to be able to manage them efficiently.

New comment by M4v3R in "Codex Security"

M4v3R — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:49:14 +0000

Same thing happened to me. The partial output did contain some useful signal but I was disappointed to see it didn’t finish.

New comment by M4v3R in "Show HN: Infinite Jigsaw Game"

M4v3R — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:07:23 +0000

I love it so much, it felt really good when I placed my first piece :). There are some technical issues, the UI and controls could be better, but it definitely was fun, and that's what really matters!

New comment by M4v3R in "Quake in 13 Kilobytes (2021)"

M4v3R — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:02:47 +0000

Not sure if this is what you were thinking about, but .kkrieger was 96 kB and looked very impressive when it was released: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036

New comment by M4v3R in "Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News"

M4v3R — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:18:32 +0000

Never trust Google AI summaries, it hallucinates like crazy. I've recently googled my business name a few times on different machines and each one had at least one factual error, and what's worse - the errors were different for each run. Another time I wanted to know how to do something in Notion, and Google hallucinated a feature that does not exist, listing exact steps on how to enable it.

Try it - google your name, name of your company or "how to do X in software Y" and you'll see for yourself.

New comment by M4v3R in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

M4v3R — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:36:40 +0000

The diagrams were generated with Nano Banana Pro (most probably, or alternatively with ChatGPT Image 2), if you look closely in high contrast areas you'll see artifacts in the background that give it away.

I personally don't mind AI generated content when it's properly reviewed, but unfortunately more often than not the author just glances at the result and decides it's good enough.

Example: https://opencv.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/image-1.jpeg

I'm not knowledgable enough to determine whether this diagram is 100% accurate, but some things look off - the arrows in the bottom left seem superficial, some arrows are connected in weird ways, the mini diagram in AttentionLayer block doesn't look right (it has two Softmax icons and one MatMul icon, while the "before" diagram is the opposite).

New comment by M4v3R in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

M4v3R — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:21:30 +0000

Fun idea! I was surprised that it loaded on mobile and UI was kinda reasonable but I could tap any buttons to move or do anything. I’ll look into sending a PR for fixing that.

New comment by M4v3R in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

M4v3R — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:59:52 +0000

This kind of behavior should be met with swift and strong reaction from both the school authorities and the law enforcement. Kids responsible should be put on trial and face serious consequences including jail time for most egregious cases. Let the news cover it nationwide. "This is what will happen if you even think about creating and circulating nude pics of anyone" should be the message sent. This is the only way to prevent this behavior - not more censorship, not technical solutions

X for You Feed Algorithm (Updated May 15th)

M4v3R — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:56:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/x-algorithm/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148656

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Vision Banana: Image Generators Are Generalist Vision Learners

M4v3R — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:00:08 +0000

Article URL: https://vision-banana.github.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873586

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by M4v3R in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

M4v3R — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:22:54 +0000

SynthID is visible in some generations (areas with a lot of edges, or text), I wonder if this would make them look better.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:13:07 +0000

> What’s the point of adding features that are inscrutable?

You are assuming that the additional speed comes at a cost of codebase comprehension. For me it's not the case - I never push generated code I don't fully understand. It does take time, sure, but it still takes me much less time to write a spec, execute with AI and then review than write the thing myself.

New comment by M4v3R in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

M4v3R — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:10:51 +0000

Sibling comment didn't elaborate, but I think they might be onto something.

It happened to me personally - LLMs and agentic coding tools enabled me to pick up old side projects and actually finish them. Some of these projects were in the drawer for years, and when Sonnet 4 released I gave them another try and got up to speed really quickly. I suspect this happened to many developers.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:38:49 +0000

> I find LLMs useful in regurgitating one-liners

This was the case for me a year ago. Now Claude or Codex are routinely delivering finished & tested complete features in my projects. I move much, much faster than before and I don’t have an elaborate setup - just a single CLAUDE.md file with some basic information about the project and that’s it.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:36:07 +0000

Even if your tests take a long time, you can always (if hardware permits) run multiple tests in parallel. This would enable you to explore many approaches at the same time.

Martial Arts Robots

M4v3R — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTq2o7RQs0A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472390

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Secure Exec – secure Node.js execution without a sandbox

M4v3R — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://secureexec.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by M4v3R in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

M4v3R — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:19:11 +0000

Upon deeper inspection? Someone checked the Cargo file and proclaimed it was just Servo and QuickJS glued together without actually bothering to look if these dependencies are even being used.

In reality while project does indeed have Servo in its dependencies it only uses it for HTML tokenization, CSS selector matching and some low level structures. Javascript parsing and execution, DOM implementation & Layout engine was written from scratch with only one exception - Flexbox and Grid layouts are implemented using Taffy - a Rust layout library.

So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale.

New comment by M4v3R in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

M4v3R — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:15:24 +0000

It’s not just a wrapper for Servo, the linked poster just checked the dependencies in the Cargo file and proclaimed that without checking anything further.

In reality this project does indeed implement a functioning custom JS Engine, Layout engine, painting etc. It does borrow the CSS selectors package from Servo but that’s about it.