Hacker News: MattRix

New comment by MattRix in "Parser Combinators"

MattRix — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:48:19 +0000

I get your argument, but I liked it! Something about isolating each segment makes it feel more readable. Perhaps in an ideal world every article like this would allow the reader to switch between "slideshow" and "single page" view, since the same content would work for both.

New comment by MattRix in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

MattRix — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:38:37 +0000

Well... it's more about how many interesting permutations there are, not really just about length or quantity for the sake of big numbers. In other words: it's not about "look how many puzzles there are" it's "look how many INTERESTING puzzles there are"... which may seem like a small distinction, but when the claim of the puzzles being "interesting" is true, and being said in a genuine non-marketing way, it means a lot.

New comment by MattRix in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

MattRix — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:43:08 +0000

OpenSCAD is great and really not that hard to learn. I recently designed a 3D-printed version of my new mobile game to celebrate its launch: https://bsky.app/profile/owengoss.com/post/3mwr2mn5gw227

New comment by MattRix in "Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU"

MattRix — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:22:49 +0000

*americans

(sorry just noticed the typo now lol)

New comment by MattRix in "Carney's Bid to Make Canada an 'Associate Member' of the EU"

MattRix — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:16:00 +0000

As a fellow Canadian I think you have a misunderstanding of what’s at stake here. There is potential to lose tens of thousands of jobs by agreeing to the bad deal the american’s proposed.

New comment by MattRix in "iPhone Duo"

MattRix — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:09:22 +0000

This is the first comment that showed for me, and it’s pretty useless. I don’t think it’s much better than the kind of comments you’re complaining about.

New comment by MattRix in "Sydney Marathon medal mistakenly depicts Munich stadium"

MattRix — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:32:29 +0000

The race has nothing to do with the stadium, other than running past it. They don’t have to get permission from anyone. Also, there’s no evidence that AI was involved, it could have just as easily been some designer googling for “Allianz Stadium” and illustrating the first thing that came up.

New comment by MattRix in "The August 17 outage"

MattRix — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:06:47 +0000

I have some big issues with this technology and the companies behind it, but I know of quite a few people personally who were not previously coders but have now been able to use LLMs to make their own custom software, solving real problems they had.

New comment by MattRix in "Codex Security"

MattRix — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:42:06 +0000

unfortunate typo lol

New comment by MattRix in "OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k"

MattRix — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:53:01 +0000

If you want stuff to be referenced regularly, why are you doing it in the conversation instead of just putting the documents in the directory and referring to them in AGENTS.md or whatever?

New comment by MattRix in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

MattRix — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:19:03 +0000

This is a very long document that says nothing about chunking at first skim. If chunking is actually wrong, then just explain why, here. Wasting space is not actually a problem if it’s optimized for other purposes instead.

New comment by MattRix in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

MattRix — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:33:21 +0000

I mean you wanted something objective, and they are. I don’t know why you’re being dismissive of them, they’re a huge element of what drives model development forward.

These companies aren’t just making stuff up, they really do want to improve the models, and the models really are improving.

New comment by MattRix in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

MattRix — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:30:25 +0000

Yep, and the majority of them are children. It’s so horrific that it deserves to be brought up any time Musk is mentioned for the rest of his life.

New comment by MattRix in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

MattRix — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:42:09 +0000

Come on, these conspiracy theories make no sense, Anthropic isn’t even a publicly traded company.

New comment by MattRix in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

MattRix — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:41:15 +0000

There are objective metrics, that’s what benchmarks are.

New comment by MattRix in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

MattRix — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:39:31 +0000

The idea that progress is “slow” in the AI space is absurd. These are some of the fastest growing products and companies of all time. The models are still improving a surprising amount.

New comment by MattRix in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

MattRix — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:43:20 +0000

If you’re implying that the government is in on it and is doing this stuff intentionally in order to boost Anthropic, that’s ridiculous.

New comment by MattRix in "How to earn a billion dollars"

MattRix — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:19:53 +0000

Except he says nothing about the system, he only talks about the founder.

New comment by MattRix in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

MattRix — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:18 +0000

That’s the stock, which has very little relation to how the company itself is doing, especially in Tesla’s case!

New comment by MattRix in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

MattRix — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:26:41 +0000

no, that’s Nasdaq not S&P