Hacker News: QuantumSeed

New comment by QuantumSeed in "The APL programming language source code (2012)"

QuantumSeed — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:49:57 +0000

APL was the first programming language I learned, I was obsessed with learning every intricacy of the language. I almost lost my mind when I had to switch to a procedural language. APL warped my mind in such a way that it took almost a month to feel comfortable using anything else.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

QuantumSeed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:11:53 +0000

Both Amex and Chase regularly ask me to confirm my income. I wonder why they do that if the data is already available to them via Equifax.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

QuantumSeed — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:24:05 +0000

Preferably, solid state

New comment by QuantumSeed in "America's economy looks set to accelerate"

QuantumSeed — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:47:32 +0000

Reminder to all Capitalists: The earth is a finite resource

New comment by QuantumSeed in "DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why"

QuantumSeed — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:16:25 +0000

I ordered 96GB of memory last Tuesday from Corsair. Two days later when I checked the website again, the exact same memory was being sold for twice what I paid for it.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "The Weird Concept of Branchless Programming"

QuantumSeed — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:22:57 +0000

I was an APL programmer for many years and I insisted on writing as much of my code as possible without branches. Fortunately, it was reasonably easy to do in that language, if sometimes resulting in very cryptic code

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

QuantumSeed — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:56:59 +0000

I was in a Waymo in SF last weekend riding from the Richmond district to SOMA, and the car actually surprised me by accelerating through two yellow lights. It was exactly what I would have done. So it seems the cars are able to dial up the assertiveness when appropriate.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB"

QuantumSeed — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:43:12 +0000

I address that problem by scheduling a brown bag lunch and inviting devs from related teams to join in so I can present my cool new tools and techniques to everyone. Sometimes it's wasted effort, but sometimes it does result in wider usage

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

QuantumSeed — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:34:31 +0000

I think Microsoft may doing that with Microsoft Edge as well. My Windows 11 Registry has an HKCU key called MicrosoftEdgeAutoLaunch_[...]

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge\Application\msedge.exe" --no-startup-window --win-session-start

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

QuantumSeed — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:54:52 +0000

I've cancelled my planned visits outside of the US for fear of being unwelcome and fear of difficulty getting back into the US.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

QuantumSeed — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:57:00 +0000

For Windows 11 users, the latest Notepad.exe can also pick up where you left off the last time the app was closed.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?"

QuantumSeed — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 23:50:08 +0000

The last oddity I wrote on a whim was a C++ MFC dialog application that was a Spirograph-like epicycle/hypocycle generator. It would would generate screen art by semi-randomly generating layered epicycles and hypocycles with evolving colors. I spent an entire week of evenings tweaking that thing and adding more and more variations before I burned out on it and moved on.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab"

QuantumSeed — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:58:45 +0000

When I was in the CS department at NMSU, the Computer Science building was open to the public 24-hours a day. I suppose that's not commonly the case nowadays.

New comment by QuantumSeed in "GeForce RTX 5090"

QuantumSeed — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 14:00:21 +0000

Every new generation of GPU seems larger and more power-hungry than their predecessor. Is there any effort to produce faster GPUs that are smaller and use less power?

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Intel Meteor Lake's NPU"

QuantumSeed — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:50:39 +0000

- Face and object detection in photos and videos

- Computational photography features like Night Mode and Smart HDR

- Real-time video processing for effects and stabilization

- Object and action recognition in videos

- Faster on-device speech recognition and natural language understanding for Siri

- Real-time translation, object detection, and scene understanding in AR

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Los Alamos Chess"

QuantumSeed — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 11:33:38 +0000

I was at NMSU during his time as head of the CS department. His interest in chess inspired to write my first chess playing program

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Git as a debugging tool"

QuantumSeed — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:49:12 +0000

I usually keep all my work in a stash until I'm ready to create the PR. I used to preface my intermediate commits with "WIP -" and then reset the branch and re-commit everything when I was ready to create the PR, but that was just too much effort

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Researchers warn of ‘model collapse’ as AI trains on AI-generated content"

QuantumSeed — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:53:17 +0000

Casey Newton proposed, partly tongue in cheek I think, that as LLMs advanced, it might spur investment in and a newfound appreciation for Journalism as way to provide fresh source material for the models

New comment by QuantumSeed in "Death by design patterns, or On the cognitive load of abstractions in the code"

QuantumSeed — Mon, 29 May 2023 22:20:37 +0000

I would go a step further and teach them how to read code before teaching them how to write it

New comment by QuantumSeed in "The first game ‘Easter eggs’ were an act of corporate rebellion"

QuantumSeed — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 22:19:05 +0000

It's much harder to sneak in an easter egg now that it's common practice to require all code to go through code review.