Hacker News: Recursing

New comment by Recursing in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"

Recursing — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:52:00 +0000

The organization I work for does something similar and positively evaluated GiveWell in November 2025 (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9H34ui_hvnPOwvsvcZF3VCC... )

Personally, the more I look into GiveWell the more I think it's an amazing way to donate

New comment by Recursing in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

Recursing — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:14:55 +0000

sympy and similar packages can handle the vast majority of simple cases

New comment by Recursing in "Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks"

Recursing — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:56:34 +0000

From the preprint linked above:

> We tested a total of 42 subjects, 17 of which were females.

New comment by Recursing in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

Recursing — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:28:21 +0000

You could look at his early guests and see what many of them have in common

New comment by Recursing in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

Recursing — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:02:04 +0000

I work on a website that doesn't have any mobile-specific features, new users ask me all the time why we don't have an app.

My sister and my parents basically ~only read newspapers from their apps, despite it being static text with some images.

I don't know how, but Google and Apple are really good at nudging people to use apps instead of websites.

New comment by Recursing in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

Recursing — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:27:49 +0000

My best guess is that a part of it is replacing US (or in this case Israeli) devs with much cheaper Italian/European ones, earning ~a quarter of their US counterparts and working longer hours, as Bending Spoons has an extremely competitive hiring process, and is probably the highest paying tech company in Italy

New comment by Recursing in "[dead]"

Recursing — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 15:25:41 +0000

https://archive.is/bXjsr not much new compared to what has been posted on HN in the past few weeks.

What surprised me was scrolling through https://xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=claude+code , so many tweets every few seconds.

New comment by Recursing in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

Recursing — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:58:37 +0000

What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?

New comment by Recursing in "Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die"

Recursing — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:20:05 +0000

The article is more about OpenAI hiding the evidence, which if true seems more clearly unethical.

New comment by Recursing in "The Gentle Seduction (1989)"

Recursing — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:10:23 +0000

imho https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf from 1995 is an even better exploration of the same theme

For more on why I'm skeptical it will end this way, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici...

I don't see why machines should keep biological life around, since they'll be much more efficient

New comment by Recursing in "The Gentle Seduction (1989)"

Recursing — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 09:29:31 +0000

Title should have (1989)

New comment by Recursing in "Beating myself at chess"

Recursing — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:44:36 +0000

Yes it's "surprisingly readable" only for being so strong and so concise, definitely not production code.

The file is 500 lines because of the piece square tables (as you mentioned), comments, and the CLI interface logic

Previous HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20068651

New comment by Recursing in "Beating myself at chess"

Recursing — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:27:23 +0000

For people interested in making their own, I highly recommend reading through https://github.com/thomasahle/sunfish/blob/master/sunfish.py , a surprisingly readable and surprisingly strong chess engine in 111 lines of Python

https://www.chessprogramming.org/ is also really interesting, see e.g. https://www.chessprogramming.org/Sunfish and https://www.chessprogramming.org/Quiescence_Search

New comment by Recursing in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

Recursing — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:54:48 +0000

I think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artifici... has much better arguments than the LessWrong sources in other comments, and they weren't written by Big Tech CEOs.

Also "my product will kill you and everyone you care about" is not as great a marketing strategy as you seem to imply, and Big Tech CEOs are not talking about risks anymore. They currently say things like "we'll all be so rich that we won't need to work and we will have to find meaning without jobs"

New comment by Recursing in "Cloudflare was down"

Recursing — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:07:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar...

New comment by Recursing in "A new book about the origins of Effective Altruism"

Recursing — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:52:47 +0000

> you have to look at what people actually say and do under the name of EA.

They donate a significant percentage of their income to the global poor, and save thousands of lives every year (see e.g. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-continued-defense-of-eff... )

New comment by Recursing in "Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)"

Recursing — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:29:56 +0000

Have you tried to compare Z3 with cvc5? https://cvc5.github.io/docs/cvc5-1.1.2/api/python/pythonic/p...

It offers basically the same API and could be faster in many cases

New comment by Recursing in "AI World Clocks"

Recursing — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 14:10:23 +0000

Claude has no problem with this: https://imgur.com/a/ifSNOVU

Maybe older models?

New comment by Recursing in "Meow.camera"

Recursing — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:41:58 +0000

> Then be angry at factory farming, not eating meat.

Yes I fully agree with that, you might be interested in this TED talk (linked in my original comment) https://www.ted.com/talks/lewis_bollard_how_to_end_factory_f... for what you can do about it

New comment by Recursing in "Meow.camera"

Recursing — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:44:48 +0000

The vast majority of farmed animals are factory farmed: https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/almost-all-livestoc...

I agree that cows are an exception and live decent lives, but >95% of pigs, chickens, and fish are farmed in atrocious conditions, inside and outside the US: https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-are-factory-farm...