Hacker News: TACIXAT

New comment by TACIXAT in "Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms"

TACIXAT — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:17:02 +0000

This seems political and unrelated to the article.

New comment by TACIXAT in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

TACIXAT — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:50:20 +0000

The article said they are looking for $1m to $10m in funding. Given the hype and pedigree, I feel they could crowdfund the low end of that trivially.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?"

TACIXAT — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:37:19 +0000

Write the code yourself, use AI as a tutor. Learn to start a project from scratch and run it locally from your computer for any language you learn. Use a Linux laptop. Network and be socialable. Apply for internships. Learn deep learning and neutral networks if you have the opportunity, GPU programming. Really though, follow your interests.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Our position on open-weights models"

TACIXAT — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:21:16 +0000

A caret with a character subtracts 0x40 from its hex value allowing you to insert non-printable characters. Uppercase H is 0x48. That gives us hex 0x08 which is a backspace.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USASCII_code_chart.s...

New comment by TACIXAT in "Go Analysis Framework: modular static analysis by go team"

TACIXAT — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:11:58 +0000

https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Contains ?

Also, if error wrapping hurts you so much (I don't use it), just implement a project-specific error that works how you want. This could be something that is JSON serializable, that captures a line number at each return site, etc. It will take like 10 minutes to get your project's errors working exactly how you want.

My projects usually do -

    log.SetFlags(log.LstdFlags | log.Lshortfile)
    // ...
    if err != nil {
        log.Println(err)
        return errors.New("Error doing the thing.")
    }

That essentially logs a stack trace with line numbers up the whole error chain, each return adding the outer context. I only ever use errors.Is for os.ErrNotExist.

New comment by TACIXAT in "I Stopped “Creating Content”"

TACIXAT — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:26:10 +0000

Entertaining people is useful! In my opinion, it is probably one of the most ethical ways to make money. I think game development is in that category too. It is a very pure field where you are giving a consumer something they enjoy and seek out.

New comment by TACIXAT in "I Stopped “Creating Content”"

TACIXAT — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:22:41 +0000

The flexibility you bemoan in content creation is the exact same search people perform when running a startup. Finding product-market fit is a search process and content creators do the same thing. They see what customers like and focus in on that. Is it somewhat soulless? For sure. It is not unique to content creation though.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

TACIXAT — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:56:58 +0000

That's a very cool analogy but I might not be understanding something here. Why then do objects that have no light have gravity? If 99% comes from time dilation, why am I stuck to the earth rather than drifting toward light sources?

New comment by TACIXAT in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

TACIXAT — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:05:31 +0000

This article doesn't address writing code with AI, just code review. My issue with agentic coding is that I make numerous micro-architectural decisions while programming. I almost never have a full spec up front and develop one as I consider what I am writing.

When using Claude Code or Codex, that is all gone. Claude Code is extremely eager to reach the end goal to the point that it feels like a fever dream to write code with it. In the end, I have low confidence about edge cases and fit into the project's architectural and design goals.

On top of that, I enjoy programming, reverse engineering, etc. and I feel that the LLMs, while able to solve some problems or deliver some features, take that fun away. I'm trying really hard to find a workflow with them that I'm confident in, but I fear that workflow is just chat, search, and being a rubber duck for my thoughts.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Read Programming as Theory Building"

TACIXAT — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:39:53 +0000

This is helps describe my biggest pain point when engineering a program with LLMs. They do not have the full theory of the program, which makes things difficult. Additionally, the more hands-off approach to programming (even when I try to maintain involvement as much as I can) means that I lose the clear conceptualization of that piece code. I'm still trying it to see if it can work, but it is definitely a vibe shift from making 20 micro-architectural decisions in every function.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Should hack-back be legal?"

TACIXAT — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:07:30 +0000

The better question is will you get killed. Foreign intelligence does not take kindly to interference, nor do well funded criminal enterprises.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

TACIXAT — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:06:43 +0000

I have had success with an extremely aggressive red filter. My unchecked sleep schedule has me going to bed around 4 am, consistent over decades. I don't consume caffeine or any other stimulant. In the last 4 months I switched my lights to LED bulbs to turn red at 6pm and use QRedshift on Linux (Mint) with the temperature set to 1000k at 6pm. I have consistently been falling asleep around midnight. What is remarkable to me is that I am actually feeling tired at night.

New comment by TACIXAT in "I stopped following the news"

TACIXAT — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:42:38 +0000

Non participation is an exercise of one's freedom.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

TACIXAT — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:36:18 +0000

It says no bloat, is that a nod to it being built with something other than Electron?

New comment by TACIXAT in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

TACIXAT — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:32:30 +0000

I have the complete opposite impression w.r.t. architecture decisions. The LLMs can cargo cult an existing design, but they do not think through design consequences well at all. I use them as a rubber duck non-stop, but I think I respect less than one out of every six of their suggestions.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Predict your house price"

TACIXAT — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:58:30 +0000

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New comment by TACIXAT in "Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy"

TACIXAT — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 19:35:24 +0000

Did I completely miss the technical aspect of this blog? They list an improvement but no details on how they achieved it. It sounds like a trained embedding model and a vector search. All told though this just reads as boring product talk.

New comment by TACIXAT in "Jensen: 'We've done our country a great disservice' by offshoring"

TACIXAT — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:53:10 +0000

If the US minimum wage is what we have agreed is the minimum amount someone should be paid to have a reasonable quality of life (and it can be argued that it is still too low), then number 3 is the only ethical choice.

New comment by TACIXAT in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

TACIXAT — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:34:35 +0000

I strongly agree on this. I mained Windows for the last few years and got to the point where I was comfortable doing development similarly to how I would on Linux (text editor and command line build tools, cl, ml64, batch, etc.). I did that mostly so I could game and develop on the same machine. I learned a ton doing it but it has just gotten too awful to carry on.

It was faster to rg to search files, drop into WSL and run find for file name searches. The start menu was laggy, explorer was laggy (open up a folder with a couple dozen OGG files and it won't render for a solid minute). Mystery memory usage from privileged processes I had little control over. Once I realized that the one game I play (Overwatch) ran on Linux I decided to swap back.

I installed Linux Mint earlier this year and I've been extremely happy. The memory consumption is stable and low, and if something is broken I have the control to fix it. It just feels so much less hostile. This is largely possible thanks to the work Steam has done with Proton. The last real barrier is kernel level anti-cheat which prevented me from trying out this years Call of Duty. Oh well!

New comment by TACIXAT in "Ask HN: Is building a calm, non-gamified learning app a mistake?"

TACIXAT — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:18:28 +0000

I don't really care if it is calm or not, I care if it teaches me a language. Duolingo doesn't really get you there in terms of language learning. Also, does it teach speaking, listening, reading, writing? Each of these goals is different.