Hacker News: _vertigo

New comment by _vertigo in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

_vertigo — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:27:47 +0000

iPhone 13. Did you change the slider at the bottom?

New comment by _vertigo in "Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters"

_vertigo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:33:47 +0000

I could see it being good if it helps you estimate crimes committed by citizens. If you know where the gaps in your knowledge/data are, you can attempt to account for them. And that’s better than nothing.

I think misleading information is obviously bad, incomplete information is not necessarily misleading though.

On the other hand, it might be better to remove incomplete information if it is actively being used to mislead people.

New comment by _vertigo in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

_vertigo — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:38:41 +0000

Interesting — so in your opinion every country must build out datacenters or be left behind?

New comment by _vertigo in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

_vertigo — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:36:03 +0000

I think that’s fine, but 1) that mentality leaves you extremely vulnerable to being disrupted by LLMs and 2) IMO, if you are solving the same problems every day it means you are not making progress on solving the root causes of those problems. What you are describing is toil, not knowledge work

New comment by _vertigo in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

_vertigo — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:12:30 +0000

The article makes practical suggestions; you do not. This is just hand-wringing, abdication. Practically speaking this mentality will get us nowhere.

New comment by _vertigo in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

_vertigo — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:41:06 +0000

I see this dilemma with LLMs all of the time.

Should you use the LLM to do the thing directly, or use the LLM to implement a tool that does the thing?

I tend to reach for the latter, it’s easier to reason about.

New comment by _vertigo in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

_vertigo — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:25:37 +0000

What are some other better ways to normalize?

New comment by _vertigo in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

_vertigo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:44:31 +0000

It’s not morally wrong per-se but just because you are working with your government does not mean what you’re doing is necessarily moral

New comment by _vertigo in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

_vertigo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:11:40 +0000

That’s insane. There should be a big team of people at AMD whose whole job is just to dogfood their stuff for training like this. Speaking of which, Amazon is in the same boat, I’m constantly surprised that Amazon is not treating improving Inferentia/Trainium software as an uber-priority. (I work at Amazon)

New comment by _vertigo in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

_vertigo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:46:55 +0000

It’s just an externality of online advertising

New comment by _vertigo in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

_vertigo — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:02:39 +0000

I lost all of my photos when I was a college student too. I was way too irresponsible to actually back anything up. Kind of a bitter lesson.

New comment by _vertigo in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

_vertigo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:34:49 +0000

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

New comment by _vertigo in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

_vertigo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:42:39 +0000

I don’t think that is a good example. No one is debating whether LLMs can generate completely new sequences of tokens that have never appeared in any training dataset. We are interested not only in novel output, we are also interested in that output being correct, useful, insightful, etc. Copying a sequence from the user’s prompt is not really a good demonstration of that, especially given how autoregression/attention basically gives you that for free.

New comment by _vertigo in "I created my first AI-assisted pull request"

_vertigo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:10:44 +0000

The blog post discusses this point directly. Did you read it?

New comment by _vertigo in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

_vertigo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:25:07 +0000

You couldn’t design a better system for incentivizing leaks if you were trying. Hell, the CEO literally said as much. Not sure how you can conclude the markets aren’t the problem.

New comment by _vertigo in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

_vertigo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:22:28 +0000

Rhetorical question: why do non-insiders still bet in these markets? Surely, after all of the focus on insiders, people will begin to realize that betting without insider knowledge is a fool’s gambit..

New comment by _vertigo in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

_vertigo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:41:38 +0000

> No schema changes. No new indexes. No query rewrites. Just telling Dapper the correct parameter type.

New comment by _vertigo in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

_vertigo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:09:04 +0000

This was my exact thought process reading this. The business side of my company does not care or want to wait for complex solutions that sound cool to engineers. If anything, we have the opposite problem: convincing business stakeholders when complexity is in fact warranted.

New comment by _vertigo in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

_vertigo — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:23:02 +0000

We’re beyond parody or fiction at this point. This wouldn’t be out of place in Snow Crash

New comment by _vertigo in "[dead]"

_vertigo — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:27:05 +0000

This is just a rant with zero actual content or insight. Maybe using an LLM would have made it more legible.