Hacker News: antoineMoPa

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?"

antoineMoPa — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:16:36 +0000

I guess it becomes bad when it negatively affects other aspects of life. I experienced or witnessed all of these with AI at some point:

- Working later because of addictive loops.

- Wasting time and money building stuff nobody will ever use.

- Abusive screen time.

- Loss of deep understanding of a code base and over-reliance on the AI, with reduced incident or bug response time.

- Producing a lot of sloppy code, too much to be owned or reviewed.

- Mental fatigue.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

antoineMoPa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:50:59 +0000

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

antoineMoPa — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:56:20 +0000

Training a tiny LLM for fun using Rust/Candle - I constantly tweak stuff and keep track of results in a spreadsheet and work on generating a bigger corpus with LLMs. It's a project for fun, so I don't care about finding actual human generated text, I'd rather craft data in the format I want using LLMs - Probably not the best practice, but I can sleep properly despite doing that.

My favorite output so far is that I asked it what life was and in a random stroke of genius, it answered plainly: "It is.".

It's able to answer simple questions where the answer is in the question with up to 75% accuracy. Example success: 'The car was red. Q: What was red? ' |> 'the car' - Example failure: 'The stars twinkled at night. Q: What twinkled at night? ' |> 'the night'.

So nothing crazy, but I'm learning and having fun. My current corpus is ~17mb of stories, generated encyclopedia content, json examples, etc. JSON content is new from this weekend and the model is pretty bad at it so far, but I'm curious to see if I can get it somewhere interesting in the next few weeks.

https://github.com/antoineMoPa/rust-text-experiments

Show HN: Plane Clock – Displays plane corresponding to hour

antoineMoPa — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://antoinemopa.github.io/plane_clock/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615068

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

antoineMoPa — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:53:10 +0000

I also loved Zig when manually typing code, but I increasingly use AI to write my code even in personal projects. In that context, I'd rather use Rust more, since the AI takes care of complex syntax anyway. Also, the rust ecosystem is bigger, so I'd rather stick to this community.

> Developers are not Idiots

I'm often distracted and AIs are idiots, so a stricter language can keep both me and AIs from doing extra dumb stuff.

Grid – like generals.io, but single player

antoineMoPa — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://antoinemopa.github.io/grid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074640

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place"

antoineMoPa — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:38:34 +0000

It would be fun to compare with inference providers (groq/vertex ai, etc.).

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

antoineMoPa — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 22:55:45 +0000

I'm making a tiny tiny LLM in rust (using candle) to teach myself AI https://github.com/antoineMoPa/rust-text-experiments

New comment by antoineMoPa in "The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention"

antoineMoPa — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:36:26 +0000

I think that this is the explanation I needed, thanks!

New comment by antoineMoPa in "The FFT Strikes Back: An Efficient Alternative to Self-Attention"

antoineMoPa — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 14:30:13 +0000

What I don't get about attention is why it would be necessary when a fully connected layer can also "attend" to all of the input. With very small datasets (think 0 - 500 tokens), I found that attention makes training longer and results worse. I guess the benefits show up with much larger datasets. Note that I'm an AI noob just doing some personal AI projects, so I'm not exactly a reference.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

antoineMoPa — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 16:03:51 +0000

It's not clear from the landing page whether it's a git code platform / mercurial / entirely new VCS. I wish it was clearer (looking at the Readme, looks like it's indeed a git hosting platform).

I don't really care about the governance model as a user seeing this landing page for the first time, so I wonder why it's so prominent, vs telling me what the actual product is.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Show HN: SuperSplat – open-source 3D Gaussian Splat Editor"

antoineMoPa — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:40:09 +0000

Did anyone build a text-to-splat 3D generation model? Seems like it would be pretty straightforward? Should make it really easy to generate assets for video games.

EDIT: yep - https://gsgen3d.github.io/

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Civet: A Superset of TypeScript"

antoineMoPa — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:51:55 +0000

Nope! I'm also not convinced by it.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

antoineMoPa — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:38:32 +0000

To me, this looks like something chatgpt would write.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: What are some "toy" projects you used to learn neural networks hands-on?"

antoineMoPa — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:41:44 +0000

A tiny tiny LLM (essentially removing the "Large" part of "Large Language Model"). I taught neural networks to remember wikipedia articles (Actually, just one wikipedia article about horses.) and throw it back as-is by predicting the next token (when given the first token).

https://github.com/antoineMoPa/tfjs-text-experiment/blob/mai...

Show HN: Tiny game where you fight a virus in a grid

antoineMoPa — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 14:42:39 +0000

Article URL: https://antoinemopa.github.io/grid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40690121

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Upgrade Your Yarn Dependencies

antoineMoPa — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 23:27:44 +0000

Article URL: https://yarnpkg.com/cli/upgrade-interactive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40686138

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: What is collaboration like for you these days?"

antoineMoPa — Tue, 07 May 2024 12:52:07 +0000

In terms of coding, I love collaboration when it's necessary, but I dread it when it's forced.

I feel like sync communication is necessary for groomings & design review.

> design was taken forward (approved by the team) just to be heavily criticised during implementation

Pretty strange that it was approved by the team and then criticized. Is this a recurring thing or just a one-off issue people did not spot early enough? If it's frequent, the team should either do a better job of discussing before implementation or understand that they have to unite behind the decision once a design is approved.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Ask HN: What impact does remote work have on your life?"

antoineMoPa — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:26:33 +0000

I work for the company that I want to work for which is on the other side of the country - yet I live in my home town close to my family & I was able to afford a home thanks to the salary / cost of life difference.

New comment by antoineMoPa in "Vulkan Foliage rendering using GPU Instancing"

antoineMoPa — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:03:34 +0000

I wonder how that compares to SDF rendering of grass. SDF has a high cost due to the raymarching part, but you essentially get free repetition with local tweaks.