Hacker News: app134

New comment by app134 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

app134 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:07:08 +0000

DevOps is a huge part of my job as a systems engineer and I too have found increased satisfaction with AI.

I think the reason (for me, at least) is that my markers of success were always perched precariously atop a mountain of systems that I had varying levels of understanding of anyway. Seeing a pipeline "doing the thing" is satisfying regardless of how I sorted it out.

New comment by app134 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

app134 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:57:16 +0000

> I'm pretty sure that someone else would have come around the corner with a similar idea some time later, because the fundamentals of these stuff were already discussed decases before

I am not trying to be dismissive, but this could apply to all research ever

New comment by app134 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

app134 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:53:32 +0000

Dismissing someone with a different opinion as astroturfing is not productive.

There are loads of high performance open source LLMs on the market that compete with the big 3. I have not seen this level of community engagement and collaboration since the open-source boom 20 years ago.

New comment by app134 in "AI is different"

app134 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:26:03 +0000

You asked earlier if you were being overly cynical, and I think the answer to that is "yes"

We are indeed simulating what we find in nature when we create neural networks and transformers, and AI companies are indeed investing heavily in BCI research. ChatGPT can write an original essay better than most of my students. Its also artificial. Is that not artificial intelligence?

New comment by app134 in "AI is different"

app134 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:21:09 +0000

In-context learning is proof that LLMs are not stochastic parrots.

New comment by app134 in "Captain Cook's missing ship found after sinking 250 years ago"

app134 — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 20:36:43 +0000

I don't believe they have made it public.

I worked this wreck with RIMAP and had to sign an NDA before boating out, but that was back in 2020

New comment by app134 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

app134 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:28:03 +0000

Steganography tool called ez-steg. It supports least significant bit steganography as well as emoji/unicode encoding via variation selectors. It grew from a set of scripts I had written to test out data loss prevention systems.

Includes some nice-to-haves like payload encryption, carrier image creation

https://github.com/a-bissell/ez-steg