Hacker News: arjvik

New comment by arjvik in "German Dog Commands"

arjvik — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:13:14 +0000

Turns out if we say any word with the same inflection as sit, our dog sits!

New comment by arjvik in "CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe"

arjvik — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:48:10 +0000

Open access typically means authors pay a publication fee, which leads to the same result of the government paying twice and the journal profiting twice.

New comment by arjvik in "Delta Air Lines Says It Will Suspend Special Services for Congress Members"

arjvik — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:13:06 +0000

Almost as if they shouldn't be getting special treatment in the first place!

New comment by arjvik in "Show HN: Druids – coordinate and deploy coding agents across machines"

arjvik — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:01:26 +0000

  insertDrakeMeme()
  nah: Actor-Critic Models
  ayy: Actor Model

In seriousness, huge fan! multi-agent systems are inherently distributed systems, and we've solved the problem of organizing distributed systems before through actors.

...Just wait until we get multi-agent systems with enough agents to need distributed consensus!

New comment by arjvik in "The Shape of Inequalities"

arjvik — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:50:46 +0000

This I didn’t know!

New comment by arjvik in "//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner"

arjvik — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:04:30 +0000

recover()'s semantics make it so that "pointless" use like this can be inlined in a way that changes its semantics, but "correct" use remains unchanged.

Yes, maybe some code uses recover() to check if its being called as a panic handler, and perhaps `go fix` should add a check for this ("error: function to be inlined calls recover()"), but this isn't a particularly common footgun.

New comment by arjvik in "Agents that run while I sleep"

arjvik — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:12:51 +0000

by future do you mean Future or metaphorical future? :)

New comment by arjvik in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

arjvik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:05:37 +0000

hey hey hey the world would be a better place if we all used JAX instead :)

New comment by arjvik in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

arjvik — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:11:43 +0000

There’s a known fix for SQL injection and no such known fix for prompt injection

New comment by arjvik in "Talos: Hardware accelerator for deep convolutional neural networks"

arjvik — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:16:53 +0000

Not to take away from this cool project, but its design decisions are incredibly impractical.

New comment by arjvik in "I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog"

arjvik — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:40:43 +0000

As far as I remember, they called it a Guild in all their developer documentation

VibeTensor: AI-Generated Deep Learning Tensor Library

arjvik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:58:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/NVlabs/vibetensor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726207

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by arjvik in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

arjvik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:37:52 +0000

I'm not sure I agree... while I don't ever see myself writing papers with AI, I hate wrangling a bibtex bibliography.

I wouldn't trust today's GPT-5-with-web-search to do turn a bullet point list of papers into proper citations without checking myself, but maybe I will trust GPT-X-plus-agent to do this.

New comment by arjvik in "The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible"

arjvik — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:47:45 +0000

My favorite link of all time:

https://jpmorgan.c1ic.link/logger_zcGFC2_bank_xss.docm

Definitely not meta

New comment by arjvik in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

arjvik — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:37:28 +0000

I personally believe that the ideal situation is in fact everyone reclining their seat

New comment by arjvik in "Open Infrastructure Map"

arjvik — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:15:40 +0000

When I lived in Texas, we had a massive storm in winter of 2021 leaving many without power for a week.

I was told that Texas maintained its own energy grid independent from the rest of the nation’s eastern and western grids, and supposedly only had a handful of high-voltage DC lines running between Texas’s and the rest of the nation’s. Supposedly this was why we couldn’t rely on excess capacity from anywhere else in the nation while our power generation capability was down.

But this map doesn’t seem to show Texas as isolated - there appear to be many lines in and out and no clear separation?

New comment by arjvik in "PassSeeds – hijacking Passkeys to unlock new cryptographic use cases"

arjvik — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:45:10 +0000

I don’t understand why you want to enforce only using the public key instead of private key - while I believe you that as of now browsers do not disclose the public key anywhere, I’d also suspect that this is far more likely to be violated and accidentally disclosed by a bug than the private key, which theoretically cannot ever leave the TPM.

Would KDF(deterministic_sign(“well-known message”)) not also provide valid entropy?

Is it just impossible to force a nonce for a deterministic signature?

New comment by arjvik in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

arjvik — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:07:26 +0000

One of the many patron saints of engineers!

If he so believed in it, may his arrow be pointing up! :)

New comment by arjvik in "Where Is GPT in the Chomsky Hierarchy?"

arjvik — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:05:35 +0000

As a quick hack, is this flaw fixed by using top-p or top-k or min-p or whatever the current hottest logit sampling algorithm is?

New comment by arjvik in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

arjvik — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:49:21 +0000

How hackable is the firmware, if we want to assign different handling to the button presses?

Can we flash our own firmware to the device?