Hacker News: barrenko

New comment by barrenko in "Magnolias Are So Old That They're Pollinated by Beetles, Not Bees"

barrenko — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:25:16 +0000

Very common around my mom's house.

New comment by barrenko in "What's Under Your Feet in New York City?"

barrenko — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:29:32 +0000

Pieces of Belgian cities?

New comment by barrenko in "Understanding the AI Economy"

barrenko — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:39:02 +0000

+ with nation states becoming poorly run cesspools, we're going to see what happens to that.

New comment by barrenko in "Men That Don't Fit In (1911)"

barrenko — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:28:35 +0000

Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?

New comment by barrenko in "Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon"

barrenko — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:15:42 +0000

Humanity is a bit of a stretch, and to be seen over time, not that I'm saying it won't happen; let's get some hubris here.

New comment by barrenko in "Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)"

barrenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:20:45 +0000

The problems you have are solutions to the problems you don't want to admit to yourself are actually having.

New comment by barrenko in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

barrenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:18:27 +0000

Would it? Tongue in cheek.

New comment by barrenko in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

barrenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:14:21 +0000

Interlinked.

New comment by barrenko in "The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning"

barrenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:29:14 +0000

Proobably the later.

New comment by barrenko in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration"

barrenko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:52:23 +0000

Also just the general timezone stuff, genetics ~ I've moved from the right end of a timezone to the left end, it's been killing me.

New comment by barrenko in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

barrenko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:50:51 +0000

Yeah, what did I say?

New comment by barrenko in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

barrenko — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:24:08 +0000

Post-money people with side interests are what built the current western civilization.

New comment by barrenko in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

barrenko — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:12:06 +0000

On X.com on my Chrome browser I am unable to correct digits if I entered a wrong number.

Very nice blog layout btw.

New comment by barrenko in "Ask HN: Does appearance matter more than we admit as founders?"

barrenko — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:37:35 +0000

Best thing you can do for your professional life, if you're in that sort of arena, is to get extremely jacked.

New comment by barrenko in "How to hide from killer drones"

barrenko — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:00:36 +0000

This seems like it caters mostly to Ukrainians no?

New comment by barrenko in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

barrenko — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:03:11 +0000

Yeah, you should make stuff medical staff needs.

New comment by barrenko in "AI 2040: Plan A"

barrenko — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:00:05 +0000

Utopia, dystopia, myopia. We usually get the last one.

New comment by barrenko in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

barrenko — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:58:19 +0000

We won't kill it, but we can try to burn it. Conflagration comes to mind.

New comment by barrenko in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

barrenko — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:18:37 +0000

We are doing to our brains and our children the same thing we are doing to pigs in cages, squezeeing every last cent until the planet burns down.

New comment by barrenko in "US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers"

barrenko — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:26:10 +0000

To add that Ukraine was also USSR's drone research center; not to detract from what you are saying.