Hacker News: bawis

New comment by bawis in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

bawis — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:21:34 +0000

Expertise is largely tacit knowledge, reading AI slop isn't expertise.

New comment by bawis in "Can we have the day off?"

bawis — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:38:38 +0000

Is there any English source for more information about the years of strikes you mentioned?

New comment by bawis in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

bawis — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:43:20 +0000

You need sources for this one, specifically the killing and raping claims.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Who is your favourite Entrepreneur/Visionary?"

bawis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:05:01 +0000

I love the typical family-owned small businesses, their runners are the ones that aspired entrepreneurs should listen to their advices instead of bestsellers books of ghouls preaching their bullshit.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

bawis — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:51:37 +0000

What do you mean by "YT is not optimized for recipes"?

The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale

bawis — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:55:05 +0000

Article URL: https://disassociated.com/talk-talk-cannot-circle-back-walk-walk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525816

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bawis in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

bawis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:00:50 +0000

Can you elaborate please?

New comment by bawis in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

bawis — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:21:08 +0000

>> but many other popular "classical" ML algorithms are not

Examples ?

New comment by bawis in "10-202: Introduction to Modern AI (CMU)"

bawis — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:03:41 +0000

This is a bad case of whataboutism (I hate this word but it describes the answer you gave), what do you mean by accelerating understanding? Maybe they are good as suggestion engines, but it is very early to state what you did.

New comment by bawis in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

bawis — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:17:26 +0000

I am eagerly waiting for the afterlife.

New comment by bawis in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

bawis — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:45:18 +0000

That has been the war politics of the western in the last century or so, nothing new.

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: Where do you save links, notes and random useful stuff?"

bawis — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:14:46 +0000

This is actually the truth, we all have tens or hundreds of priceless saved links. However, I claim that 90% are forgotten after a day or two, maybe that's actually something that small language models can fix ?

New comment by bawis in "First, make me care"

bawis — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:36:40 +0000

What was your PhD thesis about ?

The Resistance Infrastructure Movement

bawis — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:57:45 +0000

Article URL: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/resistance-infrastructure.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46734002

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?"

bawis — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:15:04 +0000

Thanks for detailing, how much time you invested in it?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?"

bawis — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:40:27 +0000

What body of knowledge (books, tutorials etc) did you use while developing it?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

bawis — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:24:49 +0000

Are you referring to this tutorial?

https://www.topcoder.com/thrive/articles/Dynamic%20Programmi...

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

bawis — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:10:57 +0000

> Language learning: I have a couple of languages that I want to focus on this 2026. Both for the enjoyment of learning and using said languages, and also because it will help me improve work-wise.

May I ask which languages are you talking about here? and what methods you will follow?

New comment by bawis in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

bawis — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:59:07 +0000

For complex analysis, I recommend using Stein's book (the whole series is good).

New comment by bawis in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

bawis — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:39:43 +0000

Same with English. let's ~~bomb other countries~~ spread "democracy".