Hacker News: bckr

New comment by bckr in "ElevenLabs Music v2.5"

bckr — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:58:54 +0000

I’ve had poor luck working with freelancers. Some good luck for the occasional drawing. But good help is hard to find.

New comment by bckr in "Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]"

bckr — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:27:11 +0000

Who is also a working engineer (and programmer of the highest caliber) who is in touch with the zeitgeist of engineering.

New comment by bckr in "Nothing Doing"

bckr — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:00:55 +0000

My great grandmother taught me that “nothing doing” meant something similar to “there’s nothing for it”.

New comment by bckr in "Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games"

bckr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:10:15 +0000

This is just very cool. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by bckr in "Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)"

bckr — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:39:38 +0000

How far are we from speaking a GameCube-era game into existence as a pastime?

New comment by bckr in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

bckr — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:31:13 +0000

This is how I feel too!

If you want to get excited… think about all the things that ever got you excited about the future. Then think about how you basically had to defer the possibility of them happening in your lifetime.

Readjust your timelines! Determine what is the most amazing thing that could happen, that you could contribute to, by orchestrating computation effectively.

I mean we don’t even have a cure for cancer yet!

New comment by bckr in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

bckr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:39:07 +0000

The basics are always so basic yet so necessary. Thanks for the recommendation.

New comment by bckr in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

bckr — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:24:52 +0000

I like the ideas a lot. The Readme needs some polish (I think it’s great that it reads as hand-written; an LLM could make suggestions that make it just 10% easier to read).

Is choreographic programming the same as session types?

New comment by bckr in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

bckr — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:14:50 +0000

What are the specs of your laptop and what tokens per second do you get?

New comment by bckr in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

bckr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:10:55 +0000

Right but what keeps the second line clean? You’re going to get spam there too.

New comment by bckr in "Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers"

bckr — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:01:48 +0000

I think we have to do something this extreme. We have to give the system a total makeover. Somehow we also have to keep it from being fully centralized and have the big brother problem on the other side. Unfortunately these two goals are difficult to get through at the same time, with the system that we have.

New comment by bckr in "Show HN: HN Hall of Fame – browse 3,100 legendary Hacker News links"

bckr — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:01:58 +0000

Can 3100 links be legendary? I feel like there can be at most 310 legendary links

New comment by bckr in "Agent swarms and the new model economics"

bckr — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:26:44 +0000

Yes, agentic coding is machine learning. Not because of the underlying language models, but because it is gradient descent, where the test harness provides a gradient for the agent to traverse.

New comment by bckr in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

bckr — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:28:11 +0000

Most people don’t know about that because they live in an information bubble handcrafted by the oligarchs.

New comment by bckr in "Does code cleanliness affect coding agents? A controlled minimal-pair study"

bckr — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:37:19 +0000

Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic

New comment by bckr in "Half-Baked Product"

bckr — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:18:24 +0000

Engineer? Wow, that’s high falutin. Sanitation Technician is as high as I got.

New comment by bckr in "Claude Sonnet 5"

bckr — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:21:33 +0000

I suggest you encoding your invariants in the harness. Architectural invariants that can be mechanically checked, including which modules are approved, which dependencies, etc.

New comment by bckr in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

bckr — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:46:15 +0000

VC startup world is not about intelligence. It’s about impressing investors.

New comment by bckr in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

bckr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:04:44 +0000

What models have you tried? Gemini 3.1 pro has vision capable of reading my sloppy diaries from 10 years ago, down to small glyphs and doodles.

New comment by bckr in "Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion"

bckr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:01:15 +0000

Wow. That sure is something.