Hacker News: bckr

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.

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

bckr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:51:34 +0000

Yes. It’s astonishing how I see individuals with these enormous egos centered on their intellectual, technical achievements, who have such egregious blindspots surrounding their own unethical attitudes and behavior.

Sirs, please turn the apparatus upon itself. Question yourself as a part of a larger system. What is your function among members of your own species? How can you falsify your hypotheses on this subject? Please don’t be so incurious.

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

bckr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:43:26 +0000

Where I made up my mind is during “dance party” where the boys have faces and the girl has a dancing woman for a head.

Overall the idea is creative, but also not at all what I hoped. Was hoping for diagrams of actors in the systems sense.

New comment by bckr in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

bckr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:28:15 +0000

> Cursor is declining

Yep. I switched to Zed over the weekend and I’m very happy so far. It’s snappy.

New comment by bckr in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

bckr — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:22:46 +0000

“Listen” is being used in a non-literal way here, with the meaning “to accept as true”.

New comment by bckr in "Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity"

bckr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:25:14 +0000

We could all chip in

New comment by bckr in "Ask HN: Is anyone using the A2A protocol?"

bckr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:57:09 +0000

We set up something with a registry of AgentCards and a messaging system with SSE streaming—then we realized we didn’t need an agent on the other side so now we have this weird hybrid pattern.

So, no.

New comment by bckr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

bckr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:48:39 +0000

I’m in the first weeks of designing nub: Not Unix, Basically. The motto is “general-purpose, provably correct software, for everyone”. The idea is to build, on top of seL4, a software stack that builds compile time capability guarantees and other high-assurance primitives into every piece of software by default.

“nub” is a good name because it can also be read as “noob”, which I am, when it comes to PL, type systems, and OS design. But I’m loving the deep connections that I am learning to draw across subjects like computability theory, functional programming, and brass-tacks software development.

For example, I find myself understanding the purpose of the borrow checker in Rust (“to make race conditions impossible” is my understanding: feel free to correct me / add color).

No website or GitHub repo yet. I’m brushing up on classical logic and learning Idris. Installed QEMU today.

New comment by bckr in "Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, how long did it take you to succeed?"

bckr — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:00:57 +0000

Still haven’t succeeded! I’m on my 8th business since being a teenager. I have lost quite a bit of money. I’ve earned some through consulting. I think for those of use for whom it doesn’t come easy or natural (and maybe, for everyone) you have to identify as an entrepreneur—wanting and even trying isn’t enough. Then let go of all outcomes. Then just move forward every day.

But I haven’t succeeded yet, so I might not be giving the best advice!

New comment by bckr in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

bckr — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:34 +0000

Oh yeah, he’s the one who said glue people are useless