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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:11:41 +0000

It's really funny. I would read HN headlines about PhD research in the area of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness_(computer_science) and it always seemed really boring

Now it is obvious to me how important this work is

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:11:11 +0000

Thomas Bayes would say that the population of people who hate Facebook is really big and the population of people who are scrupulous about whether or not their comments are specific to the matter at hand is relatively small

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:39:08 +0000

This approach accumulates codebase-understanding debt and the call to pay the piper could come at any time

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:35:59 +0000

At least in 2020 when I was in this pool, the rate for recent grads from an average program was $75k-$85k

New comment by bgilroy26 in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:33:15 +0000

The bendy arm people

https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-memphis-design-tech/

New comment by bgilroy26 in "The End of an Era"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:27:32 +0000

>Sales and marketing, of course, were always and will always be a different story.

If we could fix these, we could have bike lanes in places where they make sense

New comment by bgilroy26 in "After the AI Crash"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:43:29 +0000

It's more a post GamerGate understanding of a nerds vs the world narrative framing

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:27:42 +0000

>The phrase appeared in print in the 1885 biography of the noted swindler Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis, "King of the Bunco Men". The author writes:

>>It was always a saying with Joe that there was a sucker born every minute, and all through his business career he acted on that basis, and generally found a good crop of them

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:45:23 +0000

I would walk

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

bgilroy26 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:12:10 +0000

Does the atmosphere stay attached to the earth due to the bending of time?

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

bgilroy26 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:59:23 +0000

It seems like there is a genuine communication breakdown between management and engineering. Engineers know that there are vulnerabilities all over the place and that there have been for ages and that where the rubber hits the road every vulnerability does not represent a successful exploit by some nefarious actor.

Management can often treat cybersecurity like a black box that represents millions upon millions in liability. If Mythos represents an opportunity to bring management's understanding of the amount of "security vulnerability debt" everyone carries into the real world, it might be a good thing

New comment by bgilroy26 in "What physical ‘life force’ turns biology’s wheels?"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:07:33 +0000

For those who remember, the flagellum was a major site of the Intelligent Design debate that gave us Christopher Rufo (via the Discovery Institute)

The general idea was that there were specific examples of "irreducible complexity" that proved that there was an intelligent designer. The project on the part of certain Christian political factions was to add a veneer of hypothesis testing to creationism. The god of the gaps retreats further

CSAIL makes corpus of Olympiad problems publicly available

bgilroy26 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:32:06 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-world-largest-olympiad-math-problems.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867447

Points: 4

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New comment by bgilroy26 in "Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)"

bgilroy26 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:15:26 +0000

>Therefore, there was a certain tendency to RETVRN to the golden age of geometry

Echoed in the LaRouchians of the 2000s. I don't know what they're up to now

New comment by bgilroy26 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

bgilroy26 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:02:01 +0000

There really ought to be a class of professionals like forensic accountants who can show up in a corrupted organization and do a post mortem on their management of technical debt

New comment by bgilroy26 in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

bgilroy26 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:35:18 +0000

This ignores the career of Rush Limbaugh

New comment by bgilroy26 in "Moving Scratch generation to Python on browser"

bgilroy26 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:13:54 +0000

I have loved Scratch for many years. This looks cool! Thank you for sharing!

New comment by bgilroy26 in "The Monks in the Casino"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:34:42 +0000

Society is kinetic and disparate because of social media

We're all on top of one another, and different cross tabs feel different ways about the same thing. So there is room for empathy and antipathy to coexist

If you read the New York Times and The Atlantic there is lots of empathy for the male loneliness crisis

I am in between the age of you and your son it seems. As a man who has not missed any of the "misandry", I think the overly online conservative young men are an embarrassment and I hope they grow out of it

New comment by bgilroy26 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

bgilroy26 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:38:36 +0000

I have a lot of fun creating stories with Gemini and Claude. It feels like what Tom Hanks character imagined comic books could be in Big (1988)

I play once or twice a week and it's definitely worth $20/mo to me

New comment by bgilroy26 in "URLs are state containers"

bgilroy26 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:19:11 +0000

To save the url length, why not hash all possible states and have the value of the variable in the query string refer to that?