Hacker News: bgitarts

New comment by bgitarts in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

bgitarts — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:03:13 +0000

This is cool. Feels like Codex already offers this in their desktop app.

New comment by bgitarts in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

bgitarts — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:25:26 +0000

have you tired adding to your agents file: "Prefer solutions that reduce lines of code over adding lines of code"?

New comment by bgitarts in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

bgitarts — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:34:25 +0000

This should show in up in higher margins for the company.

Is your company a software firm or considered something outside of pure software?

New comment by bgitarts in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

bgitarts — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:20:04 +0000

The way I'm using it is I have AI generate the tool (python script) and then it will use it for the task and for future tasks. As time goes on, the AI has more tools to call on which makes it (and me) more productive (higher quality work in less time)

New comment by bgitarts in "Why I Program in Lisp"

bgitarts — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:24:02 +0000

Always read from experienced developers praising lisps, but why is it so rare in production applications?

New comment by bgitarts in "Robinhood's new, attractive and expensive credit card"

bgitarts — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 17:21:27 +0000

Author doesn't see RH profiting by selling customer information they acquire.

New comment by bgitarts in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

bgitarts — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:49:57 +0000

I had a business partner/family member steal money from me in our business. It very much hurt and was a painful experience hoping for vengence. Perhaps SBF being distant from you is what makes you indifferent.

New comment by bgitarts in "Smart Contract Security Field Guide"

bgitarts — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:14:06 +0000

How about stopping governments and banks from censoring, stopping and freezing money of their citizens/customers? Seems like one good use case.

New comment by bgitarts in "Smart Contract Security Field Guide"

bgitarts — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:10:20 +0000

I guess you could say you don't need Amazon, the problem of getting goods is solved by physical stores. Yet, millions of people find value in ordering through Amazon instead.

There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases.

New comment by bgitarts in "The tiny corp raised $5.1M"

bgitarts — Thu, 25 May 2023 12:32:55 +0000

Why isn't AMD and Intel working on an alternative?

New comment by bgitarts in "Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth"

bgitarts — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:12:11 +0000

At what dosages?

New comment by bgitarts in "Client-side encryption for Gmail in Google Workspace is now generally available"

bgitarts — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:40:43 +0000

Not available to users with personal Google Accounts.

Why not?

New comment by bgitarts in "Everything SBF is doing is in singular pursuit of not going to jail"

bgitarts — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:22:11 +0000

How would you evaluate your priors if he is prosecuted, convicted and then given a presidential pardon?

New comment by bgitarts in "What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me"

bgitarts — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 16:20:36 +0000

The first two points can be said about cryptography

New comment by bgitarts in "IRCv3 2022 Spec round-up"

bgitarts — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 19:59:18 +0000

Unfortunately IRC has failed to keep up with the U/X of centralized chat services like discord which is a shame because an open protocol chat seems needed for the internet.

Why does open protocol usually mean crippled U/X?

New comment by bgitarts in "Mortal Kombat+"

bgitarts — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 16:49:26 +0000

Is the source public?

New comment by bgitarts in "Tornado Cash and bullets"

bgitarts — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:08:51 +0000

He said the developers deployed tornado cash. How does he know they did? Maybe they only released the source code and another party deployed the code.

New comment by bgitarts in "Crypto Is Crashing, But Companies Aren't Acting Like It"

bgitarts — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 14:38:02 +0000

Endgame is decentralizing the internet and perhaps non-internet protocols. Even if the probability of a decentralized social network working is small, the upside in the case it does work is so large that it's worth the bet

ie: 100% downside vs 10,000%+ upside. If only 1 out of 100 such bets works out they break even. If 2 they have a profitable fund, 3+ they have knocked it out of the park.

New comment by bgitarts in "Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed"

bgitarts — Tue, 17 May 2022 10:07:57 +0000

I did the same exact thing. Worked great.

New comment by bgitarts in "How to Prepare for a Recession"

bgitarts — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:56:56 +0000

The "money" in the economy is actually mostly credit, and during a recession it contracts (usually from defaults) so the amount of "money" in the system is now less

Since the value of a stock is it's future cash flows discounted to the present and it's had it's current cash flows impacted, usually that makes forecasts revise those future earnings downward lowering the valuation of the company.

Other reasons are assets are sold to make up for lost income needed to pay for expenses, and stocks being liquid often get sold first.