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New comment by bryzaguy in "How AI text watermarking works"

bryzaguy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:08:05 +0000

My guess would be to detect if their models are being distilled by other models.

New comment by bryzaguy in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

bryzaguy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:50:16 +0000

What if the new entry level is what we consider senior today? Isn't it possible today to obtain entry/mid level skills with LLMs? I wonder if things will shift more in that direction.

New comment by bryzaguy in "Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians"

bryzaguy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:47:56 +0000

I'm a musician and I am not seeing why I would want this. If this is trying to help musicians that don't know theory, it should start from simple chords and expand those in different ways that demonstrate an improvement. Currently the examples are pretty simple and don't sound good to my ear.

New comment by bryzaguy in "Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians"

bryzaguy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:31:12 +0000

Below the tone wheel should be a "Synthesize Stems" button which generates a list of midi examples, each with an "Audition" button that plays the midi.

New comment by bryzaguy in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

bryzaguy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:59:29 +0000

Not sure how relevant my example will be but I built a spaced repetition language learning LLM wrapper app to learn Japanese and it worked really well. I went to great lengths, however, to craft prompts which resulted in more predictable and useful results. ChatGPT on its own couldn’t do this.

New comment by bryzaguy in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

bryzaguy — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:50:26 +0000

Spaced repetition could address this, no? Also, the right example or metaphor can make a difficult concept both easier to understand and stickier in my mind which I think is different than something easy to learn.

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

bryzaguy — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:55:23 +0000

This looks cool! Memory safety beyond Rust with simpler code is a strong claim. Something I'd love to see is examples that mimic issues Rust borrow checker would catch as well as ones only wyzer would catch.

New comment by bryzaguy in "Design is compromise"

bryzaguy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:41:00 +0000

Design is an art and, as Rick Ruben says, success is not in your control. Also Rick says the audience comes last. You can find examples of strong choices that did not succeed but in your example it doesn’t sound like these mouse makers were designing for themselves first.

New comment by bryzaguy in "Design is compromise"

bryzaguy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:38:27 +0000

I fundamentally disagree with the premise. Why are we attempting to change the meaning of the word compromise? “compromise” and “has trade-offs” are NOT synonymous. The antithesis of compromise is to make strong decisions that WILL alienate people, but will better target your intended audience. That, IMHO, is a great thing.

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

bryzaguy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:56:04 +0000

> The closest we have come to a definition of privacy is probably “the right to be left alone,” but that seems quaint in an age when we are constantly dependent on digital services. In the context of A.I., “the right to not be manipulated by computation” seems almost correct

Maybe someone can enlighten me but I really don't understand how either of these description make any sense at all. How is it not better described as "the right to decide what data can be extracted"?

New comment by bryzaguy in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

bryzaguy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Maybe that's on me for missing it. Either way, the improvement is not enough for me to justify the extra cost.

New comment by bryzaguy in "Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion"

bryzaguy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:21:44 +0000

I was hoping to switch to Claude but was waiting until they had a better model than Codex 5.5. When Fable came out I immediately bought the $100 plan. When the government shut it down they gave the option to cancel which I appreciated. I planned to subscribe again once it was back. However, removing it from the subscription once back has really soured me. I can't help feeling like it was a bait and switch. Even if they added it back, I'm not sure I trust it will stay. I now have no plans to switch back from Codex.

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

bryzaguy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:40:01 +0000

This is awesome

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

bryzaguy — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:36:56 +0000

This is so cool!

New comment by bryzaguy in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

bryzaguy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:53:53 +0000

I had Flashback on Sega Genesis as a kid. For whatever reason, I was unable to get past the first obstacle. I had a similar experience with Myst. After a while I came back to those games and now they are two of my all time favorite games. I was excited to see The Last Night revive the rotoscope style but sadly it was never finished. I saw Replaced picked up the mantle so I created an account and purchased it on Steam before realizing it's windows only and I'm macOS :(

New comment by bryzaguy in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

bryzaguy — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:29:14 +0000

I had the same problem on iPhone. Turning my ringer on solved it.

New comment by bryzaguy in "I spent years trying to make CSS states predictable"

bryzaguy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:30:16 +0000

Reminds me of styled components. If the goal is generating the selector why not let the body be a string: ```{ Item: "color: red;" }```?

New comment by bryzaguy in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

bryzaguy — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:44:30 +0000

I was really nervous about the update to Liquid Glass based on comments like this but my experience has been really positive. I love the new contextual tooltip menu when I try to select text and other thoughtful details. Maybe there’s things I’m not bumping into?

New comment by bryzaguy in "The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1961-1964)"

bryzaguy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:09:07 +0000

Talk about a cliffhanger

New comment by bryzaguy in "What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent"

bryzaguy — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:05:30 +0000

Oh wow! No way! Thank you!