Hacker News: carom

New comment by carom in "Kaitai Struct: declarative binary format parsing language"

carom — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:59:10 +0000

My dream for a parsing library / language is that it would be able to read, manipulate, and then re-serialize the data. I'm sure there are a ton of edge cases there, but the round trip would be so useful for fuzzing and program analysis.

New comment by carom in "Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG"

carom — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 11:05:04 +0000

Just to note though, source copyright extends to its compiled form. There is probably an analogue there for model weights.

New comment by carom in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

carom — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:27:35 +0000

I was just going to fill it out how I would normally live Self Care > No Medication and immediately failed. That makes it feel like it has an agenda.

New comment by carom in "Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?"

carom — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:50:34 +0000

This article seems to have scoped AI as LLMs and totally missed the revolutionary application that is self driving cars. There will be a lot more applications outside of chat assistants.

New comment by carom in "An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents"

carom — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:39:04 +0000

The incentives are very poor in art, yet artists still create. I don't need people making video games for the incentives, I want the artists.

New comment by carom in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

carom — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:40:11 +0000

Interesting interpreting those as individualist. First can be read as a concern for family. Second is community and society. Third is also protection of community, you would be making a choice to intervene (an individual would leave). Fourth also is not the individual but again, family.

New comment by carom in "Anthropic is endorsing SB 53"

carom — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:49:27 +0000

Catastrophic AI risk is such a larp. The systems are not sentient. The risk will always be around the human driving the LLM, not the LLM itself. We already have laws governing human behavior, company behavior. If an entity violates a law using an LLM, it has nothing to do with the LLM.

New comment by carom in "iPhone Air"

carom — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:44:19 +0000

My battery was going out on my 12 and I got an SE. It's a good experience. If you can get a thumb print one, I personally like it a lot more than face ID.

New comment by carom in "Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese"

carom — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:26:17 +0000

This is the primary researcher behind the input hypothesis. [1]

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Krashen

New comment by carom in "Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years"

carom — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:31:40 +0000

>Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years

What a confusing title. I read it as the home being unearthed after 150 years and that there was a will involved in an active dispute over this newly unearthed home.

New comment by carom in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

carom — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 23:07:19 +0000

TSMC gets their machines from ASML who licenses their technology from the Department of Energy. The US will be OK.

New comment by carom in "Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)"

carom — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:02:28 +0000

I think you have perfectly described OP's vision. A unification of build systems and CI pipelines.

New comment by carom in "When DEF CON partners with the U.S. Army"

carom — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:22:35 +0000

The top two winning teams of that xTech AI pitch competition were not even AI solutions. It just seemed like a vehicle for the Army to now be able to award those companies non competitive contracts.

New comment by carom in "Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?"

carom — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 04:51:43 +0000

Here is my PR, it aligns perfectly with the project goals. It contains a backdoor as binary blob that will be loaded dynamically upon execution. The models are nowhere near catching this and it would get merged. Even more simply, a subtle bug leading to a vulnerable release. They do not have logic enough to catch this stuff.

New comment by carom in "Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions"

carom — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:56:23 +0000

The other comment articulates the points much better than I would have, but I have a large number of (tested) food and environmental allergies. It is a very logical explanation that the adjuvants in vaccines would cause the body to also train an immune response to other things.

There is also a massive profit motive for pharma companies and many hospitals, when you couple that with the revolving door between industry and government, it seems like a situation ripe for corruption.

I don't see the harm in removing aluminum adjuvants from vaccines (we all buy aluminum free deodorant!). I don't see the harm in not vaccinating children for things they are unlikely to come into contact with (i.e. hepatitis B). In fact, I think it would be good to make the change and see what the health outcomes are over the next 30 years. That is how we will learn.

New comment by carom in "Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or other health conditions"

carom — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 02:10:04 +0000

Ok, hold up. This study came up on Reddit a few weeks ago and my wife linked it to me. A lot of the comments were similar about how vaccine skeptics will never be convinced by it. So, being a vaccine skeptic, I went and read it.

>In this primary analysis, except for Asperger syndrome (hazard ratio, 1.13 [CI, 0.89 to 1.44]) and atypical autism (hazard ratio, 0.94 [CI, 0.79 to 1.12]), estimates for the individual outcomes were incompatible with any increased risk, with the upper bounds of the 95% CIs below 1.00. [1]

My understanding of this, and I am a software engineer so take it with a grain of salt, is that this study failed to disprove a link between aluminum in vaccines and aspergers! There is another section where it appears they played with the hyperparameters of their study and ended up with a lower hazard ratio for aspergers (I believe by extending the analysis window to 8 years of age, but it wasn't clear to me).

>Except for Asperger syndrome (hazard ratio, 1.02 [CI, 0.93 to 1.12]) and atypical autism (hazard ratio, 0.95 [CI, 0.88 to 1.03]), estimates for the individual neurodevelopmental outcomes assessed were incompatible with any increases in risk, with the upper bounds of the 95% CIs equal to or below 1.00.

That is to say, after reading the study, I am not convinced at all. I would like to see a longer analysis period (e.g. to 50 years of age) as many things go undiagnosed until later in life. From my reading though, this study failed to disprove a link despite what all the popsci headlines are saying.

1. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-00997

Edit: I know I am going to catch downvotes for this, but please go read the study and let me know where I am incorrect!

New comment by carom in "Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't"

carom — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:10:17 +0000

There are studies that going gluten free has positive health outcomes for schizophrenic patients. I could see keto working by the same mechanism.

New comment by carom in "Data on How America Sold Out Its Computer Science Graduates"

carom — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:08:03 +0000

That first point is not comparing students, it is saying that the H1B visas issued that year all have jobs lined up (which is a requirement of the visa). Those jobs are what the new graduates would normally be competing for.

New comment by carom in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

carom — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:53:37 +0000

I'm not sure the take away for the first point that user standards are rising is correct. Could that also be the number of people making games is increasing? I say this because more highly rated games and a trending down of the average (more slop) could explain that as well. I think the idea that standards are rising would hold constant the number of games.

New comment by carom in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

carom — Tue, 20 May 2025 00:17:19 +0000

The American DoD is a bit like this. It is much easier to get R&D contracts if you have PhD next to your name.