Hacker News: charv

New comment by charv in "Mario Meets Pareto"

charv — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:48:55 +0000

I would really love to be able to explore this data, e.g. what is the "worst" driver? Is there an inverse Pareto front?

New comment by charv in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question"

charv — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:44:28 +0000

All time great short story. Has shaped my world view since I first read it many years ago.

New comment by charv in "Harold and George Destroy the World"

charv — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:51:55 +0000

Perhaps this comment was intended for the age verification thread elsewhere on HN? Unclear how this relates to Department of War, Captain Underpants, etc.

New comment by charv in "Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization"

charv — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:14:58 +0000

Strong disagree — aggregate markers were super useful when browsing the map on mobile! Maybe need to add a flag for mobile vs. desktop, but the experience would be a lot worse on mobile without them.

New comment by charv in "Show HN: Double blind entropy using Drand for verifiably fair randomness"

charv — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:53:37 +0000

Cool stuff! I seem to have found a bug — often when I roll, I get this error and no roll happens:

  Error: The string did not match the expected pattern.

New comment by charv in "Game Theory Patterns at Work"

charv — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:21:48 +0000

Considering the mention of AI in job searches and screening, I don’t know if this is actually from 2016. Some fantastic advice in here though, particularly on navigating political / technical landscapes

New comment by charv in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

charv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:03:59 +0000

"Commenter shows off how smart they are with cool fun fact"

New comment by charv in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

charv — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:55:31 +0000

oh the irony, the status link being down too

New comment by charv in "We Raised $5.7M to Launch Cto.new Completely for Free"

charv — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:33:18 +0000

Interesting, free AI coding agents but "completely for free because we use anonymized usage data for model training and other purposes."

Not quite sure how I feel about that, but I guess the major AI players are already using chats for model training anyways. Reminds me a bit of OpenRouter with grok code fast 1, trading off hot models for usage stats.

New comment by charv in "Kagi News"

charv — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:48:54 +0000

I love everything that Kagi has put out. The Orion browser rocks (recently replaced Brave, good riddance) and my go-to chatbot today is the Kagi Assistant with Kimi K2 connected to the internet.

I tended towards Axios but lately it's gotten a bit paywalled and less informative. Can't wait to incorporate Kagi News into my daily workflow.

New comment by charv in "TikTok Sold for $14B"

charv — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:46:56 +0000

This feels like an incredibly low valuation for what has been billed as such an important commodity.

New comment by charv in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

charv — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:25:26 +0000

I find the radiologist use case an illuminating one for the adoption of AI across business today. My takeaway is that when the tools get better, radiologists aren't replaced, but take up other important tasks that sometimes become second nature when reads (unassisted) are the primary goal.

  In particular, doctors appear to defer excessively to assistive AI tools in clinical settings in a way that they do not in lab settings. They did this even with much more primitive tools than we have today... The gap was largest when computer aids failed to recognize the malignancy itself; many doctors seemed to treat an absence of prompts as reassurance that a film was clean

Reminds me of the "slop" discussions happening right now. When the tools seem good, but aren't, we develop a reliance to false negatives, e.g. text that clearly "feels" written by a GPT model.