Hacker News: ckrapu

New comment by ckrapu in "Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering"

ckrapu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:23:22 +0000

I expect it will be popular to dogpile on this article and point out how it's wrong in all sort of ways. I don't mean to do this and appreciate the writing, but a core difference is that software engineering always strives to avoid catering to the idiosyncrasies of the time and place while civil engineering is virtually all about the quirks of the site.

I think this results in quite different cultures.

New comment by ckrapu in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

ckrapu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:50:39 +0000

My point is not that oil fails to generate revenue. Clearly it is a lucrative business. Instead, my claim is that the state economy was remarkably robust, productive, healthy, and well-optimized for middle class quality of life pre-2007.

Does it sound surprising to you that it was perfectly normal to rent a perfect acceptable two bedroom apartment in a safe town on the interstate for $300 a month and still easily find dignified, decent paying jobs without 1000 applications?

I've lived in many cities and work in tech now, and I can confidently say that, as it concerns the professions and jobs that unambiguously sustain and improve life, no community on the planet was more productive than my home state. There is more to the story than some shale.

New comment by ckrapu in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

ckrapu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:35:02 +0000

With all due respect, I disagree.

I loved the winters. I loved the people. I loved how its natural beauty was subtle and rewarded the patient, unlike El Capitan or the Black Hills. The economy was fine before oil appeared.

New comment by ckrapu in "Nvidia, Groq and the limestone race to real-time AI"

ckrapu — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:02:16 +0000

I don't like this article. In particular, this section is especially poor:

> Block 1: We couldn't calculate fast enough. Solution: The GPU.

> Block 2: We couldn't train deep enough. Solution: Transformer architecture.

> Block 3: We can't "think" fast enough. Solution: Groq’s LPU.

#2 is outright wrong. Deep networks were made viable from residual layers and their refinement. #3 is also incorrect; "think" = compute so this is the same statement as #1.

Also, the "limestone" analogy is pretty weak.

New comment by ckrapu in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

ckrapu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:24:18 +0000

I originally tried to do this on my own server but my GPU is too old :(

New comment by ckrapu in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

ckrapu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:22:21 +0000

I wanted to let an LLM be able to grep and read through it.

New comment by ckrapu in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

ckrapu — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:07:29 +0000

I wasn't aware of dots when I wrote the blog post. This is really good to know!! I would like to try again with some newer models.

Quake in the browser using JavaScript and Three.js

ckrapu — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mrdoob.github.io/three-quake/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858003

Points: 5

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New comment by ckrapu in "We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s"

ckrapu — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:53:24 +0000

A thought I often have - older millennials and younger Gen X have a unique obligation to fix certain parts of society because we are the youngest generation old enough to remember how to operate in and enjoy a world that wasn't A/B tested into a gray, lifeless background hum.

Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code

ckrapu — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/ocr-textbooks-modal-deepseek/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616454

Points: 1

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How I accidentally became a power AI user in big tech

ckrapu — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:54:32 +0000

Article URL: https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2026/how-i-accidentally-became-elite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46566198

Points: 2

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New comment by ckrapu in "Tell HN: Current gen AI is just the epitome of error-correcting codes"

ckrapu — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:35:39 +0000

From this perspective, humans are just ECC with an optimally non-zero bit flip rate for evolution.

New comment by ckrapu in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

ckrapu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:04:54 +0000

I think Theano takes the crown as first modern end-user library for autodiff and tensor operations.

Show HN: Honor Quote – a new way to spot AI cheating on schoolwork

ckrapu — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:13:50 +0000

Article URL: https://honorquote.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144025

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ckrapu in "Show IH: My App for Retail Investors"

ckrapu — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:59:41 +0000

Mobile experience is not great

Using Antigravity for Statistical Physics in JavaScript

ckrapu — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/antigravity-stat-mech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46010540

Points: 45

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New comment by ckrapu in "I no longer engage with Nature publishing group"

ckrapu — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 13:27:46 +0000

I agree with some of the author’s criticisms, but diversity citations are a minor concern compared to the idea of paid access to publicly funded research.

New comment by ckrapu in "Ideas on how to improve my teaching repo?"

ckrapu — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:55:26 +0000

I want to help teach basic application design for GenAI. I've got a basic repo setup, but it's largely based on my own developer experience.

Any feedback is super appreciated.

I'm aiming it at new college grads who haven't had to maintain several services at once in production.

Ideas on how to improve my teaching repo?

ckrapu — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ckrapu/chainliterate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45392928

Points: 1

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What I learned from making 200 different LLMs flip coins

ckrapu — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:50:41 +0000

Article URL: https://christopherkrapu.com/blog/2025/what-i-learned-from-flipping-coins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919370

Points: 2

# Comments: 0