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New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Rust Threads on the GPU"

coffeeaddict1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:04:18 +0000

I have to give it to Apple though in this case. Waves or warps are ridiculously uninformative, while simdgroups at least convey some useful information.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

coffeeaddict1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:26:46 +0000

While the linked study is interesting, using standardised tests is a terrible way to judge if someone is "intelligent".

Also imo is very difficult to come up with a universal definition of intelligence. For example, I hold Lionel Messi to be a very "intelligent" footballer, but I would judge his intelligence to be of vastly different nature to that of Albert Einstein.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

coffeeaddict1 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:54:44 +0000

> I feel like an average human wouldn't pass some of these metrics yet they are "generally intelligent". On the other hand they also wouldn't pass a lot of the expert questions that AI is good at.

I think this approach is intentional. The philosophy is simply "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". What you're saying is true, but producing a system that exhibits all human cognitive capabilities is a better threshold for the (absolutely wild) claim of the existence of AGI.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

coffeeaddict1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:14:50 +0000

> And accountability can still exist? Is the engineer that created or reviewed a Pull Request using Claude Code less accountable then one that used PICO?

The point is that in the human scenario, you can hold the human agents accountable. You cannot do that with AI. Of course, you as the orchestrator of agents will be accountable to someone, but you won't have the benefit of holding your "subordinates" accountable, which is what you do in a human team. IMO, this renders the whole situation vastly different (whether good or bad I'm not sure).

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

coffeeaddict1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:47:52 +0000

But how can you be a responsible builder if you don't have trust in the LLMs doing the "right thing"? Suppose you're the head of a software team where you've picked up the best candidates for a given project, in that scenario I can see how one is able to trust the team members to orchestrate the implementation of your ideas and intentions, with you not being intimately familiar with the details. Can we place the same trust in LLM agents? I'm not sure. Even if one could somehow prove that LLM are very reliable, the fact an AI agents aren't accountable beings renders the whole situation vastly different than the human equivalent.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

coffeeaddict1 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:01:19 +0000

Usually, I tell the agent to try out an idea and if I don't like the implementation or approach I want to undo the code changes. Then I start again, feeding it more information so it can execute a different idea or the same one with a better plan. This also helps the context window small.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Unrolling the Codex agent loop"

coffeeaddict1 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:12:34 +0000

What I really want from Codex is checkpoints ala Copilot. There are a couple of issues [0][1] opened about on GitHub, but it doesn't seem a priority for the team.

[0] https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2788

[1] https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3585

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Claude's new constitution"

coffeeaddict1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:19:30 +0000

> That's probably because we have yet to discover any universal moral standards.

This is true. Moral standards don't seem to be universal throughout history. I don't think anyone can debate this. However, this is different that claiming there is an objective morality.

In other words, humans may exhibit varying moral standards, but that doesn't mean that those are in correspondence with moral truths. Killing someone may or may not have been considered wrong in different cultures, but that doesn't tell us much about whether killing is indeed wrong or right.

Quadratic Bezier – Distance 2D

coffeeaddict1 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:31:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/MlKcDD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710364

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

coffeeaddict1 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:12:46 +0000

I hate it too, but to my surprise, all of my colleagues (with an iPhone) said they love because it looks great.

WebGPU rolling out in Chrome for Linux

coffeeaddict1 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-webgpu-144

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46570037

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

coffeeaddict1 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:15:38 +0000

Article URL: https://tiespetersen.substack.com/p/i-got-paid-minimum-wage-to-solve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556177

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Vector graphics on GPU"

coffeeaddict1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:26:08 +0000

In terms of performance, it's quite far from something like Blend2D or Vello though.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware"

coffeeaddict1 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:39:11 +0000

As an aside, anyone here uses drawing tablets for work? I got a cheap Wacom tablets and found it super useful, for sketching ideas or understanding something before starting to implement new code.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Vector graphics on GPU"

coffeeaddict1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:08:46 +0000

> And please keep in mind that Blend2D is not really in development anymore - it has no funding so the project is basically done.

That's such a shame. Thanks a lot for Blend2D! I wish companies were less greedy and would fund amazing projects like yours. Unfortunately, I do think that everyone is a bit obsessed with GPUs nowadays. For 2D rendering the CPU is great, especially if you want predictable results and avoid having to deal with the countless driver bugs that plague every GPU vendor.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Vector graphics on GPU"

coffeeaddict1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:35:17 +0000

> There's also the issue of just how many billions of line segments you really need to draw every 1/120th of a second at 8K resolution

IMO, one of biggest benefit of a high performance renderer would be power savings (very important for laptops and phones). If I can run the same work but use half the power, then by all means I'd be happy to deal with the complications that the GPU brings. AFAIK though, no one really cares about that and even efforts like Vello are just targeting fps gains, which do correlate with reduced power consumption but only indirectly.

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Vector graphics on GPU"

coffeeaddict1 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:18:02 +0000

Vello [0] might suit you although it's not production grade yet.

[0] https://github.com/linebender/vello

TGFX - A lightweight 2D graphics library for modern GPUs

coffeeaddict1 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:02:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Tencent/tgfx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46517815

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

DirectX 11 Tutorial by Microsoft

coffeeaddict1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXTK/wiki/Getting-Started

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503114

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by coffeeaddict1 in "Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps"

coffeeaddict1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:38:20 +0000

This works for Blender because they're a big fish and receive money from big corporations. The vast majority of good open source projects are underfunded or unpaid. Linux distros need a way to streamline payments to open source apps. As I mentioned above, Flathub [0] had an initiative in this direction, but not sure what happened to that.

[0] https://itsfoss.com/news/flathub-paid-apps