Hacker News: complexworld

New comment by complexworld in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

complexworld — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:17:50 +0000

could you add some context for why you think it's poor?

New comment by complexworld in "Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling"

complexworld — Fri, 16 May 2025 23:21:27 +0000

Could you explain which antipatterns you're referring to?

New comment by complexworld in "What Your Sleep Tracker Gets Wrong About Sleep"

complexworld — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:07:37 +0000

This would be a godsend to if it works in a non-clinical setting!

I always wake up after 3-5 hours of sleep, and I usually can't get back to sleep during the night. According to Fitbit sleep monitoring even in those few hours, I don't get much deep sleep. Needless to say I am very fatigued during the day. If it wasn't for sleep medication I would be a complete wreck.

New comment by complexworld in "Ask HN: Will vibe coding make creating throwaway prototypes more common?"

complexworld — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:13:39 +0000

Actually I think the vibe coding process does make you think about the requirements. When the LLM writes some code, and you run it, you see what's missing. Maybe this only works well for simple systems, not complex ones.

Ask HN: Will vibe coding make creating throwaway prototypes more common?

complexworld — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:01:11 +0000

Fred Brooks wrote "Plan to throw one away" in the early 1970's.

But in my experience the opposite has been more common: a "prototype" ends up being used in production for a long time.

Now 50 years later, could we use vibe coding to make Brooks' idea come true?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613569

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by complexworld in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

complexworld — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 02:02:27 +0000

On my Kobo Libra 2 I never noticed a difference.

New comment by complexworld in "Show HN: Adventures in OCR"

complexworld — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:15:02 +0000

Getting the footnotes right is going to be really tricky. Sometimes I couldn't even read the superscript numbering on the original scans. And that was after zooming in to the max.

Reliably identifying the superscript locations should be enough since they are in the same order as the footnotes.

It's a little early for feature requests... but I would love to see an EPUB edition! It shouldn't be too hard once done with the hard work of getting the data structured structured.

New comment by complexworld in "Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State"

complexworld — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 03:53:30 +0000

My Dad was a university professor in mathematics. He loved his field! But the math department he worked in was taken over by someone who loved playing politics and maintaining power by playing favorites. My Dad refused to kiss the ring, and paid the price for that in his career advancement. He had tenure so it was never as bad as what happened to Marshal Brain.

Now we have n == 2, this could be a pattern. Of course it's a similar situation outside of academia too.

New comment by complexworld in "What happens when you make a move in lichess.org?"

complexworld — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 22:24:35 +0000

Wouldn't the bug with queen side castling end up with _ _ K R _ _ _ _?

New comment by complexworld in "An Algorithmic Solution to Insomnia"

complexworld — Fri, 31 May 2024 22:19:14 +0000

My problem is that I wake up in the middle of the night after 3-4 hours. Vaping one puff of indica cannabis puts me back to sleep until the morning. And even if I don't go back to sleep right away I'm feeling so good that I don't mind.

Apparently it's genetic. My genome has 100% correlation with genetic variants associated with insomnia.

New comment by complexworld in "Show HN: My $1k self-install, off-grid solar backup build for renters"

complexworld — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 20:55:44 +0000

When the battery is full where does the power produced by the panels go?

New comment by complexworld in "Sandy Munro Talks Battery Battles, Calls Solid State “Kiss of Death” for Gas"

complexworld — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:40:27 +0000

I'm not an expert; but I don't see solar as being an option for cargo ships.

Using wind power on the other hand seems like a better fit in this case.

New comment by complexworld in "Sandy Munro Talks Battery Battles, Calls Solid State “Kiss of Death” for Gas"

complexworld — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:37:07 +0000

Yes and it will take decades to replace the millions of fuel burning fuel machines that exist. I have a 5 year old gasoline car that I don't drive much. From an EROI (Energy Return on Investment) perspective I wouldn't be helping by replacing it with an EV any time soon.

New comment by complexworld in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

complexworld — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 06:11:06 +0000

I was interested in the Android positions mentioned above; but I didn't see them on the website. Have they been removed? Or should I apply to the Senior or Staff SW engineer positions?

New comment by complexworld in "Exchange electricity prices in France go through the roof"

complexworld — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 20:40:16 +0000

Do you have a source for this information?

This is what I found "In 2020, France exported a total of nearly 78 terawatt hours of electricity. Meanwhile, electricity imports to France amounted to nearly 35 terawatt hours in total that year."

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1279015/france-electrici...

Rice and maize yields boosted up to 10 per cent by CRISPR gene editing

complexworld — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 15:51:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2313582-rice-and-maize-yields-boosted-up-to-10-per-cent-by-crispr-gene-editing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30812905

Points: 2

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New comment by complexworld in "Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?"

complexworld — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 21:55:05 +0000

I don't think it's used very much but there is this one http://xml.coverpages.org/HR-XML-ResumeSpecification200205.h...

This page mentions a few more formats: http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats

It seems like the problem isn't a lack of standards, but rather a lack of adoption and/or agreement on which standard to follow

New comment by complexworld in "How the mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents"

complexworld — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 23:08:10 +0000

When the vaccines were first tested and approved they reduced the risk of infection by 20 times!

Of course that no longer is true because the virus has mutated under selective pressure.

I hope we'll be better prepared next time. Something like a worldwide simultaneous vaccine campaign, instead of disorganized every country for themselves approach we've seen so far.

New comment by complexworld in "Portable replacement for a $60k VO2 Max machine"

complexworld — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:35:54 +0000

I work on a handheld ultrasound device that attached to a phone or a tablet. It is much easier to use than traditional ultrasound machines, because of the attention paid to the UX off the app, and the familiar smartphone UI.

That being said I will haven't learned how to use it in a meaningful way myself. Getting a good image, and then interpreting the 2d video stream requires training!

Making ultrasound easy enough for non specialists to use will require an AI that guides the user and interprets the images. I'm not convinced skipping FDA approval would be a good idea in this case.

New comment by complexworld in "Kinesis Advantage 360"

complexworld — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 05:46:26 +0000

I used the triple-foot pedal for about 1.5 years. I now have chronic discomfort in my left foot; the one I used for the foot pedal. Of course it might be a coincidence, or it could be a RSI from using the foot pedal.