<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: danieltanfh95</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=danieltanfh95</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:05:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=danieltanfh95" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Gravity has always been quantum mechanical: it is the wrong thing to quantise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was planned as a submission to the Gravity Research Foundation for 2027.<p>The Dirac Spinor equation is extremely standard, and GR would be the more famous one. The only "leap of faith" here is having the metric to be the functional of the matter wave, and not just the stress-energy tensor (which is the mainstream semi-classical approach).<p>Simply sharing here to prove authorship + sharing something interesting to HN.<p>edit: Though I note that I should have quoted Birkhoff's theorem instead, thanks for the pointer.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/20622089">https://zenodo.org/records/20622089</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477840">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477840</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:29:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://zenodo.org/records/20622089</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48477840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for being honest, at least.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:42:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455598</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The demand for software most certainly has an upper limit.<p>No, it does not. There is no ceiling for complexity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:14:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443873</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is multiple logical fallacies in one comment and definitely a comment I would mark in the "pure nonsense" bin. Not all criticism is slop, but anything ad hominem (personal attacks), argumentum ad populum (appeal to popularity), or argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) is not useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440706</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Understanding goes both ways. OP was just sharing something they thought was interesting. The Ted Chiang piece was horribly written logically and yet it was "written well" in prose. We should look past the writing and learn (if any) the interesting parts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:21:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440699</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exploring if it makes sense to use maths (or, to be precise, this particular construction) to drive content addressable content + other exploration around the memory space. IMO, no.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:20:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440686</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exploring if it makes sense to use maths (or, to be precise, this particular construction) to drive content addressable content + other exploration around the memory space. IMO, no.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440685</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then why even insinuate that these are similar? It's just using it to heavily suggest it is crankery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:18:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440681</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is nothing physics/metaphysics about this. If you don’t understand the terms, don’t pretend you do and write slop as a comment, it is really not that different from using LLM to generate slop.</p>
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<p>This isn’t about whether the writer uses LLM or not at all, nor is it about respect. The core novelty it tries to introduce is not hard to understand (even if it is not really that novel). If you don’t want to spend time thinking about what interesting idea it is exploring, that is fine, but pretending or insinuating that it is a LLM problem is just lazy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436379</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Yon – a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As I understand it, content addressing function content is problematic because it does not actually "normalise" the content of functions into something interchangeable. A function of input A and output B with performance signature X can still be very different in terms of actual code, but the actual comparison between both is hard to specify.<p>I was exploring this as a means to solving the open source, or rather the github conundrum, the problem of sharing code socially is that we need a canonical source, and this is sociologically driven than performance driven, and as it turns out, have devastating consequences for FOSS funding. I wanted to explore sharing code "interchangeably" in some sense to avoid this problem, but ultimately this seems unsolveable, even with exploration by Unison etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article is a farce. Is this really the sort of slop we want to use as a proof that humans write better articles than AI?<p>> "If a company builds a machine that, when fed descriptions of assorted ethical dilemmas, emits sentences either of the form “Compromise your values” or “Don’t compromise your values,” it is not building a tool that assists people in their decision making; it is encouraging people to stop making decisions. "<p>A human is not diminished by access to tools or other humans.<p>As much as we want to pretend that decision-making is what makes us human, the economy and governments are built on delegation. Choice paralysis is a thing.<p>There is so many logical fallacies in the article I don't even know where to begin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:05:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396436</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Show HN: Continuity-auth – Respect-weighted rate limits for the open web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not all bots are bad, and the economic incentive of playing nice in a long lived session bot is much more stronger otherwise, which is kind of the point. It is the same with humans.</p>
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<p>It is really not that difficult.<p>1. For juniors, any sort of proof you have passion is enough.
2. Treat mid-levels as seniors. 
3. Seniors have to show proof of passion (with longevity and intensity, AI and consultants exist for expertise and menial work) and competence (Take home problems with a long time scale with whatever tools they need. Use AI. I don't care, but be expected to be scrutinized for your design decisions, depth of exploration, and architectural write-ups.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343278</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "The Last Technical Interview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why we need interviews to filter off people who are bad enough to think "bar exam" is the right abstraction for software engineer.</p>
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<p>The real solution is stop proposing solutions like a bar exam. Software engineering evolves too quickly for anything but a work sample to work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 05:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343257</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "Show HN: Continuity-auth – Respect-weighted rate limits for the open web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It heavily discourages bot farming, which is what makes bots economical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 05:25:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304925</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48304925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: Continuity-auth – Respect-weighted rate limits for the open web]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Identity is a missing piece for managing security in cyberspace where agents co-exist with humans. Traditional methods of managing open-access like captcha or anubis punish real humans while either being rapidly outclassed by computer-use agents or scaling poorly as the value of the site rises.<p>continuity-auth is my attempt to fix this from first principles by using device-continuity proof as a trust signal and time (enforced via rate-limiting) as the core resource to provide a graceful, zero-trust, login-less method to prevent abuse, supporting both browsers and CLI as first-class clients.<p>Built with Clojure/Script, babashka, and Datalevin. Work in progress. Happy to discuss.<p>Source: <a href="https://github.com/danieltanfh95/continuity-auth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/danieltanfh95/continuity-auth</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294165">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294165</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294165</link><dc:creator>danieltanfh95</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48294165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by danieltanfh95 in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This is leading to a class distinction in writing: anything the audience classifies as genai becomes low-status. And the reverse: writing that the audience classifies as human becomes higher-status.<p>I see this to be the exact thesis that my article was trying to convey, though someone else put it more succinctly:<p>> I guess the irony is that dismissing points of view about how things could be improved here because they aren't sufficiently dogmatic is pretty much exactly what I understood the thesis of your article to be.</p>
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