Hacker News: derac

New comment by derac in "Web Search API"

derac — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:03:09 +0000

This is only valid up to the level of risk you can tolerate for them pulling the rug out from under you.

New comment by derac in "Sites in ChatGPT"

derac — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:45:50 +0000

I've been having such a blast making simple mapping apps that aggregate public data like GIS sources. I made a map for my city with every public parking space labeled, interactive with links to google maps and free hours, et cetera. I also made an educational map for myself to explore data on Jihadism.

New comment by derac in "GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities"

derac — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:42:00 +0000

That's awesome. I'll use GLM-5.3, thanks.

New comment by derac in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

derac — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:31:39 +0000

I do. Also a LVT would have that same effect since those people live on valuable land.

New comment by derac in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

derac — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:20:40 +0000

God forbid they lose some tiny fraction of their wealth to benefit society. The horror.

New comment by derac in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

derac — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:02:42 +0000

If the market crashes they will be much cheaper to run actually, no? Hardware would flood the market.

New comment by derac in "Claude Opus 5.5"

derac — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:18:05 +0000

In racing a pace car is a car that leads the pack and sets the pace, for instance.

New comment by derac in "A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum"

derac — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:58:43 +0000

AI assisted or not, you have no idea how much of his personal effort went into the project.

New comment by derac in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

derac — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:49:11 +0000

They mention in their blog post that the model is working on text rather than pixels in the Doom demo.

New comment by derac in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

derac — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:25:52 +0000

erm actually, chess tournaments rose in popularity and more people watch now than ever

New comment by derac in "Feeling Sad about AI"

derac — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:29:37 +0000

I think more people being able to create software to solve their needs is good. You're describing egoism, that you aren't special anymore because your identity is based on external validation, that this "hard" thing you do is accessible to anyone now. I don't think that's a good impulse.

New comment by derac in "Logo Programming Language"

derac — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:36:11 +0000

One of the first interesting programs I made was LOGO in flash (actionscript) :D It's a great tool for learning basic programming since it's interactive, graphical, and simple.

New comment by derac in "Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)"

derac — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:34:03 +0000

lmao how is this on the front page at the 2 spot? People upvoting based on seeing buzzwords I assume? It's cool that small projects can get recognition here but this is not useful software

New comment by derac in "Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]"

derac — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:45:02 +0000

currently, the harness

New comment by derac in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

derac — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:43:20 +0000

A huge percentage of the cars I see on the highway are tailgating. People are awful drivers.

New comment by derac in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

derac — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:36:55 +0000

The CDL comparison seems misleading. Those are very large and safe vehicles that are mostly on the highway. Being close to that number is impressive to me.

New comment by derac in "iPhone Duo"

derac — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:22:01 +0000

Apple design is the polar opposite of the MX-5. The MX-5 is a masterpiece of mechanical design and function. Apple makes minimalist purely electronic fashion gadgets that are highly form over function and remove user agency.

New comment by derac in "Apple Unveils iPhone Duo"

derac — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:46:24 +0000

The pixel bootloader can be unlocked, also Android is significantly more of an open platform than iOS. I mean, stuff like Morphe exists on Android.

New comment by derac in "iPhone Duo"

derac — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:31:47 +0000

It's not a phone, it's a status symbol fashion object.

New comment by derac in "My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8"

derac — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:29:39 +0000

The cognitive bias in humans to believe higher intelligence is unique to humans and even supernatural is very, very strong.