Hacker News: dr_kretyn

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe"

dr_kretyn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:37:24 +0000

Is there a similar initiative for AMD?

New comment by dr_kretyn in "We Will Not Be Divided"

dr_kretyn — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:35:37 +0000

Quitting no. Quite quitting or internal turmoil could be beneficial. Of course, in case these people meaningfully contributed in the first place otherwise it's a good pretext to fire for cause without any severance.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Layoffs at Block"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:09:16 +0000

I'm generally anti-corpo and capitalism but I agree with you. The guy could've done better but so far he's on a good trajectory and much much better than most. Doesn't mean that he isn't going to make mistakes nor that this might turn out badly but that's the point of leading - making bets.

It sucks to be fired but if I'm a year time everyone lost a job it'd suck even more.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

dr_kretyn — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:24:03 +0000

The post and comments all read like: Here are my rituals to the software God. If you follow them then God gives plenty. Omit one step and the God mad. Sometimes you have to make a sacrifice but that's better for the long term.

I've been in eng for decades but never participated in forums. Is the cargo cult new?

I use Claude Code a lot. Still don't trust what's in the plan will get actually written, regardless of details. My ritual is around stronger guardrails outside of prompting. This is the new MongoDB webscale meme.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:36:44 +0000

You're putting a lot of effort into trying to make this "forced" and "enslaved." It isn't. Or, rather, doesn't have to be. It's just "work." Could be enforced, could be willing, could be accidental. It doesn't have to be work for "a person," it can be for a cause or an occasion. The "forced work" here is the same as my mum used to force me to go to church on Sundays, or I had to clean my room before I could play computer games. That was "robota."

New comment by dr_kretyn in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

dr_kretyn — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:04:36 +0000

How about "robota" meaning "work"? (Source: I'm Slavic)

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Offpunk 3.0"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:38:07 +0000

To be fair, "Gemini" is one of those overused words for projects and it was unsearchable before Google. It's in the same category as Atlas, Nexus and Styx.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:21:15 +0000

Same here. What's worse is that some pages "highlight" content in a similar fashion to an ad in the middle and I'm a bit unaware of that content. Only when something doesn't add up I'll scroll back and see the missing content.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:04:07 +0000

Why is this a problem? You don't need an LLM; you need a "model for detecting whether and where the given context appears". We're so used to LLMs now that we forget these NLPs problems have been worked on for a long time and they don't require a huge computational beast and it takes a few ms to run (on only the response, while it's being streamed).

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Python numbers every programmer should know"

dr_kretyn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:43:26 +0000

Initially I thought how efficient strings are... but then I understood how inefficient arithmetic is. Interesting comparison but exact speed and IO depend on a lot of things, and unlikely one uses Mac mini in production so these numbers definitely aren't representative.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

dr_kretyn — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:20:12 +0000

Out of curiosity, is there anything in particular you don't like about people not wanting to eat meat? Kind of it sounds like maybe you had an unpleasant interaction. Is that your main reason that "they" are obnoxious about not eating meat?

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:44:41 +0000

Horses for courses. A decent terminal emulator solves most of it. But I'm guessing there's a reason why there's so many terminal emulators and multiplexers.

Until a few months ago I used to use tmux + foot (tiny terminal), and I enjoyed the setup because I could copy over my tmux config to remote hosts and work as if nothing changed. As I'm mainly working local now, I'm now mostly using Kitty.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:27:17 +0000

Extremes are on both ends. Some people want to use a terminal for all, some don't want a terminal at all.

I'm a terminal guy because most UI I use is just unintuitive and requires a lot of mouse clicking - using mouse is just inconvenient to me. And often there are no tools for what I want to do, or rather, I'd need to open many tools to do something simple like change a file on a remote machine.

But I like a nice IDE, I use DB explorers, I use cloud code to write GUI for data processing and reporting visuals. Terminal is just a "killer app" that's useful for almost everything. So, if you're using regardless, why not make the experience better?

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:09:20 +0000

I'm a terminal person and would love to try new things. But I just spent a few minutes on their page and have no idea why I would try to use it.

Can anyone help me learn why this over, say, kitty?

New comment by dr_kretyn in "OpenAI acquired AI training monitor Neptune"

dr_kretyn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:30:37 +0000

There was an email sent and there's an FAQ saying that they're shutting down the product.

> "(.…) We plan to iterate with them to integrate their tools deep into our training stack to expand our visibility into how models learn."

Kind of means there's an office, yes.

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

dr_kretyn — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 05:24:24 +0000

Personally I find the current Google products mediocre almost on all aspects. The killer feature of chat bots is voice chat and ChatGPT works great, and Gemini is extremely quiet without a way to increase volume. It's also difficult to figure out how to sign up for Gemini, or even the keyboard that I'm typing is making so many incorrect predictions. I just don't trust Google. To me they're pure marketing and their engineering excellence ended a few years ago.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:46:59 +0000

Talking from the Vancouver perspective where we have a similar situation - yes, house prices are going down. People list houses with the same price as 3-4 years ago but most close below the asking price.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

dr_kretyn — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:24:56 +0000

I'm still unsure whether you're Musk's fanboy or making a joke.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

dr_kretyn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:07:23 +0000

Seems we don't live in the same country and so we don't have the same "current government." Yes, if I were living in US, I wouldn't want to give the "current government" more power. Though, one might consider what is the cause and what is effect in the US political situation.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Denmark's government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15"

dr_kretyn — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 02:24:54 +0000

Those very responsible would likely do that. But then you have a spectrum from "fully responsible but on occasions slip" to "not responsible at all". You can help some make the "good" decision and prevent others from making "bad" decisions. Hopefully those who grew up with healthier environments will have higher chances for becoming "fully responsible".