Hacker News: dr_kretyn

New comment by dr_kretyn in "When did Google get so weird?"

dr_kretyn — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:19:41 +0000

That's a similar experience with all chat bots, regardless of product. Amazon chat bot said to me that it heard my frustration and it sympathized with it. Doubt.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times"

dr_kretyn — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:14:54 +0000

The last few weeks I've been hearing a lot about flock cameras (?) even though I never heard of them before. Is this some mid term election strategy/divisive plot? I'm not in us.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

dr_kretyn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:23:07 +0000

The bra-ket notation makes this all very simple/intuitive for me. With "vectors" I always get confused which is horizontal/vertical, and then I just follow blobs, and get distracted, and leave. With bra-kets the whole thing was very intuitive! I'm now going to covert other articles to the notation as I must have missed a lot of good stuff!

(Side notes: I have physics PhD and mild dyslexia)

New comment by dr_kretyn in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:11:10 +0000

Same. Though it's been happening for maybe a year? Or, at least since I learned where things actually are. I just can't trust the Google maps anymore! Many times I lost 10+ min because it took me through weird alley and then back to the main.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:08:06 +0000

Awesome. Not for this repo specifically; more about the trend. More people are realizing that we have such powerful tools at our disposal and will want to do something awesome, worth while with them. Of course, many will fall off after a week, then more after a month, but some will survive. Knowledge will be spread and some will be winners through adoption. Grit can lead to knowledge, and can lead to awesome stuff.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "You need a webring"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:08:24 +0000

I see! It's on the home page, close to the top. I recall these next/prev on every page and either in nav or in the footer so completely missed those buttons. Thanks!

New comment by dr_kretyn in "You need a webring"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:48:23 +0000

Am I missing something? The person advocates for something that they don't use? I likely don't understand the idea behind it because I was expecting to see links to other pages on that page.

Multi Pong – multiplayer pong game

dr_kretyn — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:11:49 +0000

Article URL: https://multi-pong.projects.lasz.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613911

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"

dr_kretyn — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:11:04 +0000

If they pull out "Embrace. Extend. Extinguish." on AWS then I'm going to be impressed beyond mad.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

dr_kretyn — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:26:36 +0000

I'm developing a terminal agent (https://GitHub.com/laszukdawid/trrminal-agent) in golang and can't say that it's easier or less error prone to write it in golang vs Python or JS. There's still plenty of bad ideas and bad code being suggested by Claude Code / Codex so it's still hands on work. However, testing is much easier and it makes me think more about the arch more than with Python.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Google I/O"

dr_kretyn — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:57:41 +0000

[honest question deleted - sorry]

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Claude for Legal"

dr_kretyn — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:00:32 +0000

They have a big disclaimer on the repo which says they're in no way liable. This looks more like a marketing use case category than anything useful.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "The Zulip Foundation"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:38:52 +0000

Reads like Anthropic has recognized that in order to better get into enterprise it needs to be better than Slack - meet users where they are most of the time. Having someone experienced with a good reputation and a say on how to steer a product sounds quite beneficial.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies. How it happened"

dr_kretyn — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:09:24 +0000

I'm Polish and I left because of the air quality. But, 15 years passed, and it got much better (obs. through holiday visits). People no longer heat with trash and coal isn't less of an option. Also, it isn't as cold in the winter so there is less need for heavy heating. Really thinking of coming back, to family.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

dr_kretyn — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:09:47 +0000

I re read that paragraph a few times hoping that I missed something. Then gave up and went on to find the answer in comments. I thought the author was describing some feeling, or maybe some action. That "that to me" isn't clear with "that".

New comment by dr_kretyn in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

dr_kretyn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:11:51 +0000

Can now someone make analysis of Google Ads fake economy? I'm convinced that the data they share - specifically clicks - is false, and potentially they're paying some fraction to people to click it.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

dr_kretyn — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:04:05 +0000

These really feel hollow. Just like "thoughts and prayers." ACK.

New comment by dr_kretyn in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

dr_kretyn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:38:40 +0000

In Vancouver, we have somehow reverse curve - the incentive is to use more electricity at night when there's lower demand. As I understand, our main energy source is water, and so it has mostly flat generation. Nothing new - combining the two would make it cheaper all together.

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.