Hacker News: drekipus

New comment by drekipus in "Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes"

drekipus — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 04:45:55 +0000

This is really cool, I wanted to do something similar for hanzi (Chinese characters) so I could practise Chinese handwriting.

New comment by drekipus in "Theranos.world"

drekipus — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:49:09 +0000

4 lines and only the last 2 words tell us what they do

New comment by drekipus in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

drekipus — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:34:28 +0000

I can't believe I haven't made that connection myself tbh

New comment by drekipus in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

drekipus — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:46:20 +0000

If you ask it to say "I am alive" it has to be able to respond with "I am alive"

New comment by drekipus in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

drekipus — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:05:10 +0000

They adapt to the buttons you press. Thus, intelligent and capable of feeling pain.

New comment by drekipus in "Go Concurrency Distilled"

drekipus — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:20:23 +0000

The elixir documentary doesn't quite have the same zest

New comment by drekipus in "An airport cooled by natural ventilation"

drekipus — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:21:08 +0000

I'm convinced there's forces out there who are trying to make these projects deliberately not work so that we can all collectively discredit the idea.

Naturally ventilated airports would probably have issues with fumes. Might not be a great idea.

If I believe correctly the Dyson headquarters was designed to be fairly efficient as well.

My father in laws house was intentionally designed to be naturally ventilated, thermal mass concrete slab in the middle, etc. And it's comfortably cool even on 40 degree days.

New comment by drekipus in "Winning the visa lottery"

drekipus — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:11:18 +0000

I'm pretty sure you have to have graduated elementary school to be able to post here.

I'll happily admit I'm wrong though, in light of evidence before me

New comment by drekipus in "Winning the visa lottery"

drekipus — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:05:27 +0000

Could it be that atheists are the ones who are ignoring reality?

New comment by drekipus in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

drekipus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:30:19 +0000

Right, so the US had a high of 35% and then dropped and has never been higher than that.

I just wanted to check the OPs survey because it could have been something different i.e.: that supports the claim

New comment by drekipus in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

drekipus — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:05:03 +0000

I don't believe that. Can you find this survey you were talking about?

New comment by drekipus in "An agent fleet needs a new kind of OS, not a bigger harness"

drekipus — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:10:37 +0000

Isn't that what pewdiepie made?

https://odysseusai.dev/

New comment by drekipus in "Writing a book about software engineering, what do you want in it?"

drekipus — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:39:39 +0000

Hey all,

I want to write a book about software engineering, but I want to make it applicable for people. So I've put up the above survey so that people can share some of their thoughts and experiences.

Please feel free to fill in the questionnaire or write some comments below if you have some ideas on what you're looking for.

Writing a book about software engineering, what do you want in it?

drekipus — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:39:39 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfPFxrCgOrq80huInb1PdY_BvFUOBqTqnxRVUVA-XijlGiyIg/viewform?usp=publish-editor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49708173

Points: 1

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New comment by drekipus in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

drekipus — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:06:10 +0000

> he insists that the only way to do performance is to write unmaintainable code

This is new to me, where does he say this specifically?

Not to white knight Casey but his niche has been in rendering and graphics afaik , where everything he does have to fit inbetween frames, so it makes sense to be a "performance maximalist" in that environment.

It could be that you and he are working on different sets of problems with different tools.

But I'd be really interested I where he says you must write unmaintainable code.

Also (my take) : if you're looking at "clean code" to find abstractions that allow things to be refactored, then I think that's probably not the type of performance he's talking about for you. LLMs can do that type of work. FWIW I think he refactors from what things ought to be, not how they are currently

New comment by drekipus in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

drekipus — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:41:33 +0000

Too noob to get it

New comment by drekipus in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

drekipus — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:46:28 +0000

This is the Israeli take that is continually pushed to normalize their approach to "removing baby terrorists"

New comment by drekipus in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

drekipus — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:41:47 +0000

It's a good phrase

New comment by drekipus in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

drekipus — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:39:49 +0000

Nothing ever happens unless there's a paper to back it up

New comment by drekipus in "Taste Is All That's Left"

drekipus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:34:25 +0000

Perhaps it's... "simple to implement."

Usually it can be that the complex artifact is the simplest to implement. It's harder to make the simple thing

Classic, Rich Hicky, "simple made, easy" talk reference.