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New comment by dtj1123 in "Where is all the new, good software?"

dtj1123 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:45:43 +0000

Same here. I'm a bioinformatician, and most of the software I'd have historically been expected to use was cobbled together by biologists then left to rot once the accompanying white paper was published.

I've been able to create my own tooling that beats out the preexisting best across every metric. It's incredible.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later"

dtj1123 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:50:23 +0000

That's only the case if each question has a yes-no answer.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

dtj1123 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:49:57 +0000

May be worth submitting this to the front page

Kasroz

dtj1123 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:51:21 +0000

Article URL: https://futo.tech/blog/swipe-keyboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49877962

Points: 2

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The Bishop Ring Space Habitat

dtj1123 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:02:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_ring_(habitat)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775440

Points: 3

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New comment by dtj1123 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

dtj1123 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:12:02 +0000

Heuristics and common sense intuition are quite obviously not the same thing.

You don't have to posit that scientific breakthroughs come from hunches, you can actually cite examples from books or Wikipedia :D. There are plenty! Again, that has nothing to do with whether or not a given scientific breakthrough is based on common sense intuition.

Your point about interior experience not being empirically measurable is an interesting though, but again, has no bearing on whether or not scientific breakthroughs come about as the result of common sense intuition.

New comment by dtj1123 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

dtj1123 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:07:04 +0000

The natural numbers, sure. Zero may have been invented several times, but that in no way makes it intuitive. Uncertainty about its validity as a number lasted from the Greeks through to the medieval period.

Yes, I'm aware that incremental advances are par for the course in science. What does that have to do with those advances being common-sense intuitive?

New comment by dtj1123 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

dtj1123 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:29:36 +0000

Zero scientific and technological breakthroughs throughout history have been based on common sense intuition.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

dtj1123 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:49:27 +0000

Hold the AI, just give me a zen/Vivaldi like autohiding vertical tab stack and we're good.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

dtj1123 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:27:44 +0000

Would you mind elaborating on where exactly the boundary between vibe coding and AI assisted coding lies?

New comment by dtj1123 in "Robot writes in languages it has never seen before (2019)"

dtj1123 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:08:33 +0000

Incredible how much higher the bar is only seven years later

New comment by dtj1123 in "Pre-Release of Polars 2.0"

dtj1123 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:53:57 +0000

> as soon as their ready.

So strange that it's now relatively normal to see a typo and think 'oh cool, a human wrote this, I can take this seriously' rather than 'oh dear, they can't spell, I can't take this seriously'.

New comment by dtj1123 in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

dtj1123 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:10:38 +0000

This is not accurate. I've seen CEOs under 6ft wearing platform shoes do a perfectly good job of walking about looking important.

New comment by dtj1123 in "I'm Done Coding with AI"

dtj1123 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:34:34 +0000

Case 3: nothing changes, the people who are currently getting good at directing LLMs get pretty good at directing LLMs, the people choosing to do things the old way get or remain good at that, the job market adjusts salary expectations for each group according to how useful they turn out to be in the new normal

Case 4: LLMs continue to improve incrementally, the people who are currently getting good at directing LLMs get pretty good at directing LLMs, the people choosing to do things the old way get or remain good at that, the job market adjusts salary expectations for each group according to how useful they are likely to become in the new normal

Case 5: any number of things that you and I haven't foreseen because the future has a habit of completely bucking expectations

And what does LLMs going bust even mean? These are programs that we run, they aren't going anywhere, even when the current AI investment bubble completely implodes. The models, and their impact on programming culture, are here to stay.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Using an old Android phone as a music player"

dtj1123 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:09:25 +0000

Indeed, why is this on the front page of HN?

New comment by dtj1123 in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

dtj1123 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:08:09 +0000

Name checks out.

The Lewis Chessmen

dtj1123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:21:04 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_chessmen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291321

Points: 2

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New comment by dtj1123 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

dtj1123 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:30:27 +0000

Completely agree. My first semester of university was straight up hazing, which at the time felt like crap.

The consequence though, was that every single person who stayed on the course actually cared about being there. Staying motivated for the next three and a half years was made so much easier because the first six months were so difficult.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

dtj1123 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:47:30 +0000

Would it be so hard to ad a VM with configurable directory mounting to claude code? This is my setup and it's been great.

New comment by dtj1123 in "Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space"

dtj1123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:18:24 +0000

Presumably you could decode the chain of thought from the latent representation though.