Hacker News: enigmoid

New comment by enigmoid in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

enigmoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:21:43 +0000

by this definition, we may be on track for AGI 2027 after all

New comment by enigmoid in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

enigmoid — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:27:47 +0000

> only a skilled developer who's thinking critically, and comfortable operating at the architectural level, can spot issues in the thousands of lines of generated code, before they become a problem.

An additional factor: to find issues in generated code, the developer has to care. Many developers (especially at big firms) are already profoundly checked out from their work and are just looking for a way to close their tickets and pass the buck with the minimum possible effort. Those developers - even the capable ones - aren't going to put in the effort to understand their generated code well enough to find issues that the agents missed. Especially during the current AI-driven speed mania.

New comment by enigmoid in "Tesla seeks to guard crash data from public disclosure"

enigmoid — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:46:56 +0000

More like $300k

New comment by enigmoid in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

enigmoid — Tue, 16 May 2023 22:32:25 +0000

All the more reason to oppose regulation like this, since if it were in place the US would fall behind other countries without such regulation.

New comment by enigmoid in "Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?"

enigmoid — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:14:16 +0000

A few years ago I discovered that I had spent my entire life tying my shoes incorrectly, with a Granny Knot instead of the stable Square Knot (the knots are very similar). My shoes would always come untied and I frequently double knotted them. Now a single knot is always sufficient.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/grannyknot.htm

New comment by enigmoid in "The local news crisis is deepening America's divides"

enigmoid — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:02:13 +0000

Patch [1] seems to be exactly what you’re describing — “local news in a box”:

> What is Patch? > > Patch is an innovative way to find out about, and participate in, what's going on near you.

My Connecticut hometown had a Patch site. As other commenters have pointed out, apps don’t address a dearth of local journalists (Patch appears to encourage community participation, which sounds good, but is not journalism), funding for local news (though I would expect it to reduce operating costs), etc.

[1] https://patch.com/about

Top Christie Staff Sought Lane Closings as Revenge

enigmoid — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:27:27 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7026338

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Emails link Chris Christie staffer to New Jersey bridge scandal

enigmoid — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 20:12:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/politicsnow/la-pn-christie-emails-bridge-closure-20140108,0,6614221.story#ixzz2pq84QUZG

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7026221

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by enigmoid in "Shaft passer"

enigmoid — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 03:24:16 +0000

This is a really good analysis – I thought the design was simple at first, but now even the cable-passing-cable version linked in the wikipedia page looks liable to jam as teeth pass in and out of the top channel.

For something like this to even have a chance, it would probably need many more, thinner teeth than these diagrams illustrate.

EDIT: @analogwintermut I think this addresses your question.

New comment by enigmoid in "DataTables – Table plug-in for jQuery"

enigmoid — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 03:41:24 +0000

I agree with your sentiment. I found datatables initially easy to set up and use, but I soon found the documentation to be sorely lacking. Searches for the most basic customizations led to SO answers outlining ugly workarounds when all I really needed to know was the name of the right flag.

The examples on the site aren't general or plentiful enough, and they assume more prior knowledge of the plugin than would seem reasonable. I couldn't even find a list of initialization options anywhere.

New comment by enigmoid in "What is the concept underlying image processing?"

enigmoid — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:19:24 +0000

Not to create the lookup table in the example.

And I love reading about applications of linear algebra like this. Makes me want to write my own image processing algorithms as practice.