Hacker News: eraserj

New comment by eraserj in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

eraserj — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:22:06 +0000

I'll go a step further and say Claude is an Interpreter.

It even has just-in-time compilation: it can directly follow a spec and generate small snippets live.

I'm pretty sure we'll soon see services (admittedly highly inefficient) built on Claude-as-a-backend.

New comment by eraserj in "Claude can now search the web"

eraserj — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:37:26 +0000

> There's less usage of voice mode on the enterprise and power users side but that will happen eventually. - Anthropic CEO 21 jan. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/snkOMOjiVOk 01:30

New comment by eraserj in "Leaked Documents Show OpenAI Has a Clear Definition of 'AGI'"

eraserj — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:05:11 +0000

To others like me who don't know what this represents, $100B profit is approximately Apple.

New comment by eraserj in "Too Many Vacant Lots, Not Enough Housing: The U.S. Real-Estate Puzzle"

eraserj — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:03:03 +0000

Unless they receive a compensation during this transition to a housing system without land speculation, where the value increase is fixed at a specific point in time and you get it only when you sell.

New comment by eraserj in "New insights into why aspirin works so well"

eraserj — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 05:32:32 +0000

Poe's law apply here again.

New comment by eraserj in "Show HN: I “wrote” a kid's book with ChatGPT and Midjourney"

eraserj — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:52:12 +0000

In the coming years, the human values taught in these AI children books will be picked by an AI to fix the most pressing current and foreseen issues in society (eg. individualism, environmentalism).

In the following decades, parents might be less relevant in children education, sometimes even harmful.

New comment by eraserj in "Quiet Quitting Is a Fake Trend"

eraserj — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 07:04:56 +0000

Orwell rightly warned us of newspeak language perversion.

New comment by eraserj in "Lowering the Cost of Insulin Could Be Deadly"

eraserj — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:51:19 +0000

So all drugs should equally be cheaper, the point still stands.

New comment by eraserj in "75% of middle-class households say their income is behind the cost of living"

eraserj — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:19:46 +0000

Publicly funding a private land is another way of describing renting, as there never was citizen's dividends in the first place.

New comment by eraserj in "[dead]"

eraserj — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 12:12:06 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20220716093810/https://www.indep...

New comment by eraserj in "Google rewrites many page titles"

eraserj — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:05:45 +0000

Ironically, they failed to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

New comment by eraserj in "Twitter admits bias in algorithm for rightwing politicians and news outlets"

eraserj — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 08:08:22 +0000

How would you enforce, e.g. hate speech, moderation if there are both left and right wing definitions for it?

Or Twitter's content policies could follow the law and reflect the political leaning of the governement, but then how do you enforce moderation on a free/liberal social network which by definition should be free from governement censorship?

New comment by eraserj in "Solar is dirt-cheap and about to get even more powerful"

eraserj — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:17:31 +0000

We'll probably be able to store actual light in some sort of microresonators and release it slowly at night onto solar panels.

New comment by eraserj in "The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)"

eraserj — Wed, 12 May 2021 07:56:04 +0000

Time spent optimizing is time spent not adding features. /s

The "business value" of software optimization is not well known.

New comment by eraserj in "The Importance of Humility in Software Development (2020)"

eraserj — Wed, 12 May 2021 07:35:44 +0000

Audio of the mentioned 1972 ACM Turing Award lecture by Edsger W. Dijkstra : https://youtu.be/0dGXRK8FUVg?t=148

Transcript : https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340...

New comment by eraserj in "Why are there so many unfinished buildings in Africa?"

eraserj — Mon, 03 May 2021 07:10:37 +0000

Ghana and DRC are trying to set up a cadastre using blockchain, let's see how it goes.

New comment by eraserj in "Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts"

eraserj — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 08:13:19 +0000

But again, slowing tidal currents must be drawing energy from somewhere until there is none left.

New comment by eraserj in "eBay is port scanning visitors to their website"

eraserj — Sat, 06 Jun 2020 08:22:18 +0000

Just wait until the database of ip and open ports is leaked and hackers start exploiting vulnerabilities of softwares listening to these ports to break into random people devices.

New comment by eraserj in "Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida"

eraserj — Wed, 27 May 2020 10:26:00 +0000

I hope we are building a statistical model of which one is eating which to map where are the missing pieces of the puzzle and direct our focus of research.

New comment by eraserj in "The compelling mathematical challenge of the three-body problem"

eraserj — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 10:42:51 +0000

I found a 2015 post on HN listing some stable n-body choreographies[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8867741