Hacker News: fizx

New comment by fizx in "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)"

fizx — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:39:40 +0000

Sure, but you then can't access the computronium, because communication is so bad.

Also, I wonder if good old-fashioned computing is interesting at all to a civilization that's had access to advanced AI and quantum computing for a while.

Like we haven't really figured out how to get an ML model to run on a quantum computer, or how to build a quantum-native computer (i.e. surface of a black hole, or some other way that doesn't rely on our current sense of quantum error correction), but I don't know of any physical laws that preclude it.

I'd bet if aliens invaded our galaxy, they'd go for the super black holes in the center, or some other resource beyond our use and understanding, not this random water planet on the edge.

New comment by fizx in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

fizx — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:57:04 +0000

I mean you can use sqlite as an index and then rebuild all of Lucene on top of it. It's non-trivial to build search quality on top of actual search libraries too.

O'Reilly's "Relevant Search" isn't the worst here, but you'll be porting/writing a bit yourself.

New comment by fizx in "My AI Adoption Journey"

fizx — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:05:45 +0000

I enjoy Japanese joinery, but for some reason the housing market doesn't.

New comment by fizx in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

fizx — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:48:22 +0000

hey, they have 9 8's

New comment by fizx in "Stevey's Birthday Blog"

fizx — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:26:17 +0000

Does anyone know how much the cost-per-token is trending down year-over-year for models of similar quality? Seems like whether this idea works really depends on that curve.

New comment by fizx in "Stevey's Birthday Blog"

fizx — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:04:20 +0000

What a fever dream!

New comment by fizx in "Skills Officially Comes to Codex"

fizx — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:58:59 +0000

Add reinforcement learning to figure out which skills are actually useful, and you're really cooking.

New comment by fizx in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

fizx — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:30:32 +0000

This isn't about income.

New comment by fizx in "Every mathematician has only a few tricks (2020)"

fizx — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:48:35 +0000

- The hard part of a compiler is the parser. Find an existing parser, then emit using that language's web templates.

- Your DB query is better in an inverted index.

- Consider your data locality carefully.

New comment by fizx in "How wealth dies"

fizx — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:34:26 +0000

The goal of post-modern society is to create wealth without additional energy costs.

If I write software that schedules health care more efficiently, I've created value and therefore wealth. If I make a video game that's more fun than the previous generation of games, likewise.

New comment by fizx in "The New AI Consciousness Paper"

fizx — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:00:40 +0000

I tend to look at consciousness as a spectrum. And when we reduce it to a binary (is it conscious?), we're actually asking whether it meets some minimum threshold of whatever the smallest creature you have empathy for is.

So yeah, Claude Code is more conscious than raw GPT. And both probably less than my dog.

New comment by fizx in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

fizx — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:52:43 +0000

Quickjs will do this.

New comment by fizx in "Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It"

fizx — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:42:02 +0000

Definitely, iff you have to provide the context with every task. If agent memory worked better and across your whole team, then providing context might be much easier

New comment by fizx in "Recursive Language Models (RLMs)"

fizx — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:21:18 +0000

I read the article, and I'm struggling to see what ideas it brings beyond CodeAct (tool use is python) or the "task" tool in Claude code (spinning off sub-agents to preserve context).

New comment by fizx in "Pairing with Claude Code to rebuild my startup's website"

fizx — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:24:22 +0000

Cursor when not in "MAX" mode does its own silent context pruning in the background.

New comment by fizx in "Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers"

fizx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:39:39 +0000

I don't see how this very contrived example pipelines:

    client.getAll({userIds}).map((user) => user.updatedAt == new Date().toLocaleString() ? client.photosFor(user.id) : {})

or without the conditional,

    client.getAll({userIds}).map((user) => client.photos({userId: user.id, since: new Date(user.updatedAt).toLocaleString()})

Like it has to call toLocaleString on the server, no?

New comment by fizx in "Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers"

fizx — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 04:36:47 +0000

Also, your function needs to be very careful on closures. Date.toLocaleString and many other js functions will be different on client and server, which will also cause silent corruption.

New comment by fizx in "Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?"

fizx — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:12:05 +0000

You can swap bikes in the middle of the race if you have a mechanical issue. There was one famous time where someone climbed impossibly fast, had a mechanical at the top of the mountain, then finished the race on a different bike, leading us to forever wonder.

New comment by fizx in "Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month"

fizx — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:41:10 +0000

Don't be confused! That's not how they made the decision; it's how they're selling it.

New comment by fizx in "Agents built from alloys"

fizx — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:36:45 +0000

Annoying, yes. Tractable, absolutely!