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New comment by flexagoon in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

flexagoon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:23:09 +0000

Somewhat new, or at least wasn't used in schools until fairly recently. It's a programming environment with tools like Turtle Graphics built in, specifically for teaching the basics of coding. There are even some tasks in ЕГЭ for it.

https://www.niisi.ru/kumir/

The website screenshot shows it on Windows XP though, don't know if it actually existed back then or if it's just typical Russian institutions still using Windows XP.

New comment by flexagoon in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

flexagoon — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:17:37 +0000

There's also Kumir, which is an educational programming language used in Russian schools

New comment by flexagoon in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

flexagoon — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:55:54 +0000

If "I know you are not smart" is considered "very rude", I'm scared to imagine what they would classify some of my frustrated LLM conversations as

New comment by flexagoon in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

flexagoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:04:37 +0000

Is it really when they are hundreds of times more expensive?

New comment by flexagoon in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

flexagoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:52:31 +0000

Productivity is measured in the number of AI-generated Twitter posts developers can make about their AI-generated startups

New comment by flexagoon in "Clanker: A Word for the Machine"

flexagoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:18:57 +0000

The developers of Pi have some of the most reasonable and level-headed opinions about AI for someone in the AI space. It's always so refreshing to read their stuff.

New comment by flexagoon in "Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family"

flexagoon — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:37:09 +0000

> Does anyone still pay per text?

It makes much more sense outside the US than to pay for a text bundle. My phone plan includes 0 SMS messages, and I don't know what was the last time when I've had to send one was. It's only useful when someone doesn't have internet, which only happens once every few months at most.

New comment by flexagoon in "Opaque Types in Python"

flexagoon — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:04:41 +0000

> get_someAttribute

Hell no

New comment by flexagoon in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

flexagoon — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:57:31 +0000

I think the term "market" comes from the fact that it uses stock market–like pricing and allows you to sell your bets at any time. Ie. you buy "shares" of some outcome for 0.3$ if the probability is 30%, and then if the probability at any point goes to 50%, you can sell the "shares" for 0.5$ each.

(Which of course doesn't make it any better or less of a casino, this is just to say that the word market didn't come from nowhere)

New comment by flexagoon in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

flexagoon — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:22:58 +0000

This is delusional. Opus 4.7 regularly produces pretty bad code.

New comment by flexagoon in "Markdown Is Not LaTeX"

flexagoon — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:52:46 +0000

That is an overview of the syntax the program supports. It's not even remotely a formal specification.

New comment by flexagoon in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

flexagoon — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:16:20 +0000

Their enterprise account system (active directory or whatever it's called) also has an awesome bug where if you accidentally reload the page during password reset, the link will no longer be valid, but your old password will already be invalidated. So you won't be able to log in at all untill IT staff manually changes your password.

New comment by flexagoon in "Markdown Is Not LaTeX"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:31:33 +0000

Feels like a weird hill to die on. I don't think I've had a single issue with single dollar signs being math block boundaries. It's also weird to say that Github is the one who invented this or that it was a malicious choice, when it's clearly MathJax, which is far from being "antiquated ugly crapware". It is still used by Wikipedia, most scientific websites, etc. Yes, KaTeX may have advantages, but MathJax is very much alive.

There is a myriad of different software which uses different math delimeters. Some markdown flavors for example use , which is probably the worst of them to use. Is that also malicious?

A much better rant about math syntax in Markdown would be that all flavours still use the LaTeX syntax instead of the very obviously superior Typst one. If you think not embracing Katex instead of Mathjax early enough is a malicious choice, then is this one malicious as well?

New comment by flexagoon in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:31:49 +0000

The mobile website is completely broken

New comment by flexagoon in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:41:31 +0000

Depends on the provider I think, it's blocked for me on Youfone (KPN), but IIRC when I used Ben (Odido) it worked fine. It also loads just fine on my university eduroam wifi.

New comment by flexagoon in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:39:10 +0000

This is not for LLM data crawlers, it's for LLM agents the end users are running on their machines

New comment by flexagoon in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:36:57 +0000

> Isn’t that what preprints are for?

The use of preprints unfortunately really varies by field, in some (like computer science) everything has an arXiv preprint, while in some barely anyone publishes them

> sci-hub which is normative now

Scihub hasn't been updated for a long time, it is completely useless for any new papers and only exists off of name recognition. STC Nexus is where it's at.

New comment by flexagoon in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:31:33 +0000

I specifically said they're the same in that Nvidia profited from both of them, not that they are the same in all other aspects.

New comment by flexagoon in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:01:10 +0000

> Not listing other hardware companies is just dishinest. AI is not a crypto mining where resources are just burned.

AI is exactly like crypto mining in that Nvidia is the one who profited from both

New comment by flexagoon in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

flexagoon — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:26:36 +0000

The image shows Garry Tan, the CEO of Y Combinator. He has lately been on a huge AI psychosis streak, bragging about things like "shipping 37000 lines of code every day" and "using Claude Code so much it burned out his USB-C power connectors". He's in a lobster suit because he's talking about OpenClaw, an AI agent assistant which those same AI psychosis types lean into too much by giving it full read-write access to all their life and then getting surprised when it accidentally deletes all of their emails.

Pi's developer is obviously not anti-AI, and he definitely doesn't hate OpenClaw, since it's based on Pi. But there's a growing number of people who take those things too far, and a lot of them are on HN. You can easily find them in the comments of any AI-related post here. I assume that's the type of people the image is portraying.