Hacker News: galkk

New comment by galkk in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

galkk — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:41:03 +0000

Polish border agents told me (Ukrainian, first time to Poland) to speak to them in polish language when they were checking my documents some years ago, so YMMV.

Patrick Boyle: The Copy-Paste Professor

galkk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:16:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za5IfIbWNEk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845810

Points: 28

# Comments: 27

New comment by galkk in "Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now"

galkk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:49:44 +0000

Opened this link to quote that. The level of reasoning is "trust me bro". Even if some things must be simplified for uneducated reader, the quote from above should be embarassing for author to write

New comment by galkk in "Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres"

galkk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:28:16 +0000

Our database 12.34 was working great, but 12.35 deployment had some optimizer changes that had regression on exact scenario that you have in your statistics. Shit happens, sorry. Use this hint.

New comment by galkk in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

galkk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:12:35 +0000

As I mentioned - I find it awful for iterating. My recent example: I was researching shoes for toddler, wide, boa or similar mechanism instead of laces/velcro. I did same prompt in ChatGPT and flash. After several back and forth responses/clarifications flash completely lost track of what I’m looking for and started suggesting nonsense.

New comment by galkk in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

galkk — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:24:19 +0000

I don’t understand good experiences people are having with Gemini. It’s the only model that sometimes loses/forgets context in literally next message. Plus feeding unasked product links to responses.

New comment by galkk in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

galkk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:26:44 +0000

I want bunch of lawsuits, because the way things are described now produces perverse initiatives like try to discuss every possible idea that comes to mind with llm and if any of it works later claim the llm stole it.

I would like to see chat logs etc and understand how much of a progress was done by human.

New comment by galkk in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

galkk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:21:43 +0000

lol, called it month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49138302#49142011

New comment by galkk in "Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes"

galkk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:34:42 +0000

I hate when they measure the size of source code instead of the size of a binary.

I appreciate .kkrieger much more than this monstrosity

New comment by galkk in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

galkk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:55:45 +0000

You’re right, I misremembered. Yeah, I was speaking about ETH Classic thing. Thanks for pointing that out.

New comment by galkk in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

galkk — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:20:11 +0000

Time for bitcoin classic++?

New comment by galkk in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

galkk — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 05:39:44 +0000

Idk, I never cat problems with getting a random Home Depot employee to cut it, the problem is that they are usually very rough cuts, far from square and precision

New comment by galkk in "Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think"

galkk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:35:55 +0000

To me the book that changed the way I think is “pragmatic programmer”. I haven’t re-read it in a while, but for a long time it was my first recommendation.

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And I was recently thinking about books that my opinion has significantly changed about the longer I’m in my career, I realized that “Peopleware” truly sucks. It is such feel good fairy tale, that actually harms the reader. The real world is much different and much more cynical.

New comment by galkk in "Why are German heat pumps more expensive?"

galkk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:21:03 +0000

> So what makes up the remaining 40%? Under the Bundesförderung für effiziente Gebäude, households receive 30 to 70% of eligible costs. If an installer raises a €25,000 quote to €30,000 and the household receives a 50% subsidy rate, the household’s net cost rises by €2,500 while the installer receives €5,000. This means the pressure to negotiate a better deal is halved because of the way the policy is designed.

I’m sure that well designed kickback scheme is hiding somewhere here.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:29:02 +0000

Agree. My mistake on that part, misread your message.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:46:58 +0000

No. You made claims, it’s your job to provide evidence. And you already contradict yourself - per your message she was 2 years at ms, and then 4 years at startup.

Honestly, I hate defending multimillionaire and get that to climb that fast at those companies anybody needs to be, most likely, ruthless corporate warrior. But you just throw claims and sound like a baseless hater.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:35 +0000

Reading on tea leaves has more credibility and substance than your “analysis”.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:30:07 +0000

You argue with a point that I don’t make.

If a director during montage or review will say: “that shot will be better if camera was 2 feet higher, we need to reshoot” or “that extra takes too much attention from main character, can we remove it digitally”, and the author will prompt the same to ai, for their generated videos (that I’m quite sure will be enabled in next years) - this is the same art. creative process is constrained by available tools, but they don’t define it.

Do you think that people posed for medieval family paintings at the same time?

I see your reasoning a lot in many areas, and in my pov it’s just a final, conceding attempt of gatekeeping.

Painters telling photographers that there is no soul in photography. Film photographers telling the same to digital photographers. Woodworkers telling that cnc’s are not woodworking. Musicians telling that only live music matters and recording doesn’t capture all nuances 100 years ago. Guitarists owning and used hundreds of pedals and amps telling that to digital modeling.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:03:26 +0000

I don’t understand that. Even in my short clips that I do for my kiddo I iterate a lot. Yes, right now it’s mostly prompt and reference images but soon (I think/hope) it will be same tools that are used in real life - things like ability to draw on frames and tell what/how to change etc. reshoots exist in real life for a reason.

Look into photo editing where ai based tools can remove subjects, do generative fills and even transform 2d to 3d/video. Same will come to other ai art too. And this will again differentiate amateurs “prompt 3 lines” and pros “I have vision and I will pursue it using tools available to me”. AI is secondary here.

As I said before - ai helps to raise the floor, not ceiling.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:50:37 +0000

I’m not talking about watermarks, I’m talking about hardware digital signature.