Hacker News: genxy

New comment by genxy in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

genxy — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:06:52 +0000

Python 4 will have types built in.

New comment by genxy in "Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design"

genxy — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:52:59 +0000

Excellent find, an academic paper announcing the book is here

https://peer.asee.org/57147.pdf

Harris and Harris (no relation) have an excellent book on digital design using RISC-V as the domain problem, https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/ddca/ddcarv.html

https://pages.hmc.edu/harris/ddca/

Their books are perfect, and I hope this textbook gets adopted by thousands of colleges. Our RISC-V future is bright, now we need one on SoC bringup and getting your OS running on that SoC.

New comment by genxy in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

genxy — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:00:34 +0000

Or Clarke's first law

-- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

New comment by genxy in "Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)"

genxy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:22:01 +0000

I couldn't find a skill in your project that would help integrate mediabunny. The docs and examples look like they could really help. Having good example coverage allows agents to pickup libraries easily.

https://github.com/Vanilagy/mediabunny

New comment by genxy in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

genxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:25:12 +0000

If that isn't a perfect piece of antitrust evidence, how crazy is it that MS can reach across a whole industry and buy the company that bought the company that defined the games industry, with Carmack playing revenge of the nerds boy genius. Everything about it is perfect for a locally produced drama somewhere in eastern europe.

New comment by genxy in "Microsoft Fire IdTech Team at Id Software"

genxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:12:05 +0000

My favorite was rail brushing people off during pad jumps. Because they died from hitting the level box, they would get a -1. At work we had a match where every other player had a negative score. That aid, they were good sports about it and I didn't do it all the time.

New comment by genxy in "The revenge of the philosophy majors"

genxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:09:08 +0000

That is not what AI is. AI is a powerful tool, a semiautonomous set of wood working tools that still need a master craftsperson to use. You need the tool+genius to drive it. Everyone wants to shoot down AI but they think AI will do everything. Being proud of a creation where someone did style transfer between spongebob and Rembrandt and they think they made art. About as responsible for actual art as just downloading images from google.

New comment by genxy in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

genxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:50:22 +0000

There is prior art with Tuttle vs Buttle.

New comment by genxy in "Resetting Xbox"

genxy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:48:11 +0000

The cheapest xbox should cost 129. Instead it is $399. That is how consoles work. It gets cheaper, the back catalog grows and now you have a mass market item that ideally could source games from anywhere.

Consoles losing physical media and not allowing 3rd party app stores, or gasp, the ability to run user programs is going to kill the consoles. Expensive and marginal future utility.

New comment by genxy in "Small Penis Rule"

genxy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:09:24 +0000

This whole thing has been a wonderful string of tort jokes.

New comment by genxy in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

genxy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:46:02 +0000

The continued use of animal metaphors is doing them a great disservice. Esp as we learn more about animal cognition, on first look, it smacks of human exceptionalism that has littered the historic scientific consensus.

Now if they had said, "Imagine your average American ..." (/s)

New comment by genxy in "Ask HN: Who is the best computer programmer of all times?"

genxy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:24:04 +0000

You will never know, for all they do is delete and refactor.

New comment by genxy in "Small Penis Rule"

genxy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:13:16 +0000

It isn't the size of your tort, it is how you use it.

Also, are men this easily manipulated?

Yes.

New comment by genxy in "Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting"

genxy — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:35:45 +0000

https://www.eigensteve.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve/search?query=pinn

New comment by genxy in "Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting"

genxy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:07:35 +0000

Aren't they a faster, lower fidelity model, like all models?

New comment by genxy in "David Beazley – Programming Courses"

genxy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:58:14 +0000

I took the Compilers course with Dave, remote.

I'd take the whole set if I could. I too am a little dismayed by the state of the world I'd like to see, his courses should be full.

He is as an amazing of a teacher as you would think he is from his publicly available talks. I hope secondary education means middle school, he'd light so many fires.

Thanks Dave!

New comment by genxy in "60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it"

genxy — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:41:46 +0000

This seems like a pricing hack that burns resources, that when the loophole gets closed the price of OCR will have to rise?

New comment by genxy in "U.S. babies born this year to receive Social Security cards w 'Freedom 250' logo"

genxy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:08:13 +0000

Spoiler, it doesn't have a picture of Trump on it. At least not the picture in the article.

New comment by genxy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

genxy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:37:04 +0000

US tech wages are what everyone should be making. Tech looks high compared to everyone else, but it is more that everyone else's wages got suppressed.

New comment by genxy in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

genxy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:01:48 +0000

Probably wishing it was twice as big, twice as gold, has that Chinese ram deal riding on it.