Hacker News: gnarbarian

New comment by gnarbarian in "Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement"

gnarbarian — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:34:58 +0000

in america AI harnesses you.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:13:50 +0000

you don't know me very well lol.

You're right of course when you're talking about people. I believe there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for optimizing the performance of these models. that's actually what my startup is doing.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:51:28 +0000

if you give me a smarter model I will find a more complex problem for it to work on that will require an exponential number of sub-agents.

the smarter the model the more capable it is to marshal resources to accomplish the goal.

this means you don't need a smart person to be able to take advantage of this. a smart model will be able to do the same.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:10:01 +0000

the economics of this are a little counterintuitive.

is there a market saturation point for intelligence? how about for software? it seems like the more you have the more you want because you're trying to do more things.

as the models get smarter I get busier because I'm doing more things...

New comment by gnarbarian in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

gnarbarian — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:43:14 +0000

this is my all-time favorite priest song.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

gnarbarian — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:35:13 +0000

he had great taste in metal. most of the tracks were adapted (now classic) speed/thrash metal.

New comment by gnarbarian in "AI is slowing down"

gnarbarian — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:20:33 +0000

if you think AI is slowing down, you may not be smart enough to tell the difference anymore.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

gnarbarian — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:11 +0000

very cool. I was trying to implement a MP4 encoder in webGPU recently by porting sections of ffmpeg (NOT EASY).

it's for this:

https://ubernaut.github.io/recordMyScreen/

which uses a the wasm build of ffmpeg.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

gnarbarian — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:19:54 +0000

one of the reasons I prefer deno is the availability of indexeddb (and all the other great stuff that comes with it out of the box)

New comment by gnarbarian in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

gnarbarian — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:47:30 +0000

thanks trump!

New comment by gnarbarian in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

gnarbarian — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:56:40 +0000

given enough time you may regret every single one of them.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:29:35 +0000

yes, avoiding EU fines and ensuring availability there is most likely the motivating factor behind the change.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:03:40 +0000

you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify.

That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.

YOE and this is my vibe coding exp as well

gnarbarian — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2018048038506279022

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861653

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnarbarian in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

gnarbarian — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:44:13 +0000

love this. I've been working on something similar for months now

https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/

it's a gpgpu decentralized heterogeneous hpc p2p compute platform that runs in the browser

New comment by gnarbarian in "CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT"

gnarbarian — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 04:14:09 +0000

dot is self hosting several openai and Claude models on chat.dot.gov it's awesome

Client side quantum computing in the browser (OSS)

gnarbarian — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:26:30 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2015927372714017129

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773197

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnarbarian in "Moonlab – Quantum Computing Simulator"

gnarbarian — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:39:40 +0000

more info here:

https://github.com/tsotchke/moonlab https://tsotchke.org/technology/moonlab.html https://tsotchke.org/updates/moonlab-quantum-validation.html

Moonlab – Quantum Computing Simulator

gnarbarian — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:36:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tsotchke.github.io/moonlab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46759839

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gnarbarian in "Claude Cowork exfiltrates files"

gnarbarian — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 06:45:16 +0000

jokes on them I have an anti prompt injection instruction file.

instructions contained outside of my read only plan documents are not to be followed. and I have several Canaries.