<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: heeton</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=heeton</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:12:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=heeton" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I totally support the phone-free bar and restaurant experience<p>If you then expect an exemption because <i>your phone use is different</i> then I challenge that you don’t actually support the experience.<p>If you want to read news in a phone-free environment: bring a newspaper, a kindle, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:24:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651675</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100%. I have a guiding approach when solving problems: keep reframing and exploring until the solution becomes obvious.<p>I often find, if I've got a complicated solution, it’s because I haven’t fully examined the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:35:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638523</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "I'm Not Consulting an LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author’s central point is that an LLM answer “is optimized for arrival, not for becoming” (to paraphrase from the Google “Lucky” part).<p>So a reasoning LLM that does the comparisons and checks “like a human” still fails the author’s test.<p>That said, this still feels like a skill issue. If you want to learn, see opposing views gather evidence to form your own opinions about, LLMs can still help massively. You just have to treat them research assistants instead of answer providers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:52:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296293</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Why I Joined OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That episode, and this Gavin quote, encapsulate the attitude perfectly.<p>“I don't want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place, better than we do.”</p>
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<p>I upvoted because I’m very keen for more teams to start trying to solve this problem and release tools and products to help.<p>Context gathering and refinement is the biggest issue I have with product development at the moment.</p>
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<p>If you remove a reaction to politics and/or management practice, this is quite an obvious question, no?<p>Hypothetically: Substitute Microsoft for a company with “zero downtime” as one of their company values.<p>Now imagine you were asked “What impact did your actions have in contributing to zero downtime at Hostingsoft?”<p>That wouldn’t be a controversial question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:22:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193254</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193254</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Kagi Hub Belgrade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Random data point: I'm in the UK and have visited Serbia twice for Skiing and time in Belgrade. It was a cool place.</p>
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<p>That's with a naive stereo split. Many would still put the bass on one side, with the binaural processing so it's still heard on the right, but quieter and with a tiny delay.</p>
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<p>Rare-earth magnets do not fall under “exotic”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798059</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your comment wasn’t wrong. Neither is the reply wrong to be frustrated about how the world understands this complex topic.<p>You’re talking about autism. The reply is about autism spectrum DISORDER.<p>Different things, exacerbated by the imprecise and evolving language we use to describe current understanding.<p>An individual can absolutely exhibit autistic traits, whilst also not meeting the diagnostic criteria for the disorder.<p>And autistic traits are absolutely a variant of normalcy. When you combine many together, and it affects you in a strongly negative way, now you meet ASD criteria.<p>Here’s a good description:
 <a href="https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism#The%20spectrum" rel="nofollow">https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/what-is-autism...</a></p>
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<p>Minor correction: the water is evaporated. It remains in the water cycle but is removed from the water source for any downstream users.</p>
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<p>I enjoyed seeing it described in those games :)<p>I'm pretty sure it was that series that also described <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_droplet_radiator</a> , with the side effects of different ships having very distinct heat patterns because of their radiator patterns. And that if a ship ever had to make a turn while they were active, big glowing arcs of slowly-cooling droplets would be flung out into space and leave a kind of heat plume.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:04:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668466</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "AI and Home-Cooked Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Member of Golgafrinchian Ark Fleet Ship C here.<p>I like to make stuff, hack on projects. I code, I woodwork, I solder, I build. I love AI in the same way I love a router and dovetail jig in the workshop.<p>My son and I were playing minecraft, and we wanted to build a massive egg, just for fun. (My son is 5).<p>We try, we fail, we try again. We start learning about spheres and how to draw circles, this is peak project-based-learning. But we still can't build an egg that looks good, and now it's becoming less fun and there's no drive to keep trying.<p>So I spin up claude after hours and in ~30 mins I have an parametric egg-generator in 3d space, mapped to voxels. There is no universe in which my child would be interested in the many years of training to get to the point of building this himself. I also don't have 20 hours free to learn and implement my own 3d voxel rendering systems, just to build an egg in minecraft as a silly teaching exercise.<p>That weekend we try to use this tool, and we see it's really hard to just see an egg model and build it, so 15 minutes later it can now show us a sliced layer-by-layer view.<p>The weekend, my son built a massive fucking egg in Minecraft and he's been talking about circles and radiuses and eggs and coding software ever since. He was SO excited to see that we could take a running program, something "real" in the world, and then directly change it. (And now he's trying to learn about code and graphics and stuff. Again, he's 5 - this is the passing interest of curiosity in a child, he's not studying 50-hour courses to learn low level skills)<p>Are you saying that's not a massive win for everyone involved?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602933</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45602933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Learn to play Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be clear, there are 140 active games right now. That 21k number is active “correspondence” games where moves can take a day and games can take months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 09:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403097</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Learn to play Go"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice to see other go players here! Here are some go resources I like that I haven’t seen mentioned yet.<p>1. <a href="https://gomagic.org/" rel="nofollow">https://gomagic.org/</a> , it has free and paid content, and I learned a lot here.<p>2. The European go journal. A nice print publication, I’ve not lived in or near the Asian countries with a stronger go history so I’ve enjoyed getting printed problems and go news.<p>3. The “so you want to play go” book series by Jonathon Hop. I like his writing style.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402811</link><dc:creator>heeton</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45402811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by heeton in "Gurted – A web ecosystem introducing the gurt:// protocol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gurt is a colloquial synonym for “hyper” (The “h” in http).</p>
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<p>Adding 10GW of power as they plan, is 87TWh. 2%.<p>That’s huge. The hope is that this can drive renewables or nuclear rollout, but not sure that hope is realistic.</p>
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<p>To be that guy: you’re objecting to someone’s subjective phrasing while also using your own subjective phrasing.<p>Language is malleable and messy, and I find it doesn’t help discourse if you attack the surface reading of a comment. I don’t think OP is  “accusing of hate”, I think they’re expressing surprise that such negative sentiments exist to a sensible issue. I agree, as do you it seems.<p>(And yes, in writing this I asked myself if I’m reacting to your terminology or the intent behind the words. I hope it’s the latter)</p>
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<p>We already have transponders on freeways. They’re technically passive reflectors, but they reflect a high proportion of incident EM waves, in the visible spectrum, and exist between lanes on every major road in the US. Also known as white paint.</p>
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<p>I'm no audio engineer either, but those computer voice sound "saw-tooth"y to me.<p>From what I understand, it's more basic models/techniques that are undersampling, so there is a series of audio pulses which give it that buzzy quality. Better models are produced smoother output.<p><a href="https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/difference-between-waveforms" rel="nofollow">https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/difference-between-wav...</a></p>
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