Hacker News: hgoel

New comment by hgoel in "Europe raised me to fail and here is why"

hgoel — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:34:28 +0000

Another way to interpret this junk, in the US:

- There are no consequences for repeatedly losing other peoples' money

- The wealthy live it up, coming up with new ways to fleece people while normal people have to work extra jobs to earn a living

- Fake hype and lies work

- "Your competition can't plan against you if you don't have a plan"

What even does this guy sell?

New comment by hgoel in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

hgoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:46:26 +0000

I kind of get it in the sense that every academic has to make themselves somewhat comfortable with self-promotion even if they don't like it. It's an important part of getting funding, but putting a blurb like that everywhere just hurts his credibility I think.

New comment by hgoel in "Show HN: Soft Body Jiggle Physics"

hgoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:30:43 +0000

That's probably the intent given the link in their github bio

New comment by hgoel in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

hgoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:33:23 +0000

It's because this place is full of people that are the developer equivalent of someone that constantly tells everyone they drive a manual transmission vehicle and it makes them superior.

New comment by hgoel in ""Maybe later" was a feature"

hgoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:09:35 +0000

That's the part that surprises me. I have only ever shared one prototype I made with AI, and only because we were presenting on how we were exploring AI use and with constant mention that it was a proof of concept prototype.

I feel like putting any prototype, even if it was hand written, would be really risking my credibility if I put it into production without having it at least to the point that it wouldn't matter if it was vibe coded, via a few weeks of using the project myself.

New comment by hgoel in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

hgoel — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:44:46 +0000

It pointed out that the shoulders were too rounded and the perspective was incorrect for them, making it seem like the arm was just appearing out of the torso. It pulled up images to explain that I wasn't correctly indicating the deltoid's presence. This helped me understand why I felt that the shoulder was hard to distinguish from the torso.

I also asked for help on how to make my posing less stiff and it used the Python script trick to roughly indicate the line of action and how they were very straight and parallel and to reduce stiffness I should have more curves etc.

This wasn't really at the point where I even asked for shading advice.

New comment by hgoel in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:30:39 +0000

It's kind of sad that they didn't call this Cortana. I guess they made that name too toxic?

New comment by hgoel in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:41:12 +0000

I've had many, but a recent one was when I figured I'd try asking Claude for help with my attempts at learning to draw, specifically anatomy.

I uploaded one of my sketches and asked for feedback, expecting it to not be too useful, but it actually pointed out many issues that no one had ever pointed out to me, but perfectly explained some of the things that felt off to me. Out of curiosity I then also asked it to label the issues in the sketch. It wrote a python script with the coordinates to put everything at and labeled the sketch that way.

I'm still used to vLLMs not being that great at vision, so it was pretty surprising to get genuinely useful advice.

New comment by hgoel in "India's surprise baby bust"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:07:30 +0000

Sorry for wanting my children to not grow up in poverty with immature young adult parents.

New comment by hgoel in "India's surprise baby bust"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:03:58 +0000

Probably pretty obvious why they're saying so, given the fresh throwaway account.

New comment by hgoel in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:50:40 +0000

I think it's hard to say. Water sprayed at a ceiling doesn't congeal into a ball the way water floating in microgravity does.

Paint that would fall to the ground if it didn't stick to anything on Earth, would just be floating around in microgravity. Any dissolved gasses or moisture can usually passively sort themselves out due to their differing masses, but again, not in microgravity.

New comment by hgoel in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:47:28 +0000

Of course you can, but "needs to survive 26+ years" was very likely not part of the original design goals. The designers of the time probably wouldn't have expected the dysfunction to be so deep that 26 years later, only the Chinese can seem to stick to a plan.

New comment by hgoel in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:46:35 +0000

IIRC during transit you'd want as much mass between you and the Sun (as shielding), and as small of a cross section facing the Sun. Probably also to reduce heat reaching the propellants.

So in a cylindrical ship you'd want to have one end pointing at the Sun most of the trip. This is, of course, very different in effect on the hull compared to the repeated expansion and contraction of heating cycles.

New comment by hgoel in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:35:25 +0000

If you mean on the outside, paints that apply well in vacuum and microgravity probably need to be developed and tested first.

If you mean on the inside, it'd be a lot of time and disruption to devote to maintenance on a station that's already having to spend an increasing amount of time on maintenance instead of science.

The modules have a lot of stuff that has been wired between them over the years, all that would need to be sorted out, consequences understood and more before ever starting the work, and by then it'll be time for the ISS to retire anyway.

New comment by hgoel in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:28:40 +0000

Ideally your Mars transit vehicle hasn't been taking 90 minute heating and cooling cycles nonstop for 26 years.

New comment by hgoel in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:58:48 +0000

That's just what the people that liked to put a lot of effort into customizing their IDEs or WMs have moved to.

New comment by hgoel in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:52:55 +0000

Always fun collaborating with someone on a project and having them surprised you actually read their documentation and checked out their code instead of expecting them to explain everything from the ground up.

New comment by hgoel in "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:36:27 +0000

Reading docs is essential when the LLM stops making sense. It also exercises the same muscles you need to be able to make good use of LLMs.

New comment by hgoel in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:19:21 +0000

"My interests are the only ones that matter and your interests are a waste of time so the resistance I add is actually a good thing. Be happy I don't outright block them"

New comment by hgoel in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

hgoel — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:44:55 +0000

This really sounds like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" type of comment.