Hacker News: horsellama

Wayve secures $1.5B to deploy its global autonomy platform

horsellama — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:30:32 +0000

Article URL: https://wayve.ai/press/series-d/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148882

Points: 1

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New comment by horsellama in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

horsellama — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:41:40 +0000

shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)

https://asdfasdf.fyi

Meta Says the 2,400 'Adult Movies' They Torrented Were for Personal Use

horsellama — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:02:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/meta-says-the-2400-adult-movies-they-torrented-were-for-personal-use-not-training-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45939257

Points: 50

# Comments: 25

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: What techniques do you use to remember complex concepts and theories?"

horsellama — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:09:26 +0000

I only remember things I understand/care about. Until then there’s no way for me to retain anything.

Therefore I double down on practice the concepts and test my understanding.

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with Vibe Coding?"

horsellama — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 14:54:03 +0000

I gave it a serious try for a side project. Entirely vibed from system design to backend, db, frontend and all sort of ci/cd hacks.

I ended up binning the fully vibed version and started again with a design of my own. This mostly because the final product wasn’t really usable.

Then I heavily modified the backend.

In the last days I finished a major refactoring of the frontend.

I’m now in the situation where the project is 20% vibe coded.

If I were to start again it would possibly be less than that. Just because in the process I learnt as much react I need to do things myself.

This was using a mix of gpt4, claude, gemini, lovable…basically anything with a free tier to squeeze free tokens from

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: What codebase would you like to see rewritten, updated, or modernized?"

horsellama — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:35:55 +0000

homebrew. I dream of something quick and simple to use as uv is now for python ecosystem

New comment by horsellama in "Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude"

horsellama — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 07:26:09 +0000

OP may want to test this setup here [0]. This is a bit more challenging than replacing a google query with a LLMs pipeline

[0] https://code.golf/mandelbrot#assembly

The NeurIPS 2025 Google Code Golf Championship

horsellama — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:47:45 +0000

Article URL: https://sites.google.com/view/neurips-2025-code-golf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44414013

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: Would this idea help address declining populations in many countries?"

horsellama — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:46:03 +0000

pregnancy is no joke, you don’t undergo that experience just to see if you like having a baby for one year

New comment by horsellama in "NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy"

horsellama — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:39:04 +0000

oh yes, they do

but I meant the actual sticker on the keycap (very silly requirement, I know)

New comment by horsellama in "NovaCustom – Framework Laptop alternative focusing on privacy"

horsellama — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 19:56:05 +0000

finally a vendor that allows the customization of the super key

and also ships with nvidia gpu

I might have found a new laptop…

New comment by horsellama in "Klong: A Simple Array Language"

horsellama — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:35:57 +0000

Julia is fun when used with the “array” mindset. It can also get very terse [0]

[0] https://code.golf/wiki/langs/julia

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: Is There a MacBook Equivalent?"

horsellama — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 19:11:37 +0000

what’s the performance of the vm? can you use it for medium heavy tasks?

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: How do you handle an employee who complies but never delivers?"

horsellama — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:46:15 +0000

OP, are you my manager by any chance? /s

This resonates with me a lot, I can try to show you my perspective.

Been there 10+ yrs, started as “graduate” and never officially got a promotion but I’m now considered principal. This is mostly because I own responsibilities for a big chunk of the core technology. I used to put in 60+ hrs/week and implemented the shiny new products we’re basing our revenue. Salary wise I’m in a mid tier (lower bound) and thanks to our flat hierarchy I don’t have anywhere to go on my career path. More senior engineers to learn from left and we don’t hire juniors to mentor.

I used to be a 10x engineer, delivering 10x. I still am but now I work 1/10th to deliver 1. Pay isn’t great but it’s amazing for how much I work. I think I have golden handcuffs after all. You know, life gets in the way and all of a sudden pushing configs for a saas becomes way less important (and interesting) than, say, spending time with family.

Add all those useless bureaucratic wrapper around any process (I spend 50% of my standing desk time on meetings) and the infinite friction against any new proposal from my side. It’s like they want to kill instead of fostering innovation.

Sorry for the rant, but while looking for a way to sac the guy, you better look also at your organization.

ps the market is horrible at the moment, I’m not leaving just because it’s not that straightforward

New comment by horsellama in "I want to be a Journey Programmer Again"

horsellama — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:56:42 +0000

you’d need a training set covering all the useful cases. Something that we don’t have even now for mainstream languages

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: What would your dream home include and where would it be?"

horsellama — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 19:07:44 +0000

A small (not tiny) apartment with a tiny (that yes) garden/outdoor space in Tokyo. Murakami describes something similar in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” [0]. I want a small kitchen corner and a spacious and luminous living room for reading and listening to music. As minimal as possible.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_Up_Bird_C...

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level"

horsellama — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 17:41:31 +0000

the jobs requiring cuda experience are most of the times because torch is not good enough

New comment by horsellama in "What motivates you to contribute to open source projects?"

horsellama — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:07:04 +0000

In random order: fixing bugs that bother me; networking; learn

New comment by horsellama in "John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025"

horsellama — Fri, 23 May 2025 07:43:50 +0000

this.

Having JC focusing on, say, writing a performant OSS CUDA replacement could be bigger than any of the last 20 announcements from openai/goggle/deepmind/etc

New comment by horsellama in "Ask HN: What's behind the strong anti-AI sentiment on Hacker News?"

horsellama — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:55:51 +0000

just give a go at vibe coding a moderately complex system and you’ll realize that this is only hype, nothing concrete

it’s a shame that this “thing” has now monopolized tech discussions