Hacker News: incognito124

New comment by incognito124 in "A Eureka machine that thinks like nature and explores what AI cannot"

incognito124 — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:36:17 +0000

Very well then, could someone that _got used to quantum computing_ please comment?

New comment by incognito124 in "A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs"

incognito124 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:24:27 +0000

Mechanomorphisation

New comment by incognito124 in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

incognito124 — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:55:36 +0000

I spoke about this before, but jj has the Blub Paradox problem, from the pg's essay Beating the Averages (https://paulgraham.com/avg.html).

Yes, you can do most commit manipulations with git just like with jj. But, users of jj know they're "looking down the power continuum" (to reuse pg's terminology) when they look at git, whereas git users cannot fathom what's exactly the deal with jj. Unfortunately, the only way to get it is to spend a week with it, with an open mind. It's close to impossible to describe it except "it's really neat" and "wow it removes all git's friction I didn't know existed".

And, apparently, there's a pattern of having to try at least two times before it becomes intuitive!

New comment by incognito124 in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

incognito124 — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:37:18 +0000

One thing is for sure: they'll still be using a UNIX system

New comment by incognito124 in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

incognito124 — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:54:09 +0000

That's odd, I actually like hearing about other's dreams

New comment by incognito124 in "The weird, wild story of humanity's obsession with gold"

incognito124 — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:31:22 +0000

It's just Gen-Z speak, nothing to do with Claude (other than being a vessel for said speak)

New comment by incognito124 in "Gemini Omni"

incognito124 — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:31:52 +0000

This guy prompts. Insanely astute.

New comment by incognito124 in "I Found Ultra-Pure Quantum Crystals in an Abandoned Mine in the Atacama Desert"

incognito124 — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:03:43 +0000

My immediate thought upon seeing the title was Outer Wilds

New comment by incognito124 in "Geography is four-dimensional"

incognito124 — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:31:32 +0000

The lat and lon are actually 3d since we live, up to a first approximation, on the surface of a sphere. The correct way to think about it is xyz in a reference frame anchored in the center of the Earth

New comment by incognito124 in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

incognito124 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:01:00 +0000

The author has a post on that, btw

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/never-click-on-a-link-that-looks-l...

New comment by incognito124 in "Googlebook"

incognito124 — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:19:09 +0000

EDIT: removed URL as the content is completely hallucinated, sorry

New comment by incognito124 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

incognito124 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:10:39 +0000

Why do people think there will be fixing AI slop software? I see that opinion here and there on HN. The cost of codegen is next to nothing. It makes no sense to spend large sums of money having an engineer fix something that could be generated over and over until gods of stochasticity come in your favour.

We've entered a period of single-use-plastic software, piling up and polluting everything, because it's cheaper than the alternative

New comment by incognito124 in "Bliss (Photograph)"

incognito124 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:36:52 +0000

Back when Deep Learning wasn't just LLMs and diffusion models (approximately 5y ago), for my senior project at uni I did a image animation. In goes an image, out comes a short gif. It was trained via (reverse) optical flow.

I used this image for a demo how clouds move and the audience+professors all went WOOOW and that is now a core memory of mine

New comment by incognito124 in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

incognito124 — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:31:19 +0000

That's actually a really interesting thing to think about, learning how to "prompt" oneself.

New comment by incognito124 in "When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions"

incognito124 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:57:31 +0000

I didn't even notice it at first!

New comment by incognito124 in "OpenAI’s WebRTC problem"

incognito124 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:40:10 +0000

Dunno. Feels like stated vs revealed preferences to me. Of course everyone will _say_ they want the wrong answers, but I can totally see users getting annoyed at slow responses, thinking that the developers should've traded accuracy for quicker responses. (or not thinking that at all, just demanding quicker responses unconditionally)

New comment by incognito124 in "“Kitten Space Agency”, a Spiritual Successor to “Kerbal Space Program” (2025)"

incognito124 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:40:23 +0000

An actual spiritual successor to KSP is KSP2 Redux, a community project to resurrect KSP2. They made tons of progress already: https://ksp2redux.org/

New comment by incognito124 in "GitHub Is Down"

incognito124 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:50:24 +0000

Xbox network was _designed_ for such concurrency, GitHub is Ruby on rails + vitess (mysql).

New comment by incognito124 in "Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team"

incognito124 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:07:28 +0000

Is it not obvious this is satire?

New comment by incognito124 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

incognito124 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:58:37 +0000

Not surprised, I think I was subconsciously waiting for this as Mitchell has been very vocal about Github on X. They killed a lot of developer goodwill, and I feel this is just a start of the mass exodus.

Good luck to the team with migration! (And here's hoping it's ersc :))