Hacker News: joshmarinacci

New comment by joshmarinacci in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:11:54 +0000

LLMs are a technology, not a product (or tool). In five years the underlying technology will look similar to what we have today, but the way we access it and the usage patterns and the interface (the product) will be completely different. If we are still interacting with LLMs through chat in five years I will be severely disappointed.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Earth Tipped on Its Side During the Age of Dinosaurs–and Not Just Once"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:55:54 +0000

The earth wobbles. It doesn’t “tip”.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Polyedergarten: Garden of Paper Polyhedron Models"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:04:36 +0000

VRML? That's a name I've not heard in quite some time.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:30:11 +0000

Many if not most of these oddities about humans come down to either they don’t affect reproduction, or because humans are social animals. Menopause makes sense because a grandmother will have more successful descendants if she stops having babies and helps her daughters with the grandkids. I would guess the few other species that exhibit menopause are also social animals.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:26:35 +0000

Adult onset Type 1 has become a lot more common in recent decades. Ask me how I know.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:51:04 +0000

Wow. How can it do this without an MMU?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:22:31 +0000

I like the concept. Your website needs screenshots.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "How we manage and engage with our horses shapes their personality"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:57:11 +0000

This shouldn’t be surprising. Horses are almost as smart as dogs, and dogs personalities are heavily dependent upon their upbringing.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "A few good ideas in programming languages"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:44:21 +0000

Programming language innovation is measured in decades. I expect LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts, but adoption will still progress on a human timescale

New comment by joshmarinacci in "How to build a printer"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:23:24 +0000

I love the concept, but I wonder why he wasn’t printing to PDF. Can this device not render PDFs?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:10:53 +0000

I don’t understand the point of WebMCP. Any website that you could do interesting things with programmatically either already has an API or doesn’t want to provide programmatic access for business reasons. So who is this for?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:26:44 +0000

I was able to get Claude to write an embedded Rust driver for an unsupported epaper screen in a couple of hours by providing it with the spec and some existing C drivers. It’s still not as fast as the arduino versions, but it let me make progress in a project that I’d been stuck on for months.

Reverse engineering seems like an AI sweet spot.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:38:18 +0000

These are an exciting new curve. I’d like to hear about how they will handle stroking. The inside and outside stroke of a Bézier curve can’t be represented with a Bézier curve. How do hyperbeziers fare?

A Story of Screwdrivers

joshmarinacci — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:52:56 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/a_story_of_screwdriver_drivers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298710

Points: 2

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New comment by joshmarinacci in "ESP-Claw"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:05:41 +0000

I don’t understand what this is for? Does it help you code esp32 programs or does it use an esp32 devices sensors as input to LLM sessions. Or something else.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:39:59 +0000

Is this an update for the original quake or do you need one of the newer ones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:59 +0000

If you were to count the margin of everything it would be 100%. At the end of the day everything is either a resource harvested from the earth or human labor.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Kraid is a now a real compiler"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:40:27 +0000

What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "We Need a National Ballroom"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:10:19 +0000

Nicely done.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Em dashes are amazing"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:58:52 +0000

I am overjoyed with how many commenters we have here who enjoy talking about typography.