Hacker News: jy14898

New comment by jy14898 in "Many people misunderstand the purpose of code review"

jy14898 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:16:45 +0000

Not all bugs are buffer overflows, many are just the code not doing what it claimed at a high level

New comment by jy14898 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

jy14898 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:25:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist)...

New comment by jy14898 in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

jy14898 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:42:37 +0000

405 Method Not Allowed is trivial to fall back to POST. How do you know the GET request behaved incorrectly?

New comment by jy14898 in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

jy14898 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:59:16 +0000

Seems like the README is heavily vibed, as it seems to not even understand what the repo does:

> Local AI & LLM Ready: By reducing complex pixel streams into structured logical strings, ASCILINE acts as a perfect bridge for AI. Instead of feeding heavy computer vision models, lightweight LLMs can process semantic video summaries.

In what way is this semantic/structured?

> Bypassing Browser Constraints: Modern browsers aggressively throttle autoplay videos, and ad-blockers restrict traditional media frames. To the browser, ASCILINE is simply "JavaScript updating a canvas"—completely invisible to media restrictions.

So... just render the video to a canvas? What does ASCII have to do with it

New comment by jy14898 in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

jy14898 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:29:58 +0000

> LLMs are good at predicting words, since each word in the id is ~1 BPE token. But uuids are random hex characters, this is where LLMs struggle to output the right ids.

If true then that indeed seems like an improvement, I think I just need measurements of actual hallucinations. Calling hex random but a selection of words not seems humanly biased? If anything, being random is good because it's saying there's no semantic influence. I'd think that words are more likely to be hallucinated as certain words only follow certain contexts, which is less true for numbers

New comment by jy14898 in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

jy14898 — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:03:30 +0000

I don't like that they're not apples to apples; less bits so of course it'll take less tokens.

> Where UUIDs cost ~23 tokens and get hallucinated by LLMs

How does this solve the hallucination problem?

Just removing the - from the example UUID takes it from 26 tokens to 18

New comment by jy14898 in "Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics"

jy14898 — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:13:42 +0000

LLMs aren't relevant to aviation and medical devices

New comment by jy14898 in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

jy14898 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:17:55 +0000

The free battery deal ended in January, but you're likely better off as mine ended up getting a damaged screen while being transported for mail in (because all local stores stopped doing the program), and they wanted to charge me an extortionate price to fix the screen. Support were useless

New comment by jy14898 in "RX – a new random-access JSON alternative"

jy14898 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:36:48 +0000

Came to the same conclusion the moment I had to hunt to see the outputs https://github.com/creationix/rx/tree/main/samples

New comment by jy14898 in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

jy14898 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:40:54 +0000

https://github.com/aleks-apostle/claude-code-patches/pull/9 is what I found, not tested yet

RFC 9078: Reaction: Indicating Summary Reaction to a Message

jy14898 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:22:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9078.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858530

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jy14898 in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

jy14898 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:20:41 +0000

It's monetisation. If they put a paywall on the video, your browser has the functionality to play the video but you're forced to pay to use that functionality.

Also wrt phone, it's different because I paid for the phone. But also I'd just use a different camera app?

New comment by jy14898 in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

jy14898 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:56:37 +0000

While I'm not pro YouTube, I think it's fine for companies to decide how to monetise their product, including things which were originally free. If you don't like free services, stop using them

New comment by jy14898 in "Mammals have evolved into ant eaters 12 times since the dinosaur age – study (2025)"

jy14898 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:27:36 +0000

Humans eat insects, current and past

New comment by jy14898 in "Show HN: GlyphLang – An AI-first programming language"

jy14898 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:47:14 +0000

I feel like any deviation from the syntax LLMs are trained on is not productive.

Sure you can represent the same code in fewer tokens but I doubt it'll get those tokens correct as often.

New comment by jy14898 in "A2UI: A Protocol for Agent-Driven Interfaces"

jy14898 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:23:51 +0000

I never want to unknowingly use an app that's driven this way.

However, I'm happy it's happening because you don't need an LLM to use the protocol.

New comment by jy14898 in "Show HN: I made a spreadsheet where formulas also update backwards"

jy14898 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:16:30 +0000

you might like https://omrelli.ug/g9/ which is a similar concept but for graphics

New comment by jy14898 in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

jy14898 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:16:03 +0000

The post stated that it was believed duplication improved loading times on computers with HDDs rather than SSDs

Interactive λ-Reduction

jy14898 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://deltanets.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039106

Points: 138

# Comments: 26

New comment by jy14898 in "Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares"

jy14898 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:11:02 +0000

Stopped at 74 but managed to par all before that somehow. Didn't really do any problem solving/deep thinking about it, just clicking what felt right