Hacker News: kaeluka

New comment by kaeluka in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

kaeluka — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:26:06 +0000

great, i'll try this. something like this has on my list and i'm super curious :)

New comment by kaeluka in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

kaeluka — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:28:57 +0000

They're trying to make the product sticky while they're still subsidizing the subscription price. The plan is to raise prices when you're addicted.

New comment by kaeluka in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

kaeluka — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:01:58 +0000

it's sort of good at thinking, writing specs, etc.. Also debugging. But as a coder: I see no advantage to opus 4.6 and I preferred sonnet most times already over opus 4.6.

New comment by kaeluka in "Wendelstein 7-X achieves world record"

kaeluka — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:53:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip, started out really interesting!

New comment by kaeluka in "Ask HN: If you could go back to study any CS-related field, what would it be?"

kaeluka — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 11:28:57 +0000

That blog entry is well worth reading. It put a smile on my face! :-)

New comment by kaeluka in "TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age"

kaeluka — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 00:48:32 +0000

No idea what rights you'd have in the US, I'm not a citizen :-)

New comment by kaeluka in "TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age"

kaeluka — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:52:09 +0000

Sure, I thought that was obvious.

In Chrome: right-click, inspect. Edit page source. Done. Less than two minutes, and you don't need to have a tech background to do it.

Never trust screenshots.

New comment by kaeluka in "TweetDelete – Automatically delete your posts that are older than a maximum age"

kaeluka — Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:37:33 +0000

Weird coincidence, that's just what NASA just tweeted:

https://imgur.com/a/cHES1

New comment by kaeluka in "Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018"

kaeluka — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:22:04 +0000

I'll never forget the day my mother called to tell me that their cat had died in an accident, suffering. I was (technically) grown up then, and it was many years ago, but it still hurts. Writing this hurts :(

New comment by kaeluka in "Mosfet the cat 2001 – 2018"

kaeluka — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:48:58 +0000

If it wasn't for the cats we had when I was a kid, I'd be a different person today :')

New comment by kaeluka in "MiniZinc: free and open-source constraint modeling language"

kaeluka — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 17:49:45 +0000

It can run using a number of solvers, you can find a list here: http://www.minizinc.org/software.html

New comment by kaeluka in "List of oldest companies: Before 1300"

kaeluka — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:52:04 +0000

Stiftskeller St. Peter is much older, according to this list: before 803.

New comment by kaeluka in "How the JVM compares strings on x86 using pcmpestri"

kaeluka — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 11:15:53 +0000

The feature is called "intrinsics", this claims to be a list: https://gist.github.com/apangin/7a9b7062a4bd0cd41fcc

New comment by kaeluka in "A different view on Functional Programming"

kaeluka — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 23:36:48 +0000

What's the mathematical formula that describes a text box GUI item? Languages that look like math might be great for... mathematical problems. But programs are much more than math.

New comment by kaeluka in "Libdill: Structured Concurrency for C (2016)"

kaeluka — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:16:25 +0000

I was confused -- how can a library add a keyword like "coroutine" to C. It didn't look like macros were powerful enough to do that (I expected to at least some context having to be passed to the worker, or so).

It turns out that a coroutine is just a function that the compiler should not inline: https://github.com/sustrik/libmill/blob/master/libmill.h#L24...

New comment by kaeluka in "Uber is officially a cab firm, says European court"

kaeluka — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:07:40 +0000

I don't follow your examples. How is workout-equipment:gym like uber:taxi-firm?

> non-progressive

I'm not sure what you mean by progress, exactly, but policy simplicity is progress IMHO.

New comment by kaeluka in "Advent of Code 2017"

kaeluka — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:39:18 +0000

I'm trying racket.

New comment by kaeluka in "Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design"

kaeluka — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 18:18:54 +0000

> In an ideal world, what you want is more like copy-on-write. Share the code until one of the clients of that code needs a change that the others do not, then copy it.

Good point. The problem with that is, of course, that you may not be aware of others existing.

> There is no silver bullet...

New comment by kaeluka in "Low Hanging Fruit of Programming Language Design"

kaeluka — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:38:25 +0000

Code duplication can be seen as a "defensive copy". If you duplicate code, the original version can be changed without breaking the copies.

Disclaimer: I'm not making a value statement here :-)

New comment by kaeluka in "DOJ: Strong encryption that we don’t have access to is “unreasonable”"

kaeluka — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:48:33 +0000

> From a european perspective it's so strange.

Agreed. To me, it seems that encryption should be uncontroversially accepted from the populations's standpoint, while gun policies have valid arguments for and against.

Basically: it's really hard to shoot someone in the face with pgp.