Hacker News: kajic

New comment by kajic in "One Handed Keyboard"

kajic — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 18:19:59 +0000

New comment by kajic in "Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers"

kajic — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:25:07 +0000

Green cards

New comment by kajic in "AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules"

kajic — Thu, 09 May 2024 05:47:36 +0000

It’s much easier to reverse engineer a solution that you don’t understand (and discover important underlying theories on that journey), than it is to arrive at that same solution and the underlying theories without knowing in advance where you are going.

For this reason, discoveries made by AI will be immensely useful for accelerating scientific progress, even if those discoveries are opaque at first.

New comment by kajic in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kajic — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 14:40:05 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by kajic in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

kajic — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 07:07:30 +0000

I have a green card and will be applying for naturalization towards the end of the year. Would you recommend hiring a lawyer to help me with my application, or just do it myself? I’m planning to do it myself but would reconsider if that typically helps (significantly) speed up the process and/or avoid any common issues that people encounter when doing it without legal assistance.

New comment by kajic in "The hunt for the missing data type"

kajic — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 06:44:38 +0000

One of the complications described by the author is performance. Personally, I find stdlib graph libraries extremely useful even if their performance is poor because it’s often the case that my dataset is small enough, and even if performance turns out to be an issue, first spending time on the problem with a underperforming graph library is a very worthwhile exercise before trying to write my own optimized implementation. By analogy, many programming languages are far from being the fastest, but they can nevertheless be very useful.

That said, I’m not surprised performance came up in interviews with experts; they probably have tons of interesting performance-related stories to tell from their extensive work on graphs.

New comment by kajic in "Inner Speech"

kajic — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:27:58 +0000

It’s happened to me a few times lately that I’ve heard music playing that was as vivid as a recording. As soon as I became aware of the fact that it was playing in my head and not in reality it stopped. I can’t make it start at will. I’d love to hear of other people’s experiences with this.

New comment by kajic in "Real vs. fake AirPods with industrial CT"

kajic — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 18:18:03 +0000

I just learned from this article that AirPods can be charged by the Apple Watch charger. Wow, I had no idea.

New comment by kajic in "Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT"

kajic — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 23:01:43 +0000

Yeah, I’m sure many spammers “fixed” this a long time ago. The logical next step would be to bounce all emails which go to the plain version of an email address, but I guess also anything after + which one hasn’t “whitelisted”.

New comment by kajic in "Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT"

kajic — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 18:27:42 +0000

Some people set filterkeyword to name-of-business, to know who sold them out if they start receiving spam on that address.

New comment by kajic in "Paste without formatting on macOS"

kajic — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 16:57:04 +0000

And yet lists of things often allow dragging of individual items to rearrange them. I wonder if thinking of paragraphs of text, and perhaps even sentences, in a similar way might make the dragging of text feature more appealing (I also dislike it).

Imperialist Appropriation in the World Economy

kajic — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:53:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937802200005X

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37245142

Points: 4

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New comment by kajic in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

kajic — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 18:22:45 +0000

https://kajic.com/

Mostly poems and paintings.

New comment by kajic in "Ageing studies in five animals suggests how to reverse decline"

kajic — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:14:39 +0000

Sure, but why would more knowledge lead to more danger, rather than less?

I come to think about the adage that scientific answers often bring with them more questions. Those ever expanding questions I sometimes imagine as an exponentially growing circumference of unknowns, surrounding a circle of what’s currently known.

Perhaps those unknowns could be thought of as corresponding to the gray and black balls, so that what’s dangerous is essentially that which we don’t fully understand and therefore cannot fully control.

Finally, I’m thinking that the area covered by all previously gathered knowledge (area because knowledge synergies with itself) will increasingly likely outweigh the danger that we uncover as the circumference of unknowns grows and dangers are discovered along the perimeter.

New comment by kajic in "Ageing studies in five animals suggests how to reverse decline"

kajic — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 20:46:49 +0000

What if each drawn white ball makes the gray balls yet to be drawn a little more white and the black balls a little more gray?

New comment by kajic in "The emotional toll of caring for research animals"

kajic — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 21:17:53 +0000

It depends on who you ask. What would a dog answer if it could contemplate the question and say its piece?

New comment by kajic in "FCC Considering Banning Transfer of Online Consent Forms"

kajic — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 02:26:37 +0000

This is great! I’m looking forward to similar regulation for email spam.

New comment by kajic in "Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online"

kajic — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 07:42:42 +0000

I wanted to read all last words without clicking back and forth, so I extracted all of them and created this gist: https://gist.github.com/kajic/9304f31fe970a8f9662ff567eb3274...

New comment by kajic in "Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)"

kajic — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:44:49 +0000

Question: When will China become more powerful than the US?

Answer: 2030

Show HN: copilot_test.js

kajic — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:10:36 +0000

I just tried GitHub Copilot for the first time. This is the file that we created together. I would love to see your interactions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33558060

Points: 2

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