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

kalinkochnev — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:22:43 +0000

You win HN today

Ask HN: How do you keep up with blogs from people you follow?

kalinkochnev — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:01:41 +0000

I have a personal site where I post project logs. I want to grow my readership, but I don't know how to distribute it effectively. I'd like to be independent of the larger blog sites (substack, medium, etc).

What are people's preferences for RSS vs email newsletters vs other methods for keeping up with people's blogs?

I’m also asking because I haven’t found a solution for myself to keep up with other people’s personal blogs.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109343

Points: 1

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New comment by kalinkochnev in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

kalinkochnev — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:50:39 +0000

Disclaimer: I've never used pytorch and I also know nothing about software security practices.

But I don't see a scenario where pytorch needs network access. It seems wrong that at any level within the codebase I can import any module and use its API.

I think there need to be additional import restrictions or static analysis.

This also seems like languages do not have the right abstractions to talk about this stuff. As a comparison, I like how in rust I can look at the function signature and see the mutability and lifetimes of everything without understanding any of the code underneath.

I feel there needs to be something similar here with dependencies. A dev should be able to audit all their dependencies easily and see "oh dep X uses eval()" or network access, etc without looking at any underlying code.

Mobile apps enforce permissions. Shouldn't a dev be able to whitelist certain functionality and not take everything including the kitchen sink.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

kalinkochnev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:11:04 +0000

Engineers feel like plumbers compared to the plumbers

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect"

kalinkochnev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:39:40 +0000

It's cool to see CT mentioned on HN. I haven't seen any mentions until today.

My family has installed solar on every house we've lived while there. There is a strong economic incentive. CT has some of the most expensive avg. electricity cost in the country (a few cents cheaper than California for comparison). And Eversource, the utility company, is universally hated. Most people want to switch from their terrible service and are looking for any reason to.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Project Patchouli: Open-source electromagnetic drawing tablet hardware"

kalinkochnev — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:32:47 +0000

I want to add that Moritz Klein's DIY synthesizer videos are top notch, especially for beginners in electronics. As somebody who is just working through AoE it feels like a great compliment and is very satisfying.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

kalinkochnev — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:54:53 +0000

As a new college grad I might be able to add some insight.

We're stuck in a stalemate where the sheer volume of applications for employers to handle and applicants to send makes them take shortcuts, leaving both sides wonder why people aren't trying.

If somebody has to send in 300-500 applications (which is not unheard of) and answer the same questions till they go blind, it's not surprising that certain things are missing or people don't care. Applicants don't have any reason to believe their info isn't thrown in the trash by an LLM as soon as it is sent.

Lazy people will always be a problem but until there is transparency or trust developed I doubt we will see meaningful change.

"I'm Building an Algorithm That Doesn't Rot Your Brain" Jack Conte

kalinkochnev — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:29:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO14wPQw89c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45999832

Points: 3

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New comment by kalinkochnev in "The game theory of how algorithms can drive up prices"

kalinkochnev — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:09:12 +0000

That sounds actually really cool. Do you have a link to any of your papers?

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI"

kalinkochnev — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:05:10 +0000

This is an underrated strategy

New comment by kalinkochnev in "I should have loved electrical engineering"

kalinkochnev — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:21:15 +0000

I agree that is excessive. But I would hate equally, if not more, learning with magic rules delivered by the professor in the sky. The info doesn't stick for me unless I understand the intuition behind the reasoning.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app"

kalinkochnev — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:30:45 +0000

I didn't know this existed for obsidian! This is perfect for me. Thanks for sharing

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Developing Developers (2015)"

kalinkochnev — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 01:25:48 +0000

UConn had a Racket programming course for maybe a decade up until last year. Enough people complained that it was too hard and a weed-out course and the administration dropped it. Yet another blunder by the CSE department.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "I Quit Teaching Because of ChatGPT"

kalinkochnev — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 16:09:25 +0000

I appreciate your faith in humanity. However you would be surprised to the lengths people would go to avoid thinking for themselves. Ex: a person I sit next to in class types every single group discussion question into chatgpt. When the teacher calls on him he word for word reads the answer. When the teacher follows up with another question, you hear "erh uhm I don't know" and fumbles an answer out. Especially in the context of learning, people who have self control and deliberate use of AI will benefit. But for those who use AI as a crutch to keep up with everyone else are ill prepared. The difference now is that shoddy work/understanding from AI is passable enough that somebody who doesn't put in the effort to understand can get a degree like everybody else.

New comment by kalinkochnev in "Own a weather station? We want your data"

kalinkochnev — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 12:33:07 +0000

Do you have a link?

Holographic Wormholes for Quantum Computing Students

kalinkochnev — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 02:31:21 +0000

Article URL: https://kalinkochnev.com/journey/quantumblackhole/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36822601

Points: 2

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