Hacker News: kang

New comment by kang in "GitHub's fake star economy"

kang — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:31:35 +0000

at that time having a website took work, while having a github account can be cheaply used to sybil attack/signal marketing

New comment by kang in "Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs"

kang — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:46:21 +0000

ya, unless its very trivial, AI won't be able to "deduce the structure most of the time".

New comment by kang in "Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs"

kang — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:24:27 +0000

how does this work? for eg, how is it possible to even deduce bitcoin structure from rpc list?

New comment by kang in "AI cybersecurity is not proof of work"

kang — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:20:40 +0000

The proof-of-work in ai(llm) 'can be' from the training side (not the inference side this blog explores) if a hashcash like 'proof' of model having being trained was defined. It should be possible to do so, since the very least measure of model having gotten smarter with some additional data, is that it will recognize/infer the said additional data correctly.

New comment by kang in "AI cybersecurity is not proof of work"

kang — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:39:39 +0000

maybe a human knowledgeable in the domain (the training) is better than a smart liguist-programmer.

New comment by kang in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

kang — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:16:00 +0000

It was in pre-tiktok world(push to regular content update) & before the purge. A lot of content is now gone. Its a great resource but very loosely coupled with humanity/human knowledge (and arguably a pretty poor resource for it, both theoretically (linear information with contant velocity such as video) and practically (the content just isn't there on youtube, search is truncated etc.)).

> I didn't a single thing about that I find there pretty much daily.

Rarely(never?) have I found new knowledge on youtube, however its a great source of joy/emotions/slop.

New comment by kang in "Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem"

kang — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:57:58 +0000

Would it be possible to make GPT3 from GPT2 just by prompting? It doesn't work/scale

New comment by kang in "Multi-Agentic Software Development Is a Distributed Systems Problem"

kang — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:55:41 +0000

Doubt if you can make a dumb model smart by feeding it proofs

New comment by kang in "Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024)"

kang — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:27:56 +0000

Modern world, not just India, is way worse at talent discovery. It's impossible to even publish a physics paper and get a DOI. There were some new research ideas coming in chinese and hindi during early bitcoin days, all of which were lost to a vocal english population, and some the ideas are only resurfacing now again after 15 years of noise. I know of Shannon-Satoshi level bitcoiner theorist who died in poverty as a janitor in Canada. I know of many ideas that were never discussed, so am sure many such people exit in other fields. Only cause Ramanujan's equations are from a different time and so weird have they survived plagiarism otherwise IP is completely insecure now & intelligent non-smart people are in poor health.

New comment by kang in "They See Your Photos"

kang — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:01:23 +0000

Uploaded my face pics - the data has 13 fields, 12 were incorrect.(With it only guessing correctly the emotion on the face and some objects in the picture. it was surprising, no photo app has guessed my age with +-20yr diff.). Pretty useless demo imo

New comment by kang in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

kang — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:34:30 +0000

"No, I was and remain against establishing extensions. Markdown has thrived because it’s a small idea, not a spec, and thus embraces many variants to suit particularly needs and contexts." https://x.com/gruber/status/1495119598148009991

A thread on markdown creator's stance https://x.com/nalband/status/1625541479295860752

New comment by kang in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

kang — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:50:12 +0000

The title is not relevant to the article, not even for a single line. The author straightup assumes, does not answer the 'why', cause I was here to give Lady Lovelace argument to Turing, that you would NEVER (hire an ai instead of a student) unless you making directionless slop. You can share goals, but not the vision, and mission is different. Ai learns from experience, humans are needed to build that experience due to their extremely large 'context windows' going as deep as the constant evolution of the DNA(as long as it serves human-centric goals, which circles back to the mission part).

The article really is about "education seems directionless without economic goals", and again as comments have pointed out, it only seems so.

New comment by kang in "You Could've Invented OpenClaw"

kang — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:06:23 +0000

This invention is akin to 'putting radio on the internet' plot from the comedy series Silicon Valley

New comment by kang in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

kang — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:02:46 +0000

This article is based on a tweet with a link, no proofs.

New comment by kang in "The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]"

kang — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:52:07 +0000

except she didn't find anything about 'bro', just that the bot is using crypto?

New comment by kang in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

kang — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:15:46 +0000

Turing Test is not really science (an infallible test, measurable outcome). An AI might never be able to pass TT for all humans. Just gets to be a high-def AI. Makes TT a technology.

New comment by kang in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

kang — Wed, 14 May 2025 06:37:23 +0000

Instead of direct trivia from the content, it would be helpful to have an exercise (with evaluation) that applies the content learnt - a small artifact production with real-world practical use.

Imagine you would need, another ai pipeline that poses as the consumer and applier of the knowledge, instead of a direct processor ai of content information as it currently seems.

New comment by kang in "Care Doesn't Scale"

kang — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:39:11 +0000

Except the argument is university lecture (classroom structure) doesn't work. A personal tutor might be able to teach a concept to all their students, whereas not everyone in a classroom passes. Your argument about sufficiency can be made about books and is not relevant here.

New comment by kang in "Care Doesn't Scale"

kang — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:48:22 +0000

for eg, asic custom designed for an application is better than a generalised industrial chip

New comment by kang in "Care Doesn't Scale"

kang — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:44:40 +0000

> Scale isn’t bad, at least not necessarily. Industrial is perfectly capable of being better than custom. Sometimes the YouTube video is more helpful than the private tutor.

This is not true; consider the argument that there is always a loss of quality in scaling. Industrial maybe better than average custom, but is always worse than best customs. Broadcast lecture is almost always worse than a tutor whose discourse is customised to student's current knowledge. (The word guru (literally, one who leads towards light) is wrongly translated to teacher, for which the word in sanskrit is shikshak.)