Hacker News: kaonwarb

New comment by kaonwarb in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

kaonwarb — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:34:32 +0000

In response to sibling: > It's still open source because you can fork it if you really want

Yes, that's exactly what it means!

New comment by kaonwarb in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

kaonwarb — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:01:13 +0000

Not disagreeing, but it's also worth something to know, and say, that you are in charge of Stonehenge.

New comment by kaonwarb in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

kaonwarb — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:19:15 +0000

This reads like hyperbole:

> The brine byproduct wreaks havoc on sea life when it’s deposited back into the ocean by raising the salt level and lowering oxygen in the water.

Managing return of concentrated brine should be entirely tractable in the literal ocean.

New comment by kaonwarb in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

kaonwarb — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:33:17 +0000

Reads to me like a fascinating and relevant distinction.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

kaonwarb — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:33:01 +0000

I assume this post was fully human-written, but ironically, there's something quite LLM-ishly overconfident about this assertion: > They're also confidently wrong about every decision that matters.

Every decision that matters? Some, yes. Is the author only noticing the decisions that go wrong?

New comment by kaonwarb in "The Mercury logic programming system"

kaonwarb — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:30:24 +0000

Not that it necessarily applies here, but as a heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

New comment by kaonwarb in "Fisker went bankrupt and owners built an open source car company from the ashes"

kaonwarb — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:56:05 +0000

This reads very AI. Pangram [0] agrees [1].

[0] Not perfect, but I think as good evidence as any: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.15654 [1] https://www.pangram.com/history/44cd07d3-ba94-4331-8c7f-a626...

Tristan Da Cunha

kaonwarb — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:59:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_da_Cunha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124514

Points: 2

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New comment by kaonwarb in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

kaonwarb — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:27:30 +0000

I've heard this often enough from English speakers from India that I think it is accepted grammar in that region.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

kaonwarb — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:02:55 +0000

That will apply to only a smaller percentage, even in early days. It's very typical for one human operator to remotely oversee many robots.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Bridging West Papua Through Dispossession"

kaonwarb — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:55:30 +0000

I wish academic writing were not so needlessly dense. E.g.:

> The bridge is a multiscalar and multilayered notion...

New comment by kaonwarb in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

kaonwarb — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:18:32 +0000

Pairs well with also-on-the-front-page https://app.oravys.com/blog/mercor-breach-2026

New comment by kaonwarb in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"

kaonwarb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:28:24 +0000

There are definite problems with the American system, but what is considered unaffordable healthcare there is lavish compared to much of the world.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Science confirms torpedo bat works as well as regular bat"

kaonwarb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:44:19 +0000

Disappointing article. As another commenter mentioned, the very last sentence of the article reveals a potentially positive impact on batting average, which is extremely relevant to how well a bat works! But this seems to be ignored by the conclusion of both the researchers and the article, which focuses on hitting power.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Show HN: mailtrim – find what's actually filling your Gmail inbox"

kaonwarb — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:30:10 +0000

OP is aiming to help a quite common problem. Curious: how many others have you met with as spare of an email inbox as yours?

New comment by kaonwarb in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

kaonwarb — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:50:51 +0000

Ditto. Worked perfectly and nice UI. Great work!

New comment by kaonwarb in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

kaonwarb — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:52:11 +0000

Our school district uses this same math software. If one wished to design an experience to instill a hatred of mathematics into children, it would be a pretty solid approach.

We've informed teachers, nicely but firmly, that we will not be doing any of it at home. Some of them have pushed back, but barring any real consequence, I am not going to subject anyone to this counterproductive torment.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

kaonwarb — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:02:07 +0000

One of the challenges with trying to achieve IRL human-level latency is that we rely on nonverbal cues for face-to-face turn-taking. See e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002772...

New comment by kaonwarb in "Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship"

kaonwarb — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:35:00 +0000

Cognition certainly declines with age at the population level. See e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4906299/.

Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella

kaonwarb — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:49:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/welcome-to-the-room/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874372

Points: 48

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