Hacker News: kaonwarb

New comment by kaonwarb in "Discovery Loop"

kaonwarb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:15:14 +0000

Not quite, but sendcutsend.com is good.

New comment by kaonwarb in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

kaonwarb — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:04:44 +0000

Raise wages, and hence costs, relative to non-union locations (a direct purpose of unions!); implement restrictive work rules; lead occasional strikes.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

kaonwarb — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:49:38 +0000

What makes you think separate nations would effectively cooperate in this way?

New comment by kaonwarb in "How to Exist"

kaonwarb — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:10:15 +0000

Not in winter, for geographies that have serious winters.

New comment by kaonwarb in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

kaonwarb — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:00:15 +0000

Heavy conclusion from a single OSS release

Ceuta, an autonomous city of Spain in North Africa

kaonwarb — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:39:16 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49118079

Points: 6

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New comment by kaonwarb in "The coolest use for the Vision Pro"

kaonwarb — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:52:43 +0000

This is very cool. Also, I had forgotten that the Vision Pro exists.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Claude Is Not a Compiler"

kaonwarb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:29:13 +0000

I believe you are projecting your personal misgivings onto the argument actually being made. May be better to write your own rebuttal instead?

New comment by kaonwarb in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

kaonwarb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:12:42 +0000

I fear you may overestimate the median benefit of government oversight.

Controlling the Human Body via EMS

kaonwarb — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:27:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/danielkaijzer/Human-Operator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855749

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kaonwarb in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

kaonwarb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:23:20 +0000

I resonate with every example given - setting jumpers by hand, sound card interrupts, autoexec.bat. I'm also a happy user of LLMs and agents. This article captured for me what is lost - which, as others point out, has long since been lost, if ever had, in other fields (e.g. modern cars vs. the Model T). I wouldn't go back, but I can still have a sense of loss.

Beautiful writing.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

kaonwarb — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:03:27 +0000

It's a hard word to translate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos has a good overview.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

kaonwarb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:49:22 +0000

$64B trailing twelve months free cash flow. (https://s206.q4cdn.com/479360582/files/doc_financials/2026/q...)

New comment by kaonwarb in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

kaonwarb — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:51:09 +0000

Strong disagree that there is no other side of the question from the employee's perspective. Personally, I don't want to be collectively represented in my work by any group other than myself.

New comment by kaonwarb in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

kaonwarb — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:34:07 +0000

In Nevada?

New comment by kaonwarb in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

kaonwarb — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:20:49 +0000

The text reads LLM-ish as well.

Hippopotamuses in Colombia

kaonwarb — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:12:29 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586629

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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.