Hacker News: kf

New comment by kf in "Ask HN: Am I getting old, or is working with AI juniors becoming a nightmare?"

kf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:09:13 +0000

Yes, absolutely, if you don't use AI in coding you will be a legacy developer sooner rather than later.

Everyone seriously doing it has a bunch of agents in a corporate like structure doing code reviews, the bad AI code is when someone is just using a single instance of Claude or Chat, but when you have 50 agents competing to write the best code from a single prompt, it hits differently.

Zuck#: A programming language for connecting the world. And harvesting it

kf — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:17:52 +0000

Article URL: https://jayzalowitz.github.io/zucksharp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46636738

Points: 68

# Comments: 39

New comment by kf in "Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act"

kf — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:43:02 +0000

Example: https://imgur.com/a/9cIDQtk

Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act

kf — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:41:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MinBZK/woo-besluit-broncode-digid-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34425614

Points: 226

# Comments: 157

New comment by kf in "Gifaanisqatsi: A Random Koyaanisqatsi Generator"

kf — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 10:09:13 +0000

Nice. For Philip Glass fans, his third opera Akhenaten gets my strongest possible recommendations, it's visually spectacular at the level of Einstein on the Beach but musically accessible and vaguely pleasant while certainly not being bland. The Metropolitan Opera (NYC) is streaming it on a free trial along with much of the rest of their best recent work. I've learned a lot of people have a conception of opera as a woman singing in a particular style and don't actually realize how visually spectacular the best modern opera has become.

https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=8100042...

New comment by kf in "Google fires engineer who called its AI sentient"

kf — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:47:14 +0000

People are consistently attacking a straw man of Lemoine's argument. Lemoine claims that LaMDA is more than an LLM, that it is an LLM with both short and long term memory and the ability to query the Google version of the internet in real time and learn from it.

Various Google employees deny this. We are seeing a dispute between Google and Lemoine about the supposed architecture of LaMDA. If Lemoine is correct about the architecture, it becomes much more plausible that something interesting is happening with Google's AI.

New comment by kf in "I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)"

kf — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 10:08:38 +0000

Berkeley Bowl

New comment by kf in "Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency"

kf — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:40:49 +0000

You’re being really cynical in a way that doesn’t reflect the reality of the situation. This doesn’t entail scam marketing, ICO offers, and airdrops just because that’s something that happens in a lot of the rest of cryptocurrency space.

New comment by kf in "‘Seven Sisters’ Myths May Reach Back 100k Years"

kf — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:44:13 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_University In America, university holds no special branding, and American companies aren't great about respecting EU branding law. See California Champagne and Kraft Parmesan cheese. I don't think anyone attending Singularity University thinks it is a real university; their paying audience generally already has a university degree.

Singularity University is basically an overpriced executive MBA program, mostly paid for by non Americans excited to visit Silicon Valley. For people with infinite money looking for a taste of Silicon Valley and wanting to invest in cutting edge stuff here, their actual educational materials are totally acceptable.

I used to work with their current law and blockchain lecturer.

Cryptocurrency Advised by Signal Founder Goes Live, Begins Trading on FTX

kf — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 22:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.coindesk.com/mobilecoin-mainnet-launch-ftx-trading

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25338254

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

MobileCoin Main Net

kf — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:29:15 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin-main-net-8e355d82c726

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25333036

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

MobileCoin has launched and is trading on FTX exchange

kf — Mon, 07 Dec 2020 15:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ftx.com/trade/MOB/USD

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25332833

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kf in "Moxie Marlinspike on Joe Rogan"

kf — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 04:35:18 +0000

Submitted once on Spotify but I think it’s free to view/listen this way.

Summary is there’s only a little bit of stuff about Signal and it’s basically hero worship about how cool Moxie is, none of the hard questions. But Moxie is pretty cool.

Moxie Marlinspike on Joe Rogan

kf — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 04:34:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/embed/PH5fqUpRN3Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25285417

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

Joe Rogan Interviews Moxie Marlinspike

kf — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 03:23:30 +0000

Article URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uVHiMqqJxy8iR2YB63aeP

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25272904

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by kf in "Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads"

kf — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 05:41:41 +0000

It took a really long time but eventually Facebook ads started giving me things I actually wanted to buy and have bought.

New comment by kf in "Ask HN: Does anyone have BSL-3 biotech incubator space for rent?"

kf — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:18:30 +0000

I’m trying to get the operation I suggested from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048775 going in full compliance with FDA, since no one else seems to be interested in doing it and it’s an astounding opportunity.

Ask HN: Does anyone have BSL-3 biotech incubator space for rent?

kf — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:16:00 +0000

I’m trying to get a LAMP testing operation going and I’m wondering what my options are. I anticipate just needing the space for 3-6 months and don’t want to get locked into a lease.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24119947

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kf in "Open Source PCR Thermocycler"

kf — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:47:27 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048775 for many diagnostic tests LAMP is superior to PCR on all metrics

The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down

kf — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 11:21:55 +0000

Article URL: http://nytimes.com/2020/07/29/magazine/vesper-flights.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048813

Points: 2

# Comments: 2