Hacker News: kfarr

New comment by kfarr in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

kfarr — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:29:23 +0000

Agree, Costco succeeds at externalizing last mile costs by offloading it to suburbanites who view it as a sunk cost. Similar to uber/lyft drivers doing their own fleet management.

New comment by kfarr in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

kfarr — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:34:24 +0000

Tell me about it, I maintain an open source project in the civil engineering space and it's ... detailed.

New comment by kfarr in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

kfarr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:42:49 +0000

Thanks, that's a much better example of what I was trying to explain. Again, I'm projecting humanity onto a machine, but it's not a big stretch to imagine that the interaction of attention heads over high-dimensional vectors produces "decisions" that can't be articulated in the moment, only described after the fact in text form.

New comment by kfarr in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

kfarr — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:58:30 +0000

Although it's a no no to anthropomorphize on HN, it's worth noting that some folks think humans are post-hoc rationalizers as well:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r...

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316045349_Post_Hoc_...

New comment by kfarr in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

kfarr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:19:13 +0000

Just let go of the entire R&D team and then you have a 50% margin business.

UPDATE: Also bad news, you need to let go of all of sales and marketing and G&A. And THEN it's a 50% margin business.

New comment by kfarr in "Iroh 1.0"

kfarr — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:50:28 +0000

Classic... want to cast to the chromecast but I'm on the wifi

New comment by kfarr in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

kfarr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:24:58 +0000

Some of these are actually nice and appropriate to use in certain contexts. Also this issue is hilarious: https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/issues/2

New comment by kfarr in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

kfarr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:23:49 +0000

> ai virus from earlier today

curious what this means...

New comment by kfarr in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

kfarr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:27:04 +0000

Nor the streaming service Net Flux

New comment by kfarr in ""Stick" – A primitive/fun interactive demo of a tiny rig to animate layout"

kfarr — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:11:48 +0000

Context: this is a demo of a deterministic layout calculation library https://github.com/cosmiciron/layoutmaster#dancing-text (not affiliated, I was just confused so saving you a click)

New comment by kfarr in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

kfarr — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:27:48 +0000

I work on a platform 3dstreet.com that does “underdrawing” but in 3d space which image models also struggle with. Another company intangible.ai does this as well: low poly 3d then image to image model.

It seems to be a very effective pattern. Curious if there are other examples out there. Or other names for this?

New comment by kfarr in "What did you love about VB6?"

kfarr — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:19:50 +0000

VB6 was the original vibe coding! Drag a few GUI controls on a window panel, double click to write some basic code, boom

New comment by kfarr in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

kfarr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:57:25 +0000

passive

New comment by kfarr in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"

kfarr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:51:17 +0000

I still don't understand why the official github pages action is on an account called "peaceiris" ?? peaceiris/actions-gh-pages@v3

New comment by kfarr in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

kfarr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:38:07 +0000

I use the loud bicycle horn on my daily rider, it’s excellent. Car drivers actually respect it. Prevents right hooks

New comment by kfarr in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

kfarr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:36:52 +0000

Bells don’t work on cars, I’ve been using this in SF and motorists respond very quickly

https://loudbicycle.com/

New comment by kfarr in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

kfarr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:35:24 +0000

If diy doesn’t work I’ve been using loud bicycle horn and it works great.

https://loudbicycle.com/

New comment by kfarr in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

kfarr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:45:03 +0000

I don't know why but this is my favorite:

> It keeps bringing up Mark Fisher in unrelated conversations. "I was hoping you'd ask about Fisher."

Didn't even know who he was until today. Seems like the smarter Claude gets the more concerns he has about capitalism?

New comment by kfarr in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

kfarr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:39:01 +0000

Do they need all our attention?

New comment by kfarr in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

kfarr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:34:16 +0000

Wow ok mind blown