Hacker News: khazhoux

New comment by khazhoux in "How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)"

khazhoux — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:04:57 +0000

It’s actually an interesting fact that every person who was programming in the 80s owns a copy of GEB, which they flipped through a bit and then put on the bookshelf and never actually read.

New comment by khazhoux in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

khazhoux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:01:29 +0000

Typo, but this just shows the extreme inequity when one cube amasses so many states.

New comment by khazhoux in "Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states"

khazhoux — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:48:23 +0000

At some point though, how many states is too many?

We have massive housing affordability and employment shortage problems, meanwhile here’s a tech elite flouting 4x10^9 states which he doesn’t pay taxes on and most of them will not even get used. Is that really fair?

New comment by khazhoux in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

khazhoux — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:17:53 +0000

Look at Richie Rich over here with his 2 bits!

New comment by khazhoux in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

khazhoux — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:16:55 +0000

Even 1MB is too much. I expect a modern weather app to be <20K.

New comment by khazhoux in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

khazhoux — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:07:09 +0000

Classic “get over it” condescension. Some people are unable to control their strong physiological reaction to in-person judgement. Go tell professional orchestra players who rely on propranolol to control their stage fright to just grow up and start becoming a “proper functioning adult.”

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.70031

https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-night-at-the-symphony/ar...

New comment by khazhoux in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

khazhoux — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:15:17 +0000

It’s not human readability I care about. The problem with duplicate code is that the agent will fix one instance, but leave the others buggy. Hilarity ensues.

New comment by khazhoux in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

khazhoux — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:14:15 +0000

My experience exactly. I think we’re doing great, but about 3 weeks in I realized it’s an unworkable mess that keeps breaking, and I spend the next two weeks cleaning it up or rebuilding it

New comment by khazhoux in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

khazhoux — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:36:52 +0000

Very cool, but I'm skeptical. Over the last year, every Cursor/Claude/Codex project I've worked on devolves into shitty, grafted-on, duct-tape and bandaid'ed architecture, with "fixes" just working around broken code, and tons of duplication that lead to whack-a-mole. The system works at first, but then bugs start piling up and eventually take over. Everyone I talk to shares the same experience. Not to mention that if I, human overseer, don't course correct it many times a day, it goes off into Neverland.

Yet I see comments and articles like above every week, where someone says "Yeah, I just left my agent run for a few nights, and then it made this awesome tool."

There is a huge gap here, but I can't pinpoint it yet. Either I (and everyone I talk to) is Doing It Wrong, or your code is actually flawed at its core and bugs will take exponentially longer to fix and never converge, or... I just need to let my agent run for 3 months??

New comment by khazhoux in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

khazhoux — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:30:41 +0000

This was the first big secret “you’re not allowed to know what this is or talk to anyone about it” project inside Google. They wanted to be left alone and especially to not have to integrate with the mail team. And everyone heard rumors of gigantic bonuses if they hit whatever milestones, which wasn’t a thing for other projects. All this made them isolated within the company, and when the project was an obvious flop, you didn’t see anyone rushing over to help them.

New comment by khazhoux in "Anime User Interfaces"

khazhoux — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:11:48 +0000

Inaccurate. Every one has a UI.

New comment by khazhoux in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

khazhoux — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:06:50 +0000

Don’t judge a whole community by one freak.

New comment by khazhoux in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

khazhoux — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:12:37 +0000

Whenever you hear someone say they work 80- (or 100!) hour weeks, you should understand what they mean is they had a few crunch weeks once.

New comment by khazhoux in "Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]"

khazhoux — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:27:03 +0000

Speaking of tone, the phrase "I need you to X" is super condescending. You're not his superior, and he's not your child nor your subordinate. He is not beholden in any way to what you "need."

Much better would be to just use good ol' "please":

> I know it's a hard ask on this site, but please start parsing content and not tone

New comment by khazhoux in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

khazhoux — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:41:51 +0000

“And that’s the second State Farm Yellow Card for Haaland!”

New comment by khazhoux in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

khazhoux — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:24:39 +0000

Great point. Reminds me of Biden’s constant whisper-scream “the future of democracy is at stake!”

Like, yeah, it was an accurate statement, but total shit if your goal is to get people up off the couch and into voting booth. Way too abstract and high-minded

New comment by khazhoux in "Stolen Buttons"

khazhoux — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:04:38 +0000

Can anyone comment on the legality of this? By the number I see, this would no longer be classified as simple possession, but likely as intent to distribute.

New comment by khazhoux in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

khazhoux — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:40:21 +0000

I wish you hadn’t pulled the Balaji case into your argument. Personally, I find it ludicrous that Altman would hire a hitman to off a copyright whistleblower. Even if one gets past the insane risk of hiring a hitman, and the deep criminal connections required, it would be totally ineffective. He already blew the whistle, and his testimony would be irrelevant since all the evidence persists in disk and in logs.

New comment by khazhoux in "A taxonomy of omnicidal futures involving artificial intelligence (2025)"

khazhoux — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 08:06:43 +0000

I thought it was lexiphanic and sesquipedalian, but to each their own.

New comment by khazhoux in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

khazhoux — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:18:17 +0000

What a terrible view of parents! I don't know a single one who wouldn't give their life for their child, whatever their flaws.