Hacker News: kian

New comment by kian in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

kian — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:14:07 +0000

is there a (4) or (5) that would be preferable? :)

New comment by kian in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

kian — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:51:09 +0000

Who said anything about a corporate context? :)

New comment by kian in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

kian — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:25:53 +0000

Using context always means there's less for something else, whether you're a human or a machine. Abstractions that localize reasoning and help load the context into a human brain are ideal for machines and humans alike.

New comment by kian in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

kian — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:22:11 +0000

I think this is one of the beauties of AI -- filling in the gaps to help people make their microtalents shine.

New comment by kian in "People who grew up with high economic connectedness earn more"

kian — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:18:26 +0000

what kind of civic volunteering did you find most rewarding?

New comment by kian in "The tragedy of the commons, AI edition"

kian — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:34:06 +0000

Tragedies of the commons are often aimed to be 'resolved' through central authority, but another way of stating what's happening there is that they are being resolved by someone being granted the ownership right over the commons (in the cases you're mentioning, government). Therefor, it hasn't exactly meaning-shifted, but 'contextual' implications of the term for the reader are definitely bimodal with respect to privatization.

New comment by kian in "Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills""

kian — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:03:02 +0000

how much do you make selling skills on marketplace, just curious? It seems like it'd be impossible to vet a skill without reading it, so the entire concept mystifies me just a little bit.

New comment by kian in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

kian — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:42:22 +0000

link, please? :)

New comment by kian in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

kian — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:34:17 +0000

So this makes sense for a standard SaaS app - but given that models in general perform much better with low context window usage, it probably also means that Fable is still significantly better at 'frontier-level tasks' -- hard research problems, complex geometric rendering algorithm optimization, etc., no?

New comment by kian in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

kian — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:51:45 +0000

It doesn't seem like there's been a precipitous drop in resources compared to the decades of requests and warnings that have led up to this point. So what's different now, if not resourcing?

New comment by kian in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

kian — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:48:03 +0000

"In my experience, AI still drifts from what I meant it to do on anything bigger than building a widget."

I've had code bases with tens of thousands of lines of code built from scratch that I hand-reviewed every line of and worked with the AI to improve, and haven't had this issue. I feel like a significant part of this is due to an involved /plan stage -- going back and forth on building out a plan for what you want the AI to do involves surfacing the assumptions that you would have called drift if you asked them to implement it directly from your prompt.

Once the plan has been refined and is what I want it to be, getting it to implement everything in TDD style has for the most part given me 100% working code, as I wanted it to be, without issues. It definitely helps that I'm a principal-level engineer with extensive architectural experience -- but if you're able to tell the AI in detail what you want, have it ask questions for clarifications, and read through a plan before getting it implemented, and have a solid testing plus manual qa process (automated by chrome devtools mcp) in place, I've find that you can one-shot complex features, rewrites, and even not-insignificant applications that would have taken days to write by hand in a few hours.

New comment by kian in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

kian — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:08:11 +0000

But what was the overlap?

New comment by kian in "Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales"

kian — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 23:24:51 +0000

If you take the chromatic scale and then swap every other pair of notes on opposite sides of the circle, it yields the circle of fifths. You'll notice that on the circle of fifths notes that skip a step are a whole tone apart in the chromatic scale.

Although there have been some claims in these comments to the contrary, harmony is particularly mathematical. Symmetry and the breaking of within the integers mod 12 form the foundational principles of harmony.

New comment by kian in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

kian — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:38:00 +0000

Abstract Algebra, Combinatorics, and Discrete Mathematics are all definitely worth the squeeze; and incidentally something that could easily be taught to middle- and high-schoolers with the right examples.

New comment by kian in "Surveillance and the history of 19th-century wearable tech"

kian — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:38:52 +0000

and now we program the fabric of society ;)

New comment by kian in "OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI"

kian — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 01:31:03 +0000

This is why I exclusively use the API to 'chat' with GPT -- complete control over the context presented.

New comment by kian in "Artificial Intelligence Cheapens the Artistic Imagination (2023)"

kian — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 01:24:41 +0000

Many artists in fact do exactly this -- they do not make the art themselves, but instead imagine and manage the 'art project' and delegate tasks to other artists that work for them. Leonardo (Da Vinci) in fact himself did this with much of the work required for his paintings, although the most crucial parts he left for himself.

New comment by kian in "FDA warns top U.S. bakery not to claim foods contain allergens when they don't"

kian — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:53:19 +0000

They are slant rhymes of one another. B and M are phonetically nearby, as are ia and ih and ao and ou. In no way like hacker news and cake her knees -- but more like hacker news and hagger moos ;)

New comment by kian in "I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)"

kian — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:17:53 +0000

I have also found that programming is the gateway drug to Math B. Thanks to Functional Programming and Type Theory I eventually found may way into Abstract Algebra, Topology, and Category Theory... Wish I had time to go back and study these with a mentor, though!

New comment by kian in "I rewired my brain to become fluent in math (2014)"

kian — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:13:03 +0000

>>> The Pythagorean theorem becomes intuitively true not when you have some deep insight about Euclidean space, but when, on seeing a right triangle, three proofs of it spring instantly to mind.

To be honest, this sounds like orienting one's self in the 'space of mathematics'. Is it not possible that, just like one can navigate by landmarks (proofs) or by the space itself (deep understanding), that there are in fact two roads to intuition in mathematics, of which ones is practice and fluency, and the other is deep insight and understanding?