Hacker News: kibae

New comment by kibae in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

kibae — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:11:19 +0000

There seems to be an uptick around 1am on Polymarket.

https://polymarket.com/event/us-strikes-iran-by

New comment by kibae in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"

kibae — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:39:58 +0000

There are mirrors on its' wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis

New comment by kibae in "Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend"

kibae — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:38:15 +0000

When I was in high school, the physics teachers set up a telescope aimed at Venus as it crossed the Sun's radius. It wasn’t visible to the naked eye, but through the telescope, you could see Venus as a tiny black dot drifting across the field of view. It was fascinating to watch a planet move in a perfectly straight line along its orbit.

New comment by kibae in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

kibae — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:39:59 +0000

I switched to Brave last week after the whole Firefox fiasco. I installed uBlock Origin after there were some ads that got through.

e.g. on DuckDuckGo.

New comment by kibae in "Ilya Sutskever NeurIPS talk [video]"

kibae — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:35:18 +0000

I always suspected that bots on Reddit were used to gain karma and then eventually sell the account, but maybe they're also being used for some kind of RLHF.

New comment by kibae in "Crows are even smarter than we thought"

kibae — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:57:18 +0000

Pigeons were used in WW1 and WW2 for communication. Paddy the pigeon [0] flew 230 miles across the English channel to relay the success of the D-Day invasion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_(pigeon)

New comment by kibae in "Ask HN: How did you learn Regex?"

kibae — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 21:47:09 +0000

These days, I ask Claude/ChatGPT to create the regex and usually I know enough to be able to verify it. To double check, I'll start a new conversation and ask it what the regex does and verify it that way.

You can also ask it to create unit tests with edge cases. It might not catch every edge case, but usually it will create edge cases that you might not think of when writing unit tests yourself.

New comment by kibae in "Ask HN: Is there any software you only made for your own use but nobody else?"

kibae — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 18:26:08 +0000

A note-taking app that is similar to Obsidian where I can link notes to each other.

Some differences include no naming rules (a lot of my note titles have a colon) except uniqueness, custom clusters so my knowledge graph is manageable.

I’m going to add different note types (i.e. not every note is .md, but have .csv and .ical as well) that can be expanded and linked within a note.

It’s written in React, hosted on AWS (so not an Electron app… yet), and CodeMirror for the editor.

I’ve spent probably 100 hours making it so far.

New comment by kibae in "Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing"

kibae — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:34:15 +0000

There's a clip of it on a MKBHD video on a different Disney product [here](https://youtu.be/1KEtxTQUzxY?t=282).

New comment by kibae in "Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?"

kibae — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:34:27 +0000

Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg might be a better book for you. The key to building habits is to start with a habit that is ridiculously small and once you feel like you've got that locked in, you can add another ridiculously small habit on top of it.

e.g. To build a flossing habit, floss just one tooth a day. Once you've got into the habit of pulling out floss and flossing just one tooth, you can move onto flossing two teeth and so on.

If at any point you feel resistance to doing the bigger habit you're trying to build up, you can always revert back to doing the initial tiny habit of flossing just one tooth.

New comment by kibae in "Ask HN: What nonfiction books do you keep rereading?"

kibae — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:50:57 +0000

Atomic Habits.

It's a simple book that can be summarized in an essay, but listening to it repeatedly while driving helps me keep my life on track.