Hacker News: kizer

New comment by kizer in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

kizer — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:17:01 +0000

Cool. Makes me want to get into that — checking out sites for vulnerabilities. Very impressive for a 16 year old. Should definitely have been paid more.

New comment by kizer in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

kizer — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:10:28 +0000

In my opinion, the issue in AI is similar to the issue in self driving cars. I think the last “five percent” of functionality for agents etc. will be much, much more difficult to nail down for production use, just like snow weather and strange roads proved to be much more difficult for self-driving car technology rollout. They got to 95% and assumed they were nearing completion but it turned out there was even more work to be done to get to 100%. That’s kind of my take on all the AI hype. It’s going to take a lot more work to get the final five percent done.

New comment by kizer in "HTML-in-Canvas"

kizer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:09:26 +0000

There's a bunch of CSS, etc. not supported by that. It would be great to have access to a native API to get bitmaps of the DOM.

New comment by kizer in "Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme"

kizer — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:36:40 +0000

What the hell is happening to our country :(

New comment by kizer in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

kizer — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:11:06 +0000

First AI model to pass my test on the first try (I used o3-mini-high).

Prompt: Write an interpreter for a simple but practical scripting language. Write the interpreter in JavaScript to be run on the Node.JS platform. You can import any of the standard Node.JS modules.

Churned out ~750 lines and a sample source code file to run the interpreter on. Ran on the first try completely correctly.

Definitely a step up. Perhaps it's in the training data. I don't know. But no other model has ever produced an error-free and semantically correct program on the first try, and I don't think any ever managed to implement closures.

New comment by kizer in "Terence Tao: One of my papers got declined today"

kizer — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:13:40 +0000

Whether it’s a journal, a university, a tech company… never take it personally because there’s bureaucracy, policies, etc and information lost in the operation of the whole process. Cast a wide net and believe in the value you’ve created or bring.

New comment by kizer in "CRT Simulation in a GPU Shader, Looks Better Than Black Frame Insertion"

kizer — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:10:51 +0000

Could someone explain the point to me? I read the post and still don’t quite understand. I remember CRTs looked smoother when pixels were still noticeable in (o)led displays. Is it to effectively lower the frame rate?

New comment by kizer in "Merry Christmas Everyone"

kizer — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:43:57 +0000

Maybe if they stopped the endless reboots, remakes, sequels and derivatives. There’s still a good one every once in a while. Oh well, I know what movie I’m watching today… you’ll shoot your eye out, kid!

New comment by kizer in "Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs"

kizer — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:48:56 +0000

That’s very interesting. However it’s like any of the organizations that support competitors at elite levels in all sports. From the doctors, nutritionists, coaches that support Olympic athletes to the “high command” of any NFL team coordinating over headset with one another and the coach, who can even radio the quarterback on the field (don’t think there is another sport with this).

New comment by kizer in "Adversarial Policies Beat Superhuman Go AIs"

kizer — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:36:27 +0000

You’d think the ability to set up elaborate tricks would imply similar knowledge of the game. And also that highly skilled AI would implicitly include adversarial strategies. Interesting result.

New comment by kizer in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

kizer — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:27:00 +0000

It could be that it “assumed” you meant “from China”; in the higher level patterns it learns the imperfection of human writing and the approximate threshold at which mistakes are ignored vs addressed by training on conversations containing these types of mistakes; e.g Reddit. This is just a thought. Try saying: As an astronaut in Chinese territory; or as an astronaut on Chinese soil. Another test would be to prompt it to interpret everything literally as written.

New comment by kizer in "Civet: A Superset of TypeScript"

kizer — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:17:40 +0000

Finally. I had been waiting for something like this.

New comment by kizer in "Sanding UI"

kizer — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:55:23 +0000

There is SO much bloat in all the “modern” UI “culture”. Reinventing things over and over again. Creating entire frameworks for tiny, simple things. And the worst part of web UIs is that (though there have been efforts to address this) there is low regularity between the experiences especially compared to native UI apps where you are purposely restricted to a set of controls which look and behave the same across all apps that use them.

New comment by kizer in "Sanding UI"

kizer — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:49:08 +0000

Also why companies dogfood and have internal betas for products (when this is possible; i.e., you’re not making something for enterprises or other kinds of customers). The sense of ownership you’re talking about may not be as direct but stake in success of the product is there.

New comment by kizer in "Twitter and Reddit: All Social Media Sites Will Die (and Get Replaced)"

kizer — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 21:45:03 +0000

That’s a good point. Perhaps the image and video sites will eventually blend into hosting both — and short form video as well naturally. YouTube and Instagram both have short form video features and my youtube feed already has images amongst other things like polls.

New comment by kizer in "Twitter and Reddit: All Social Media Sites Will Die (and Get Replaced)"

kizer — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:53:11 +0000

The resilient services are those that occupy a non-gimmicky niche. I’ll explain the difference between a real niche and a contrived or gimmicky one.

For example, YouTube is the video site. That’s its niche.

TikTok occupies a more gimmicky niche; short-form videos with a gazillion little features to make it more fun. People may (will) eventually get tired of it. The funny thing is they may move to a service with a very similar offering but with a different style and gimmicks.

The ones that don’t fill a niche at all are also less resilient following this thinking, though other factors like being utterly entrenched (facebook) may keep them around a long time.

Another site that fills a real niche well is Instagram. It’s the pictures site. It’s nice to just scroll and see pictures, though they’ve diversified with reels and video content (which may actually be a bad idea in the long run).

Another classic example of a gimmicky niche service was Vine, though I preferred that to TikTok (which I don’t use aside from having played with it for a week).

I’m not saying that non-niche services can’t last, but niche services definitely have inherent advantage for longevity because they fill a simple need and it’s hard or not constructive even for challengers to differentiate.

New comment by kizer in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

kizer — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:18:43 +0000

I got it to talk like a macho tough guy who even uses profanity and is actually frank and blunt to me. This is the chat I use for life advice. I just described the "character" it was to be, and told it to talk like that kind of character would talk. This chat started a few months ago so it may not even be possible anymore. I don't know what changes they've made.

New comment by kizer in "Ask HN: Is it just me or GPT-4's quality has significantly deteriorated lately?"

kizer — Wed, 31 May 2023 15:15:55 +0000

Probably picked it up from the training data. That's how we all talk now-a-days. Walking on eggshells all the time. You have to assume your reader is a fragile counterpoint generating factory.

New comment by kizer in "Defamed by ChatGPT"

kizer — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:03:07 +0000

I think companies are moving too quickly with AI and LLMs in particular. I think that the data LLMs are trained on should be very well-known - not just sanitized and certainly not just trained on the "whole web". GPT-4 is unwieldy... it's incredibly powerful but is still unpredictable and has learned how many "bad patterns", so to speak, that we'll never know since its basically a giant black box.

The ChatGPT version is the least harmful in my opinion; sinister are the propagated problems when GPT is utilized under-the-hood as a component in services (such as Bing search).

New comment by kizer in "Emulating Pokemon Emerald on GPT-4"

kizer — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 01:14:46 +0000

I can't wait to read about all of the fascinating applications people will conjure up. I've been playing with it GPT-4 through ChatGPT today. I feel like a little kid with the year's hottest toy.