Hacker News: kreeben

New comment by kreeben in "List of individual trees"

kreeben — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:23:54 +0000

Why is Pippi Longstocking's "soda pop tree" not on the list? It's dying and the whole of Sweden are freaking out. We're putting tax payer money on solving its disease. We're developing a vaccine to try and save it for gods sake. Yes, this is a very LOL type of situation to the rest of the world, I know that. But it's not a laughing matter in Sweden: https://www.slu.se/nyheter/2025/11/pippis-sockerdrickstrad-r...

New comment by kreeben in "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform"

kreeben — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:39:03 +0000

You just issued a complaint and that's a fact. In the context of "complaints are bad, m'kay" how do you feel about this?

Show HN: Vector space as a file (three files, really)

kreeben — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kreeben/resin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46288570

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreeben in "Language model search built on vector database and anything key/value store"

kreeben — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:48:43 +0000

Vector space search engine, vector database and an anything key/value store. Powers efficient string processing, vector operations, and custom storage primitives designed for speed and simplicity. Can produce large language models out of strings and large anything models out of byte arrays.

Language model search built on vector database and anything key/value store

kreeben — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kreeben/resin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46283258

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Alphonso the robot waiter delighting cafe visitors

kreeben — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:23:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20d4m6v7l4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43372726

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kreeben in "Building websites with lots of little HTML pages"

kreeben — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 22:31:03 +0000

Netscape's too big to fail, yo.

New comment by kreeben in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

kreeben — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:21:05 +0000

We're at peak ape technology but at this point in time for some reason we turn to a specific ape, not a smart one but an ape who feels he should rule the world, and is on the doorstep to world domination, one that feels entitled to this amount of power, and we ask him to do "the right thing"?

America, don't be the next force the rest of the world needs to fight. Wake the fuck up.

New comment by kreeben in "The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest princess"

kreeben — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:05:00 +0000

In Sweden it goes

1. eat rotten herring (which you'll not enjoy, because it's rotten fish, yo)

2. clean your palette with a disgusting shot of home made malört spirits (or aquavit, equally disgusting)

3. goto 1 until your drunk

4. get laid

Very, very, very few people ever reaches step 4.

New comment by kreeben in "Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage"

kreeben — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:47:59 +0000

From your linked piece:

"CrowdStrike has helped us develop a scalable solution that will help Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure accelerate a fix"

What if I told you that such Mag7 speak is not to be trusted, at all, even?

New comment by kreeben in "Detecting hallucinations in large language models using semantic entropy"

kreeben — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 22:38:45 +0000

Your linked paper suffers from the same anthropomorphisation as does all papers who uses the word "hallucination".

New comment by kreeben in "This Message Does Not Exist"

kreeben — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 20:31:30 +0000

Me:

Browser:

Server: WTAF are you trying to do, here, man?

Message: Hi everybody!

New comment by kreeben in "Show HN: I built a backend so simple that it fits in a YAML file"

kreeben — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 13:44:48 +0000

Out of spite and because I could, I deleted all the text in the noyaml site and then clicked "save". Sorry if you were too slow to read it. Might find it in the waybackmachine?

New comment by kreeben in "Show HN: Wadzilla. Play DOOM in Zork"

kreeben — Fri, 31 May 2024 13:12:17 +0000

Sir, Facebook is over there [points west]. This is HN.

New comment by kreeben in "Feynman's Garden"

kreeben — Sun, 26 May 2024 16:27:37 +0000

Well said about not realizing it's important therefore names get down prioritized. Here's a counter point. I'm a movie geek. Yet when I reach for a name of someone from the cast I almost always end up describing, y'know, that guy who played together with that other guy in that movie, y'know, the one with the weird story line? Him! Yes, him. Love him.

New comment by kreeben in "Llama3 implemented from scratch"

kreeben — Mon, 20 May 2024 12:00:58 +0000

Don't torment the hobbits! Send the eagles right away!

New comment by kreeben in "The United States of Avocado"

kreeben — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:37:11 +0000

Heightened levels of intelligence due to avocado should already be noticable. What's he built with LEGO, so far?

New comment by kreeben in "The man who killed Google Search?"

kreeben — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:03:59 +0000

word2vec, invented by Google, killed Google?

I mean, it would serve as a terrific headline but I don't really buy it, do you?

I think it's more "Very poor search results, infested with ads, killed Google's dreams of becoming the next Microsoft and will now die a slow death and end up making millions instead of billions".

Dying might not be that bad, after all.

New comment by kreeben in "Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space"

kreeben — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:11:42 +0000

"The issue was resolved by shifting the affected code to different locations in the memory of the probe's computers."

Super human programmers doing super human things. Or, can we find a better link that describes what they did, so that those of us who are merely 10x rockstar programmer saviors don't have to realize we're really not as good as we think?

New comment by kreeben in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

kreeben — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 23:08:44 +0000

Clippy, definition: bot created by mega corp.

Clippy + high IQ: red flag, right here

Clippy + high IQ + intimate knowledge of you: do you seriously want that? Why?