Hacker News: kykeonaut

New comment by kykeonaut in "They’re made out of weights"

kykeonaut — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:26:11 +0000

The weights Mason, what do they mean!?

OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability

kykeonaut — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:21:32 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_...

https://web.archive.org/web/20260403174514/https://old.reddi...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628608

Points: 514

# Comments: 256

New comment by kykeonaut in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

kykeonaut — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:22:23 +0000

> Those questions that it will no longer occur to you to ask (not just of the robot, but of yourself) might be the most pertinent ones!

That is true, but then again also with google. You could see why some people want to go back to the "read the book" era where you didn't have google to query anything and had to make the real questions.

New comment by kykeonaut in "I’m joining OpenAI"

kykeonaut — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:08:20 +0000

I am surprised at the amount of comments that dismiss coding as just means to an end. Yes, every skill at the end of the day is a means to an end, but mastery of those skills is at the end what drives the vision. To know where you are going you need to know where you have been.

New comment by kykeonaut in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

kykeonaut — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:30:53 +0000

it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction

New comment by kykeonaut in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

kykeonaut — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:52:58 +0000

I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1].

These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are.

[0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107...

New comment by kykeonaut in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

kykeonaut — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:14:36 +0000

https://openbsd.amsterdam/cards.html

The Unix Pipe Card Game

kykeonaut — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:48:59 +0000

Article URL: https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46694124

Points: 257

# Comments: 83

What's the story behind the arXiv.org favicon?

kykeonaut — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:47:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-story-behind-the-arXiv-org-favicon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46691259

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kykeonaut in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

kykeonaut — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 16:00:15 +0000

No no, let him deploy to production.

Q1K3 – An homage to Quake in 13kb of JavaScript (2021)

kykeonaut — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:30:07 +0000

Article URL: https://js13kgames.com/2021/games/q1k3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44817392

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Lychee – Self-hosted photo-management done right

kykeonaut — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 11:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44386319

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Consult the European Vulnerability Database to enhance your digital security

kykeonaut — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:03:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/news/consult-the-european-vulnerability-database-to-enhance-your-digital-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43984696

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

10k Federal Health Dept. Workers to Be Laid Off

kykeonaut — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:01:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/health-department-job-layoffs-rfk-jr.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43493784

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by kykeonaut in "Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained"

kykeonaut — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:57:03 +0000

Isn't "contributing little to the system" and "taking underpaid jobs" a contradiction? If you are taking a job, you are contributing to the system.

New comment by kykeonaut in "Why Legal Immigration Is Nearly Impossible: US Legal Immigration Rules Explained"

kykeonaut — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:53:49 +0000

Seems like implicit bias. "Many people in my circle have an H1-B visa, thus it is far from impossible to get one."

Elements of Programming (2009)

kykeonaut — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:04:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.elementsofprogramming.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43015975

Points: 164

# Comments: 12

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1984)

kykeonaut — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43015959

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kykeonaut in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

kykeonaut — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:46:55 +0000

However, an increase in computing quality doesn't necessarily mean an increase in output quality, as you need compute power + data to train these models.

Just increasing compute power will increase the performance/training speed of these models, but you also need to increase the quality of the data that you are training these models on.

Maybe... the reason why these models show a high school level of understanding is because most of the data on the internet that these models have been trained on is of high school graduate quality.

New comment by kykeonaut in "CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'"

kykeonaut — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:04:34 +0000

Wouldn't some sort of proof of work be a good solution to the captcha problem?

Specially since all of the sudden, a bot service running hundreds of thousands of requests will suddenly and inadvertedly have to compute cryptographic hashes at the cost of the user running the bots?