Hacker News: liamYC

New comment by liamYC in "πFS"

liamYC — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:16:40 +0000

Developed a UI with Claude here:

https://ljsimpkin.github.io/pi-compress

It really shows how inefficient such a compression would be. Haha nice idea

New comment by liamYC in "πFS"

liamYC — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:36:07 +0000

Point taken about the index potentially being really long. Why would the length be longer than the data? Don’t you need to find the right sequence?

New comment by liamYC in "[dead]"

liamYC — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:13:49 +0000

What does ADRS stand for?

New comment by liamYC in "After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs"

liamYC — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:57:33 +0000

Smart, how do you backup the users encryption keys?

New comment by liamYC in "ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC"

liamYC — Fri, 09 May 2025 22:31:28 +0000

You’re assuming they would attempt to produce gold exactly the same way. The process would likely evolve to become better. What happens if you add a growth rate?

New comment by liamYC in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

liamYC — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:08:29 +0000

I’d like to 3rd the thanks for Aider it’s fantastic!

New comment by liamYC in "DeepFace: A lightweight deep face recognition library for Python"

liamYC — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:01:12 +0000

How do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology?

I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition could be better than a few people, robots that identify someone and give them lifesaving medication are great (but the opposite, robot assassin can also be created). I guess it comes down to good people building good tools. Humans are generally kind and empathetic

New comment by liamYC in "ChatGPT Pro"

liamYC — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 07:48:05 +0000

It depends on the tool you use and I guess the use case too. Some are language model agnostic like aider in the command line, I use sonnit sometimes and then 4o other times. I wonder if or when language models will become highly differentiable. Right now I see them more like a commodity that are relatively interchangeable but that is shifting slightly with other features as they battle to become platforms

New comment by liamYC in "Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories"

liamYC — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:21:28 +0000

Haha yes!!

New comment by liamYC in "Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon"

liamYC — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 02:25:28 +0000

“You can’t make this stuff up”

New comment by liamYC in "Meta introduces Segment Anything Model 2"

liamYC — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:12:49 +0000

I built an email notifier for alerting me when there is a popular news article which I defined by X number of comments. I think forums like hacker news are a really cool indicator for an emerging technology, an opportunity, or some exciting tech story. I get a tonne of false positives though, mostly articles that are inflammatory get sent to me. However, crowd strike triggered it as did the release of chat gpt so there are some hits

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

liamYC — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:57:04 +0000

Thanks a lot for this, I’ll check it out

New comment by liamYC in "WebVM is a server-less virtual Linux environment running client-side"

liamYC — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:44:13 +0000

I suspect you’d have trouble opening ports on the client’s machine. Maybe you could use a dedicated http proxy the client talks to

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

liamYC — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:53:28 +0000

Technology like this will create huge selection pressures against desktop apps if it becomes easy for people to reverse engineer, remove payment mechanisms, and then freely distribute. Wouldn’t you think?

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

liamYC — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:25:31 +0000

Did you get ChatGPT to help you write this and is one of your main use cases generating bash commands? (Code writing code, there’s a total feedback loop happening here) I did too but wrote mine in Python. A compiled language would be much faster and using their streaming function I’m yet to implement. Any other ways you can increase the speed?

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

liamYC — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:14:56 +0000

Cool projects, I’d definitely like my server to be able to do all these things. What have you used to deploy it?

New comment by liamYC in "Language models on the command line"

liamYC — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:16:59 +0000

This is awesome, thanks for sharing. I find this kind of tool really useful, Aider in particular. I made my own cli tool for interacting with GPT. It’s really useful with the -c flag for generating code especially bash commands I've forgotten

https://github.com/ljsimpkin/chat-gpt-cli-tool

New comment by liamYC in "Video generation models as world simulators"

liamYC — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 15:12:24 +0000

This comment is brilliant. Thank you. I’m so excited now to build a bot that uses predictive video. I wonder what the most simple prototype would be? Surely one that has a simple validation loop that can say hey, this predicted video became true. Perhaps a 2D infinite scrolling video game?

New comment by liamYC in "Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5"

liamYC — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:31:18 +0000

Awesome explanation, thanks for the comparison

New comment by liamYC in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2023)"

liamYC — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 03:13:57 +0000

Location: Auckland, New Zealand

Remote: No, prefer in person

Willing to relocate: Yes, keen for Africa, America, Europe (Irish citizen), or anywhere with exciting projects!

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, JavaScript, Docker, C, SQL, Three.js, Solidity, Linux, Python, socket.io

Résumé/CV: https://ljsimpkin.github.io/resume/

Email: gurgle_duckies0a@icloud.com

If you are interested in tech let’s connect, https://www.linkedin.com/in/liamsimpkin