Hacker News: low_tech_punk

New comment by low_tech_punk in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

low_tech_punk — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:53:44 +0000

> Three things matter today: Model. Data. Harness.

*knee jerk*

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Teardown: A Generic 7-Port USB 3.0 Hub That Wasn't"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:03:56 +0000

It's a classic scam. It is a 3.0 USB 7-Port Hub, not a 7-port USB 3.0 Hub. The number 3.0 is the model number of the hub, not the protocol.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:53:59 +0000

According to the stats in this article https://www.ycombinator.com/investors, we can estimate 98.5% of the founders are not in OpenAI or Anthropic.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:51:27 +0000

Is there a selection bias?

SELECT * FROM yc_founders WHERE employer IN ('OpenAI', 'Anthropic');

If there are 7k founders [1], the graph only shows 1.5% of the people from YC.

[1]: https://www.ycombinator.com/investors

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:55:51 +0000

Interestingly, I found the original nano banana also has the best latency/quality trade-off that new versions can't beat. This might be domain/prompt specific though. I wonder if there is some truth in the saying that something is either new or improved by never "new and improved".

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:59:49 +0000

Agree that good tool should be invisible. We want essential not accidental complexity in how the tool works.

But good tool should also be fun and makes us feel productive. We can't neglect the emotional aspects of designs. And at the end of the day, if a less productive tool makes us much happier, we will less likely be burned out. That is productivity in the long term.

Maybe only AI Agent doesn't care about the emotional aspects fro tool use, but that's a separate topic.

Also, it's not about steep learning curves. We want low floor, high ceiling tools. Some of the examples the author used are either low floor low ceiling, or high floor high ceiling. Neither is ideal.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

low_tech_punk — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:56:29 +0000

(1) The original zig code was probably heavily AI coded with lower quality, hence the bag. There is a chance that a full rewrite in zig might do as well but we will never find out.

(2) The rewrite itself is a massively successful marketing move. It shows what Claude code can do and how little it costs compared to human engineering. But the question remains whether someone else, not knowing zig, rust, and TypeScript can pull this off.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:37:46 +0000

If you click on the "create link" button multiple times, the menu would pile up vertically.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:33:34 +0000

I believe Wardgard has zero external dependencies. The three packages it depends on are all utils written by the author himself.

https://code.haverbeke.berlin/wordgard/wordgard/src/branch/m...

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

low_tech_punk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:16:37 +0000

all the emphasis on cyber security. feels like a reaction to anthropic, not a real next generation.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI"

low_tech_punk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:09:19 +0000

When mixing languages, why does the English have Chinese accent and Chinese have English accent? Is it a feature or bug?

New comment by low_tech_punk in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

low_tech_punk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:50:41 +0000

I hope this puts more pressure to extend the software life-span.

Zero Sum Game

low_tech_punk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:39:58 +0000

Article URL: https://code.chuanqisun.com/zero-sum-game/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294168

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by low_tech_punk in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

low_tech_punk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:21:10 +0000

Saw the DOOM raycast demo at bottom of page.

Can't wait for someone to build a DOOM that runs entirely on GPU!

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

low_tech_punk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:52:26 +0000

When I visit https://www.molt.bot/ with Edge browser, there is a bloody red screen screaming malware. What's wrong with the name?

Missed Connections NYC [video]

low_tech_punk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/anRJ_aQzfRQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46597693

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by low_tech_punk in "System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language"

low_tech_punk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:23:18 +0000

User: Hey AI, turn off my Mac

AI: (after 10 minutes of deep reasoning) Ah! I found the solution. I need to cause a power surge in the grid to power off your device.

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Show HN: Quantum Tunnel"

low_tech_punk — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:46:00 +0000

Google's ML team really nailed it. There are lots hand/head/eye tracking demos made with mediapipe.

I recommend checking out The Poet Engineer: https://x.com/poetengineer__

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English"

low_tech_punk — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:23:38 +0000

No AI is appealing but there is the cliff problem. If there is one small thing the mini language can't handle, the user would have no chance solving it themselves. They might as well start with an LLM solution first.

One workaround is that when there is syntax error, let user optionally switch to LLM?

New comment by low_tech_punk in "Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness"

low_tech_punk — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:34:41 +0000

Is it possible that the coffee drinkers have more social interaction with the barista and others? It's unclear from the paper if they eliminated the confounding factors around coffee drinking.