Hacker News: luc_

New comment by luc_ in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

luc_ — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:03:23 +0000

How we learn has gotta change...

New comment by luc_ in "Magnifica Humanitas"

luc_ — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:36:45 +0000

Imperfect example, but nuclear. We regulate that. Sure the US and other nuclear powers build it, and we have side effects of mutually assured destruction to keep us at bay, and other countries off the table.

Maybe this shows that there are indeed simply more variable in the calculus of how we optimize towards things as a society.

And that indeed we can feel now that certain variables, antithetical to the continued success of many people, are at risk.

New comment by luc_ in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

luc_ — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:06:02 +0000

Capitol Reef is ridiculous. There's no fish.

New comment by luc_ in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"

luc_ — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:21:16 +0000

I don't think they are, I think they're not talking about that... "It's all about the spec."

New comment by luc_ in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

luc_ — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:34:20 +0000

Fits with the origin story of Claude Code...

New comment by luc_ in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

luc_ — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:52:43 +0000

Setting the plot for Angels and Demons... :D

Mirror: https://archive.ph/JkeMp

New comment by luc_ in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

luc_ — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:55:24 +0000

Drugs.

New comment by luc_ in "PeppyOS: A simpler alternative to ROS 2 (now with containers support)"

luc_ — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:18:28 +0000

yet another roll your own ROS...

New comment by luc_ in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

luc_ — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:33:08 +0000

^ Big this. If we take a pessimistic attitude, we're done for.

New comment by luc_ in "NOAA deploys new generation of AI-driven global weather models"

luc_ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:14:37 +0000

I wonder if the new models consider land use change and emissions from aggressive datacenter development and model training...

New comment by luc_ in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

luc_ — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:13:43 +0000

++ When an EU outlet says, "Given the annual savings, this sum will pay for itself in less than a year. In the past, the state transferred millions to the US company Microsoft, primarily for the use of office software and other programs."

You know they want sovereignty.

WRT the criticism on this move by "the opposition" saying, ""It may be that on paper 80 percent of workplaces have been converted. But far fewer than 80 percent of employees can now work with them properly.""

I think this natural pressure will also be helpful for re-tooling IT infra and support companies to being more sovereign.

New comment by luc_ in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

luc_ — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:34:59 +0000

Too big to fail?

New comment by luc_ in "Show HN: Cynthia – Reliably play MIDI music files – MIT / Portable / Windows"

luc_ — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:36:09 +0000

Finally, don't have to remember the UMRN for Camptown Races anymore.

New comment by luc_ in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

luc_ — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:42:20 +0000

> “give people mental health breaks.”

try going outside

New comment by luc_ in "Language models are injective and hence invertible"

luc_ — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:08:09 +0000

I wonder how these pieces of understanding can be applied to neuroscience.

New comment by luc_ in "Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab"

luc_ — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:33:09 +0000

Maybe I'll vibecode that this weekend...

New comment by luc_ in "Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it"

luc_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:32:42 +0000

Reminds me of when I was working on NVIDIA Jetson systems, and learning how to use them, that you can run 1 command to make everything go faster... (https://jetsonhacks.com/2019/04/10/jetson-nano-use-more-powe...)

New comment by luc_ in "We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU"

luc_ — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:04:25 +0000

Loved this too hahaha..

New comment by luc_ in "ChatGPT Pulse"

luc_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:24:08 +0000

Yeah real talk. It can really play to folks bias towards laziness and the fact that it's being controlled by corporations / (the few) / (the ultra-wealthy) should give us pause to consider the level of control it does and will influence over the majority of people...

New comment by luc_ in "Why friction is necessary for growth"

luc_ — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:21:19 +0000

I think that there's something to be said about brain cycles being freed up for different things. We were relieved of some manual tasks during the industrial revolution. Now what else are our brains free to do?

That's not to say that this notion I raise should not be also considered with others. We are indeed offloading some brain processing to a machine... what have we lost?

What will we gain?