Hacker News: manbitesdog

New comment by manbitesdog in "Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)"

manbitesdog — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:45:41 +0000

It's so sad that 17MB was at some point considered a humungous update filesize and now we need 330MB of a web browser everytime we want to install anything.

New comment by manbitesdog in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

manbitesdog — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:30:18 +0000

Quoting the famous Science paper More Is Different [1]:

Knowing the laws of physics doesn't tell you how a brain, economy, or society works - because at every level of scale, genuinely new phenomena emerge that require their own science.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.177.4047.393

New comment by manbitesdog in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

manbitesdog — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:09:45 +0000

I cringe every time I see Claude trying to co-author a commit. The git history is expected to track accountability and ownership, not your Bill of Tools. Should I also co-author my PRs with my linter, intellisense and IDE?

New comment by manbitesdog in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

manbitesdog — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:05:19 +0000

That's very nice and I ended up with the same font I tend to use (Source Code Pro) vs the font I used before (Noto Sans Mono). Some features I'd love to see:

- An ELO-based version with many more variables, so that I can open the site from time to time and find more nice fonts

- Some global stats

- Not losing the leaderboard after reloading

- Spline Sans Mono

New comment by manbitesdog in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

manbitesdog — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:51:30 +0000

Maybe this is a bit US-centric, direct negative feedback is very common in many cultures, e.g. Dutch

New comment by manbitesdog in "Levels of Agentic Engineering"

manbitesdog — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:39 +0000

...at least until we get real Test-Time Training (TTT) that encodes the state into model weights. If vast amounts of human knowledge can be compressed into ~400GB for frontier models, it's easy to imagine the same for our entire context

New comment by manbitesdog in "The Brand Age"

manbitesdog — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:27:08 +0000

I also got the recommendation from here, happy to see I'm giving it back!

New comment by manbitesdog in "The Brand Age"

manbitesdog — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:54:01 +0000

There is a fantastic book on this topic called "By Design : Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV" that cover the inception of modern brands. It's a very similar story to what happened to watches. The industrial revolution made quality clothing accesible for everyone, so the cloth appearance no longer was a clear indicative of status, so brands started placing their emblems on the outside of the fabric inside of the inside. At the time it was seen as gross, obvious and bad taste. Guess we had a century to normalize it.

New comment by manbitesdog in "[dead]"

manbitesdog — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:03:47 +0000

Short FAQ on their Twitter: https://x.com/RevenueCat/status/2029232043838644407

New comment by manbitesdog in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

manbitesdog — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:15:33 +0000

Another big factor is that many areas of the US feature horizontal architecture instead of vertical ones (i.e. Los Angeles vs NY). A bus stop in those areas cover orders of magnitude less people given the same radius

Agentic Memory Bottlenecks

manbitesdog — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:39:08 +0000

Article URL: https://jcarlosroldan.com/post/370

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910838

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by manbitesdog in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

manbitesdog — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:25:04 +0000

Plus a long queue of yet-undiscovered architectural improvements

New comment by manbitesdog in "There is no comfortable reading position"

manbitesdog — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:54:05 +0000

A cheap one from Aliexpress with only forward/backward keys

New comment by manbitesdog in "Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model"

manbitesdog — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:52:17 +0000

With such a high throughput because of sparsity, I'm particulary interested in distilling it into other architectures. I'd like to try a recurrent transformer when I have the time

New comment by manbitesdog in "There is no comfortable reading position"

manbitesdog — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:23:05 +0000

Using an ebook and a bluetooh page turner solved it for me

New comment by manbitesdog in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

manbitesdog — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:28:42 +0000

And that Internet will still exist in 100 years

New comment by manbitesdog in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

manbitesdog — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:09:48 +0000

https://jcarlosroldan.com/

New comment by manbitesdog in "Tell HN: HN was down"

manbitesdog — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:51:43 +0000

TIL I have a "open Hacker News" hand reflex

New comment by manbitesdog in "You can't fool the optimizer"

manbitesdog — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:09:33 +0000

Sorry, I meant 10**50; HN formatting removed one asterisk

New comment by manbitesdog in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

manbitesdog — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:35:23 +0000

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