Hacker News: matt123456789

New comment by matt123456789 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

matt123456789 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:40:12 +0000

.NET Core runs just as well on ECS though. And C# tooling is rock solid in VS Code on Mac. No need to touch Azure or Windows.

New comment by matt123456789 in "TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

matt123456789 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:54:29 +0000

Such low dimensionality of the LoRA vector must surely result in a close-to-linear modification to the KV calculation. This seems to me to imply that what we call "reasoning" is latent within the model. Pretty clear I didn't read the paper, I'm sure the authors address this.

New comment by matt123456789 in "He suddenly couldn't speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remai"

matt123456789 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:22:55 +0000

Zero g. Stroke, or TIA. Right?

New comment by matt123456789 in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

matt123456789 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:00:28 +0000

Hilarious. I lost it when it started asking who to fire.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

matt123456789 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:36:00 +0000

Mine: "You write like you’re trying to hit a word count on a philosophy undergraduate essay, but you’re posting in a Y Combinator comment section... You sound like a Victorian ghost haunting a server room, lamenting the loss of the card catalog."

And

"Go compile your kernel, Matt. Maybe if you stare at the build logs long enough, you won't have to face the fact that you're just as much of a "Lego builder" as the rest of us—you just use more syllables to describe the bricks."

Both are pretty good!

New comment by matt123456789 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

matt123456789 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:41:10 +0000

I think it was someone trying to help and being cheeky about it.

New comment by matt123456789 in "650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark"

matt123456789 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:49:47 +0000

It is not a chicken and egg problem, it is just a requirement to have an RDBMS available for systems like DuckLake and Hive to store their catalogs in. Metadata is relatively small and needs to provide ACID r/w => great RDBMS use case.

New comment by matt123456789 in "When if is just a function"

matt123456789 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:24:39 +0000

gcc() { curl -d '{"title": "Does this code look right?", "body": "$(cat $1)"' https://$HN_BASE/api/ask }

export gcc

New comment by matt123456789 in "Thrashing"

matt123456789 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:11:02 +0000

Write a book

Edit: sorry for the low-effort comment. Write a book, please. I’ll buy it. I might even read it!

New comment by matt123456789 in "Writing with LLM is not a shame"

matt123456789 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:29:18 +0000

When I put real time and thought into an email—and the response I get back is obviously AI-generated—and it comes with no disclaimer—it infuriates me. Maybe the model happened to spit out exactly what the sender meant—just dressed up and grammatically polished. Doesn’t matter—I’d rather someone talk to me directly than funnel a thought through a word-grinder and hit send. Downvote me—call me anti-progress—I don’t care. I cannot stand undisclosed AI in conversation.

New comment by matt123456789 in "C++26 Reflections adventures and compile-time UML"

matt123456789 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 02:55:19 +0000

Whenever I start to feel like a real programmer making games and webapps and AI-enhanced ETL pipelines, I inevitably come across the blog post of a C++ expert and reminded that I am basically playing with legos and play-doh.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Global hack on Microsoft Sharepoint hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say"

matt123456789 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 14:32:49 +0000

"Sorry, you can’t use that password to encrypt this email. It’s already being used on NUCLEAR_CODES_2 (final) (2).docx. Please try another password."

New comment by matt123456789 in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

matt123456789 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:43:38 +0000

One would think. I suppose OpenAI threw the majority of their compute budget at producing and verifying solutions. It would certainly be interesting to see whether or not this new model can distill its responses to just those steps necessary to convey its result to a given audience.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Axon's Draft One AI Police Report Generator Is Designed to Defy Transparency"

matt123456789 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 18:17:41 +0000

And the original “Tyranny is Fiercer than a Tiger” significantly predates even that!

New comment by matt123456789 in "At Amazon's biggest data center, everything is supersized for AI"

matt123456789 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:17:24 +0000

And for the same purpose before that we had, or rather have, since it is still very much in use today, the Dewey Decimal System. Peering further onward still into the annals of library science, one can find even more creative and revealing methods of indexing human knowledge. In doing so, one might even be inclined to believe that the state of the science has come so far as to be considered solved. Alas.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Claude 4"

matt123456789 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:40:19 +0000

Interesting philosophical question, but entirely beside the point that I am making, because you and I didn't have to do either one before having this discussion.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Claude 4"

matt123456789 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:34:23 +0000

You can't fathom reading?

New comment by matt123456789 in "Claude 4"

matt123456789 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:27:14 +0000

Please tell me you're actually an AI so that I can record this as the pwn of the century.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Claude 4"

matt123456789 — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:13:51 +0000

What's different is nearly everything that goes on inside. Human brains aren't a big pile of linear algebra with some softmaxes sprinkled in trained to parrot the Internet. LLMs are.

New comment by matt123456789 in "Chrome Origin Trial: Device Bound Session Credentials"

matt123456789 — Fri, 02 May 2025 02:35:21 +0000

I'm sure that the business case for it hasn't gone away, but unless they can side-channel some information out of the TPM, this proposal doesn't appear to give the server the ability to uniquely identify a visitor except through the obvious and intended method. So: maybe, but this appears to be separate.