Hacker News: mattpk

New comment by mattpk in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

mattpk — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:52:18 +0000

The mouse is amazing, if you have a good sensor, a mousepad and no mouse acceleration. Not many have this setup, but those who do can wield their cursor with insane speed and accuracy. Consider top osu! or Starcraft players.

New comment by mattpk in "Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming"

mattpk — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:28:57 +0000

> NOTE: this is a genuine human work, didnt use LLM generation.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe this. The article reads like LLM text post-edited by an AI prompted to "write like a non-native English speaker, replace you for u, make errors, etc".

The other pages on your site are cough, "the smoking gun". For instance, your "Suckless, single binary, zero-dependency CUDA/C++ inference engine for NVIDIA's DVLT. Reconstructs 3D scenes from a handful of images (depth + rays + camera pose => point cloud), no python, no torch, no framework." project.

New comment by mattpk in "Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors"

mattpk — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:53:34 +0000

Here is the pseudocode of MAKER:

  state = init_state()
  while state is not complete:
    state = LLM("You are a helpful assistant. The rules and format of the game is [...]. The correct strategy to use at each step is [...]. The current state is [...]. Output the state after making the next move")

New comment by mattpk in "New Go-playing trick defeats world-class Go AI–but loses to human amateurs"

mattpk — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:43:09 +0000

This is a joke. The games that the “trick” AI “wins” are complete losses. The paper authors are claiming losses as wins by changing the rules in their favour to win on a technicality after the game, and not configuring the Go AI to even know about their rule.

New comment by mattpk in "Fight back against Google AMP (2018)"

mattpk — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:50:47 +0000

Google is also adding AMP to emails: https://amp.dev/about/email/

New comment by mattpk in "Backyard beekeeping in Japan"

mattpk — Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:03:18 +0000

"Whereas refined sugar converts to fat, honey typically converts to energy"

Come on journalism

New comment by mattpk in "Toronto is experiencing a “brain gain”"

mattpk — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:06:32 +0000

"CBRE’s study found that a 500-employee firm renting a 75,000 square-foot space in Toronto would face estimated one-year operating costs of $30,224,259. Only Vancouver and Montreal were cheaper. The Bay Area, meanwhile, was the most expensive market for tech companies to operate, with a total estimated cost of $59,124,612.

It’s no wonder, then, that tech titans such as Google, Amazon, and Uber continue to expand their operations in the city."

The difference in rent is about the cost of hosting a single intern for a summer... Hardly a big factor.

New comment by mattpk in "How Zapier Reached $35M ARR"

mattpk — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 05:29:25 +0000

I read Indie Hackers, and it seems every non-technical founder on that site uses Zapier, and Stripe.

New comment by mattpk in "The Dangerous Fetishization of ‘Hustle Porn’"

mattpk — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:15:59 +0000

I agree with you for the most part, but there definitely is a toxic extreme of "hustle culture", in which people believe the sheer amount of "hard work" is the only coefficient.

New comment by mattpk in "The Growth of Reddit"

mattpk — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:11:38 +0000

They've recently added javascript that mimics system UI asking you if you want to open the content in the app or in the browser. I'm also almost certain that the loading bars on mobile web are artificial sleeps.

New comment by mattpk in "GM's [new] dress code is only two words"

mattpk — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 05:42:24 +0000

Here the title could have easily included the two words "Dress Appropriately", but forgoes a useful title to entice clicks.

New comment by mattpk in "Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent"

mattpk — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 17:24:57 +0000

This guy is memeing.

New comment by mattpk in "People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain"

mattpk — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:12:04 +0000

The devs have made the rendering algorithm secret. So even if you have the cat token, you can't know what it looks like unless you go through their front-end.

New comment by mattpk in "People have spent over $1M buying virtual cats on the Ethereum blockchain"

mattpk — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 02:09:42 +0000

From their FAQ (https://www.cryptokitties.co/faq):

The developers levy a 3.75% fee on every cat purchase. Doesn't really seem like a decentralized app in that regard.

New comment by mattpk in "Ask HN: What coding challenge sites should I try next?"

mattpk — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 22:05:34 +0000

Google Codejam has some great problems.

https://code.google.com/codejam/

New comment by mattpk in "Advent of Code 2017"

mattpk — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:57:23 +0000

I do codejam every year. Looks fun, will participate. First impressions tell me that runtime complexity won't as strict here however

New comment by mattpk in "AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments"

mattpk — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:58:48 +0000

Isn't Cloud9 an e-sports organization too? There are two cloud9s, wondering where the Cloud[1-8]s went.

New comment by mattpk in "Ask HN: What tips do you have for weathering a recession?"

mattpk — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 17:01:00 +0000

That's a distorted view that you get from imagining if you had invested at the low of the last recession. Look at Japan's index, where it still hasn't caught up to the 1989 peak.

New comment by mattpk in "Waymo now testing its self-driving cars on public roads with no one at the wheel"

mattpk — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 18:41:38 +0000

The cars could be subject to vandalism, or at the very least really aggressive driving. The predictability of the driving and the lack of a driver is going to result in weird interactions with people.

New comment by mattpk in "One of the Biggest Bitcoin Exchanges Just Added 100,000 Users in a Single Day"

mattpk — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:55:42 +0000

I'd rather endure the FOMO when I don't understand its value than lose money when I had my doubts. Feels like it'll be the former for a while...