Hacker News: mckirk

New comment by mckirk in "Delta probes Wi-Fi deauth attack on flight carrying DEF CON attendees"

mckirk — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:13:46 +0000

> for some reason

I mean, I can think of one reason. Them being quite far away from the ground most of the time, mainly.

New comment by mckirk in "Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil"

mckirk — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:57:21 +0000

"THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CAUSE FOR ALARM"

New comment by mckirk in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

mckirk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:39:03 +0000

Sorry for being off-topic, but 'rouge agents' was too adorable to leave unmentioned.

New comment by mckirk in "Iroh 1.0"

mckirk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:25:11 +0000

_Every_ agent? I surely hope not. But it would be an interesting... artisocial experiment?

New comment by mckirk in "German Dog Commands"

mckirk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:03:24 +0000

Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.

New comment by mckirk in "Hungary's Orban, a Beacon to the Right Wing, Concedes Election Defeat"

mckirk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:23:13 +0000

The fact that Orban is called Viktor as his first name meant your first sentence confused me greatly for a second.

New comment by mckirk in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

mckirk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:13:44 +0000

I mean, it's understandable; having to endure a lockdown _with_ Doordash was really rough on our civilization.

New comment by mckirk in "1D Chess"

mckirk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:49:30 +0000

Damnit, I am pretty sure I had a few-year-streak going until just now. Welp, off to the grind again, I suppose.

New comment by mckirk in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

mckirk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:46:40 +0000

Nitpicky reply questioning the adherence of OP's comment to HN guidelines.

New comment by mckirk in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

mckirk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:45:09 +0000

Along these lines: I really like the 'Climate Reanalyzer' project by the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine [1]. There's so much good stuff there if you click around a bit; you can create custom plots for the surface temperature of different regions for example[2], which quickly shows you that Western Europe has actually warmed a lot more than the global average, and we're closer to +2°C already in that region.

[1]: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2 [2]: https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries...

New comment by mckirk in "LLM may be standardizing human expression – and subtly influencing how we think"

mckirk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:54:21 +0000

If writing goes the way music seems to be going with Angine de Poitrine gaining a huge following as a kind of allergic reaction of people against the 'AI sameness'... then we could be in for a wild ride.

On the other hand, music is primarily an art form and writing (nowadays) is primarily utilitarian I would contend, so maybe the analogy doesn't quite hold up.

New comment by mckirk in "Introducing GEN-1 [video]"

mckirk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:41:48 +0000

I have to admit, the movements and interactions looked so uncannily natural that my intuitive suspicion was that this might be another instance of a 'fake it till you make it' demo, and the robot was actually controlled by a person. Though if this is real, that's of course some of the highest praise they could hope for.

New comment by mckirk in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

mckirk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:31:06 +0000

I have to admit that this is also what keeps me coming back to LinkedIn. My brain is dangerously easy to motivate by dangling a virtual leaderboard in front of it.

New comment by mckirk in "GPT-5.4"

mckirk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:07:36 +0000

I think what that research found is that _auto-generated_ agent instructions made results slightly worse, but human-written ones made them slightly better, presumably because anything the model could auto-generate, it could also find out in-context.

But especially for conventions that would be difficult to pick up on in-context, these instruction files absolutely make sense. (Though it might be worth it to split them into multiple sub-files the model only reads when it needs that specific workflow.)

New comment by mckirk in "Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables"

mckirk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:57:57 +0000

This is the first time I've heard the term 'apecode', and I will make sure to use it at every opportunity.

New comment by mckirk in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

mckirk — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:09:58 +0000

This is only done at the DNS level, so using a different DNS (such as Quad9) solves that issue. For background info, I can recommend [1, 2].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxmu25mUZgg [2]: https://cuiiliste.de/

New comment by mckirk in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

mckirk — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:35:09 +0000

That's the 'built by the lowest bidder' feature. Probably pretty realistic in a lot of places.

New comment by mckirk in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

mckirk — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:03:46 +0000

Note that this is the Flash variant, which is only 31B parameters in total.

And yet, in terms of coding performance (at least as measured by SWE-Bench Verified), it seems to be roughly on par with o3/GPT-5 mini, which would be pretty impressive if it translated to real-world usage, for something you can realistically run at home.

New comment by mckirk in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

mckirk — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:14:28 +0000

For me, these books are in the rare category of 'wait I didn't know it was allowed to come up with a story _this good_'. I envy all those that have yet to read it for the first time.

New comment by mckirk in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

mckirk — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:29:21 +0000

I'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D