Hacker News: mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mirrirHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:55:25 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"]]>I'm not an ornithologist but birds don't need to consume jet fuel to fly hundreds of miles either.

]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:53:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819023mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49819023<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"]]>from what i understand this is CrossPoint.

]]>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:30:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997023mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997023https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997023<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "Iroh 1.0"]]>replace "successful product" with "useful artifact" and you'll get more of the common ground with less of the pedantics.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:34:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555953mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555953https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555953<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"]]>Yes absolutely. For large code writing assignments and projects grad students would be tasked with writing the code. After submission they had to schedule a 15-20 minute chat with a grad student in the course for Interview Grading. Through that process the grad would ask why the student made specific choices in their code, where improvements could have been made, and the process they took to solve the task. It wound up being a pretty effective and kind way to get people to not really care as much about referencing things like StackOverflow (no GPT at the time), and helped make a lot of students need to care much more aabout the why of their code.

]]>Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:21:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513382mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513382<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams"]]>My university had a great policy for this. For every major assignment you went through interview grading. if you failed it you lost 60% of that grade.

]]>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:45:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473715mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473715https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473715<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "This is not the future"]]>There is voodoo in begging the question though.

]]>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:16:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290397mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290397<![CDATA[Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models]]>Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176289

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]]>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 20:15:54 +0000https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17272mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176289https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46176289<![CDATA[New comment by mirrir in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"]]>You can use it in Rust if you like. I've used pglite through wasmer before. Also [pglite-oxide](https://lib.rs/crates/pglite-oxide) is pretty usable.

]]>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:33:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151089mirrirhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151089