Hacker News: nico

New comment by nico in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

nico — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:05:29 +0000

> Even many people who programmed enough lisp to have their minds blown and expanded still prefer not to program in lisp

For me, the answer to this is economics. Even if you love lisp, there are way more companies hiring for stacks that don’t include lisp

If you then optimize for employability, which I assume most developers do (not all, but a large percentage), you might end up with not that many people practicing lisp regularly

New comment by nico in "Show HN: Super Dario"

nico — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:49:05 +0000

Omg, so funny! I can’t believe I played this for like 5 min straight

Are those little Sam Altmans?!

Love the power ups: tokenmaxxing, usage reset

New comment by nico in "FAANG Simulator"

nico — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:36:36 +0000

If you retire at 30 with $1.7M, you’d be getting about $45-$60k/year for the rest of your life

Maybe if you live by yourself, or have someone contributing a second income, and inflation doesn’t catch up with you

New comment by nico in "FAANG Simulator"

nico — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:02:48 +0000

That was fun! Although I was automatically retired, with $1.7M in net worth. That’s hardly enough, especially in California. Maybe the game should ask for a goal number before starting

New comment by nico in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

nico — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:35:03 +0000

Very cool. It reminded me of the DeCSS t-shirts, which had source code with the decryption keys for DVDs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

New comment by nico in "Ultrasound imaging of the brain"

nico — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:02:36 +0000

Is this the same tech the Midjourney scanner device is using?

New comment by nico in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

nico — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:09:55 +0000

It was also cool discovering the ATA commands to drive the modem. You could “war-dial” numbers, or manually initiate Internet connection, or connecting to a bbs

Pocony: A little balcony garden on your phone

nico — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://pocony.dollarbasellc.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517829

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nico in "Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation"

nico — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:48:44 +0000

I wonder what’s the % of players that use nukes in games like Civilization (I know I used them at least once on every game I made it far enough to have the technology)

New comment by nico in "Emacs appearances in pop culture"

nico — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:47:27 +0000

Amazing show btw, highly recommend it

New comment by nico in "Deficient executive control in transformer attention"

nico — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:55:09 +0000

Is this the AI version of ADHD?

200x kv Cache Compression

nico — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:23:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/oneill_c/status/2064724063478767804

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485878

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nico in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

nico — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:15:34 +0000

Thank you. I want something like that, but that uses codex/claude code as agents (through their corresponding subscriptions), instead of having to create ad-hoc agents + api keys

New comment by nico in "Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications"

nico — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:22:08 +0000

On a tangent, can anyone recommend good coding agent orchestration tools or platform? Something to launch, manage and monitor codex or claude agents in multiple machines

Ideally self-hostable/open source

I know claude code has a lot of that internally built in already, but it’s claude-only

New comment by nico in "Siri AI"

nico — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:00:06 +0000

And that’s pretty much what they show in the demo, plus asking it for directions on Apple Maps (which it can also do already), and searching for pictures on the Photos app (which I just tried and it can’t do - so it looks like that’s the main feature)

New comment by nico in "Siri AI"

nico — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:44:50 +0000

The demo video there is so underwhelming. They show very basic stuff, which I assumed Siri was already capable of doing... not sure what the big improvement is

New comment by nico in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

nico — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:39:08 +0000

AIPAC publicly brags about this.

https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/aipac-says-it-was-pro...

https://www.reddit.com/r/illinois/comments/1ry8tha/aipac_ope...

New comment by nico in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

nico — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:32:27 +0000

That sounds a lot like the justifications Claude and ChatGPT give when confronted about something they did wrong, or when asked to provide a customer support response about software issues

31gb to 4gb: Rust vector index based on TurboQuant

nico — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:48:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427772

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nico in "Transformers are inherently succinct"

nico — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:31:06 +0000

Thank you for the explanation, makes it a lot more digestible

Just nit picking a bit:

> Training any model to express some truth table is very hard

What kind of models are you including here? Truth tables can be modeled in regular code very easily and reliably. And I’m sure there are many deterministic models that could do the same. Are you talking about LLMs in particular or a certain category/type of models?