Hacker News: peetle

New comment by peetle in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

peetle — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:43:34 +0000

Another way of saying it, if an AI agent doesn't have true risk of oblivion (or mortality in the biological sense), it will not be incentivized to avoid it (or develop the ancillary processes associated with this avoidance ie desire to self-replicate).

New comment by peetle in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

peetle — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:37 +0000

An AI agent is not "conscious" without having skin in the game.

Show HN: Pick and visualize real manufacturer paint colors on your home

peetle — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:41:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.housepaint.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46237569

Points: 1

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New comment by peetle in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

peetle — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:12:01 +0000

In my own experience, nano banana still has the tendency to:

- make massive, seemingly random edits to images - adjust image scale - make very fine grained but pervasive detail changes obvious in an image diff

For instance, I have found that nano-banana will sporadically add a (convincing) fireplace to a room or new garage behind a house. This happens even with explicit "ALL CAPS" instructions not to do so. This happens sporadically, even when the temperature is set to zero, and makes it impossible to build a reliable app.

Has anyone had a better experience?

Summarize YouTube videos from the command line

peetle — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:28:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/youtube-summary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607493

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by peetle in "Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State"

peetle — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:50:04 +0000

The right answer for most people is to simply leave and pursue their ideals in a more favorable venue.

New comment by peetle in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

peetle — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:02:41 +0000

The same thing has happened to me with political donations. Every day I receive an email from a different candidate. It is like whack a mole.

New comment by peetle in "85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics"

peetle — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:39:22 +0000

Great graphic on the environmental impacts of different kinds of grocery bags: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...

In short, single use plastic bags are very hard to beat.

New comment by peetle in "85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics"

peetle — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:38:01 +0000

Yes, but who wants to pay more for them? It's very hard to beat single use plastic bags for environmental impact: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...

New comment by peetle in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)"

peetle — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:54:16 +0000

Higharc | Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior SDET | Full-time | Durham, NC, San Francisco, CA, remote | higharc.com

Higharc has built a cloud platform for homebuilders (build >80% of homes built in the US every year) that massively reduces the burden of producing construction documents, material counts, and sales tools. At the center of the platform is an in-browser CAD system that allows builders to model homes with the information needed to support the complexity of their business. We raised a $53 million series B in 2023.

Technologies: Next.js, TypeScript, React

More details and application here: https://www.higharc.com/company/careers

Nomial – A fast, robust, and small polynomial root finder in TypeScript

peetle — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:14:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pboyer/nomial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32107825

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Merging BSP Trees Yields Polyhedral Set Operation [pdf]

peetle — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 03:06:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cs.yorku.ca/~amana/research/bsptSetOp.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30523161

Points: 3

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New comment by peetle in "In 2019 US Navy warships were swarmed by UFOs"

peetle — Fri, 28 May 2021 13:49:33 +0000

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that all the data about these "UFO"'s:

1. is conspicuously low quality, grainy 2. presents inconsistent imagery of the phenomenon 3. originates from sensor equipment most laymen are unfamiliar with and thus unable to know if they've been spoofed 4. presented in the context of clickbaity commentary

New comment by peetle in "Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)"

peetle — Fri, 07 May 2021 02:16:34 +0000

Interesting, but they commissioned it. :) I'm curious if there are other assessments with different methodologies, different outcomes.

Higharc – The automated, all-in-one web platform for homebuilders

peetle — Fri, 07 May 2021 00:29:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.higharc.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27070539

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by peetle in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2021)"

peetle — Wed, 05 May 2021 02:55:30 +0000

Higharc | Senior/Junior Backend, Frontend, Graphics/CAD, Full-Stack, EM, VPE | US, REMOTE | https://higharc.com

We’re building a complete home building web platform. Our system, built with TypeScript, C++, and WebGL, produces permit-ready plan sets, bills of materials, and beautiful, realtime product configurators with realtime estimates/BOMs. We just raised a $21m Series A and are hiring across a wide range of engineering roles and seniorities.

We are a remote-first team (w/ offices in Durham, NC, SF, and Atlanta).

Roles:

- Frontend engineers (next.js, React, pure TypeScript)

- Backend engineers (node.js, PostgreSQL, terraform, AWS)

- Computational geometry, graphics, and CAD engineers (Unreal Engine, WebGL, three.js)

- Engineering managers (Modeling/CAD, Web)

Our careers page is at https://higharc.com/careers. Say you came from Hacker News.

New comment by peetle in "Complex text layouts progress report in Godot game engine"

peetle — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:51:27 +0000

This look exciting, but I am obsessed with the lack of subpixel rendering for fonts in godot (imgui, nanovg, etc). The fonts just look crummy to me.

As I understand it, subpixel rendering is a treacherous patent landscape. Is that the reason why it is consistently missing from these tools?

New comment by peetle in "In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved"

peetle — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 21:11:16 +0000

Despite an increase in speed, people insist on adding more to the web.

New comment by peetle in "The percentage of Americans who are employed has fallen from 61 to 51"

peetle — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 23:21:02 +0000

As an 18 year old, I had zero job experience so I could never find a job.

I bought a lawnmower on craigslist and started putting up flyers. This set me back ~$75 at the time. I also did odd job painting and handyman jobs. I found a solid collection of clients fairly quickly and just walked around the neighborhood.

Raleigh, NC Sidewalk Connectivity

peetle — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://raleigh-sidewalks.ptrbyr.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930642

Points: 1

# Comments: 0