Hacker News: pennomi

New comment by pennomi in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

pennomi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:08:36 +0000

This one is an ablative heat shield, but it’s supposed to flake off gracefully, not break off in large chunks.

New comment by pennomi in "No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations"

pennomi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:33:14 +0000

An entirely different form of research could be done by sending large quantities of normal people into space. Astronauts are such a small sample size (and so thoroughly vetted) that you get a different statistical view.

New comment by pennomi in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

pennomi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:23:33 +0000

Because the average voter cannot see past the price at the pump. People are remarkably uninformed about how the world works.

New comment by pennomi in "So where are all the AI apps?"

pennomi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:47:02 +0000

I mean, look at the Hacker News feed and you’ll get a pretty good sample of new apps and features written by LLMs.

Are they good apps and features? Ehhhh. But let’s not pretend that they’re missing.

New comment by pennomi in "Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday"

pennomi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:37:31 +0000

How is creation of a Gestapo analogue NOT a step towards Nazi-style authoritarianism?

New comment by pennomi in "A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)"

pennomi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:57:15 +0000

Need a d10 roll? Just look at the last digit of the current second on your clock. Is it random? No, but it approximates randomness if you only make a roll sporadically.

New comment by pennomi in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

pennomi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:32:13 +0000

They can tell if you let it use whatever CSS it wants (Claude will nearly always make a purple or blue website with gross rainbow gradients). They can also tell if you let it write your marketing copy.

If you decide on your own brand colors and wording, there’s very little left about the code that can’t be done instantly by an LLM (at least on a marketing website).

New comment by pennomi in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

pennomi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:28:01 +0000

For sure. The more specialized or obscure of things you have to do, the less LLMs help you.

Building a simple marketing website? Probably don’t waste your time - an LLM will probably be faster.

Designing a new SLAM algorithm? Probably LLMs will spin around in circles helplessly. That being said, that was my experience several years ago… maybe state of the art has changed in the computer vision space.

New comment by pennomi in "FastAPI-compatible Python framework with Zig HTTP core; 7x faster"

pennomi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:33:33 +0000

Honestly that’s one of the best potential uses for LLMs, translating code that was cleverly designed by brilliant humans into lower level languages.

I don’t trust LLM API design in the slightest, but they are decent at the brute force coding part, especially if you can replicate the testing suite.

New comment by pennomi in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

pennomi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:02:58 +0000

Time for the PSF to consider something inspired by uv as a native solution.

New comment by pennomi in "Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference"

pennomi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:51:36 +0000

It makes sense that a next token predictor could execute assembly code. This is fascinating work, especially with the memory implementation.

New comment by pennomi in "Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs"

pennomi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:00:35 +0000

Agreed, I suspect that LLMs in the future will have separate (possibly standardized) decoding/encoding layers that plug into logic layers.

New comment by pennomi in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

pennomi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:18:39 +0000

Right, anything that can be copied instantly for free cannot be realistically owned.

New comment by pennomi in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

pennomi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:44:27 +0000

But why when Claude can write you a perfectly laggy tui in react?

New comment by pennomi in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

pennomi — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:16:04 +0000

There are dozens of us!

New comment by pennomi in "Thirty years on, Pokémon is still a monster hit"

pennomi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:06:42 +0000

Just wait, in a thousand years archaeologists will be talking about our pantheon of monsters that were greatly revered by all.

New comment by pennomi in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

pennomi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:02:47 +0000

Because the damage it causes is not intentional, but instead due to total incompetence.

New comment by pennomi in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

pennomi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:06:10 +0000

You don’t gain additional margin throwing away an airplane. Reuse is a lovely idea but the rocket equation is a harsh mistress.

New comment by pennomi in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

pennomi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:30:05 +0000

Not at orbital speeds you can’t. You’re being deliberately obtuse.

New comment by pennomi in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

pennomi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:26:57 +0000

The Blue Origin hate is mostly how opaque the program is compared to SpaceX.