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New comment by petters in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

petters — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:38:11 +0000

Dungeon Crawler Carl is not science fiction. At least I would not recommend it to someone looking for science fiction with “interesting ideas.” It’s a comedy about an RPG with magic.

But if that’s what you’re looking for, it’s pretty good

New comment by petters in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

petters — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:44:57 +0000

> the GPU is limited by the Thunderbolt port

Not everything is limited by the transfer speed to/from the GPU. LLM inference, for example.

New comment by petters in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

petters — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:49:51 +0000

> On a 34" ultrawide monitor, it was too easy to put YouTube running on the left side, and whatever else on the right.

Yes, if you were doing that, almost any change to your environment that stops that will be good. I don't think you'd have to give up your monitor.

New comment by petters in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

petters — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:23:28 +0000

That challenge was pretty stupid. I could read the question and I’m not even a native speaker. We can of course easily come up with much better challenges

New comment by petters in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

petters — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:39:31 +0000

As a TA, I've seen adults try to pass initial college calculus many times (and failing - you were allowed to try several times) with enormous effort. It's not a small multiplier

And this was still people selected from the small subset of the population choosing an engineering major. Human are much, much more different than you seem to think

New comment by petters in "ai;dr"

petters — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:21:44 +0000

I think that bias is not due to the proportion of books and more due to how they are fine-tuned after the pretraining.

New comment by petters in "Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)"

petters — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:03:01 +0000

We identify the real number 2 with the rational number 2 with the integer 2 with the natural number 2. It does not seem so strange to also identify the complex number 2 with those.

New comment by petters in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

petters — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:26:48 +0000

Going from 220 to 450 ms would be a disaster in my project. It has many thousands of files. Recompilation of almost everything happens from time to time.

If those made-up numbers were true, they would be very significant and an argument in favor of keeping the code in C

New comment by petters in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

petters — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:23:22 +0000

That's fair. I'm unable to provide more information though so we'll have to disagree.

New comment by petters in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

petters — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:06:07 +0000

> C++ doesn't take longer to compile if you don't abuse templates.

Surprisingly, this is not true. I've written a C++ file only to realize at the end that I did not use any C++ features. Renaming the file to .c halved the compilation time.

New comment by petters in "Claude Opus 4.6"

petters — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:26:11 +0000

> We build Claude with Claude.

Yes and it shows. Gemini CLI often hangs and enters infinite loops. I bet the engineers at Google use something else internally.

New comment by petters in "Anthropic is Down"

petters — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:17:08 +0000

How could they be? Claude was down

New comment by petters in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

petters — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:09:10 +0000

This makes no sense. Buybacks and dividends are how companies give money to investors

New comment by petters in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

petters — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:12:18 +0000

And the answer to the obvious follow-up question is...?

New comment by petters in "Show HN: The Hessian of tall-skinny networks is easy to invert"

petters — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:02:38 +0000

Would be great to see this work continued with some training runs

New comment by petters in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

petters — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:19:58 +0000

> But what if you're an environmentally conscious mother who needs to drive the 5 minute walk to your kids' school? Surely, a modern car must be less polluting?

> CO2 emissions/km:

No, you have already compared fuel consumption. This is equivalent.

New comment by petters in "Sandboxing Untrusted Python"

petters — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:44:34 +0000

> Older alternatives like sandbox-2 exist, but they provide isolation near the OS level, not the language level. At that point we might as well use Docker or VMs.

No,no, Docker is not a sandbox for untrusted code.

New comment by petters in "Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina"

petters — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:54:53 +0000

Then one day they suddenly stop. I hear a big noise but outside is completely silent to my mother.

Anything: Import anything into Python (generated by LLM)

petters — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:24:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/PetterS/anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466368

Points: 4

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New comment by petters in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"

petters — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:50:10 +0000

Seems to be some kind of living document. It was refered to as an "oldie" in 2007: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603