Hacker News: pietmichal

New comment by pietmichal in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

pietmichal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:35:42 +0000

It's not a wordplay. Poles usually make a mistake because "invigilation" sounds english enough to them and just assume it is an english word.

New comment by pietmichal in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

pietmichal — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:51:10 +0000

Counter-Strike 1.6 (and other Goldsrc based games) greatly benefited from AMX Mod X's scripting capabilities. I miss the days where people were playing modded servers.

Obscuring server browser and/or not allowing self-hosting dedicated servers killed modding in modern games. A real shame.

https://www.amxmodx.org/

New comment by pietmichal in "Affinity Studio now free"

pietmichal — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:39:05 +0000

This is a step 1 in the process of enshittification. When the AI bubble bursts, Canva will stop being so generous and they have all cards in place in case they have to stop being nice.

New comment by pietmichal in "Writing toy software is a joy"

pietmichal — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:52:16 +0000

This was already a problem in a world without LLMs. Reputation is the only human mechanism that mitigates this.

New comment by pietmichal in "Tracing the thoughts of a large language model"

pietmichal — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 23:09:09 +0000

Pardon my ignorance but couldn't this also be an act of anthropomorphisation on human part?

If an LLM generates tokens after "What do you call someone who studies the stars?" doesn't it mean that those existing tokens in the prompt already adjusted the probabilities of the next token to be "an" because it is very close to earlier tokens due to training data? The token "an" skews the probability of the next token further to be "astronomer". Rinse and repeat.

New comment by pietmichal in "Sell yourself, sell your work"

pietmichal — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 10:48:03 +0000

I came to similar conclusion after pouring 95% of brain power for 8 years as an employee at a startup.

Make yourself visible in professional and social life.

New comment by pietmichal in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"

pietmichal — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:58:17 +0000

Quick feedback: The "Polypane Portal" page hangs after opening it in Chrome on M1 Pro Macbook.

New comment by pietmichal in ""AI", students, and epistemic crisis"

pietmichal — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 10:28:13 +0000

This sentiment reminds me of my teachers who complained that Wikipedia is not a reliable source to learn from.

New comment by pietmichal in "Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn"

pietmichal — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:01:46 +0000

Don't worry, WebKit devs will update Quirks.cpp soon!

New comment by pietmichal in "Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?"

pietmichal — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 08:27:42 +0000

Give Performance-Aware Programming series by Casey Muratori a try!

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/table-of-contents

New comment by pietmichal in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

pietmichal — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:54:53 +0000

I honestly don't understand how delusional you have to be to not think OpenAI wanted this to happen.

New comment by pietmichal in "Are commercial "third places" a dying breed?"

pietmichal — Wed, 22 May 2024 12:56:17 +0000

In London, it is normal to pay more for the coffee when you are staying in.

New comment by pietmichal in "How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math"

pietmichal — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:21:34 +0000

This was such a nice primer that inspired me to give Karpathy's series another try. Loved the explanation!

New comment by pietmichal in "Porting 58k lines of D and C++ to Jai"

pietmichal — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:13:17 +0000

Very interesting! Apparently a lot of information on the Internet about the Jai language is outdated which makes me curious about the follow up post!

I don't know if OP is the blog owner. If yes, I'd love to have an option to subscribe to an email list. I've installed an RSS feed but email is still my preference. Thanks!

Web apps are too complex. This is how we can simplify them

pietmichal — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://michalpietraszko.com/web-apps-are-too-complex-this-is-how-we-can-simplify-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25726700

Points: 3

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New comment by pietmichal in "Amazon is no longer customer centric"

pietmichal — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:14:04 +0000

Sellers are also treated as subhuman.

How to make an accurate estimate? You don’t

pietmichal — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 11:02:53 +0000

Article URL: https://michalpietraszko.com/how-to-make-an-accurate-estimate-you-dont/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25542667

Points: 1

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