Hacker News: prideout

New comment by prideout in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

prideout — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:00:02 +0000

Ah, I see it as a "reasoning level" in codex after typing /model

New comment by prideout in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

prideout — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:57:53 +0000

Confused about how to access Ultra; I don't see it in on their plans page.

New comment by prideout in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

prideout — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:35:55 +0000

Kolmogorov Complexity looks interesting. It seems to formalize Occam’s Razor and the notion that intelligence = compression.

New comment by prideout in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

prideout — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:17:51 +0000

This is a fascinating mathematical framework, but the post title might be a bit of an overreach. I often wonder if "a theory of deep learning" could exist that could be stated succinctly and that could predict (1) scaling laws and (2) the surprising reliability of gradient descent.

Note that I said "predict" not "describe". It feels like we're still in the era of Kepler, not Newton.

New comment by prideout in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

prideout — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:15:20 +0000

Yes! My first encounter with spreadsheets was SuperCalc for CP/M, and I suppose you would call it a "TUI" nowadays.

New comment by prideout in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

prideout — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:13:16 +0000

What does the "Session Picker" section refer to? Claude Code does not have a session picker, as far as I can tell.

New comment by prideout in "Show HN: Claude-replay – A video-like player for Claude Code sessions"

prideout — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:32:55 +0000

Neat. Would be nice if I could easily drop the replayer into a slack thread. Maybe a video file would be better for that than an HTML file?

New comment by prideout in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

prideout — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:15:28 +0000

This is not written by a former Google employee, it's written by a former Google user. Confusing title to see on hackernews.

New comment by prideout in "OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year"

prideout — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:10:29 +0000

Why is Minecraft mentioned several times in the post?

New comment by prideout in "How to Network as an Introvert"

prideout — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 14:39:38 +0000

This post is well written, useful, and original. I'm surprised by the negative comments.

New comment by prideout in "Subsecond: A runtime hotpatching engine for Rust hot-reloading"

prideout — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 22:43:45 +0000

Neat but I would prefer simply using a dylib for the part of my code that I want to be reloadable.

New comment by prideout in "Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto"

prideout — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:13:18 +0000

I have never seen a Koreeda film but he sounds compelling -- which movie would you recommend for a first-timer?

New comment by prideout in "Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot"

prideout — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 14:15:43 +0000

Did you need to write an app for the phone?

New comment by prideout in "Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem?"

prideout — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:14:44 +0000

There's less ageism in embedded systems because older folks are more likely to be experienced with a lean & mean tech stack (for example vanilla C programming).

New comment by prideout in "Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling"

prideout — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:22:33 +0000

Currently we simply copy a slice of the heap's ArrayBuffer from WASM to JS. In the past we exposed the heap slice directly but it was technically "unsafe" (perhaps because the heap can grow), and doing a copy did not hurt performance in any measurable way.

Rust on the web and an ECS lite architecture

prideout — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 22:16:41 +0000

Article URL: https://prideout.net/blog/layout_viewer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668338

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by prideout in "Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates"

prideout — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 17:38:59 +0000

The fact that triangles have proliferated is not due to half-assery. Hardware can rasterize them very quickly, and a triangle can have only one normal vector. Quads can be non-planar. It's true that quads are nice for humans and artists though!

As an aside, Catmull-Clark subdivision has been around since 1978, which, as a first step, breaks an arbitrary polyhedron into a mesh of quadrilaterals.

Rendering Chip Layouts with Rust

prideout — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://prideout.net/layout-viewer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399760

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: WebGL Renderer for Chip Layouts

prideout — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 04:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://prideout.net/layout-viewer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43395757

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by prideout in "Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle"

prideout — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 02:14:25 +0000

nm, found a nice open source one:

https://github.com/downforacross/downforacross.com