Hacker News: puilp0502

New comment by puilp0502 in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

puilp0502 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:27:54 +0000

> Turns out AI is terrible at guessing whats faster or allocates less

s/AI/a human being/ would work equally well, lol.

Jokes aside, I do like the approach of letting the AI build something deterministic and make decisions based on that.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

puilp0502 — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:57:34 +0000

Looking forward to it!

New comment by puilp0502 in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

puilp0502 — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:01:06 +0000

I think you're describing Mixture-of-Experts.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

puilp0502 — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:13:38 +0000

I love this. This was always an idea I had in my head, because spinning up MuseScore just to write down some beats was so annoying. Glad someone already came up with the solution! Do you plan to release the compiler(uh, rasterizer/renderer)?

New comment by puilp0502 in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

puilp0502 — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:01:13 +0000

> Google defines certification requirements for Android which includes forcing bundling Google Chrome, etc.

Isn't this a textbook case of an antitrust lawsuit? Y'know, with the whole ordeal with Windows/IE, I assume the court would find this as blatantly anticompetitive behavior.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

puilp0502 — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:18:08 +0000

> Ignored people I knew from class instead of saying hi because I didn’t know for sure if they remembered me even though the class had only 10 people in it

This hit painfully hard. I feel spied on.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

puilp0502 — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:38:10 +0000

I guess their point was to demonstrate that it's possible to bake a decently-sized model to a silicon? As with anything related to HW, I guess the lead time will be considerably larger than the software counterparts, so I guess in 1-2 years timeframe we might see something like Gemma 4 baked onto a silicon.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

puilp0502 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:54:26 +0000

The author wanted people to be able to just "ssh mygame", no? In that sense, ssh was a design requirement.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

puilp0502 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:25:33 +0000

I think the parent is talking about the people who post to LinkedIn that "SWE as a profession is dead" non-stop. I fully agree with you that it massively lowered the cost to create, but I'd argue that the people who's saying that SWE is dead wouldn't be able to go past the complexity barrier that most of us are accustomed to handling. I think the real winners would be the ones with domain expertise but didn't have the capacity to code (just like OP and you).

New comment by puilp0502 in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

puilp0502 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:40:43 +0000

Few questions:

* How do you manage the key for encrypting IDs? Injected to app environment via envvar? Just embedded in source code? I ask this because I'm curious as to how much "care" I should be putting in into managing the secret material if I were to adopt this scheme.

* Is the ID encrypted using AEAD scheme (e.g. AES-GCM)? Or does the plain AES suffice? I assume that the size of IDs would never exceed the block size of AES, but again, I'm not a cryptographer so not sure if it's safe to do so.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Linux Sandboxes and Fil-C"

puilp0502 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:21:28 +0000

But it's much easier to say "orthogonal" than "linearly independent", no? As you mentioned, I think the word "orthogonal" has already lost its meaning of "dot product equals zero", and bears the meaning of "linearly independent" (i.e. dim(N) > 1) in casual speech.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

puilp0502 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:08:41 +0000

Guilty until proven innocent.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

puilp0502 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:07:17 +0000

Is there a word for a feeling that there's gotta be a German word for this niche feeling?

New comment by puilp0502 in "Building a Simple Search Engine That Works"

puilp0502 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 09:44:57 +0000

I would. Heck, I bet half of HN would be interested in what kind of insanity lies under those behemoths.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Gentoo AI Policy"

puilp0502 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:47:36 +0000

I see. So if I'm understanding correctly, then this policy serves as a kind of "legal ground" from which the maintainers can take action against perpetrators, right?

To add a bit more context, when I was writing the original comment, I was mainly thinking of first-time contributors that don't have any track records, and how the policy would work against them.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Gentoo AI Policy"

puilp0502 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:22:57 +0000

Every time I encounter these kinds of policy, I can't help but wonder how these policies would be enforced: The people who are considerate enough to abide by these policies, are the ones who would have "cared" about the code qualities and stuff like that, so the policy is a moot point for these kinds of people. OTOH, the people who recklessly spam "contributions" generated from LLMs, by their very nature, would not respect these policies in very high likelihood. For me it's like telling bullies to don't bully.

By the way, I'm in no way against these kinds of policy: I've seen what happened to curl, and I think it's fully in their rights to outright ban any usage of LLMs. I'm just concerned about the enforceability of these policies.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

puilp0502 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:59:35 +0000

Isn't that what APIs are for?

New comment by puilp0502 in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

puilp0502 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:51:43 +0000

It's going to be interesting if ChatGPT actually hooks up with SSPs and dumps a whole "user preference" embedding vector to the ad networks.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

puilp0502 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:48:32 +0000

Can you elaborate on the "bad customer service"? I've never engaged in Claude's support team, but curious to know what you've experienced.

New comment by puilp0502 in "Qwen3-Next"

puilp0502 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:44:25 +0000

What kind of benefit does Multi-Token Prediction bring to the inference side? Is it only relevant in pretraining efficiency?