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New comment by richhhh in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

richhhh — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:47:51 +0000

What makes you certain that human thought is more than pattern matching?

As I understand it neuroscience hasn’t come up with a clear explanation of thought, much less a mind or consciousness. It seems to me complex pattern matching is a reasonable a cause of consciousness as anything else.

We Are Building Gods

richhhh — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:24:42 +0000

Article URL: https://richhaase.com/blog/2026-03-08-we-are-building-gods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425514

Points: 2

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New comment by richhhh in "Show HN: Agentic Code Reviewer"

richhhh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:37:47 +0000

Runs parallel code agent reviewers, groups and summarizes findings and optionally posts PR comments.

Show HN: Agentic Code Reviewer

richhhh — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:37:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/richhaase/agentic-code-reviewer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692237

Points: 1

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New comment by richhhh in "Before I forget how I got here"

richhhh — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:25:23 +0000

Before I forget how I got here, I wanted to write a post about the tools and workflows I've been experimenting with in my first year of vibe coding.

This is just one persons reflections. I'm curious to here what other people are doing, and thinking.

Before I forget how I got here

richhhh — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://richhaase.com/blog/2026-01-14-before-i-forget-how-i-got-here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653035

Points: 3

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New comment by richhhh in "Neurodivergent Brains Build Better Systems (2025)"

richhhh — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:00:43 +0000

How did this wildly one sided and unsubstantiated post make it to HNs front page?

New comment by richhhh in "Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)"

richhhh — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:34:33 +0000

Anytime you need to change something you have to understand it first. I’ve not seen any evidence that this can be done without reading the code first.

I’ve personally never worked in an environment where code was only thrown out and replaced instead of modified.

New comment by richhhh in "Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)"

richhhh — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:37:37 +0000

It does if any of his customers ever care about maintaining the kind of code after his death.

Code is read more than it is written, and most of us don’t and wouldn’t write in this style. This could mean he’s much smarter than the rest of us, or he could just be a jerk doing his own thing. In either case I’ve never had a good experience working with coders who are this “clever”. Real brilliance is writing code anyone can understand that remains performant and well tested. This is more like the obfuscated Perl contest entries. I guess it’s cool that you can do it, but good sense dictates that you shouldn’t.

As to OPs endeavor to understand this style, it is an interesting learning approach, but I think reading a lot of code in many styles that are actually used by more than one guy is likely to get make you “smarter”.

New comment by richhhh in "Learning to read Arthur Whitney's C to become smart (2024)"

richhhh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:08:18 +0000

Kerrnigan’s law seems to apply:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?