Hacker News: ryanar

New comment by ryanar in "How to read more books"

ryanar — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:19:11 +0000

they have a partnership with crosspoint now i think its fine now

New comment by ryanar in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

ryanar — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:05:51 +0000

yeah I was pretty confused to the answer of that one, I picked it because it was the closest thing that made sense.

New comment by ryanar in "Software Internals Book Club"

ryanar — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:27:56 +0000

This is so neat, as Phil mentioned in the How to run a software bookclub post, out of a group of 500, only 1-2%, 5-10 people may contribute with comments. But he lets the group grow in size because it is minimal overhead and many "lurkers" say they really appreciate reading the comments and get a lot out of it.

I am left wondering is there any way to see past comments on book discussions? I would love to read the discussions as I go through a book already done by the club on my own.

New comment by ryanar in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

ryanar — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:17:35 +0000

I used pion and it was fantastic. Most of the article seems pretty standard webrtc techniques for performant voice.

New comment by ryanar in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

ryanar — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:36:32 +0000

Are they actually producing new math? In the most recent ACM issue there was an article about testing AI against a math bench that was privately built by mathematicians, and what they found is that even though AI can solve some problems, it never truly has come up with something novel and new in mathematics, it is just good at drawing connections between existing research and putting a spin on it.

New comment by ryanar in "I’m joining OpenAI"

ryanar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:24:16 +0000

Pete didn’t just vibe code, he took his many years of engineering experience and applied it to build a ton of products, pushing the boundaries of todays models and harnesses.

I am saddened that the top post is about jealousy, do so many people feel this way? Jealousy should be something that when we feel we reflect on privately and work on because it is an emotion that leads to people writing criticism like tbis that is biased due to their emotional state.

New comment by ryanar in "Deno Sandbox"

ryanar — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:38:32 +0000

isnt that number mostly due to firecracker?

New comment by ryanar in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

ryanar — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:17:05 +0000

I noticed that this week. I have a very straightforward claude command that lists exact steps to follow to fetch PR comments to bring them into the context window. Stuff like step one call gh pr view my/repo and it would call it with anthropiclabs/repo instead, it wouldn’t follow all the instructions, it wouldn’t pass the exact command I had written. I pointed out the mistake and it goes oh you are right! Then proceeded to make the same mistake again.

I used this command with sonnet 4.5 too and have never had a problem until this week. Something changed either in the harness or model. This is not just vibes. Workflows I have run hundreds of times have stopped working with Opus 4.5

New comment by ryanar in "You can just read 25 books"

ryanar — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:28:15 +0000

I just hit 25 books read for the year which was my goal for 2025. To make it happen I did a few things: - Listen to audiobooks when doing chores (dishes, laundry, mowing the lawn) - Keep a book on me and use a bookmark. Being able to quickly open and read a page or two when I would normally doom scroll on my phone - Rather than watch TV at night or play video games, read instead - Use goodreads to track progress and add my friends who are readers to provide motivation and goal visualization.

This year has been quite enjoyable and I have found my reading tastes evolve over time. For a while I was reading books like the ones on this list, self-help, business/management/leadership focused, and memoirs. I then got bored and moved into fantasy, and now I have been getting into history.

New comment by ryanar in "Cormac McCarthy's personal library"

ryanar — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:29:41 +0000

Fascinating article. As I was reading it, particularly the part about his son John saying his father was very loving and was there for him, but also saying he did not like to be interrupted during his work or reading, and would say "Go away! I am reading!" immediately made me think he was quite narcissistic. His work was more important than even his own son. Later on his brother Dennis confirmed my suspicions that McCarthy was a narcissist. I have an insatiable curiosity as well and truly love learning, but in being a christian I have actively worked against my tendency to narcissism. A life like McCarthys sounds romantically fabulous, but when you think about the end of it, four people around your bed, it sounds tragic. There is something profound in sacrificially loving others and it doesn’t seem like Cormac experienced that. Though I am sure his wives, brother Dennis, and son John, did.

New comment by ryanar in "The First 1k Days"

ryanar — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:17:35 +0000

thanks for posting, very prescient topic for me. I happen to have inadvertently done these things without knowing it. Perhaps this is instinctual?

New comment by ryanar in "Show HN: Conductor, a Mac app that lets you run a bunch of Claude Codes at once"

ryanar — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 03:17:44 +0000

I plan to use par for this https://github.com/coplane/par simple cli to put sugar over git worktrees and using cli agents

New comment by ryanar in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

ryanar — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:46:30 +0000

podcast link?

New comment by ryanar in "OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio"

ryanar — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:53:15 +0000

In my experience, transcription software has no problem with transcribing sped up audio, or audio that is inaudible to humans or extremely loud (as long as not clipped), I wonder if LLM transcription works the same.

New comment by ryanar in "ChatGPT's enterprise success against Copilot fuels OpenAI/Microsoft rivalry"

ryanar — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:58:00 +0000

The memory feature also can be a problem, it injects stuff into the prompt context that you didnt explicitly write with the intent it will help because it knows you are a python programmer so lets respond with a python script instead of our usual ffmpeg cli command.

New comment by ryanar in "How to Bring Back Oddly Shaped App Icons in macOS 26 Tahoe"

ryanar — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 04:27:41 +0000

The problem with OPs method is if the package gets updated, the icns file will get deleted, so you have to replace the icns file every time the app updates.

New comment by ryanar in "ByteDance's Recommendation System"

ryanar — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:02:51 +0000

Past discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573624

New comment by ryanar in "Grammarly acquires Coda"

ryanar — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 14:05:24 +0000

Whatever the VC definition of a leader is, I was incredibly impressed with Shishir Mehrotra. His company and their practices are very mature and well run for their size and stage. I seriously considered joining Coda a year ago solely because of him. I hope he can find success with this new venture.

New comment by ryanar in "What is the ideal chapter length? (2023)"

ryanar — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:52:24 +0000

I read through the wheel of time last year and enjoyed it. It is a commitment, I think the series slows down a ton and then Sanderson comes in and it picks up, and it was amazing to see all the building of plots see their conclusions. So it is well worth the journey.

New comment by ryanar in "Ask HN: How many of you Apple developers still use Objective C?"

ryanar — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:27:34 +0000

Go wasn’t that way, in some respects it is a language design choice whether you want to retain compatibility