Hacker News: sieste

New comment by sieste in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

sieste — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:47:21 +0000

Maybe a superhuman AI? /s

New comment by sieste in "Show HN: MDV – a Markdown superset for docs, dashboards, and slides with data"

sieste — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:43:55 +0000

I was expecting to find a link to a github pages site where I can see the rendered examples, but only found a link to the html sources in examples/out. Am I missing something?

New comment by sieste in "A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter"

sieste — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:41:18 +0000

2021 just called and want their comment back.

New comment by sieste in "Tennessee is about to make building chatbots a Class A felony"

sieste — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:04:31 +0000

Wow.

> The bill makes it a Class A felony (15-25 years imprisonment) to “knowingly train artificial intelligence” to do ANY of the following:

• Provide emotional support, including through open-ended conversations with a user

• Develop an emotional relationship with, or otherwise act as a companion to, an individual

• Simulate a human being, including in appearance, voice, or other mannerisms

• Act as a sentient human or mirror interactions that a human user might have with another human user, such that an individual would feel that the individual could develop a friendship or other relationship with the artificial intelligence

New comment by sieste in "1D Chess"

sieste — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:19:47 +0000

It took me an embarrassing number of attempts to win.

New comment by sieste in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

sieste — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:48:36 +0000

I think this is the correct lense. He's a malignant narcissist on his way out, with absolutely nobody to stop him.

I'm genuinely worried that he secretly wants to go down in history as the crazy guy who set the oil fields on fire and dropped a nuke on Tehran or something.

New comment by sieste in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

sieste — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:42:13 +0000

I'm not sure it was meant that way, but nice metaphor. For some students "academic death" might really be better than a life of being trapped in a system that they can only navigate by cheating.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:50:18 +0000

You just get a sequence of random moves to go from solved to scrambled, it's quite trivial.

See here if you're interested: stefansiegert.net/cube-timer

Let me know if you adapt it in any way, my son would be delighted to see open source work its magic :)

New comment by sieste in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

sieste — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:35:20 +0000

Does an IPO make a government bailout more likely if they go bust?

New comment by sieste in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

sieste — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:02:43 +0000

Even more important than the papers is whether you can raise the money required to fund your lab which produces your prestigious journal papers. And the further you go down the league table the less important the "prestigious" part gets.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:45:01 +0000

yes. claude added a suggested random scramble (if that's what you mean?), also running average of 5/12/100, local storage of past times on first iteration, my son told it to also add a button for +2s penalties and touch screen support.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:46:35 +0000

That may be true. But you also have to give the average parent more credit by assuming they don't want tech companies spying on their children and forcing their toxic platforms on them.

There are well attended parent evenings in our school on that topic.

Thinking about it, we should turn these into vibe coding hackathons where we replace all the ad-ridden little games, learning tools, messengers we don't like with healthy alternatives.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:20:30 +0000

Just goes to show that most programmers have no idea what most programmers are mostly programming. Great that it works for you, but don't assume that this applies to everyone else.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:13:12 +0000

Many parents are extremely interested in quickly building digital tools for their kids (education and entertainment) that they know are free from advertising, social media integration, user monitoring etc.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:58:08 +0000

Turns out that knowing what a plain text file is will be the criterion that distinguishes users who are digitally free from those locked into proprietary platforms.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:53:43 +0000

"use it from anywhere" was important, and I don't think there's an easier way than a freely hosted static website.

New comment by sieste in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:45:29 +0000

Related anecdote: My 12yo son didn't like the speed cubing online timer he was using because it kept crashing the browser and interrupted him with ads. Instead of googling a better alternative we sat down with claude code and put together the version of the website that behaved and looked exactly as he wanted. He got it working all by himself in under an hour with less than 10 prompts, I only helped a bit putting it online with github pages so he can use it from anywhere.

The ~fifth~ fourth postulate of decision theory (On the Independence Axiom)

sieste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:12:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MsjWPWjAerDtiQ3Do/on-the-independence-axiom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385909

Points: 2

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New comment by sieste in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

sieste — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:25:18 +0000

The art is to decide when shaping the code yourself is worth your time. Not only financially but also experience gain and job satisfaction.

New comment by sieste in "How to run Qwen 3.5 locally"

sieste — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:30:27 +0000

> you can use 'true' and 'false' interchangeably.

made me laugh, especially in the context of LLMs.