Hacker News: sschmitt

New comment by sschmitt in "Show HN: Cadence – A guitar theory app"

sschmitt — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:48:54 +0000

Pretty good! Translation by AI? First lessons quite well, but first quiz in German "Welche dieser Noten ist... ganze Tonoberhalb?" makes no sense.

New comment by sschmitt in "Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies"

sschmitt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 03:36:16 +0000

Can it document modular synthesizer patch configurations?

New comment by sschmitt in "Clojure Civitas – Publish Clojure Ideas and Explorations"

sschmitt — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:22:29 +0000

How is this different from https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk?

New comment by sschmitt in "Ask HN: How to keep track of vaccinations and shoe sizes of your family members?"

sschmitt — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 03:07:55 +0000

https://polioeradication.org/about-polio/history-of-polio/

Ask HN: How to keep track of vaccinations and shoe sizes of your family members?

sschmitt — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:29:11 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44308539

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by sschmitt in "Using Windows 10 past EOL (via LTSC supported to 2032)"

sschmitt — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:25:02 +0000

What's the best strategy for a full backup and recovery if updating to LTSC goes wrong?

My Definition of Consciousness

sschmitt — Wed, 21 May 2025 08:56:54 +0000

Do you like my definition of consciousness?

while True: context += LLM(context)

Using the idea of consciousness as the interface to oneself as proposed by Daniel Dennett.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44049575

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Asimov saw it 80 years ago [video]

sschmitt — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:48:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sk5q5o2yXzs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038510

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Is reasoning just some iterative context refinement?

sschmitt — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:43:45 +0000

context = "you are a useful model. you evaluate your own output for N steps after the initial user input"

prompt = "here comes a prompt by the user"

context += prompt

for _ in range(N): context += evaluate_llm(context)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038481

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Try the BirdNET Sound ID App AI-Powered Bird Sound Recognition

sschmitt — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44038352

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Daniel Dennett on free will and moral agents

sschmitt — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGrQuuY2T4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44033844

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sschmitt in "[dead]"

sschmitt — Mon, 19 May 2025 07:48:10 +0000

How has this changed with the successful implementation of LLMs in the recent past?

Tech mogul Palmer Luckey creating arsenal of AI-powered autonomous weapons

sschmitt — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:51:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWEXnph1ElI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027095

Points: 22

# Comments: 2

Any good, apply-patch implementation by Open AI?

sschmitt — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:32:03 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-cli/src/utils/agent/apply-patch.ts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44026999

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Does this estimate for GPT-4's 128k token window make sense?

sschmitt — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:11:36 +0000

GPT-4 supports a 128,000-token context window (per OpenAI).

I'm trying to understand how much text that really is. Here's my rough estimate:

1 token ≈ ¾ word ≈ 4 characters

A single-spaced A4 page (12pt font) ≈ 500–600 words → ~700–800 tokens

128,000 ÷ 800 = ~160 pages

So: GPT-4 can handle ~150–190 A4 pages of standard English prose, depending on formatting.

Does that sound accurate?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43850123

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An Awesome List for Everything Midlife

sschmitt — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/schmitts/awesome-midlife

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762764

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sschmitt in "Operating System in 1,000 Lines – Intro"

sschmitt — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:41:25 +0000

Cool! Will be interesting to compare to https://github.com/mit-pdos/xv6-riscv!

Shameless plug for my html version of the xv6 book: https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/

New comment by sschmitt in "Xv6: HTML Conversion and CMake Build"

sschmitt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:48:18 +0000

HTML conversion

https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/

and cmake build

https://github.com/xv6-guide/xv6-riscv/blob/cmake/CMakeLists...

for xv6: a simple, Unix-like teaching operating system.

Xv6: HTML Conversion and CMake Build

sschmitt — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:48:18 +0000

Article URL: https://xv6-guide.github.io/xv6-riscv-book/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42150826

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by sschmitt in "Wafer Scale and Trilogy Systems: Part 1"

sschmitt — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:01:17 +0000

There's also the BrainScaleS neuromorphic system that features wafer scale integration:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12359