Hacker News: starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=starcast2026Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:03:01 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Vectorized and performance-portable Quicksort (2022)"]]>I didn't like the 9 MB image file in the blog. It took me few seconds to fully render the image.

]]>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:24:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732481starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732481https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732481<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"]]>Sorry I am confused. If you(u1) share a link (html page) with your friend (u2), they fill data/form, then it get saved in u2's desktop. How does u1 see it?

]]>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:37:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715933starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49715933<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "YouTube had a bug – I used ChatGPT to investigate"]]>I too noticed -20s, but I always felt it is a feature. I close browser and after a couple of days I continue watching same video. This -20s shift gives me a good context on what was the last sentence/frame, so I can comfortably continue watching. So this is a feature as far as I am concerned & felt Youtube has thought about people like me.

]]>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:45:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593640starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593640https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49593640<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"]]>I was curious to see what one LLM thinks about claims from another LLM.

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:51:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371285starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371285https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371285<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"]]>It is a good PR for Asana. I checked this with Gemini & here is what Gemini said - https://share.gemini.google/B8nocObwgiih

Summary: The Takeaway Did an AI generate 5 years' worth of highly creative, novel software features from scratch in two weeks? No.

Did an AI complete 5 years' worth of tedious, widespread code-migration technical debt in two weeks? Yes.

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:21:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371039starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371039https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371039<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"]]>How could we know whether incoming code is AI generated or not? are there tools for this?

]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:54:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214799starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214799https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214799<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"]]>I wondering if folks like OpenAI & Anthropic start supporting open models in their api. After some time, keeping users stuck is going to be more important than "models"

]]>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:55:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071410starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071410<![CDATA[New comment by starcast2026 in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"]]>Just to add some drama - this feels like a perfect competition between humans & bots!

]]>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:50:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873587starcast2026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873587https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873587