Hacker News: stavros

New comment by stavros in "Passkeys are a trap"

stavros — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:35:39 +0000

Oof, this comment convinced me to go from loving passkeys to "maybe I should be careful". However, I don't think these are technological issues, I think they're policy issues. We need to vote for freedom of computing, and against corporations doing whatever the hell they want.

New comment by stavros in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

stavros — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:13:14 +0000

Identical assembly output is the only way to get functional equivalence, otherwise you're getting equivalence in some percentage of situations, but not 100%. Your bug is my feature etc.

New comment by stavros in "I wish you the best in the Offline"

stavros — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:45:36 +0000

I just read HN comments and that's all I do, and it works for me. Nobody cares about anything I make now because you used to have an innate marketing boost by the sheer fact that you put in the time to make something, but now everyone makes things so nobody cares.

Still, it works for me. I use the things I make and I just don't really share them any more, and that's enough for me. I don't feel like throwing the baby out with the bathwater and quitting "the Internet".

New comment by stavros in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

stavros — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:15:33 +0000

It's hard to sleep with a headset mounted to your head.

New comment by stavros in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

stavros — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:59:49 +0000

It's all LLMese, start to finish. I found it hard to get through. Could have just been a bulleted list and it would have been better.

New comment by stavros in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

stavros — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:20:03 +0000

There's also a huge difference between formalizing your problem in a set of strict rules that take a lifetime to master and saying "make me a todo app, make no mistakes".

New comment by stavros in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:59:27 +0000

> Cares about two things, A much more than B

> Someone points out that he pretends to only care about B

> Random commenter: "there's no plausible way we care about B"

Good chat.

New comment by stavros in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:35:25 +0000

Well yes, but then don't pretend that it's "because safety".

New comment by stavros in "Programming Isn't Special"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:43:18 +0000

Programming isn't special, definitely. Programming can be art, writing can be art, painting can be art.

Most programming isn't art, just like most writing, most painting, etc isn't. The programming you do in your day job very probably isn't art. The programming you do for a demoscene program, in my opinion, definitely is.

New comment by stavros in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:57:03 +0000

They have the cheapest trustworthy options.

New comment by stavros in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:54:11 +0000

How do you know their client won't send them the metadata anyway?

New comment by stavros in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

stavros — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:29:09 +0000

That's the GP's point: "Pace the frontier" really means "slow China down because our investment is at risk".

New comment by stavros in "Theranos.world"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:03:53 +0000

Wait, this isn't marketing for the documentary?

New comment by stavros in "I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:36:04 +0000

Unless it was taken in the summer, in which case it's really cold.

New comment by stavros in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:50:46 +0000

https://github.com/dzervas/cadara

New comment by stavros in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:59:45 +0000

If you're fuzzing the solver, you might discover a solver bug.

New comment by stavros in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:55:57 +0000

If you wrote twenty million lines of Lean to verify something, my suspicion is you've been fuzzing the Lean solver rather than coming up with new math.

New comment by stavros in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:09:27 +0000

This is like asking "how do you know a cat is a cat and not a dog?". If you've seen enough samples, you recognise the pattern.

New comment by stavros in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

stavros — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:04:36 +0000

A\.

New comment by stavros in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

stavros — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:22:42 +0000

Yeah there's no way in hell you're going to convince management to pay 10x for the same work because "human skills".