Hacker News: tensegrist

New comment by tensegrist in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

tensegrist — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:00:49 +0000

france has "made in france" too

New comment by tensegrist in "Omacom Foundation launches with $8M"

tensegrist — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:33:47 +0000

insofar as this gets people off macos/windows and onto linux, especially among younger people where macos has managed to hold on to the position of a default that developers are comfortable e.g. being the only platform they support, this is a good thing imo

the fact that it's largely hype-driven is par for the course for how things work these days

New comment by tensegrist in "The Art of 64-bit Assembly"

tensegrist — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:11:51 +0000

i'm sorry, starting with "you can ask AI to … [but it'll do an incomplete and bad job]" and then launching forth into a hundred words of AI-produced text is not very appetizing

i hope this is the publisher's fault and the author replaces it with something decent of their own. contrary to the opinions i've heard around (including elsewhere on this thread) learning asm is still meaningful today and it's something i'd like to get better at so i will consider getting this book or one like it once $work is a bit less hectic

New comment by tensegrist in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

tensegrist — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:16:20 +0000

tapping the sign https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922409

New comment by tensegrist in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

tensegrist — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:33:32 +0000

executive orders?

New comment by tensegrist in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

tensegrist — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:22:33 +0000

yeah it's pairing by another name

New comment by tensegrist in "Regressive JPEGs"

tensegrist — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:00:05 +0000

oh i thought this was going to be a jpeg that loaded the highest-frequency data first and added the lower frequency data later

New comment by tensegrist in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

tensegrist — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:32:44 +0000

only insofar as it is 1. not illegal to do so or 2. the cost-benefit of violating such laws makes sense for the majority of users, who are not doing things that are actually illegal

because without such a critical mass of normal users you get something like tor or grapheneos that the state begins to associate with people engaging in unsavoury activity

New comment by tensegrist in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

tensegrist — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:03:46 +0000

>part of Capgemini Invent

rip

New comment by tensegrist in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

tensegrist — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:02:55 +0000

things like that indeed tend to be fraught

some relevant links

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02442 https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15061 https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13006

New comment by tensegrist in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

tensegrist — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:07:11 +0000

that's like 6k tokens over 12 hours which doesn't seem like a lot for…any purpose i can think of

New comment by tensegrist in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

tensegrist — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:00:18 +0000

can't you use font shaping rules or whatever it is to essentially begin a span of text with a "private key" that then causes the rest of the message to render correctly by combining with it (a trivial version could be e.g. a rot-N based on a given N)

New comment by tensegrist in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

tensegrist — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:36:28 +0000

essentially, yes

it's not about the prose quality, but about the fact that it seems like the service of deleting ai-generated code is also going to be ai-generated, or at least the service is being advertised via ai-generated text, which is…funny

New comment by tensegrist in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

tensegrist — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:34:22 +0000

"created with", à la "built with"

New comment by tensegrist in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

tensegrist — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:32:33 +0000

> Then we cut: the fourteen date formatters become one,

something's off here

New comment by tensegrist in "Road to Elm 1.0"

tensegrist — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:48:38 +0000

the list numbering in that first link is a bit surprising

New comment by tensegrist in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

tensegrist — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:39:09 +0000

> Here’s the part I need you to sit with

no, i don't think i will

New comment by tensegrist in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

tensegrist — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:45:30 +0000

i've been using nixos on an m2 air for a year now, the kernel is enough

New comment by tensegrist in "Claude Sonnet 5"

tensegrist — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:01:04 +0000

there was a vibecoded prediction market–style page that was put up yesterday (?) that got the date exactly right i think

New comment by tensegrist in "Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand"

tensegrist — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:16:09 +0000

can a unique fingerprint (no pun intended) be extracted from hand geometry