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New comment by tkocmathla in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

tkocmathla — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:06:45 +0000

Reminds me of Microsoft Research's TextWorld [1] (from 2018!).

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld

New comment by tkocmathla in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

tkocmathla — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:00:10 +0000

I've been using superpowers [1] for this purpose, and have really appreciated how it guides the model to use careful, methodical approaches to answering my prompts. It's great for multi-step planning, design, and implementation, but also has guidance for debugging, accepting a code review, etc.

[1] https://github.com/obra/superpowers

The underground mega tunnels redrawing the railway map of Europe

tkocmathla — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/26/travel/europe-rail-base-tunnels-alps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289893

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tkocmathla in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

tkocmathla — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:47:00 +0000

Yes, they can be anonymous in the sense that you can buy one in person and top it up without an ID [1].

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/ways-to-pay/where-to-buy-tickets-an...

New comment by tkocmathla in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

tkocmathla — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:14:49 +0000

HEIR [1] is a homomorphic encryption compiler built on modern MLIR.

IREE [2] is very actively developed ML compiler + runtime, also MLIR-based.

[1] https://github.com/google/heir

[2] https://github.com/iree-org/iree

New comment by tkocmathla in "Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso"

tkocmathla — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:02:48 +0000

At London Heathrow too, the 100ml limit was scrapped early this year.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736815

New comment by tkocmathla in "Virtual violin produces realistic sounds"

tkocmathla — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:04:19 +0000

They briefly address this in the article:

> Violin bowing, the researchers say, is a much more complicated interaction to model.

New comment by tkocmathla in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

tkocmathla — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:46:43 +0000

> AI also forces folks to be online to code

This isn't true in the broad sense you've used. It's true that most people don't have the hardware to run the bleeding-edge foundation models, but with a modest Macbook you can run very capable local models now (at least capable for coding, where my experience is).

New comment by tkocmathla in "Kelp DAO Exploited for $292M"

tkocmathla — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:18:07 +0000

The KelpDAO Incident Statement from LayerZero:

https://x.com/LayerZero_Core/status/2046081551574983137

New comment by tkocmathla in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"

tkocmathla — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:36:40 +0000

How "fat" are the packed machines? In other words, how much bloat is inevitable, or is that entirely controlled by the base image + the user's smolvm machine spec? How does smolvm's pack compare to something like dockerc [0] in terms of speed and size? Disclaimer: I just learned about dockerc!

I can't actually create and test a pack right now because of [1], but I love the idea of using this to distribute applications you might otherwise use a Docker image for.

[0] https://github.com/NilsIrl/dockerc

[1] https://github.com/smol-machines/smolvm/issues/159

Teaching AI Agents to Speak Hardware

tkocmathla — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:57:25 +0000

Article URL: https://quadric.ai/blog/mcp-ai-coding-assistant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789196

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tkocmathla in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

tkocmathla — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:35:33 +0000

It's very distracting to have every sentence in this article be its own paragraph.

New comment by tkocmathla in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

tkocmathla — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:49:24 +0000

I love this, from a comment on the article:

  He had in his path a script called `\#` that he used to comment out pipe elements like `mycmd1 | \# mycmd2 | mycmd3`. This was how the script was written:
 
  ```
  #!/bin/sh
  cat
  ```

New comment by tkocmathla in "Show HN: I Was Here – Draw on street view, others can find your drawings"

tkocmathla — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:04:24 +0000

Cool idea, but of course the very first image I clicked into was a dick.

New comment by tkocmathla in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

tkocmathla — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:10:24 +0000

I got this itch too when I came across tinyrenderer [1] and worked through the early lessons through shading, but didn't quite finish the texture mapping yet [2]. It was fun to work in pure C from first principles, even side-questing to write a simple TGA file reader and writer.

I'd be very interested to see your tutorial when it's done!

[1] https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer

[2] https://github.com/tkocmathla/tinyrenderer

New comment by tkocmathla in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

tkocmathla — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 08:08:23 +0000

The "locakly" typo is perfectly placed in the comment thread of this article!

New comment by tkocmathla in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

tkocmathla — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:22:40 +0000

And 3 'i's?

New comment by tkocmathla in "I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half"

tkocmathla — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:09:43 +0000

Personally, I'd love this is if it were opt-in. That way, I could gradually reduce my repeat search dependence based on me recognizing my actual habits, rather than giving a browser extension carte blanche access to my entire search history. Maybe that's already possible, but I didn't see any documentation about the config file.

New comment by tkocmathla in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

tkocmathla — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:43:50 +0000

First off, the ASCII art raccoon is adorable.

The documentation here seems very thorough, but I'd really like to see some screenshots or a screencast of this in action! I've been using Diffview.nvim [1] lately to get just the view of all diffs in the current branch vs its merge base, with a nice file tree on the left hand side. A plugin like yours that also brings in reviewing features sounds great.

[1] https://github.com/sindrets/diffview.nvim

New comment by tkocmathla in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

tkocmathla — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:58:35 +0000

Mark Kermode is wonderful. Incredibly intelligent takes, thoughtful analysis, and brutal honesty when it's warranted. He's a delight to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/@kermodeandmayostake