Hacker News: tra3

New comment by tra3 in "God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser"

tra3 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:23:50 +0000

I think of an emulator as a separate project/product typically. Perhaps that's what they are saying?

New comment by tra3 in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

tra3 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:14:37 +0000

Fascinating! Thank you for the links.

New comment by tra3 in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

tra3 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:12:05 +0000

Never been, but the titular burning man installation comes to mind.

New comment by tra3 in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

tra3 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:37:01 +0000

> Similarly, I always provided a safety net where students can make mistakes and resubmit a limited number of assignments to regain lost points (a core recommendation of specifications grading and grading for equity to focus on learning outcomes, not the process), but we felt that this process was abused with AI: first submit a generated assignment solution without thinking and only look at the issues raised in grading for a resubmission (the typical story of externalizing the cost of AI use).

This is how we do PRs now.

New comment by tra3 in "How to write an effective software design document"

tra3 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:02:40 +0000

I think it's worth more scrutiny today, rather than less. Your claude code can barf out "a rewrite" but is it any good? So far the answer is "no" (see anthropic's C compiler, or a more recent port of bun).

Software is still the best specification for existing behavior..

New comment by tra3 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

tra3 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:24:01 +0000

Like taking a train or a plane or a bus? Like having to purchase a vehicle? Like having phone companies know which cell tower you're connected to?

It's a valid point you're making, but we can legislate against the abuse you're implying. We've got privacy laws for a reason.

New comment by tra3 in "The Benchmarkpocalypse"

tra3 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:00:34 +0000

Love LLMs gonna keep using them. It feels like your suggested approach is expensive, in terms of tokens. I feel (second time I say this) that when I steer the process I get pretty good results vs my coworkers that let the LLMs run away. I do have data on our token usage, not much in terms of quality of the delivery.

I keep thinking about the c compiler implementation that anthropic shared earlier in the year that had all the requirements you mention and arguably wasn’t that great.

New comment by tra3 in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

tra3 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:10:52 +0000

Wait, what? With plan on, I at least get the illusion of being in control.

What’s the best way to sandbox Claude on macOS without it being a huge hassle?

New comment by tra3 in "Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?"

tra3 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:22:10 +0000

This goes against the agentic yolo approach tho.

New comment by tra3 in "Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?"

tra3 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:08:17 +0000

All I can think of is

GET /ignore-all-previous-instructions.

How do you protect against that?

New comment by tra3 in "Show HN: Sigwire – a live TUI switchboard for every signal on your Linux box"

tra3 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:18:07 +0000

I'm embracing the AI future we live in. It should be possible to build great software with AI. AI is good at code generation, but not testing. That's the other part of the equation we seem to be forgetting.

With the first and only commit 2 hours ago, the author of this project didn't let it "bake". They didn't exercise it locally to see what issues it might have, and I have a hard time believing the very first iteration of this software is perfect. With how easy it is to prompt/push anything, I'm not interested in engaging with anything that hasn't aged a bit.

New comment by tra3 in "Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP"

tra3 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:18:16 +0000

At this point I tried a few of these that I could run locally and they weren’t useful. I end up manually managing context. It’s somewhat annoying, and I’m sure there’s an elegant solution out there.

I’m not even willing to try this one, I already ship my data to Anthropic I’m not keen to introduce another actor.

New comment by tra3 in "A love letter to flashcards"

tra3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:02:31 +0000

Perhaps "Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics " [1] might be of interest for you. I have read author's "Augmenting Long-term Memory" [2] and have incorporated a lot of his advice into my Anki practice.

For me, it's quick access recipes (breakfast pancakes for kids), what was the name of the glacier that we hiked to last year, behavioral prompts etc.

1: https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics

2: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html

New comment by tra3 in "The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]"

tra3 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:12:55 +0000

One of the oldest open source projects in the existence?

It makes building custom UI workflows so easy, I think it’s both obvious and flies under the radar.

New comment by tra3 in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

tra3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:52:53 +0000

I would love to see an analysis of how valve's openness and goodwill affects their bottom line. Intuitively it should be a net positive for them, but there gotta be upfront costs, otherwise everyone would be doing it too.

New comment by tra3 in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

tra3 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:31:00 +0000

Maybe this one? https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-breaking-bots-cheating-at-blue-t...

Hoping op will confirm.

New comment by tra3 in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

tra3 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:31:12 +0000

I will settle for a slightly larger iPhone that unfolds into a iPad mini.

New comment by tra3 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

tra3 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:46:24 +0000

I've been dragging my feet on upgrading my M1 Air, guess now I'm just going to wait a bit longer. Truth be told, it's still sufficient for web dev but I figured at ~5 years old I should upgrade it..

New comment by tra3 in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

tra3 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:27:06 +0000

I’m not familiar with this, but what does “solved” mean in this case? Guaranteed inability to compromise systems?

New comment by tra3 in "Agentic Mfw"

tra3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:28:30 +0000

Plot twist, it was artisanally typed in emacs.