Hacker News: trehans

New comment by trehans in "Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%"

trehans — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:47:24 +0000

But randomness comes from the environment, no?

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: SF Microclimates"

trehans — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:26:14 +0000

Can I suggest changing background color of the tiles between blue and red to indicate how warm each spot is? Would make it easier at a glance.

New comment by trehans in "Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly"

trehans — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:03:27 +0000

Does this work for packages with C/C++ extensions e.g. numpy and scipy?

New comment by trehans in "Selling numbered rocks, you get whatever's next in sequence"

trehans — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:29:36 +0000

IIRC many websites (e.g. for buying concert tickets) have a lock mechanism where you have X amount of time to make your purchase during which time only a limited number of people can be in the checkout process.

New comment by trehans in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

trehans — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Or... there is some elasticity with price and supply/demand, which falls totally within microeconomics

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT"

trehans — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:13:20 +0000

hunter2

New comment by trehans in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

trehans — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:03:30 +0000

For answers like that, it probably wouldn't matter whether it was AI-generated or not. It becomes more relevant with long-form generated content

New comment by trehans in "Prompting by Activation Maximization"

trehans — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 06:33:51 +0000

I wonder what the prompt would look like as a sentence. Maybe activation maximization can be used to decipher it, maybe by seeing which sentence of length N would maximize similarity to the prompt when fed through a tokenizer

New comment by trehans in "Convo-Lang: LLM Programming Language and Runtime"

trehans — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:51:25 +0000

I'm not sure what this is about, would anyone mind ELI5?

Inverted Totalitarianism

trehans — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650433

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: Data Bonsai: a Python package to clean your data with LLMs"

trehans — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:28:17 +0000

Interested in knowing this as well

New comment by trehans in "Scientists figured out how to write in water"

trehans — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:35:26 +0000

If you read the article, it addresses this exact scuba pen, and why this is solving a different problem.

New comment by trehans in "Wittgenstein's Ladder"

trehans — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:22:51 +0000

Well, you are not really seeing an eye in a mirror, you are just seeing a representation of it. The medium cannot depict all the dimensions and details of the object, so again you are able to see depictions, representations, and simplifications of it, but never truly be able to grasp the object itself.

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: The Shark Programming Language"

trehans — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 01:43:39 +0000

Why not remove the ability to set a key to the null value then? Raise an error in the compiler. It seems pretty undesirable to have undefined behavior in the language, and if high performance is one of your goals, remove the ability for users to do the low performance things.

New comment by trehans in "Docopt.sh – Command-Line Argument Parser for Bash 3.2, 4, and 5"

trehans — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:28:17 +0000

Seems like an interesting way of doing it. Why generate the argument configuration from the documentation rather than generating the documentation from the argument configuration? Where there some pain points you wanted to solve from `getopt`, etc.?

New comment by trehans in "A philosopher who believes in living things"

trehans — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 07:26:08 +0000

A river flows in one way rather than another because the particles that form the river have momentum one way rather than another. The reason they have this momentum is because the surfaces of the river interact with the air, obstacles, and the rock bed underneath it, and then pass on momentum to internal river particles, which pass on that momentum to other particles, etc. In this way, is the river not processing information regarding things it can directly "observe" about its environment at its surface, as well as the things it has experienced in the past, then processing that information deeper and deeper, until it ultimately leads to a decision on which way the river flows?

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers"

trehans — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 21:47:23 +0000

This is cool! I suggest adding some more hints to indicate how important/relevant different papers are. Maybe some tags to classify papers in different fields, and number of citations or amount of discussions online as a metric of how big a paper is? (I know that's not a great metric but I think it's still better than seeing a bunch of papers and not knowing which ones are worth reading). You can also spark discussions. Seeing "0 comments" discourages anyone to look at the comments, but even having an AI-generated summary as a comment can be encouraging and spark discussions. Just a thought.

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: Link Book – Quickly save links from around the web to GitHub"

trehans — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 20:05:56 +0000

Could you just create a GitHub user and ask your readers to add that user as a contributor to the repository they want to use for storing bookmarks?

New comment by trehans in "Galileo AI – Copilot for interface design"

trehans — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:21:17 +0000

I think a better word might be "comprehensive" or "complete".

New comment by trehans in "Show HN: DSLCad – a programming language and interpreter for building 3D models"

trehans — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:16:24 +0000

Thanks for the reply!

Would you accept a PR for first-class support for specifying constraints between variables (and object measurements) as part of the language or would that be divergent with the goals of the language? I find it to be an important part of SolidWorks etc. because often times I'm trying to build something where I know one of the dimensions is constrained a certain way but that's not how I'd parameterize the object. And I don't want to be doing math for e.g. calculating the diagonal over and over again as part of calculating parameter values or modeling constraints, I like that in Solidworks that's part of the package. I believe this issue is important to other mechanical engineers as well.

However I do want to say, great work, I think a programming language is a great step forward for CAD regardless, and this project seems to be pretty well done!