Hacker News: tyingq

New comment by tyingq in "Beware Management Consultants"

tyingq — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:25:13 +0000

Scapegoat as a service. You hire them to put a stamp of approval on any silly idea you have, implement it, etc. Then, if it turns out badly, well...it wasn't your fault.

New comment by tyingq in "Could a computer scientist build a brain?"

tyingq — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:41:05 +0000

The video talks about "orchestrated objective reduction".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...

New comment by tyingq in "In 1962, Egypt's Missile Program Lost Its Key Scientist Without a Trace"

tyingq — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:44:44 +0000

They could just mean that foreign enrollment in US postgrad programs is down significantly, or other forms of specialized visas, etc.

New comment by tyingq in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

tyingq — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:26:52 +0000

> You can also use "/btw" to have side tangent conversations with the current context

Ah, something I needed, but did not know I needed. Comes up ALL the time. I want to know something that is well off the task, but it's the best time to ask due to the specifically loaded context.

New comment by tyingq in "Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale"

tyingq — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:29:19 +0000

I don't see it via openrouter, but it is in the dashboard if you log into CF.

https://imgur.com/a/Sb7jQ0A

$3/$0.30/$15 ( input / cached input / output, all per 1M )

New comment by tyingq in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

tyingq — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:19:53 +0000

Sure. 3.6.9 (which was affected) was the most recent iTerm2 when that CVE came out.

New comment by tyingq in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

tyingq — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:51:50 +0000

Even newer ones. Iterm2 had CVE-2026-41253 recently. Or things like Tmux.

New comment by tyingq in "ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children"

tyingq — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:33:14 +0000

Health insurance actuaries would be a concern also.

New comment by tyingq in "Linux on ESP32"

tyingq — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:15:57 +0000

I also think an LLM isn't going to just spit this all out and viola, it boots. I imagine there were many rounds of jtag debug, copy/paste into the LLM prompt, with enough human knowledge/context to say the right thing, suggest some existing implementation snippet, etc.

New comment by tyingq in "Linux on ESP32"

tyingq — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:57:18 +0000

The responses all seem a little harsh. If you poke through the user's history, this kind of thing isn't new for them, going back to pre-LLM-could-do-this days.

I think the docs are light because the primary goal for them is not to provide everyone with a well documented linux on esp-32-s31 guide, but rather this that they shared:

"I'm currently working on a hackable music player and I used to prototype with the OG esp32, and tbh if I wasn't for Bluetooth audio I'd move on to S3 already" ( from the links in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134987 )

New comment by tyingq in "Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account"

tyingq — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:00:22 +0000

Cloudflare's is $0.05 per GB if your traffic exceeds the 1,000 GB free threshold.

New comment by tyingq in "Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)"

tyingq — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:52:39 +0000

> awk wasn't very portable because you still had the awk,nawk,gawk flavors

Debian and Ubuntu both ship with mawk and Alpine has the busybox flavor of awk (nawk like). MacOS still ships with a default nawk. I don't know the scene has changed much, still many flavors out there.

New comment by tyingq in "PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days"

tyingq — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:23:24 +0000

BitTorrent used hash pinning earlier than that even.

New comment by tyingq in "TypeScript 7"

tyingq — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:36:41 +0000

Last I tried, there's still often (not always) fighting with typing, mypy, pyright because of the dynamic nature you mention. I think the complaints about it are sometimes misinterpreted as "disliking types".

New comment by tyingq in "Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?"

tyingq — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:52:35 +0000

Might come off like a flippant joke, but it might give you what you're after.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210201005447/https://news.ycom...

New comment by tyingq in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

tyingq — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:00:58 +0000

> reasoning-token clustering at 516/1034/1552

Interesting. So 516 probably means initial 512 byte buffer and a 4 byte header. Then 516 + 518 = 1034...so another 512 + 4 byte header + 2 bytes for a linked list ref or similar, 1034 + 518 = 1552, etc.

New comment by tyingq in "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable"

tyingq — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:09:49 +0000

One area I think is really going to get slaughtered by LLMs are marketplace plugins. Those monthly fee plugins people release for things like Jira, Shopify, Salesforce, etc. There's a subset of those that don't have some backend that's hard to replicate, and asking an LLM to reverse engineer and make your own plugin is trivial.

New comment by tyingq in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

tyingq — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:48 +0000

When it was, it was typically some amount less than inflation. 1-2%

New comment by tyingq in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

tyingq — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:23:35 +0000

Maybe not, but I have the feeling Google doesn't like that FF continues to support manifest v2.

New comment by tyingq in "AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A"

tyingq — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:16:30 +0000

The same pattern/tech is generic enough that it might be able to solve other unrelated, and so-far undecipherable, written languages.