Hacker News: tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tylersmithHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:10:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"]]>Someday computers will be able to do basic arithmetic and people will learn that 95000/600 < 500.

]]>Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:56:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649933tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44649933<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "AI LLMs can't count lines in a file"]]>An LLM itself can't use wc. Coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor will call out to command line tools for this kind of problem when the LLM detects it.

]]>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:36:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176456tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176456https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44176456<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Push Ifs Up and Fors Down"]]>You don't need an explicit rule, you just need to be smarter than than the average mid-curve tries-too-hard-to-feel-right hn poster and realize when you're repeating a calling convention too much.

]]>Sun, 18 May 2025 06:04:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019315tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019315<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo"]]>The gamification is what made it work for me. I had 2 months to learn some Turkish before a trip and once I realized it was a game I beat everyone else in my cohort every day. When someone would come up on my heels I'd make sure to spend 30-60 extra minutes that day. I still know Turkish better than any other language and I've been immersed in Spanish for 3 years.

]]>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:30:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836302tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836302https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43836302<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"]]>This is right by where I grew up and the broadcast tower and turnpike sign were the first two things I noticed too, but the ability to realize it was the East side instead of the West side because the tower platforms are lower is impressive.

]]>Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:39:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43805570tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43805570https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43805570<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding"]]>$200 per PR is significantly cheaper development than businesses are paying.

]]>Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:54:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739388tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43739388<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"]]>There's nothing you can do even with an account.

]]>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 04:46:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457834tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457834https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43457834<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Claude can now search the web"]]>It's a user agent not a robot.

]]>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:48:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426467tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426467https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426467<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in ""Wait, not like that": Free and open access in the age of generative AI"]]>It's not trained on "the commons", it's trained on a large number of individual products with their own ownership and licensing. If copyrights are being violated the restitution will go to those owners, not to "everyone".

]]>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:48:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383737tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383737https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43383737<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it"]]>I think the inline command pallete likely ran into an internal error making it be unable to generate, and then its "come up with a message telling the user we can't do this" generation got StackOverflow'd.

]]>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:28:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352592tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352592https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352592<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Sam Bankman-Fried thrown into solitary over Tucker Carlson interview: report"]]>For many people, Sam is a more relevant adversary than the Department of Corrections.

]]>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:20:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302208tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43302208<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation"]]>They've always been behind. They're closer than ever but still miles away from Claude's code abilities.

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:32:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292791tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292791https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292791<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation"]]>No free models are even in the same class as Claude when it comes to code. Investors are clearly confident that moat won't be crossed soon.

]]>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:30:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292770tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292770<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Git without a forge"]]>> monocultures are bad, and doesn't want to support them

is just

> it's popular, it must be eschewed.

after a chatgpt pass

]]>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 07:34:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277459tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277459https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43277459<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Did Semgrep Just Get a Lot More Interesting?"]]>Fire the bad engineer.

]]>Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:32:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061489tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061489https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061489<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"]]>Nobody is actually confused, it's just performative whining.

]]>Wed, 08 Jan 2025 06:35:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631618tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631618https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631618<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "iTerm2 critical security release"]]>Ghostty hasn't had to put out a critical update since before 1.0 launched.

]]>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 23:18:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580137tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580137https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42580137<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Ghostty 1.0"]]>You have OpenGL 3.2 but need 3.3

]]>Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:50:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521469tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42521469<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science"]]>Yes, it's called bias.

]]>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:30:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186650tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186650https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186650<![CDATA[New comment by tylersmith in "Boeing to Sell at Least $10B in Shares to Plug Cash Drain"]]>Who decided that's what they were supposed to do with it?

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:25:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853770tylersmithhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853770