Hacker News: vincston

New comment by vincston in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

vincston — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:33:42 +0000

Honestly big noobquestion: isn't math just very very nested patternmatching based on a few foundational operators? ive always felt, that im bad at math, cause i forget all the rules, but seeing solutions (and knowing the used pattern) always made "sense".

I always thought the hard math problems are so deeply nested or you have to remember trick xyz that people just didnt think about it yet..

New comment by vincston in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

vincston — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:28:49 +0000

I think this is a very subjective matter and depends on how negatively connoted someone's perception of the word 'manipulate' is. By your definition, I would consider 'studying/learning' also a form of manipulation.

New comment by vincston in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

vincston — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:54:20 +0000

For me its more his attitude that puts me off. He might be intelligent, but his EQ doesnt seem that high. The condescending way he references the "malcolm in the middle"-episode "hot dumb girl" couldve been just the explaination of the "1 dollar = 1 million dollar".

New comment by vincston in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

vincston — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:22:25 +0000

Its baffling to me how the US cannot handle their traffic laws. How is there any doubt in running a red light? Why can they not let common sense handle it? Just fine the car owner without question. Car owners will think twice borrowing their cars. Easy detection, less bureaucracy. And hopefully safer streets.

New comment by vincston in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

vincston — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:15:05 +0000

Well if this abuse is common the fines should rise. How would you enforce it otherwise?

New comment by vincston in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

vincston — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:02:57 +0000

What google search alternative have you found? Im trying out ecosia, duckduckgo and brave search, but i find their search results even worse, so in the second query i tend to bang to google..

New comment by vincston in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

vincston — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:57:08 +0000

Honestly imo the driving license requirements and the respective fines for violations is too low. Rigid rules generally improve the traffic flow. But as soon as someone just doesnt care, the system breaks down.

New comment by vincston in "LLM Agents Are Simply Graph – Tutorial for Dummies"

vincston — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:22:24 +0000

Why forget about boxes and deterministic control and start thinking of error tolerance and recovery? I know, that LLMs are statistical models, but can you not use patterns to enforce a deterministic outcome? (Single responsibility for each agent, retrying llm calls, rephrasing prompts, etc?)

New comment by vincston in "Kunkun – open-source, cross-platform, extensible app launcher"

vincston — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:12:13 +0000

Hopefully it can fill the void in Linux and Windows Systems. And please without subscription. If it works fine id love to pay 50$+ like the Alfred Powerpack

New comment by vincston in "Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game"

vincston — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:58:11 +0000

Thanks, good workaround :)

New comment by vincston in "Show HN: Driftmania – an open source PICO-8 racing game"

vincston — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:57:28 +0000

Wow same for me. Been using it for quite some time but just noticed the bug, what a coincidence to see it here.

New comment by vincston in "A Quick Puzzle to Test Your Problem Solving"

vincston — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 15:05:54 +0000

Sadly ive already seen Veritasiums test. so i was biased.

New comment by vincston in "Ask HN: I am busy with too many things at once"

vincston — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:46:11 +0000

I'd love to have concrete and applicable hobby, but that isnt the case. Some people (like me) still have no clear thing in mind. Take me for example.

I'm still a student, studying computerscience and I'm almost finished. The problem is, my fun in computerscience is simply limited, sometimes it really makes a lot of fun. Sometimes it doesnt (Majority, since I am really unmotivated). Now. The problem is, I don't have anything I'd consider to do for the rest of my life. Was totally clueless after graduating from school and I'm still unsure. This just doesnt sound like a good future, but I really cant figure.

For now I'll just graduate from university. Any Advice?