Hacker News: vld_chk

New comment by vld_chk in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

vld_chk — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:26:36 +0000

Quite a thing to use Bun rewrite to Rust as example of dynamic workflows, while now it is considered as anti pattern which leads team to stop supporting the tool due to inability to properly understand and navigate 1m vibe coded Rust lines

New comment by vld_chk in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

vld_chk — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:55:24 +0000

If we learn anything from all studies in this field, that is barely possible if not impossible at all, to change people’s mind. Even when they face clear evidence of their own mistake.

New comment by vld_chk in "Claude for Small Business"

vld_chk — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:41:27 +0000

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them?

In books of the future, if we ever hold one, I think this will be studied a lot. We have seen before competitions and rivals, but they mostly were rivalry of craft. Here it is a rivalry of velocity and reach. Who can first target user with whatever they have ready to offer.

New comment by vld_chk in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

vld_chk — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:27:28 +0000

This is the case, when author argues about the right thing (you do not need Rust everywhere on every project and in every feature, especially if your team has 0 prior exposure to Rust or at least C++), but provide very awkward arguments which are not aligned with core thesis.

New comment by vld_chk in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

vld_chk — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:47:30 +0000

I genuinely start to think that we, as humanity, severely overestimate our cognitive abilities. We act so surprised “just a few years of LLM with a few RL tweaks match our PhD levels! It must be hidden inside our knowledge base!”. Em, what if no? What if our “PhD level” is just very low level comparing to upper boundaries of measurable intelligence? What if we need to learn being humble and stop treating our minds as “sacred source of creativity and intelligence”?

Three cruise ship passengers die in suspected hantavirus outbreak

vld_chk — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/three-passengers-dead-one-case-hantavirus-confirmed-atlantic-cruise-ship-who-2026-05-03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002569

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by vld_chk in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

vld_chk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:08:38 +0000

This experiment would be really cool, if they would keep location and specifics of the shop low. IIRC when AI mania started, some group of people tried to run AI-managed t-shirt merch shop, but at least they explicitly did not disclose the brand and website to not inflate sales and keep it pure. Here I expect quite a few visitors and sales just from all the hype and interest around the project.

Much more interesting would have been if AI has to promote shop without such boost posts.

Show HN: Timelog – C-native, fast, in-memory LSM-style time index for Python

vld_chk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:31:17 +0000

I built *Timelog*, a Python library for time-indexed workloads with a C17 core and CPython bindings. My goal was to make [t1, t2) as first-class citizens and enable fast workloads under out-of-boundary semantics.

- PyPI package: `timelog-lib` - Import: `from timelog import Timelog` - Model: in-memory, LSM-inspired layered index, timeseries queries as first-class citizens - Query semantics: half-open ranges `[t1, t2)`, snapshot-consistent reads, zero-copy views - Correctness focus: sequenced range deletes, so insert → delete → reinsert behaves correctly - Concurrency model: single writer, concurrent readers - Complexity: ~O(1) insert; O(log N + M) with bounded fanout range queries; ~O(log N) point lookup; O(C) deletion where C is number of overlapping active tombstones - Benchmarks: in C engnine-only benchmarks Timelog reaches 20M+ inserts/sec; ~1M/sec range scans. Python end-to-end throughput is constraint by Python object creation

Install: ```bash pip install timelog-lib # or uv add timelog-lib ```

Quick example: ```python from timelog import Timelog

log = Timelog(time_unit="ms") log.append(1772964242, "A") del log[1772964244] # log.delete() log.append(1772964246, [39, "B"]) print(log[1772964246]) # [[39, 'B']] print(list(log[1772964242:1772964246])) # [(1772964242, 'A')] ```

V1 limitations: - No in-built flush-to-disk/read-from-disk method (persistent copy) - `.copy()` and `.copy(deep=True)` not supported yet.

I’d value feedback on API design, semantics clarity, and where this fits vs existing options.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324638

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vld_chk in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

vld_chk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:53:35 +0000

to be fair, it implies nothing about current state of the US economy and likelihood of recession now. Induction conclusion is not the one which suits the case.

New comment by vld_chk in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

vld_chk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:35:53 +0000

By which time should we expect US administration to post a video on X about “good classic” plastic bags and ban in the US any attempt to replace them? :)

New comment by vld_chk in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

vld_chk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:08:21 +0000

In my mental model, the fundamental problem of reproducibility is that scientists have very hard time to find a penny to fund such research. No one wants to grant “hey I need $1m and 2 years to validate the paper from last year which looks suspicious”.

Until we can change how we fund science on the fundamental level; how we assign grants — it will be indeed very hard problem to deal with.

New comment by vld_chk in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

vld_chk — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:19:50 +0000

If this is a symbolism, then why 30YR Treasuries are YTH despite FED rate cuts throughout the year?

New comment by vld_chk in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

vld_chk — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:13:16 +0000

While general vibe of Sam and OpenAI losing steam is correct for me; I genially disagree with all “hate” of GPT-5. It was indeed not a crazy breakthrough, but, honestly, 5.2 model at extended thinking path in Pro version is utterly scary to me. I can give it some complicated multi-tier question which requires modeling, abstract thinking, computation, and rationality; it can walk away for 45 minutes, produce CoT with a length of Empire State Building and give me fairly good and well written response. I can’t speak for all industries, but 5.2-Pro-extended is really scarce when it comes to math and reasoning. Here I am a bit on Sam side when he said that most of people severely underutilize modern AI by using it same as in 2023. The capability of recent models sounds to me way beyond current typical use cases.

The Department of Amnesia

vld_chk — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:52:11 +0000

Article URL: https://ineffectiveop.substack.com/p/the-department-of-amnesia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45149783

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vld_chk in "Custom SIM card in Tesla Model 3 2024, Tesla Model Y 2025 and Cybertruck"

vld_chk — Mon, 12 May 2025 02:50:05 +0000

Does it mean that if internal DB of internal numbers will be leaked anytime in the future, it will give to anyone power to wake up all Tesla cars in a few clicks?

New comment by vld_chk in "The Woman Who Showed President Biden ChatGPT"

vld_chk — Thu, 09 May 2024 18:59:48 +0000

Oh boy, years after years, after everything we went so far, there are people in the world who believes that Big Tech invests billions dollars into AI (including data centers and infra) with only socially good intent and we should not at all touch anything Big Tech do …

Telegram Cooperates with Russian Authorities

vld_chk — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ccn.com/news/state-duma-telegram-cooperates-russian-law-enforcement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39857631

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by vld_chk in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

vld_chk — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:23:38 +0000

Idk, subjectively it feels as end of Apple we all know.

Clear stagnation in terms of innovation; no new fundamental interface (no smart glasses, AVP looks too expensive and too narrow); abandon on car project; AI for Apple is nowhere close to others; sales decrease; Apple Watch sales ban; Epic Games court; DMA — after taking a leading position at the market, Apple clearly fails to offer anything new and instead invest too much resources into protecting their market position.

Wonder what will replace Apple. Will we see a slow stagnation here or radically new interface for human-to-technology interaction is around the corner?

New comment by vld_chk in "Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?"

vld_chk — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:04:22 +0000

Whenever I read about Planet Nine search, I have a very naive (as a non-physicist) childish question: if we detect anomaly in our Solar System just less than a decade ago and can’t find anything visual which explains it, assuming there is giant planet/piece of ice floating somewhere at the edge of Solar System, how we are sure that there are not a lot of such objects and real space is not as “empty” as we think it is? Simply, what is the probability that let’s say space between us and Alpha Centaurs is not filled with objects like this? Invisible and leaving a tiny gravitational trace at the edge of our ability to detect it?

New comment by vld_chk in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

vld_chk — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 01:15:12 +0000

Durov was indeed an opposition to Russian govt for some time and TG was banned in Russia for some time.

But then “SEC-incident” happened. He and his brother wanted to build TON and fund it by kind of ICO (without naming it ICO). SEC decides enough is enough and blocked launch of TON with charging Durov for selling unregistered securities.

At the end, issue was settled, Durov returned all money and settle the deal with SEC, but it shrinks his finance by a lot and he ran out of money for TG.

Then he was seen in Russia and issued bonds for $1 bln. According to Russian financial press [1], bonds were underwritten by Russian banks closely affiliated with government or directly stated-owned (all of them are in sanctions list now), and even some money was invested by Russian Fund of Direct Investments [2]. Last summer he again issued bonds for TG for $270 mln. You can buy TG bonds at SPB stock exchange where they were listed 2 weeks after the issuing [3].

Surprisingly (repeating my comment below), around same time, Russian govt withdrew all their claims to Telegram and started to use as the official communication channel.

Not to say that other “transformations” happened like Duriv publicly denounce US declaring it is a “police state” [4]

All links in Russian, sorry:

[1] https://www.rbc.ru/finances/15/03/2021/604f11019a79478034130... [2] https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-56501991.amp [3] https://www.forbes.ru/finansy-i-investicii/424665-shirokiy-k... [4] https://te.legra.ph/7-prichin-ne-pereezzhat-v-Kremnievuyu-do...