Hacker News: vok

The Music of the Spheres

vok — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:53:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spheres-part-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705309

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Foreign Language Training (National Foreign Affairs Training Center)

vok — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:44:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.state.gov/foreign-service-institute/foreign-language-training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433462

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google Gemini earns gold medal in ICPC World Finals coding competition

vok — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:22:04 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/google-gemini-earns-gold-medal-in-icpc-world-finals-coding-competition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278710

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by vok in "The Pleasure of Patterns in Art"

vok — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 06:26:35 +0000

Corrected link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO9aot9RgQc

Performance and Power of the Low-Cost EPYC 4005 vs. Original EPYC 7601 Zen 1

vok — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:53:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-4005-server

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436413

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Gentle Seduction

vok — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 05:22:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44244445

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Kessel Run

vok — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://kesselrun.af.mil/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148961

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tim Friede

vok — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:38:55 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44054693

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Comparing Parallel Functional Array Languages: Programming and Performance

vok — Fri, 16 May 2025 19:50:45 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08906

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44009185

Points: 91

# Comments: 23

New comment by vok in "Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone"

vok — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 21:40:00 +0000

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/version

Using Code Generation to Solve Open Instances of Combinatorial Design Problems

vok — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 22:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.17725

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42892730

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vok in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

vok — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 21:59:59 +0000

Well, o3-mini-high just successfully found the root cause of a seg fault that o1 missed: mistakenly using _mm512_store_si512 for an unaligned store that should have been _mm512_storeu_si512.

New comment by vok in "My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)"

vok — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:56:34 +0000

I think that "Good Forth programmers arrange things so that they flow on the stack" has analogs in other languages. For example, arranging things in J so that short tacit expressions naturally provide the functions you need.

New comment by vok in "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

vok — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 18:35:27 +0000

There's interesting discussion with the authors here: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

New comment by vok in "Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku"

vok — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 16:34:31 +0000

This "Computer use" demo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqx18KgIzAE

shows Sonnet 3.5 using the Google web UI in an automated fashion. Do Google's terms really permit this? Will Google permit this when it is happening at scale?

The Unbearable Slowness of Being

vok — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 05:03:45 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41471545

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Aider Is SOTA for Both SWE Bench and SWE Bench Lite

vok — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 19:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://aider.chat/2024/06/02/main-swe-bench.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40589048

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by vok in "Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots"

vok — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:39:07 +0000

With the right font (e.g. http://viznut.fi/unscii/) and line spacing, braille characters work fine with an even distribution of pixels and no gaps.

New comment by vok in "AI leaderboards are no longer useful. It's time to switch to Pareto curves"

vok — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:53:23 +0000

These strategies seem immediately practical. If you want to go beyond zero-shot for LLM coding, you may not need a complicated agent architecture - just start with escalation, retry, and warming.

Hamilton Technologies Inc

vok — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 06:04:45 +0000

Article URL: http://htius.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39958507

Points: 2

# Comments: 0