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New comment by williamstein in "How LLMs work"

williamstein — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:23:00 +0000

This interview https://youtu.be/oWOz2htozfI?si=qdQ0uZRoZOYeThOn from 2 days ago with a top researcher from OpenAI directly addresses the bitter lesson argument and the importance of scaling for the history of their models.

New comment by williamstein in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

williamstein — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:14:34 +0000

> Some of the numbers that you saw from the number of students who receive failing grades were because we caught them (cheating) and prosecuted them and are sending their cases to the center for student conduct,” Garcia said. According to Garcia, nearly 30 students in CS 10 were caught cheating on take-home exams in spring 2026.

New comment by williamstein in "Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web"

williamstein — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:14:22 +0000

It seems like a big problem that xtermjs has is iOS copy/paste, so I fixed that today [1].

[1] https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/issues/3727

New comment by williamstein in "Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web"

williamstein — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:06:33 +0000

This seems like a useful discussion of the relationship between wterm and xtermjs: https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/issues/...

New comment by williamstein in "Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web"

williamstein — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:07:55 +0000

Wow, finally an alternative to xterm.js?

New comment by williamstein in "Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics"

williamstein — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:12:41 +0000

I maintain a website of scans of things Grothendieck wrote, pictures, etc. https://wstein.org/sga/

Codex downloaded by Xcode 26.4.1 reported as Malware

williamstein — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:24:24 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Xcode/comments/1t8bdf2/codex_downloaded_by_xcode_2641_reported_as_malware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095416

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by williamstein in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

williamstein — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:24:17 +0000

He was NOT reading the code: "For 7 months I'd been prompting and shipping without ever sitting down and actually reading the code Claude wrote."

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

williamstein — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:12:08 +0000

https://github.com/ImperialCollegeLondon/FLT

New comment by williamstein in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

williamstein — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:25:11 +0000

Mojo is still NOT open source (the standard library is but not the compiler). Open source is table stakes for a modern programming language.

New comment by williamstein in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

williamstein — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:15:00 +0000

What does " Not mentioning the resets every 1 million customers" mean?

New comment by williamstein in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

williamstein — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:02:07 +0000

This guy is: https://youtu.be/sxX8BMscce0?si=1MuE3_cCH_uDabrT

New comment by williamstein in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

williamstein — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:30:13 +0000

SEA with node.js "works" for nearly arbitrarily general node code -- pretty much anything you can run with node. However you may have to put in substantial extra effort, e.g., using [1], and possibly more work (e.g., copying assets out or using a virtual file system).

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vercel/ncc

New comment by williamstein in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

williamstein — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:44:21 +0000

The current OpenClaw GitHub repo [1] contains 2.1 million lines of code, according to cloc, with 1.6M being typescript. It also has almost 26K commits.

[1] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

Nteract 2.0: A ground-up rebuild of the notebook app

williamstein — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nteract.io/blog/nteract-2.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602615

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by williamstein in "Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference"

williamstein — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:28:09 +0000

FWIW, the Joint Mathematics Meeting is bigger, based on number of registered attendees [1].

[1] https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm20...

New comment by williamstein in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

williamstein — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:46:29 +0000

This exact thing solves a huge problem with SEA binaries as he points out in his post. You can include complicated assets easily and skip an ugly unpack step entirely. This is very useful.

New comment by williamstein in "Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly"

williamstein — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:56:01 +0000

I tried to make a version of this using Zig once, but ran out of steam: https://cowasm.org/

New comment by williamstein in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

williamstein — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:14:07 +0000

Is this open source or source available?

New comment by williamstein in "Write-only code"

williamstein — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:29:22 +0000

He is trying to use a different phrase “write-only code” to define exactly the same thing Karpathy defined last year as “vibe coding”.

For what it is worth, in my experience one of the most important skills one should strive to get much better at to be good at using coding agents is reading and understanding code.