Hacker News: wrycoder

New comment by wrycoder in "Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers"

wrycoder — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:49:16 +0000

An EV with a degraded battery and miles per charge is still very useful for retired people who are tired of traveling long distance and can plug in at home. There should be a good market for them.

I tend to keep my cars over 200,000 miles. Today's cars last a long time. Still, looking back over the past three year's expenses between 150,000 and 200,000 miles, almost all of them relate to engine peripherals - like a new exhaust system, work on emission controls, and a new gas tank, which an EV doesn't have - or brakes, which on an EV last much longer.

New comment by wrycoder in "Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf]"

wrycoder — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:05:57 +0000

By Antonio Gulli, Google

Forward by Marco Argenti, CIO, Goldman Sachs

...explore a diverse range of design patterns, from foundational concepts like structuring sequential operations (Prompt Chaining) and external interaction (Tool Use) to more advanced topics like collaborative work (Multi-Agent Collaboration) and self-improvement (Self-Correction).

https://x.com/DBVolkov/status/2004598132076937248

Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf]

wrycoder — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:49:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sarwarbeing-ai/Agentic_Design_Patterns/blob/main/Agentic_Design_Patterns.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398932

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by wrycoder in "HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books"

wrycoder — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:14:24 +0000

The author of Starlark, a language covered by one of these books on software, discovers that the book is full of hallucinations and incorrect information. He remarks that a beginner might not be able to readily determine that. The other books from HiTeX seem to have the same issues.

HiTeX Press: A spam factory for AI-generated books

wrycoder — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://laurent.le-brun.eu/blog/hitex-a-spam-factory-for-ai-generated-books

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45761603

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by wrycoder in "Altoids by the Fistful"

wrycoder — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:21:08 +0000

It looked like it was going to be a real downer to the end, but.... and then it was.

Building Accessible Progressive Search

wrycoder — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:36:33 +0000

Article URL: https://jch.github.io/posts/2025-01-30-building-modern-search.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45303616

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wrycoder in "OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations and reporting content to police"

wrycoder — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:32:34 +0000

Perhaps flag the account and switch out the AI instance for Boring-BobGPT and further monitoring?

New comment by wrycoder in "Librarians are dangerous"

wrycoder — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:21:18 +0000

My town votes 50/50 Republican/Democrat, yet our newly rebuilt library is filled with lib/women oriented non-fiction and contemporary women’s pulp fiction. They no longer even have paper sets of encyclopedias. It’s not possible to learn much about science or technology there anymore - they weeded much of that out during the remodeling.

New comment by wrycoder in "Show HN: Physical Pomodoro Timer with ESP32 and e-paper screen"

wrycoder — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:12:05 +0000

LOL, read the one star reviews [0]. The problem with the mechanical ones is they are shoddy these days and can't be depended on. It seems no one knows how to make a high quality mechanical timer any more.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B07H59ZL1L/ref=acr_se...

Grok 3: Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis

wrycoder — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://scienceofclimatechange.org/grok-3-beta-et-al-a-critical-reassessment-of-the-anthropogenic-co%e2%82%82-global-warming-hypothesis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43449351

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by wrycoder in "Designing Electronics That Work"

wrycoder — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:43:28 +0000

Yes. Think of it as a CAPTCHA. There’s a reason.

I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene"

wrycoder — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:31:52 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1902046003567718810

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406983

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by wrycoder in "Apple Exclaves"

wrycoder — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:46:46 +0000

He did

New comment by wrycoder in "Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon"

wrycoder — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 04:28:14 +0000

And yet the ranks of proofreaders and editors never blinked.

New comment by wrycoder in "Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)"

wrycoder — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:42:16 +0000

IMO, a most useful thing is Lynx in DIRED mode. A great read-only directory browser - just enter a local url when you start it. For example, or .

New comment by wrycoder in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

wrycoder — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:00:20 +0000

Constitution, yes - but following it, not so much. I would really like the Federal government to improve in that regard.

New comment by wrycoder in "How the strengths of Lisp facilitate complex and flexible applications (2016)"

wrycoder — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:17:49 +0000

From TFA, ...the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python

Quanta: The Ocean Teems with Networks of Interconnected Bacteria

wrycoder — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ocean-teems-with-networks-of-interconnected-bacteria-20250106/