Hacker News: wwarner

632nm Podcast: John Bowers – Silicon Photonics and the Future of AI Scaling [video]

wwarner — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:19:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjQ3Yorw-Ps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670046

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

632nm: Dr Michael Levin on Bioelectricity and Morphogenesis

wwarner — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:57:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6EFV2gSSmg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467644

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wwarner in "You Can Run"

wwarner — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:27:25 +0000

Honestly i come to hn to escape true crime.

New comment by wwarner in "Rothko for your current weather conditions"

wwarner — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:33:51 +0000

Expected a generator.

New comment by wwarner in "The Art of Money Getting"

wwarner — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:19:18 +0000

I've only ever been good at dancing to punk music, which has only cost me money so far.

New comment by wwarner in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

wwarner — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:58:41 +0000

Yes, and wondering why all the AI tooling is written in node.

New comment by wwarner in "Library for fast mapping of Java records to native memory"

wwarner — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:46:54 +0000

Wouldn’t apache arrow serve the same purpose?

New comment by wwarner in "Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model"

wwarner — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:46:10 +0000

Haven't finished this but for me it's so refreshing to read some science on deep learning and not just weird predictions.

New comment by wwarner in "Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test"

wwarner — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:11:11 +0000

I feel the same, but then I remind myself of how I used to feel about dark matter (I really disliked it). Having an arena where no scientific question is out of bounds is great.

New comment by wwarner in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

wwarner — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:16:51 +0000

I run emacs without graphics from this docker image i maintain https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-native

I just use emacs for programming, not note taking or email reading or the other things people love it for. Strengths: magit, wgrep, vterm, buffer management, plugins & packaging. Weaknesses, irritations, embarrassments: yaml-mode, responsiveness, overlays & mini-buffers.

New comment by wwarner in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

wwarner — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:34:58 +0000

My usage of emacs is so vim-like that I’ve tried switching a few times. Vim is definitely faster, and overlays and cursor placement is much simpler and more intuitive. But there were still feature gaps and configuration issues that prevented full adoption.

New comment by wwarner in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

wwarner — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:03:04 +0000

Sane & interesting enough to have been disproven, by Boaz Barak iirc. Maybe not surprising since simulated annealing never achieved the results of gradient descent + backprop.

New comment by wwarner in "Elasticsearch was never a database"

wwarner — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:15:05 +0000

These drawbacks are all true, but sometimes storing directly to elastic is still the best way forward.

New comment by wwarner in "Animated AI"

wwarner — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:30:50 +0000

I feel like these are helpful, and I think the calculus oriented visualizations of convex surfaces and gradient descent help a lot as well.

New comment by wwarner in "LLMs Are Not Fun"

wwarner — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:45:01 +0000

I reluctantly agree. It’s like ebikes — yes it’s great that I don’t have to pedal up hill, but on the other hand the cyclists that did it the hard way deserved the praise and glory for their achievement while weak and distracted ebikers definitely do not.

New comment by wwarner in "Installing Java in 2025, and Version Managers"

wwarner — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:12:29 +0000

The version manager approach feels like a giant step backward to me. Manage dependencies with containers.

New comment by wwarner in "Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence"

wwarner — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 02:40:27 +0000

holding my nose reading this. if scientific progress killed god, it seems unlikely that meaning would emerge from more ramblings of the same kind that gave rise to him in the first place. we have learned to disbelieve in miracles and to be skeptical of novelty, that change is excruciatingly slow and its cause is failure, pain and death. nature and the feelings that nature has given us should be our philosophical guide posts.

New comment by wwarner in "Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?"

wwarner — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:11:15 +0000

i run a basic emacs configuration within docker, so it has all the underlying executables & binaries installed where emacs looks for them. runs exactly the same on linux & macos. https://hub.docker.com/r/wwarner/emacs-native or https://github.com/wwarner/emacs-native-dockerfiles

New comment by wwarner in "Neovim Pack"

wwarner — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:03:00 +0000

M-x package-list-packages :)

New comment by wwarner in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

wwarner — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:13:18 +0000

I run emacs in docker to manage these issues https://github.com/wwarner/emacs-native-dockerfiles