Hacker News: xyproto

New comment by xyproto in "AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI"

xyproto — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:20 +0000

Having long time perspective, seeing the wider context, talking to people, having vision and taste. Curating and sanity-checking the results. Security and trust.

The reasons are many.

New comment by xyproto in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

xyproto — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:20:01 +0000

I believe that the assumption that customers reviewing the output artifacts is "the final boss" is wrong. If AI use spreads, customers are also likely to use AI to review the artifacts. Vision, taste and curation remains, though.

New comment by xyproto in "Ti-84 Evo"

xyproto — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:30:13 +0000

I wonder why they don't have a "Buy now" button on their website.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:55:36 +0000

I am all for taking AI out of education, like China recently announced that they will do.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:40:51 +0000

Even if a tool can only be used for lobotomizing humans, the usage of the tool is where the main blame should be placed.

New comment by xyproto in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

xyproto — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:38:58 +0000

Calculators and computers are creating engineers that can't think without them either. There are many problems with AI, but from my point of view, the title has not thought things through.

New comment by xyproto in "Revision Demoparty 2026: Razor1911 [video]"

xyproto — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:48:08 +0000

FT2 was written in Borland Pascal 7 and TASM, btw.

Making Gamedev Tooling For Windows 3.1 in Turbo C++ [video]

xyproto — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:11:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7mc-D5V4L8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658532

Points: 3

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New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

xyproto — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:24:35 +0000

OpenAI has "open" in the name without being anything similar to "open source". Additionally, they have not rejected using their technology for automatically killing people and for mass surveillance. I deleted my OpenAI account, and it felt good. Recommended.

New comment by xyproto in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

xyproto — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:15:48 +0000

Referring to "the normal people you know" is purely anecdotal evidence and can't be used to infer anything at all about "side-ideology". Perhaps you only know people that don't care about the environment?

New comment by xyproto in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

xyproto — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:26:35 +0000

Now we can have operating systems that write the drivers they need at boot.

New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

xyproto — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:45:15 +0000

Ah yes, thousands separator.

New comment by xyproto in "Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace"

xyproto — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:32:42 +0000

Yes, but cencorship is also politics. What happens if someone just tries to stay apolitical and "work safe" and are still cencored? Any attempt at fighting this will be categorized as "political", "difficult" or worse.

New comment by xyproto in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

xyproto — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:30:32 +0000

Space is also confusing! Then it looks like two separate numbers.

Underscore (_) is already used as a decimal separator in programming languages and Mathematics should just adopt it, IMO.

New comment by xyproto in "GLM-OCR – A multimodal OCR model for complex document understanding"

xyproto — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:43:33 +0000

Fax is still hard to hack, so some organizations have kept it alive for security.

New comment by xyproto in "Just the Browser"

xyproto — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:20:37 +0000

Just real-time text translation and annotating faces with names would be cool.

New comment by xyproto in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

xyproto — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:14:50 +0000

How many games do you use on Windows that you can not use on Linux?

New comment by xyproto in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

xyproto — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:59:20 +0000

It was a good 16 year-ish run.

New comment by xyproto in "Revisiting "Let's Build a Compiler""

xyproto — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:16:28 +0000

"breaking things down into the right primitives" is the real key to programming. There are many books and web pages about algorithms, but I wish there were more searchable and browsable resources for how to approach problems through primitives.

New comment by xyproto in "Cloudflare was down"

xyproto — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:55:16 +0000

A wrong downdetectordowntector is worse than a 500 one. :D