Hacker News: yayitswei

New comment by yayitswei in "Stop Making TUIs"

yayitswei — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:57:40 +0000

One point for TUIs I haven't seen mentioned: they're faster for coding agents to iterate on. No need for screenshots or computer use. Agents have made GUIs cheap, but have made TUIs even cheaper, both to build and verify.

New comment by yayitswei in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

yayitswei — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 08:15:38 +0000

The linked article is such a gem: You can choose how many bugs you want now https://nolanlawson.com/2026/08/16/you-can-just-choose-how-m...

Love the concept of agents adding epicycles to fix bugs. It maps closely to my experience.

Holding the LLM Stack in Your Head

yayitswei — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:08:13 +0000

Article URL: https://thegustafson.com/series

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930892

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by yayitswei in "Codex Micro"

yayitswei — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:49:28 +0000

If we're leaning into audio, why not always-on instead of push-to-talk?

New comment by yayitswei in "Building Gin: Simple over Easy"

yayitswei — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:19:31 +0000

Related: Rich Hickey's 'Simple Made Easy' (2011) https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4

Classic talk that still influences my design decisions today.

Peppa Pig studio wants to clone child actors' voices with AI indefinitely

yayitswei — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:23:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/peppa-pigs-ai-voice-clause-draws-nearly-1000-industry-objections

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701902

Points: 23

# Comments: 16

New comment by yayitswei in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

yayitswei — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:26 +0000

Try a coding agent for writing and tuning the OpenCV part, and have it explain its choices. That's probably the most practical path to shipping a working system.

Speaking from experience: never used OpenCV before, recently vibe coded a tool that makes supercuts of pool videos, trimming each clip from the cue ball's first strike to when the motion stops.

New comment by yayitswei in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

yayitswei — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:36:32 +0000

In case anyone was wondering, the IOCCC specifically permits LLM use in their guidelines.

"The IOCCC has a rich history of remarkable winning entries created by authors who skillfully employed various techniques (often their own tools) to develop their code."

New comment by yayitswei in "Leave Me Behind"

yayitswei — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:10:15 +0000

What if you could finish your passion project in an evening? Would that increase not the time, but capacity for deep exploring and side projects?

New comment by yayitswei in "How diamonds are made"

yayitswei — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:18:30 +0000

Expensive because they were perceived as rare. Classic article: https://priceonomics.com/diamonds-are-bullshit/

Synthetic has pretty much eaten their lunch now.

New comment by yayitswei in "England Runestones"

yayitswei — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:22:55 +0000

I noticed that Futhark the programming language is also on the front page.

New comment by yayitswei in "Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces"

yayitswei — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:06:09 +0000

Loved it.

New comment by yayitswei in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

yayitswei — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:48:57 +0000

This is one of the few articles where I noticed a bunch of LLM-isms and still read to the end because it was interesting.

New comment by yayitswei in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

yayitswei — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:03:24 +0000

I think of Tesla autopilot as sophisticated cruise control. Can perform most driving tasks better than I can, saves a lot of cognitive work, still needs close of my 100% attention.

/Deslop

yayitswei — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:45:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tahigichigi.substack.com/p/12-red-flags-of-ai-writing-and-how

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47071937

Points: 28

# Comments: 45

New comment by yayitswei in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"

yayitswei — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:20:09 +0000

How ironic that agents were supposed to free us from labor, but instead they're ushering in 996 culture.

New comment by yayitswei in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

yayitswei — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:35:19 +0000

Is there some magic lost also when using AI to write your blog post?

New comment by yayitswei in "Prism"

yayitswei — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:39:24 +0000

Fwiw I was going to make the same comment about the naming, but you beat me to it.

New comment by yayitswei in "Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew"

yayitswei — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:26:44 +0000

What's up with these?

Genesis 1:13, Eve optimal Replace 'Then' with 'And' in optimal ('And the LORD God said') and poetic_daily to preserve narrative vav-consecutive connective consistently.

New comment by yayitswei in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

yayitswei — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:13:11 +0000

Love Tonsky's articles. My favorite is about centering things: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/

He has a knack for putting words to the vague frustrations I feel but can't quite articulate. How does he find so many perfect examples that nail exactly what's wrong?