Hacker News: yk

New comment by yk in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

yk — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:11:35 +0000

I've seen an interview with a food stylist and she pointed out that when putting pins and needles into a burger, then you have to pay real attention to that burger because you have a really great looking burger, full with pins and needles.

New comment by yk in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

yk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:53:27 +0000

Yes, and it took our ancestors 200k years. I would like to give our descendants an head start.

New comment by yk in "From Run Nation to Power Slap: New Sports Designed for Social Media"

yk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:24:08 +0000

Kinda on topic, I thought it is a quite interesting article that gets better if you overlook the sensationalist framing.

From Run Nation to Power Slap: New Sports Designed for Social Media

yk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:22:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/13/run-nation-power-slap-carjitsu-tgl-golf-typti-sports-exploitation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362929

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by yk in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

yk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:22:19 +0000

So genAi ads can now be A/B tested by autonomous systems, to be shown on an social network for agents to be appreciated by ai agents.

On one hand, yay automatization, on the other hand, I feel weirdly left out.

New comment by yk in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

yk — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:30:10 +0000

Kinda like learning bash. The most annoying time was when I figured out how to send myself SMS via bash script.

New comment by yk in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

yk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:41:12 +0000

Hey, it's the semantic web, but with ~~XML~~, ~~AJAX~~, ~~Blockchain~~, Ai!

Well, it has precisely the problem of the semantic web, it asks the website to declare in a machine readable format what the website does. Now, llms are kinda the tool to interface to everybody using a somewhat different standard, and this doesn't need everybody to hop on the bandwagon, so perhaps this is the time where it is different.

New comment by yk in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

yk — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:44:18 +0000

From the public comments over the last few days, my guess is they want a militarized version of Claude. Starting with a box they want to put in the basement of the Pentagon where Antropic can't just switch off the ai. Then some guardrails are probably quite bothersome for the military and they want them removed. Concretely if you try to vibe-target your ICBMs Claude is hopefully telling you that that's a bad idea.

Now, my guess is in the ensuing lawsuit Antropic's defense will be that that is just not a product they offer, somewhat akin to ordering Ford to build a tank variant of the F150.

New comment by yk in "The Saddest Moment (2013) [pdf]"

yk — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:02:13 +0000

Bitcoin did two things to this paper, first it demonstrates that Byzantine fault tolerance has practical applications, and second it demonstrates that anytime you have to deal with Byzantine fault tolerance the question is not "How do I verify this message?" but "Why am I trying to deal with those assholes?"

New comment by yk in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

yk — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:52:41 +0000

Probably. In previous years there were streamdumps available immediately somewhere (though figuring out where took me usually a day or so) and a re-live version on media.ccc.de a bit later. (Usually hours, but from time to time a day or so.)

New comment by yk in "Webb observes exoplanet that may have an exotic helium and carbon atmosphere"

yk — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:47:55 +0000

Pretty cool, or more probable hot. Though I highly doubt it is something resembling a planet up close, it is more likely some kind of remnant from forming the neutron star that just happened to have the right size and ended up in the right orbit to show up in exoplanet surveys.

New comment by yk in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

yk — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:08:15 +0000

It's really hard for start ups to compete for VC money: "Hello Mr. VC I'm going to burn your money for buzzword" just no longer works, first openAi has an industrial buzz word generator, second their money burning plan scales much better than my money burning plan.

New comment by yk in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

yk — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:18:54 +0000

I already have 0 videos on youtube home screen, some combination of not being logged in, firefox privacy settings and ad blocker causes youtube to post a passive aggressive message and a search bar. I kinda like that Ui.

DeepMind's AI Learns to Create Original Chess Puzzles, Praised by GMs

yk — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chess.com/news/view/ai-learns-to-create-original-chess-puzzles-earns-praise-from-grandmasters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804566

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by yk in "The best worst hack that saved our bacon"

yk — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:41:25 +0000

No, but it is amazing first sentence. Everybody goes, this story is specifically for me, I'm very special.

New comment by yk in "Boeing has started working on a 737 MAX replacement"

yk — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:35:23 +0000

Maemo was an actual GNU/Linux, not just kernel with custom userland. Logging into a cluster from my N900 and having plots just appear on screen thanks to X network transparency is still one of the most futuristic things I have ever seen a computer do.

New comment by yk in "We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof"

yk — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:20:50 +0000

Pretty sure bullshitting is pretty universal. In particular the pattern were I, the mighty expert, insist that only I, the mighty expert, can decode the meaning of those deceptive others, and therefore you, the gullible rube, has to give me all your money so that I, the mighty expert, can keep you, the gullible rube, save from those deceptive foreigners.

New comment by yk in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

yk — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:33:42 +0000

Sounds really like a development environment problem, I mean if you can't handle that your language suddenly changes it's name in a not backward compatible fashion, how do you ever stand a chance to handle leap seconds correctly?

New comment by yk in "Microsoft doubles down on small modular reactors and fusion energy"

yk — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 23:12:37 +0000

The Windows 98 license actually did forbid using Windows in nuclear power plants (along with other high risk areas). That was due to some interaction with the Java license and I always considered it a very fortunate fluke.

New comment by yk in "YouTube made AI enhancements to videos without warning or permission"

yk — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:19:44 +0000

Reminder, there is no cloud, there is just computers of other people. And I for one support those other people's right to do on their computers what they want.