Hacker News: zparky

New comment by zparky in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

zparky — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:37:27 +0000

looks like it! https://radio.garden/listen/ksan-fm-107-7/iWCTdfjj

New comment by zparky in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"

zparky — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:09:47 +0000

that sounds like a good idea to try, thanks!

New comment by zparky in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

zparky — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:16:29 +0000

spam account created a few days ago.

New comment by zparky in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

zparky — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:38:23 +0000

why?

New comment by zparky in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

zparky — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:21:54 +0000

There's a few books that are coupled with the term ergodic literature, chief among them House of Leaves. It really is a thoroughly enjoyable exercise to read that book, I highly recommend.

> (By the way, is your user name a joke on "sparky", the slang word for an electrician?)

It wasn't originally when I used it as a kid, but I grew in to that term later :)

New comment by zparky in "Proof of care in the age of AI"

zparky — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:04:19 +0000

Not surprised to see such negative comments, this forum is fried by LLMs nowadays. I was immediately intrigued by reading a handwritten blog post, and enjoy ergodic literature, like this! I liked the message too, and this might shove me toward some handwriting projects I've been meaning to tackle lately.

New comment by zparky in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"

zparky — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:40:35 +0000

I always feel like I'm losing my mind when reading LLM comments or prose for code. It's so esoteric and 'i-am-very-smart' and makes me feel like I'm not supposed to read the comments in the first place

New comment by zparky in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

zparky — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:39:10 +0000

Hi Dr. Cutress! I loved reading your deep dives on Anand, they're what got me interested in semiconductors. Hope you're well <3

New comment by zparky in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

zparky — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:46:00 +0000

if this is about you, good luck :) starting prog helps a lot!

New comment by zparky in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

zparky — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:19:25 +0000

libido is fixed with progesterone (which is commonly taken ~1-2 years into hrt) for better breast growth. anecdotally it makes you completely f*king feral

New comment by zparky in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

zparky — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:51:55 +0000

https://www.schwab.com/direct-indexing

New comment by zparky in "CUDA Books"

zparky — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:04:09 +0000

I liked going through https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/cuda-training-series/ for an intro and some fundamentals.

New comment by zparky in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

zparky — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:15:26 +0000

go to a profile and open image in new tab, the URL is /u/# (im # ~4 million!)

New comment by zparky in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

zparky — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:16:32 +0000

if you're on android, advanced is a blessing to de-shorts your YouTube.

New comment by zparky in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

zparky — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:17:24 +0000

Not really the time for that. There's also PRs being merged every hour of the day.

New comment by zparky in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

zparky — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:36:47 +0000

I love alibris

New comment by zparky in "The MacBook Neo"

zparky — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:17:18 +0000

> The machine has a single thread performance that exceeds any and all Intel/AMD processors

Not true at all: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

New comment by zparky in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

zparky — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:38:22 +0000

It's current year, of course they used AI to help [0], and it does feel like the article was AI assited.

"This map isn't flat — it has 5 levels of elevation."

"The ocean isn't just a blue plane — it has animated caustic sparkles"

"The fundamental issue:" and "The key constraint:"

I still enjoyed the article.

[0] https://github.com/felixturner/hex-map-wfc/commit/1679be

New comment by zparky in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

zparky — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:25:42 +0000

They link to that site in the post

New comment by zparky in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

zparky — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:39:00 +0000

engineer vs end user