Hacker News: zparky

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

New comment by zparky in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

zparky — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:39:16 +0000

similar, keepass synced with google drive. sure it's on some platform, but if my master file is stolen I feel like it taking ~1s and 128MB per guess it's unfeasible for my file to be cracked.

New comment by zparky in "Why Is the American Diet So Deadly? (2025)"

zparky — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:46:28 +0000

Thank you for posting your thoughts on a relevant conversation with LLMs, instead of pasting 8 paragraphs of its output.

New comment by zparky in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

zparky — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:31:02 +0000

OP said most people live under some form of authoritarianism, not a worse form than China's.

New comment by zparky in "YouTube Blocks Background Listening Workaround for Free Users"

zparky — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:13 +0000

Revanced on Android devices is the perfect solution for all of the youtube shortcomings

New comment by zparky in "The AI Vampire"

zparky — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:05:43 +0000

to be fair, every other comment is usually screaming about how if you aren't able to utilize LLMs effectively, you will be without a job soon. most people want to keep their job, or be employable, so if LLMs are a required tool to know, they're trying to become fluent in it by using it.

New comment by zparky in "Something Big Is Happening"

zparky — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:55:31 +0000

I mean, you both used the exact same prompt, how is OP 'holding it worng'?

New comment by zparky in "Impeccable Style"

zparky — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:38:12 +0000

Let me pull out my 5000 px tall monitor so I can see the examples further down the page. impeccable style, really

New comment by zparky in "Is it a bubble?"

zparky — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:22:54 +0000

It's been blowing my mind reading HN the past year or so and seeing so many comments from programmers that are excited to not have to write code. It's depressing.

New comment by zparky in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

zparky — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:37:21 +0000

Benchmarks are super impressive, as usual. Interesting to note in table 3 of the paper (p. 15), DS-Speciale is 1st or 2nd in accuracy in all tests, but has much higher token output (50% more, or 3.5x vs gemini 3 in the codeforces test!).

New comment by zparky in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

zparky — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:14:29 +0000

Honestly, I use revanced on my android phone which lets me disable all shorts content appearing. and on browser if i stick to the subscriptions tab and maybe the sidebar on videos, there's no shorts.