Hacker News: zygy

New comment by zygy in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

zygy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:08:46 +0000

the Japanese language school I went to which is indeed still updated: https://sokogakuen.org/

check out their directions page: https://sokogakuen.org/info.html

New comment by zygy in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

zygy — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:37:57 +0000

Glad you're working on this. Duolingo is garbage and I've been hopeful that AI can help accelerate language learning in a way that is actually effective.

New comment by zygy in "Sycophancy in GPT-4o"

zygy — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 05:30:57 +0000

alternate title: "The Urgency of Interpretability"

New comment by zygy in "A new type of neural network is more interpretable"

zygy — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:36:34 +0000

Naive question: what's the intuition for how this is different from increasing the number of learnable parameters on a regular MLP?

New comment by zygy in "Run llama3 locally with 1M token context"

zygy — Wed, 01 May 2024 00:56:35 +0000

Noob here. How would I figure out whether my machine would handle a particular model?

New comment by zygy in "Details of the new Suzuki Omnichord OM-108"

zygy — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:50:56 +0000

My Morning Jacket's "Touch Me I'm Going To Scream pt 2": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3PciCWIGLE

New comment by zygy in "What is the Demoscene? An interview"

zygy — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 15:02:12 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Do you have similar side projects today?

New comment by zygy in "A half-hour to learn Rust (2020)"

zygy — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 16:04:37 +0000

The current Rust experts probably spent more than 10 years learning the concepts that made them Rust experts.

New comment by zygy in "Experiments in Making Cocktail Ice"

zygy — Tue, 16 May 2023 14:47:22 +0000

Have a particular one to recommend?

New comment by zygy in "A new doorway to the brain"

zygy — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:02:00 +0000

Any good publications to learn about this?

New comment by zygy in "Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living"

zygy — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:13:51 +0000

Congrats on the business, and thank you for sharing!

New comment by zygy in "DSLRs are dead, and lenses are never going to be the same"

zygy — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 16:43:57 +0000

What's the tech advancement/invention that pushed mirrorless cameras past DSLR?

New comment by zygy in "I Miss RSS"

zygy — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 23:20:47 +0000

Seems like a good place to plug Fraidycat (not my project) https://fraidyc.at/

New comment by zygy in "A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (2003)"

zygy — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 23:08:12 +0000

Had to check the year to realize this was referring to Flickr and not Slack :)

New comment by zygy in "Helix: a post-modern modal text editor"

zygy — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 19:53:56 +0000

https://blog.robenkleene.com/2020/09/21/the-era-of-visual-st...

New comment by zygy in "Why I prefer making useless stuff"

zygy — Mon, 24 May 2021 04:06:07 +0000

http://www.stupidhackathon.com/

New comment by zygy in "Software engineering topics I changed my mind on"

zygy — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 07:30:09 +0000

If one had to troubleshoot a bad standup meeting, how might you turn one that feels more scripted into one that feels more natural?

New comment by zygy in "How does a gas pump know to shut itself off? (1981)"

zygy — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 22:58:18 +0000

interested!

New comment by zygy in "A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher"

zygy — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:41:01 +0000

Ah yup my mistake -- it's this kind of thing: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/INEO-Restaurant-Hood-...

Autoclaves are used in the food industry too, but you're right those are very different: https://www.steriflow.com/en/Autoclaves-sterilization-alimen...

New comment by zygy in "A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher"

zygy — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 04:30:17 +0000

Autoclaves! They're used in industrial kitchens and life science labs.