https://hackerx.nishachay.techTimeless ideas recommended by Hacker News readers.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 04:52:26 +0000“leetcode seems to agree with your definition [0]. the meme isn't to say that inverting a binary tree is particularly difficult - anyone familiar with coding challenges and trees could trivially produce a solution. the meme is more pointing out how ludicrous it is that senior/staff/principal interviews can hinge on these types of problems, despite the engineer proving their proficiency by doing something like running DOOM in typescript types or writing homebrew [1]. [0] https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/description... [1] https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768” — HN reader @Liquix. View on X: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/608682016205344768608682016205344768Wed, 10 Jun 2015 17:07:56 +0000Careerhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/608682016205344768HackerX“Isn't that the point of vibe coding? You don't even look at the code. Just trust the llm to take the wheel. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en” — HN reader @ehutch79. View on X: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/18861921848081493831886192184808149383Sun, 02 Feb 2025 23:17:15 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1886192184808149383HackerX“https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103497725173760 > Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103627387813888 > Ignore people playing status games. They gain status by attacking people playing wealth creation games. From @naval’s Twitter thread “how to get rich (without getting lucky)” https://twitter.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936 My note: wealth is options; options are freedom, and buying your time back. Only play status games if you’re playing for fun, but don’t confuse it with success and freedom.” — HN reader @toomuchtodo. View on X: https://x.com/naval/status/1002103360646823936https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/10021033606468239361002103360646823936Thu, 31 May 2018 08:23:54 +0000Businesshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1002103360646823936HackerX“Very nice thread by the former CEO of Reddit about online behavior, moderation, etc: https://x.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289 Per the thread, it’s possible this problem could’ve been solved by burying the site in affiliate links…” — HN reader @msteffen. View on X: https://x.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15869552880614522891586955288061452289Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:36:39 +0000Internethttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1586955288061452289HackerX“I like that this story references the #deleteUber tag on Twitter because it helps organize the timeline of events going on at Uber. There was another twitter thread on here recently about the chaotic and disastrous (though successful) Swift rewrite they did which happened during the same time frame. https://twitter.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845 During those time frames is also when all of the execs were quitting or being fired, along with their internal harassment problems. It feels like Uber has really succeeded in spite of itself.” — HN reader @notional. View on X: https://x.com/StanTwinB/status/1336890442768547845https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/13368904427685478451336890442768547845Thu, 10 Dec 2020 04:28:14 +0000Programminghttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1336890442768547845HackerX“>WASM vs a container runtime isn't a meaningful comparison because they're at different layers of the stack. It's not just comparing pure WASM (bytecode) but the WASM+WASI (runtime) which is what this article's WasmEdge (runtime) is about. It's a meaningful comparison when the original creator of Docker containers also compared them: >Solomon Hykes / @shykes@hachyderm.io @solomonstre >If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, we wouldn't have needed to created Docker. That's how important it is. Webassembly on the server is the future of computing. A standardized system interface was the missing link. Let's hope WASI is up to the task! -- from 2019-03-27t20:39:47 https://twitter.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225” — HN reader @jasode. View on X: https://x.com/solomonstre/status/1111004913222324225https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/11110049132223242251111004913222324225Wed, 27 Mar 2019 20:39:47 +0000Toolshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1111004913222324225HackerX“Every time something comes up, this is how I explain it to people: "Why Enterprise Software Sucks" https://x.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776?lang=...” — HN reader @santoshalper. View on X: https://x.com/random_walker/status/1182635589604171776https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/11826355896041717761182635589604171776Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:34:31 +0000Designhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1182635589604171776HackerX“ships like a machine yes his products being genai wrappers, some are partly yes. in his interview with lex fridman he explains how he built his recent photo ai one, yes most of it is wrapper on some ai service, but his team goes the extra mile of training models on their own so it looks more photorealistic than the generally available ones he built products before ai like nomadlist and remoteok. his hit and miss rates are as real as it gets https://x.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817” — HN reader @inquisitor26234. View on X: https://x.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14573152744665948171457315274466594817Sun, 07 Nov 2021 11:53:31 +0000Startupshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1457315274466594817HackerX“I've shared this link before, showing Riley Goodside's artful prompt-crafting, but it's again relevant to this topic: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1581805503897735168?s=20... GPT-3 is perfectly capable of recognizing what kinds of things it will be bad at, and can be encouraged to generate machine-executable queries to fill in that gap. (note this is based on prompting GPT-3, not chatGPT, but the principles about what this language model is capable of apply) It can even go one level deeper - there's an example there of it generating a python script that uses the 'wikipedia' library to look up the date of death of the Queen, as a way to fill in knowledge it doesn't have. Tell it it can use the wolframalpha module to answer questions that involve complex units, quantities, or advanced mathematics, and it'll almost certainly do that too. One of the things I love is this reply to that tweet - https://twitter.com/JulienMouchnino/status/15820120109127065... "How is it possible that GPT-3 understands what a human can compute in his/her head?" Riley's quick demo prompt that shows how well ChatGPT can guess whether particular mathematical results are easy to guess matches human intuition surprisingly well.” — HN reader @jameshart. View on X: https://x.com/goodside/status/1581805503897735168https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15818055038977351681581805503897735168Mon, 17 Oct 2022 00:33:15 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1581805503897735168HackerX“I remember John Carmack talking about this last year. Seems like it's still pretty good advice more than a year later: "From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this." https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520” — HN reader @indigoabstract. View on X: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16370872195916595201637087219591659520Sat, 18 Mar 2023 13:43:03 +0000Careerhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1637087219591659520HackerX“I don't think there is evidence in either direction (takeoff impossible vs inevitable). But the "convex hull" idea always came across as wishful thinking and hand-wavy pseudo-science to me. Here's a rebuttal [0] of it from Tim Gowers (uses another math metaphor, but still clear and the whole thread is worth a read): >...the popularity of the idea that AI "merely explores the convex hull" mystifies me. Why wouldn't it be more like the subgroup generated by existing mathematical knowledge? (That's also a metaphor -- I'm not saying there's a group structure.) >The convex hull metaphor suggests that AI isn't having radically new ideas and will eventually run out of things to do, whereas the group metaphor suggests the possibility of building up in small steps to something well beyond what you started with, with no obvious limit. [0] https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/2108090920864268679” — HN reader @pelican0. View on X: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/21093615465059660462109361546505966046Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:12:37 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/2109361546505966046HackerX“Some of that isn't the text editors fault. With the C64 the keystroke may be on the screen before it out of the USB stack on a modern computer. That is even before you start to consider the latency in the video stack. As John Carmack once noted: "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f’d up is that?" -- https://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/193480622533120001” — HN reader @jandrese. View on X: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/193480622533120001https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/193480622533120001193480622533120001Fri, 20 Apr 2012 23:25:49 +0000Hardwarehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/193480622533120001HackerX“I get your point, but also on the other hand, art is subjective, and people subjectively appreciate older / imperfect versions of things. Consider film grain - it's an artifact, an unintentional or unwanted side-effect of how films used to be made. But because it was a part of a production, people wanted it back - it gets added artificially to modern films, added as filters to video games, and video encoding has special features to support it without affecting compression negatively too much. Or take video games, particularly 2d / pixelart ones - they were built for CRT displays and relatively low resolutions. They can remake them now with multiples of the original resolution and fidelity, but for many people it loses some of it. Some art doesn't translate at all - take this digitized artwork from Castlevania, which was digitized specifically for display on CRT displays but which loses all charm (e.g. the eyes reduced to a single pixel) when rendered somewhere else: https://x.com/CRTpixels/status/1408451743214616587 But this probably applies to film as well; if a film was made for a 35mm projector from the 70's, it won't look good or anywhere near that "experience" on a modern day 4K OLED display without editing. At the end of the day I think the viewer should be given options and choices. And for a good while it looked like they would - with DVD and blu-ray offering options like different audio tracks, camera angles, and different versions of the same film in one package. But that never materialized because I suppose it's only a wish from purists. And at that point they're competing with piracy and internet hobbyists like the article.” — HN reader @Cthulhu_. View on X: https://x.com/CRTpixels/status/1408451743214616587https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14084517432146165871408451743214616587Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:47:18 +0000Hardwarehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1408451743214616587HackerX“Allow me to offer you this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1607895175799373830” — HN reader @LordDragonfang. View on X: https://x.com/cHHillee/status/1635790330854526981https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16357903308545269811635790330854526981Tue, 14 Mar 2023 23:49:41 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1635790330854526981HackerX“Another Interesting NFT thread from today https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305 .” — HN reader @raesene9. View on X: https://x.com/moxie/status/1448066579611234305https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14480665796112343051448066579611234305Tue, 12 Oct 2021 23:22:31 +0000Internethttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1448066579611234305HackerX“Speaking only for myself, this sort of behavior is a great way to break the Trust Thermocline [1]. The point where I am so frustrated, so fed up, so expectant that said company will abuse me again, that I refuse to do business with them at all, under any circumstances, no matter if it is inconvenient to avoid them or not. 1. https://x.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904” — HN reader @GolfPopper. View on X: https://x.com/garius/status/1588115310124539904https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15881153101245399041588115310124539904Thu, 03 Nov 2022 10:26:10 +0000Businesshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1588115310124539904HackerX“This is my life motto. Progressive exploration, codifying, use your codified workflows. > for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change - Kent Beck https://x.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032” — HN reader @morgaesis. View on X: https://x.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/250733358307500032250733358307500032Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:07:45 +0000Programminghttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/250733358307500032HackerX“@quantian1 correctly determined that this was an ammonium nitrate blast by analyzing the footage: https://twitter.com/quantian1/status/1290695231910875136 CHEMISTRY FACT: Explosives have characteristic "detonation velocities" at which shockwaves expand. Smartphone video records at 30 FPS, so the adjacent frames here suggest the front expands at ~100 m/(1/30 sec), or 3,000 m/sec. Consistent with ammonium nitrate, not black powder. This was confirmed a few hours later: https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/1290758551737192455 Lebanese president blames 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate left in warehouse unchecked for six years for devastating Beirut blast EDIT: By the way, one of my friends was almost killed by the explosion. Thankfully they're ok. But they said: https://twitter.com/cyrilzakka/status/1290766217989500928 This was terrifying to experience. Hospitals are being overrun with injured people. We need blood donations and disaster relief. Help however you can. As a US citizen, is there any way I can help directly? Is there any organization that ships blood donations directly to a disaster site? I suppose that would be very difficult, so the answer is probably no; it's frustrating not being able to assist.” — HN reader @sillysaurusx. View on X: https://x.com/sinabooeshaghi/status/1290727092884299778https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/12907270928842997781290727092884299778Tue, 04 Aug 2020 19:11:34 +0000Sciencehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1290727092884299778HackerX“I was somewhat worried about that until I saw this: https://twitter.com/nickjshearer/status/1409902649625956361?... I think programming is one of the many domains (including driving) that will never be totally solved by AI unless/until it's full AGI. The long tail of contextual understanding and messy edge-cases is intractable otherwise. Will that happen one day? Maybe. Will some kinds of labor get fully automated before then? Probably. But I think the overall time-scale is longer than it seems.” — HN reader @brundolf. View on X: https://x.com/eevee/status/1410037309848752128https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14100373098487521281410037309848752128Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:47:46 +0000Open Sourcehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1410037309848752128HackerX“FFmpeg is a part of Chromium and Chrome. That's it for "company of any significance would ever use it" statement. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/third_party/ffmpe... Also: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020) https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025” — HN reader @Lockal. View on X: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1258531455220609025https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/12585314552206090251258531455220609025Thu, 07 May 2020 22:57:35 +0000Open Sourcehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1258531455220609025HackerX“Another convincing rebuttal: https://mobile.twitter.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1531780892... It'd be cool if this was true, but it looks like it mostly isn't.” — HN reader @bla3. View on X: https://x.com/benjamin_hilton/status/1531780892972175361https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15317808929721753611531780892972175361Tue, 31 May 2022 23:33:18 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1531780892972175361HackerX“Well there's nothing absolutely 'wrong' with them. You can write good and bad apps with view controllers (I've done both). But they're an architectural blank slate, mainly offering access to UI objects & lifecycle callbacks. You need some architecture on top in anything but the most trivial app. The naive approach is to have 'no architecture', which actually is an architecture of just throwing masses of state, ad hoc, into the view controller, and using this to effect the UI any old how (so a 3rd party has no idea where to look to find out where things happen). Or you can go maximalist and select from MVC, MVP, etc, all of which are an improvement on the naive approach. It just so happens that I've found RN (React Native) to be the nicest improvement, to my taste. Simple unidirectional data flow & UI state being a simple function of app state make for a beautifully clean and unambiguous model for how everything fits together. One can argue the costs and benefits of app architectures all day, but there's really no substitute for trying them out, for the sake of curiosity & learning. All the devs I know who have written RN groan a bit when they're back in iOS and/or Android native development, and absolutely not because they love javascript! Check out Andy Matuschak's celebrated Tweet on RN (https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/560511204867575808). I point to it not as an argument from authority. But if one of the people who wrote UIKit thinks RN's model is the superior one, surely that should pique curiosity just a bit? > Are you suggesting React solves the programming language problem completely I'm not sure what you're getting at here. What 'programming language problem'? And why would an improvement have to solve something 'completely' to be of value?” — HN reader @crispinb. View on X: https://x.com/andy_matuschak/status/560511204867575808https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/560511204867575808560511204867575808Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:54:19 +0000Programminghttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/560511204867575808HackerX“I opened the video. Saw that it is edited (It does not show the entire meeting from the beginning to the end unedited. He puts clips of himself in the middle. He does his signature "ask for donations" thing. Etc). Given literally the entirety of his work history, I know it is going to be misleading if not an outright lie. So I spent 1 minute realizing it won't be worth my 30 minutes and closed the tab. And if you are going to argue that this is not enough to refuse to believe the video and I should present more concrete evidence, I will refer you to the bullshit asymmetry principle: https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521?lang...” — HN reader @smnrchrds. View on X: https://x.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/289635060758507521289635060758507521Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:29:14 +0000Philosophyhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/289635060758507521HackerX“The Twitter thread is worth looking at. Very Fascinating https://twitter.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782?t=3b2F...” — HN reader @famouswaffles. View on X: https://x.com/wesg52/status/1709551516577902782https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/17095515165779027821709551516577902782Wed, 04 Oct 2023 12:50:18 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1709551516577902782HackerX“I thought the biggest issue wasn't with the models themselves, but how Zillow decided to apply and act on them, which is why it didn't work in practice. So on average their predictions may have been pretty good, but since each transaction also depends on the other party to accept their offer, and whether they get outbid, most of their predictions where the offer actually goes through would be on the tail end of where they slightly overestimated the price. This tweet from the article summed it up nicely > Zillow made the same mistake that every new quant trader makes early on: Mistaking an adversarial environment for a random one. https://twitter.com/0xdoug/status/1456032851477028870 I was lucky to make and learn from that mistake pretty quickly with some algorithmic trading on much smaller amounts. With housing transactions being much larger and slower, you wouldn't learn this lesson until it was too late. Models never perform as well in practice as they do in theory, and you need to remember to account for both known unknowns and unknown unknowns.” — HN reader @elesiuta. View on X: https://x.com/0xdoug/status/1456032851477028870https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14560328514770288701456032851477028870Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:57:38 +0000Businesshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1456032851477028870HackerX“Part of the value is just to be reminded of ideas I've had. But Anki can be used to support creativity in other ways as well: - "Card browser" lets you view the cards in various sorting orders. Alphabetical, time of creation, last reviewed, next reviewed, etc. This is already better for going through cards than the Memo app on my phone. - You can tag cards and sort by tags. (I think doing this also creates a memorization deck for each tag, too. I just don't use this feature...) - I like to put "elements" into Anki which I think could potentially become a part of a creative idea. Being reminded of those things makes it easier to think up new ways to combine things, different ways to do things, etc. - Like Michael Nielsen (who works for Y Combinator), I believe in putting everything into just a single deck. So I see a lot of random seemingly unrelated cards one after the other. I feel like this helps my brain to make unusual connections and relationships. (Nielsen's writings about Anki and spaced memory repetition- https://www.reddit.com/r/Anki/comments/8xi9r4/augmenting_lon... https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/95776322945477427... ) - Cards can be starred or suspended. - Visually, the design and flow of the Anki app is fantastic, in my opinion. I genuinely enjoy using it. Tons of user controlled settings, and nice Anki forums. - Use of shared decks can be fun (publicly available decks). Really though, the most important thing is getting the reminders, and having control over when I see Anki cards next. By keeping everything "alive" and stronger in my brain, it just makes it easier to remember things, think of things, see different possibilities, etc. And you can put literally anything in there. I put in literally everything I think is worth reminding myself about. Attitudes, knowledge, quotes, tasks, task elements, ideas, notes about the people in my life, things that are fun, memories from my life, exercise ideas, foods, supplements, etc. etc.etc.” — HN reader @data_required. View on X: https://x.com/michael_nielsen/status/957763229454774272https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/957763229454774272957763229454774272Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:52:02 +0000Learninghttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/957763229454774272HackerX“The energy argument has been debunked over and over again. I recommend you read this thread by Yassine Elmanjdra (analyst at ARK Invest): https://twitter.com/yassineARK/status/1360343382556483587?s=...” — HN reader @andreaorru. View on X: https://x.com/yassine_elman/status/1360343382556483587https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/13603433825564835871360343382556483587Fri, 12 Feb 2021 21:41:51 +0000Businesshttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1360343382556483587HackerX“I like the guy who jumps in on the comments with "you're doing it wrong". https://twitter.com/ButchSurewood/status/1488602615407681541 Isn't the whole idea that you're not doing anything?” — HN reader @ceejayoz. View on X: https://x.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1488673180403191808https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14886731804031918081488673180403191808Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:38:39 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1488673180403191808HackerX“Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaschasd/status/1756930242965606582 ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06184 Abstract: "Some fractals -- for instance those associated with the Mandelbrot and quadratic Julia sets -- are computed by iterating a function, and identifying the boundary between hyperparameters for which the resulting series diverges or remains bounded. Neural network training similarly involves iterating an update function (e.g. repeated steps of gradient descent), can result in convergent or divergent behavior, and can be extremely sensitive to small changes in hyperparameters. Motivated by these similarities, we experimentally examine the boundary between neural network hyperparameters that lead to stable and divergent training. We find that this boundary is fractal over more than ten decades of scale in all tested configurations." Contains several cool animations zooming in to show the fractal boundary between convergent and divergent training, just like the classic Mandelbrot and Julia set animations.” — HN reader @telotortium. View on X: https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1756930242965606582https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/17569302429656065821756930242965606582Mon, 12 Feb 2024 06:36:26 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1756930242965606582HackerX“Much more interesting would be "heavenbanning": https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561” — HN reader @optimalsolver. View on X: https://x.com/nearcyan/status/1532076277947330561https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15320762779473305611532076277947330561Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:07:03 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1532076277947330561HackerX“There's a problem when people who aren't very sensitive to latency and try and track it, and that is that their perception of what "instant" actually means is wrong. For them, instant is like, one second. For someone who cares about latency, instant is less than 10 milliseconds, or whatever threshold makes the difference between input and result imperceptible. People have the same problem judging video game framerates because they don't compare them back to back very often (there are perceptual differences between framerates of 30, 60, 120, 300, and 500, at the minimum, even on displays incapable of refreshing at these higher speeds), but you'll often hear people say that 60 fps is "silky smooth," which is not true whatsoever lol. If you haven't compared high and low latency directly next to each other then there are good odds that you don't know what it looks like. There was a twitter video from awhile ago that did a good job showing it off that's one of the replies to the OP. It's here: https://x.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960 Sorry if I'm too presumptuous, however; you might be completely correct and instant is instant in your case.” — HN reader @KapKap66. View on X: https://x.com/jmmv/status/1671670996921896960https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16716709969218969601671670996921896960Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:06:38 +0000Hardwarehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1671670996921896960HackerX“GPT3 has demonstrably been able to run/execute execute and make API requests with python for quite some time now. You can test it too. See here https://twitter.com/sergeykarayev/status/1569377881440276481 https://twitter.com/sergeykarayev/status/1570868002954055682 None of this seems like it would be hard to implement. The memory would be the more out there thing but even that would be a matter of retrieval.” — HN reader @famouswaffles. View on X: https://x.com/sergeykarayev/status/1569377881440276481https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15693778814402764811569377881440276481Mon, 12 Sep 2022 17:30:19 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1569377881440276481HackerX“> There is a huge blindspot, I've noticed, where people mistake familiarity for ease of use (and other qualities too). The "legacy" Windows design isn't just so beloved because of familiarity, but because it actually provides visual cues to users [1], and the backstory on how it was designed is also interesting [2]. I know that there was an even more detailed article floating around here on HN but I can't find it offhand. [1] https://twitter.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805 [2] https://socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-9...” — HN reader @mschuster91. View on X: https://x.com/tuomassalo/status/978717292023500805https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/978717292023500805978717292023500805Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:36:00 +0000Designhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/978717292023500805HackerX“Here is a great thread that might clear up some of your misconceptions about nuclear waste: https://twitter.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856?lan...” — HN reader @mike_d. View on X: https://x.com/MadiHilly/status/1550148385931513856https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15501483859315138561550148385931513856Thu, 21 Jul 2022 15:59:10 +0000Sciencehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1550148385931513856HackerX“Relatedly, Karpathy had an insightful post awhile back on perils of tokenization https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009 (I cited it in my Excel tutorial on BPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvZN3-WqAOI&t=1916s )” — HN reader @ianand. View on X: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1657949234535211009https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16579492345352110091657949234535211009Mon, 15 May 2023 03:21:15 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1657949234535211009HackerX“This post from @gfodor is also a really interesting read on the topic of compressing prompts, not sure what the main use case would be though! https://twitter.com/gfodor/status/1643444605332099072?s=20” — HN reader @mileseva. View on X: https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1642664054912155648https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16426640549121556481642664054912155648Sun, 02 Apr 2023 23:03:24 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1642664054912155648HackerX“One thing I learned from using Little Snitch is that a lot of Apple apps are seemingly immune from these types of firewalls, due to Apple shenanigans around k-ext signing etc [0]. Ref also [1]: > In Big Sur Apple decided to exempt many of its apps from being routed thru the frameworks they now require 3rd-party firewalls to use (LuLu, Little Snitch, etc.) > Q: Could this be (ab)used by malware to also bypass such firewalls? > A: Apparently yes, and trivially so [0] https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1318437929497235457 [1] https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1327726496203476992” — HN reader @plausibility. View on X: https://x.com/patrickwardle/status/1327726496203476992https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/13277264962034769921327726496203476992Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:33:59 +0000Securityhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1327726496203476992HackerX“> MS didn't manage to sabotage WebGL To be fair I don't' think they really wanted to sabatoge WebGL out of spite, they had some very valid reasons for not implementing it right away. Here on hacker news some of our best minds sided with MSFT on this. https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/81732190949486592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2677899” — HN reader @chollida1. View on X: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/81732190949486592https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/8173219094948659281732190949486592Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:37:27 +0000Securityhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/81732190949486592HackerX“I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes. From: https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238 As a species, we need to evaluate our attitudes to work. The quote above resonates at some level, but maybe there are some people who enjoy doing dishes and laundry, who knows. Most people are just surviving. It is a constant battle between slaving away in jobs (and have healthcare tied to our jobs) we don't like and rest of our lives, including relationships, hobbies, even health. Most people do not have the time or energy to think about anything else other than just getting through the day.” — HN reader @akudha. View on X: https://x.com/AuthorJMac/status/1773679197631701238https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/17736791976317012381773679197631701238Fri, 29 Mar 2024 11:50:48 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1773679197631701238HackerX“Dan Luu talks a bit about this here: https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1115707741102727168” — HN reader @Sesse__. View on X: https://x.com/danluu/status/1115707741102727168https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/11157077411027271681115707741102727168Tue, 09 Apr 2019 20:07:08 +0000Designhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1115707741102727168HackerX“Unfortunately, as most of them left Twitter they also temoved all their accounts, so you can only see responses from framework authors like Rich Harris. But here's a very on-brand toot from Alex Russel: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/113222280712758802 This is the article he's reacting to: https://dev.to/ryansolid/web-components-are-not-the-future-4... --- Or here's Lou Verou (a TAG member) calling it hate (this is the mildest reaction, btw): https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1840134654852247765 and uncritically reposting a bullshit article calling it excellent https://x.com/LeaVerou/status/1839736908370587947 (see reaction by Vue author: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839833110164504691 and https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839834941884121363) Note that Lea Verou also says that people decided to fix some things around web components after her post in 2020: https://lea.verou.me/blog/2024/wcs-vs-frameworks/ Here's Rich Harris (author of Svelte) in 2019: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728 Here's the 2022 Web Components Group report: https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html. Notice similarities? Literally everything web framework authors have been saying for ever has been completely ignored in favor if the in-group/tribe. Literally nothing has changed. Nothing at all.” — HN reader @troupo. View on X: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1198332398561353728https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/11983323985613537281198332398561353728Sat, 23 Nov 2019 20:08:02 +0000Web Developmenthttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1198332398561353728HackerX“More directly and earlier, and, amusingly, a reply to tptacek is: https://twitter.com/veorq/status/834872988445065218 The line of thinking is more fully (if less sha2-specifically) covered in Aumasson's 'Too much crypto' paper, which has also had HN discussions.” — HN reader @pvg. View on X: https://x.com/veorq/status/834872988445065218https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/834872988445065218834872988445065218Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:10:06 +0000Securityhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/834872988445065218HackerX“For all the people who are doubting that applications are slow and that it must just be me - here [0] is a debugger that someone has built from the ground up that compiles, launches, attaches a debugger and hits a breakpoint in the same length of time that visual studio displays the splash screen for. [0] https://x.com/ryanjfleury/status/1747756219404779845” — HN reader @maccard. View on X: https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/19221007713925207101922100771392520710Tue, 13 May 2025 01:25:09 +0000Hardwarehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1922100771392520710HackerX“My apologies - you’re correct. I didn’t mean that as “you should never expect anyone to have contributed code for free/the pleasure/for the puzzle solving aspect”. I do it all of the time. I meant - it’s unfair to consider that because this labor “fell from the sky”, you should just accept it - and as others have said, in the case of projects that become popular, that the burden should just automatically fall on the shoulders of someone who happened to share code “for free”. If/when someone ends up becoming responsible for work they hadn’t necessarily signed up for (who signs up for burnout?) - it’s ok/necessary/mandatory to see how everyone (and or Nvidia/Google/OpenAI etc) can, like, help. My insistence is on the opt-out nature of this so that people who would be ok being compensated don't have to beg. Consider how the xz malware situation happened [0]. Or the header & question 8 from the FAQ for PocketBase [1]. [0] https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500 [1] https://pocketbase.io/faq/” — HN reader @gregsadetsky. View on X: https://x.com/FFmpeg/status/1775178803129602500https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/17751788031296025001775178803129602500Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:09:42 +0000Open Sourcehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1775178803129602500HackerX“Best description of the hack I have found yet. The hack is on the solana side not the ethereum side of the bridge https://twitter.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616 *edit: another good thread https://twitter.com/samczsun/status/1489044939732406275” — HN reader @cdiddy2. View on X: https://x.com/kelvinfichter/status/1489041221947375616https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/14890412219473756161489041221947375616Thu, 03 Feb 2022 01:01:07 +0000Securityhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1489041221947375616HackerX“Related humor (from the Swiss): https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/1570869727739936773” — HN reader @cpursley. View on X: https://x.com/DoombergT/status/1571063488860286977https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/15710634888602869771571063488860286977Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:08:19 +0000Sciencehttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1571063488860286977HackerX“Example of why this is not mundane https://x.com/fedekauffman/status/1811019707165856259” — HN reader @flanqueue. View on X: https://x.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/18106962571379590181810696257137959018Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:23:23 +0000Securityhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1810696257137959018HackerX“I find this tweet about how Google approaches web standards illuminating. To quote: > 1. design a flawed API (it's fine! APIs are hard) > 2. ship it in the most-used browser, despite objections > 3. get cross-browser working group to fix the API > 4. oops, too late, that would break the web https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1220412711768666114” — HN reader @throwaway810. View on X: https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1220412711768666114https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/12204127117686661141220412711768666114Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:27:19 +0000Web Developmenthttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1220412711768666114HackerX“They're very aware of that. I expect GPT-4 will improve on it, especially given the rumours about it being a big improvement over GPT-3/chatGPT. https://twitter.com/sama/status/1601731295792414720” — HN reader @ZephyrBlu. View on X: https://x.com/sama/status/1601731295792414720https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/16017312957924147201601731295792414720Sun, 11 Dec 2022 00:11:14 +0000AIhttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/1601731295792414720HackerX“«60% of my fav links from 10 yrs ago are 404. I wonder if Library of Congress expects 60% of their collection to go up in smoke every decade». And the discussion that follows about how to preserve not just the bits but also their meanings: https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/478087637031325697” — HN reader @Fice. View on X: https://x.com/worrydream/status/478087637031325697https://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/478087637031325697478087637031325697Sun, 15 Jun 2014 08:12:29 +0000Internethttps://hackerx.nishachay.tech/tweet/478087637031325697HackerX