HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

nikhizzle

1,953 karma · joined June 26, 2011

get in touch!

nikhil at mountainyak.co

submissionscomments
nikhizzle··on Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Claude code
nikhizzle··on Elevated Errors for Multiple Models
Kind of cool how fable 5.1 just worked around these by reassigning subagents to non-failing models with more supervision and now with a hint to Sol and Flash 3.8.
nikhizzle··on 1-Bit LLM in the Browser
IMHO from guy working with heavily quantized models and trying to get results. I do think quantization at less than 4-bit requires more advanced mathematics than is usually used. See Google Scholar Babak Hassibi (founder of Prism ML). Generally am amazed about the resiliency of these new data structures to approximation.
nikhizzle··on Your code is fast – if you're lucky
Got to my first job out of college and they gave me core dumps and had me debug the kernel for a year. Not my kind of fun, but definitely got me skilled in the art of low level.
nikhizzle··on I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs
I believe I potentially wrote that code in 2006 when working at Apple on HFS. What a remarkable world!
nikhizzle··on How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?
Ex-Apple kernel engineer here, Apple will deal with the memory shortage by making software more efficient in ram usage. Apple will just make every aspect of the system more and more memory efficient. They've done it before over and over and can do it again.
nikhizzle··on Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs
Almost trivial using open source tools, the question is how it performs without calibration/fine tuning.
nikhizzle··on Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
Will think about it, trying to keep it running snappy with minimal cost since no clear path to monetization
nikhizzle··on Ask HN: Job seekers, what's working / not working?
I’ve had luck getting higher rate of interviews for remote jobs by applying first. To that end I built a site which shows job postings as they are posted - https://tangerinefeed.net
nikhizzle··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
I think the interesting thing here for those of us who use open source frameworks is that we can ask the LLM to look at the source to find the answer (eg. Pytorch or Phoenix in my case). For closed source libraries I do not know.
nikhizzle··on Clicks Communicator
I may eventually get one of these just to use with Claude code. Been looking for the lightest best machine to use with agents.
nikhizzle··on All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision
sample output here - https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112...

This is at the very beginning of begin feasible. I do not know anything about photonics, maybe someone who does can comment on scalability?

nikhizzle··on The realities of being a pop star
Thanks for sharing this. Needed something meaningful this morning.
nikhizzle··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
I mean tether redemptions. Hedge funds liquidating treasuries last year significantly distorted yields for a short while.
nikhizzle··on Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt
Armchair economist here - one implication of this is that a crypto liquidation will cause global interest rates to spike at a time when they will need to be lower to calm the markets.

Selling massive amounts of debt with no additional demand means the required return must be higher.

nikhizzle··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
Thanks for this, this is very useful for a related ai project I’m working on.
nikhizzle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Thanks! Will take a look.
nikhizzle··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
A job feed for remote jobs - https://tangerinefeed.net/

This is something I’ve needed myself over the last few years as jobs become shorter and shorter lived. Keep on improving it as some kind of compulsion.

nikhizzle··on ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)
I moved out of the kernel in 2008 and never went back, so don’t have a wise opinion here which would be current.
nikhizzle··on ZFS: Apple's new filesystem that wasn't (2016)
Ex-Apple File System engineer here who shared an office with the other ZFS lead at the time. Can confirm they link to the wrong profile for Don Brady.

This is the correct person: https://github.com/don-brady

Also can confirm Don is one of the kindest, nicest principal engineer level people I’ve worked with in my career. Always had time to mentor and assist.

nikhizzle··on The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting
I have a rough idea of my friend’s schedules, and I call them when I’m driving the kids around, or we text. Staying in constant contact with a few very close friends about my mental health has floated me through my mid-40s.

A tip I got from a friend in his 60s was that even when you lose friends, life is great because you constantly have the opportunity to find new ones. I am in a new close friends renaissance in my 40s, just be vulnerable and don’t take rejection personally.

nikhizzle··on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
So which one is it? Code is contract and he should get to keep the money. Or crypto is governed by laws outside of crypto and so he violated the “spirit” of the code and hence is a criminal?

It seems like right now the crypto industry makes the decision to their convenience on a daily basis.

nikhizzle··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Perhaps Google is scared about losing its cash cow in search, and is needing to cement their position in cloud compute.
nikhizzle··on Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (2013)
I’m not sure there is a huge advantage at the beginning, perhaps even a disadvantage because of the ease of use of Elixir. As you get more advanced you start using Erlang here and there to access things not in Elixir. For example, Elixir only has lists not arrays, so if you need a good indexed data structure you end up using some Erlang. Also once you start getting into Mnesia etc, Erlang is the way. All this said, still very early on my Erlang journey.
nikhizzle··on Show HN: Feed of the highest paying remote software jobs
Crawler built in elixir
nikhizzle··on Show HN: Feed of the highest paying remote software jobs
I’m working on it. This my hobby on my nights and weekends while having many other commitments. Will have that soon. Really appreciate the feedback!
nikhizzle··on Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations
This is super interesting. I run a remote job board as a hobby (see below). My best estimate of jobs my crawler found as well as ones it did not is about 12,000 - 15,000 remote jobs added in February. This is a much higher proportion than I would have guessed otherwise.

(Edit: I am wrong, I am comparing US jobs to global remote jobs, still interesting, just bad proportions)

https://tangerinefeed.net/

nikhizzle··on Didn't realize it was this bad
Yes this is my nights and weekends while having many other commitments. I’m working on all of that
nikhizzle··on Didn't realize it was this bad
This is why I built tangerine feed for remote roles. It turns out there are tons of remote roles and you can get an edge by applying first. It has unfortunately come down to a numbers game with low odds.

https://tangerinefeed.net

Still working on filtering etc, pardon the work in progress.

nikhizzle··on AI for Healthcare Startups
hey Ali - I love your post. Have you considered cofounder matching via YC? I am doing healthcare AI and have found collaborating with physicians is very helpful.

https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching

Page 1 of 7Next →