Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
71 by canjobear | 59 comments on Hacker News.
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
Show HN: I told people I'm a convicted felon after 20 years of hiding it
8 by buf | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi there. I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon. It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it was certainly something that I never brought up. When you're a convicted felon, people look at you as if you are tainted. I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. I was unable to get a job directly after being released from prison. It's funny because when you owe the state $17,000 in restitution and you can't get a job, people become extremely desperate. And that desperation can easily put you right back into prison. So I went from homeless person at age 19 to 7-figures about 10 years later. I retired at age 38. What I'm doing now is writing an autobiography. The main theme of it is hope. And I want to make sure that people know about it. They don't necessarily have to be interested in it, but if people know about what it's like sleeping in a car believing that one day you will travel the world and then actually doing it, then I think I've accomplished my task in writing this book. If you're interested, please let me know.
8 by buf | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi there. I was engineer number 3 at Eventbrite and founding engineer at Reforge. I've created a dozen or so startups myself and have worked in many others, like Instacart. All this time, no one knew that I was a convicted felon. It wasn't exactly a topic that came up, but it was certainly something that I never brought up. When you're a convicted felon, people look at you as if you are tainted. I was unable to rent apartments in San Francisco. I was unable to get a job directly after being released from prison. It's funny because when you owe the state $17,000 in restitution and you can't get a job, people become extremely desperate. And that desperation can easily put you right back into prison. So I went from homeless person at age 19 to 7-figures about 10 years later. I retired at age 38. What I'm doing now is writing an autobiography. The main theme of it is hope. And I want to make sure that people know about it. They don't necessarily have to be interested in it, but if people know about what it's like sleeping in a car believing that one day you will travel the world and then actually doing it, then I think I've accomplished my task in writing this book. If you're interested, please let me know.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch
Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch
10 by znano | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://zola.ink/blog/posts/rawlink-building-a-vpn-protocol-...
10 by znano | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://zola.ink/blog/posts/rawlink-building-a-vpn-protocol-...
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: XY Music Notation
Show HN: XY Music Notation
12 by jmole | 10 comments on Hacker News.
I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it. The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y). I used codex to build a music score rendering backend based on MuseScore with custom note heads that display the pitch class of each note. I've found it pretty helpful for learning how to play my own instrument, so wanted to share in case anyone else was interested.
12 by jmole | 10 comments on Hacker News.
I've been playing around with a new kind of isomorphic music keyboard that uses a base-12 notation, and wanted some sheet music to learn some new music for it. The idea is to represent each note in 12-TET as a number, so N ∈ (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,X,Y). I used codex to build a music score rendering backend based on MuseScore with custom note heads that display the pitch class of each note. I've found it pretty helpful for learning how to play my own instrument, so wanted to share in case anyone else was interested.
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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
13 by edverma2 | 7 comments on Hacker News.
pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent ( https://ift.tt/mvb4Ht2 ) in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of "agentic engineering" environments. Products by the labs (claude code, codex) lock you into a single provider for your tokens. Agnostic solutions (factory, devin, arguably cursor) make you pay per-token costs. None of these products allow you to fully customize the harness. I've been an early and fervent user of pi, and I think it is fantastically simple and beautiful. I have felt it needs an environment for it to work across platforms with fully functional composability for teams. This is very much a work in progress, but for my team this has been a much needed solution and has helped us tremendously. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how you would like it to improve.
13 by edverma2 | 7 comments on Hacker News.
pi pod runs sessions of the pi coding agent ( https://ift.tt/mvb4Ht2 ) in isolated sandboxes ("pods") on a server you run, in composable environments. ---- Since moving my company towards AI-native work, I have been really frustrated by the state of "agentic engineering" environments. Products by the labs (claude code, codex) lock you into a single provider for your tokens. Agnostic solutions (factory, devin, arguably cursor) make you pay per-token costs. None of these products allow you to fully customize the harness. I've been an early and fervent user of pi, and I think it is fantastically simple and beautiful. I have felt it needs an environment for it to work across platforms with fully functional composability for teams. This is very much a work in progress, but for my team this has been a much needed solution and has helped us tremendously. I hope you will give it a try and let me know how you would like it to improve.
Friday, October 2, 2026
New top story on Hacker News: Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
28 by CoryOndrejka | 1 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/J6iWkPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg https://ift.tt/wAabWzd...
28 by CoryOndrejka | 1 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/J6iWkPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg https://ift.tt/wAabWzd...
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