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Semi retired. Former @meta engineering manager

Former head of engineering @ calendly. game developer - k2xl.com

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pathology.thinky.gg 2d ago

Show HN: Pathfinding Puzzle Game

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twitter.com 2d ago

Jacobian conjecture is false (with help of Fable)

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twitter.com 23d ago

FSD v14 "Lite" rolling out to HW3 customers

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pathology.thinky.gg 27d ago

Show HN: Find the Shortest Path in 24 steps

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chess67.com 1mo ago

Show HN: I visualized United States Chess Federation (USCF) ratings by state

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k2xl.substack.com 1mo ago

"You Can't Miss It"

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lifearchitect.ai 2mo ago

Alan's ASI Checklist

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k2xl.substack.com 3mo ago

The Meta Product Manager

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k2xl.substack.com 3mo ago

The Beep at Meta

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k2xl.substack.com 3mo ago

Human intention is still running on dial-up

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k2xl.substack.com 3mo ago

"Am I Actually Doing a Good Job?"

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

Shitposting at Meta

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

Downleveled

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github.com 4mo ago

Parametric Golf

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

The Context Debt

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

"We need to paint a long term version"

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

The Canonical Document

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

The Bizarro Team

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

The Facebook app didn't become cluttered because nobody cared

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k2xl.substack.com 4mo ago

The Tail That Wags the Company

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

The Museum of Abandoned Ideas

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

A Parallel Internet

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

The Filter, Not the Bar

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

When the Competition Is Down the Hall

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

Two Million Is Small

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

The first time I visited Meta's HQ, it didn't quite register as a real place

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k2xl.substack.com 5mo ago

Planning at Meta Is Waterfall

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twitter.com 6mo ago

Leaving Meta as Engineering Manager after 6.5 years

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twitter.com 11mo ago

GPT-5 on Arc-AGI Semi Private Eval

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twitter.com 2y ago

Tesla FSD v12 can make U-Turns

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GPT‑Live 14 days ago

When is it rolling out? Currently on ChatGPT Pro but not seeing it yet?

Siri AI 1 month ago

I’m honestly surprised Apple didn’t retire the Siri brand.

At this point, “Siri” has a pretty strong cultural association with being underwhelming or unhelpful. Even if the new version is dramatically better, convincing people to give Siri another shot may be harder than launching the same technology under a new name.

Feels like a missed opportunity to reset expectations.

Childhood Computing 2 months ago

I miss those days. Oregon trail was the first game I played on the computer in 1993 (there was a computer in our Kindergarten class).

Nostalgia for the old web - building websites in HTML on Angelfire and Expage.com. Learning programming on visual basic and how to copy and paste <marquee> to welcome people to the site and to sign the guestbook…

Isn't there some alternative approach? I.e when someone submit ai slop they get a strike. Three strikes and you are suspended from submitting to the bug bounty for x months/years?

*Edit - I get it. It seems like the authentication is a challenge.

User how old is the earth? and how do we know? who determined it

talkie-1930 The earth is at least 80,000,000 years old. This conclusion has been arrived at by geologists, partly from the study of stratified rocks, and partly from the consideration of living organisms. Strata have been formed, quietly, one upon another, in many parts of the world, from the earliest times down to the present day; and the thickness of some of these strata amounts to several thousand feet. Now, it is plain, that a long period must have elapsed, during which such beds could be accumulated. Then, again, certain living species have continued unchanged from the beginning of the stratified formations up to now; and, as no such species have become extinct, it is argued that the earth must have existed, at least, from the first appearance of these organisms. In round numbers, we may say, that the earth has been a globe, fit for the habitation of living beings, at least 80,000,000 years.

Yes. It was great for when I had a major surgery last year and had a bazillion questions for the surgeon. But I don't always remember to. My parents definitely don't even think about it.

I think the post conflates two issues:

1. AI-generated charting. 2. The existence of a reliable record of the visit.

I am skeptical of the first in some cases (i.e. bias), but strongly in favor of the second.

My father is 80 and has Parkinson’s. He routinely leaves appointments unsure of what the doctor said, what changed, or what he is supposed to do next. Even when I attend with him, we sometimes disagree afterward about what exactly was recommended.

This happens with pediatric appointments too. My wife and I occasionally remember instructions differently: medication timing, symptoms to watch for, when to call back, whether something was “normal” or needed follow-up.

That is a care quality problem, not just a convenience problem.

The risks are real: privacy, consent, retention, training use, liability, and automation bias. But those argue for strict controls, not for a blanket refusal. Make it opt-in, give the patient access, prohibit training without explicit consent, keep retention short, and require clear auditability.

I do not want opaque AI quietly rewriting the medical record. But I also do not think “everyone relies on memory after a stressful 12-minute appointment” is some gold standard we should preserve.

GPT-5.5 3 months ago

ARC-AGI 3 is missing on this list - given that the SOTA before 5.5 <1% if I recall, I wonder if this didn't make meaningful progress.

GPT-5.5 3 months ago

Surprised to see SWE-Bench Pro only a slight improvement (57.7% -> 58.6%) while Opus 4.7 hit 64.3%. I wonder what Anthropic is doing to achieve higher scores on this - and also what makes this test particular hard to do well in compared to Terminal Bench (which 5.5 seemed to have a big jump in)

I’m working on https://chess67.com, software for running over-the-board chess (clubs, coaches, tournaments).

I started this after volunteering at my kid’s tournaments and seeing how fragmented things are: • registrations in Google Forms • payments via Venmo/Zelle • pairings in SwissSys/WinTD • communication across email and text

Chess67 aims to unify that: • coaches can sell lessons and manage scheduling and payments • clubs can run events and communicate with players • tournaments can handle registrations, with pairing and USCF submission in progress

Still early. The main challenge is not building features but matching existing workflows, especially Swiss pairings, which are more nuanced than they look.

Lichess has been absolutely fantastic platform. AS a chess enthusiast as an engineer of a chess website me and some others are building (shameless plug, https://chess67.com), they are the only platform I have worked with where so much is so easily accessible in terms of their APIs.

Their Oauth requires to special app registration nor any oauth secrets - only platform I have seen that does that.

I do wonder how this opens up ability for people to integrate Lichess’ player pool to their own apps.

ARC-AGI-3 4 months ago

I submitted puzzle game Pathology (https://thinky.gg) for ARC Prize 3. Sad to see didn’t hear back from the committee.

It is a simple game with simple rules that solvers have an incredibly difficult time solving compared to humans at a certain level. Solutions are easy to validate but hard to find.

Chess67 - Website for Chess coaches, club organizers, and tournament directors

https://chess67.com

Chess67 is a platform for chess coaches, clubs and tournament organizers to manage their operations in one place. It handles registrations, payments, scheduling, rosters, lessons, memberships, and tournament files (TRF/DBF) while cutting out the usual mix of spreadsheets and scattered tools. I’m focused on solving the practical workflow problems coaches deal with every day and making it easier for local chess communities to run events smoothly.

ChatGPT Health 7 months ago

ChatGPT arguably saved my fathers life two weeks ago. He was in a rehab center after breaking his hip and his condition suddenly deteriorated.

While waiting for the ambulance at the rehab center, i plugged all his health data from is MyChart and described the symptoms. It accurately predicted (in its top two possibilities) C Diff infection.

Fast forward two days, ER has prescribed in general antibiotics. I pushed the doctors to check for C Diff and sure enough he tested positive for it - and they got him on the right antibiotics for it.

I think it was just in time as he ended up going to the ICU before he got better.

Maybe they would have tested for C Diff anyway, but definitely made me trust ChatGPT. Throughout his stay after every single update in his MyChart I copy and paste the pdf to the long running thread for his health.

I think ChatGPT health- being able to automatically import this directly will be a huge game changer. This is probably my number one use case of AI is health and wellness.

My dad is getting discharged tomorrow (to a different rehab center, thankfully)