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ky-hy··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Cosmere is universe created by Brandon Sanderson for his books, its a small galaxy with many planets called shardworlds, usually series are independent from each other but the really cool part is that there is handful of characters (at least named) that can jump between those planets, and those characters are called worldhoppers and they can appear in series that normally wouldn't be connected to each other, and due to fantastic character writing of Brandon, you are always pleasantly suprised when a character from one series appears in another.
ky-hy··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
I recently finished "Warbreaker" by Brandon Sanderson, now plan to go back to reading "Designing data-intensive applications" since it's been a long time (for me) since I read anything educational. Warbreaker was amazing, I still think about it, a week after finishing, about the characters and how much fun I had while reading it. It's one of those books that you smile when you read it because of how pleasant it is and how enjoyable the characters are.
ky-hy··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
mindful people as opposed to mindless people don't have fun, they are occupied with bringing value to shareholders /s
ky-hy··on The Human Is the Loop
if I had to write code by hand and take time to do it, I would be fired long time ago, and as a person with only 2 YoE I don't want to risk going on a job hunt currently. I already get weird looks from people when I say that I take time to review code or change some small parts of it by hand.
ky-hy··on Typing Tests for Programmers
I would like to get the option to saw what I had to type after doing so, current problem is that I can type fast, but not think fast enough to comprehend what I'm doing when typing out some of the DSA ones. So maybe instead of having my screen locked before going to the next task, the statistics could be displayed below the typed out content, with a text prompting to proceed to the next task
ky-hy··on Substack writers, you need a website
According to hacker news users you have to monetize every single thing you do in your spare time, otherwise it's a waste of time, be it blogging, pet projects that you need to convert to SAAS etc. And if you claim that you have "fun" and "hobbies" you are a liar (or at least you are lying to yourself that you don't want to make money out of those things).
ky-hy··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
One of my professors at Uni a year ago was arguing that due to genAI we would have a shift of trust into established institutions/people, so government (I'm not American so I don't know if this is possible after many recent scandals for example), Universities, people with authority/knowledge, close family members that are trust worthy, knowledgeable and/or work in before mentioned institutions. So basically we would revert to pre-web times where we had to trust some entities whenever we liked it or not.

I personally worry that what that would mean is we are left with little to no institutions to trust, besides Universities and family members, I don't think I would be able to trust governments and corporations, but I guess before internet people also weren't blindly trusting those.

ky-hy··on The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription
> Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it.

No matter how hard I try, I can't put myself in OP position; I think I would go crazy if the most important thing in life was chasing money or ways to monetize my hobbies.

ky-hy··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
I do wrestling and BJJ, helps me cope with my stressful job and besides my joints hurting (especially fingers) from time to time, it was great for both my mental and physical health
ky-hy··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
decided to learn a low level language since I never wrote any and I'm self taught dev, created this abomination of interpretation of kilo.c in zig: https://github.com/kyhyy/kz

Soon will add readme and syntax highlighting for zig itself (was too scared to deviate from C guide lol)