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alpaylan

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Show HN: Latex Diff Viewer
Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 2:38 PM UTC
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Understanding Is the New Bottleneck
Thu, Jul 02, 2026, 7:55 PM UTC
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Comment #48738637
Hi, author here! Please let me know if I could pitch in to the discussion in any way.

Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 8:20 PM UTC
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Representation-Free Editing
Tue, Jun 16, 2026, 1:39 PM UTC
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Why AI code optimization needs production-grounded benchmarks
Tue, Jun 09, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC
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A Little Explanation of Little's Law
Sat, Jun 06, 2026, 6:09 PM UTC
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What's Easy Now? What's Hard Now?
Mon, May 18, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC
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What Is Random Generation?
Mon, May 11, 2026, 1:30 PM UTC
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Why Don't Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?
Thu, May 07, 2026, 10:06 PM UTC
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Nondeterminism's Not the Problem
Mon, May 04, 2026, 2:10 PM UTC
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EsoNatLangs Bring the Complexity of Natural Language into Code
Thu, Apr 16, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC
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The Simplicity of Humanness
Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 7:25 PM UTC
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Comment #47734316
I agree. It’s especially weird moving across related domains because suddenly something you think you know has changed meaning. For instance eBPF is “verified”, but the verificatio…

Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC
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The Mismanaged Geniuses Hypothesis
Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 3:35 PM UTC
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The Verification Facade: Structural Gaps in Cryspen's Hax Pipeline
Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 1:48 PM UTC
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What is a property?
Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 12:16 PM UTC
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A Drop in for `anyhow:Context` that reports the failure location
Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 7:02 PM UTC
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Tracing Goroutines in Realtime with eBPF
Tue, Mar 31, 2026, 12:57 PM UTC
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Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 3:28 PM UTC
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Comment #47392400
Doesn't all optimizations need to be valid translations first? That was my reasoning when writing it.

Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC
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Seeing Types Where Others Don't
Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 12:28 PM UTC
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Code Quality in the Age of Coding Agents
Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC
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Lf-lean: The frontier of verified software engineering
Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 3:37 PM UTC
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The mechanics of autonomous software translation
Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 8:09 AM UTC
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Formalizing Data Structures and Algorithms with Agents
Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 8:47 PM UTC