Hacker News: 16bitvoid

New comment by 16bitvoid in "MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training"

16bitvoid — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:57:17 +0000

97% human-written

New comment by 16bitvoid in "How much of HN is AI?"

16bitvoid — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:12:25 +0000

If you got any more, I'd appreciate one too. My email is my username at 'pm' dot 'me'

New comment by 16bitvoid in "It's not empowering to hand off the details"

16bitvoid — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:39:02 +0000

Sounds like "Off to be the Wizard". The series is called "Magic 2.0"

New comment by 16bitvoid in "I think I have LLM burnout"

16bitvoid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:38:39 +0000

I'm totally fine, just annoyed by how much this "try not to think too hard about the how and think more about the why and what"[0] is getting brought up every single time someone mentions why they prefer hand coding to vibe coding. At this point, it's being overstated, thus gives off less "this is why I use it" and more "come on, get onboard the hypetrain to dystopia or you're going to get left behind". It's hardly conducive to a "productive discussion" when it's the millionth time as a drive-by comment. What kind of response did you expect?

Look, I don't have a problem with your personal motivation. I just hate seeing it suggested that people should abandon their passion because someone else doesn't share it. There's absolutely nothing wrong with "I enjoy making something useful" just as there's nothing wrong with "I enjoy making something with my hands or figuring out how to make it". My problem is with "your enjoyment of that is invalid because I don't enjoy that, so learn to enjoy this".

0: Not really a statement of your drive, is it? More of a directive or suggestion.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "I think I have LLM burnout"

16bitvoid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:31:42 +0000

We get it, you don't have a passion for the act or the craft, just the end result, but I'm absolutely sick of hearing it all over this site as if it's a universal truth that some of us just don't recognize yet.

Sorry, some of us have a joy for programming where the how is just as important, if not more so, than the what and the why. No matter how much people proclaim that the how doesn't matter to them, it isn't going to suddenly make it true for others.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks"

16bitvoid — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:07:02 +0000

What about it?

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

16bitvoid — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:49:54 +0000

Definitely. Despite the wording of my question, which I intended to be rhetorical, I understand why people are doing it. While I think that is one explanation, I think it's mostly hype or optimism. In other words, not so much grappling, but rather hoping and wanting AI to do anything and everything.

I just don't personally get why people want that. This endemic force feeding of AI down everyone's throats at every corner is just amplifying people's worst tendencies: greed, laziness, apathy, cognitive disengagement, etc. It's especially apparent when people suggest AI automating activities that have always largely been about personal gratification, growth, and/or expressions of thoughts to share with fellow humans.

I won't deny the benefits that some people get from LLMs (primarily experienced senior developers), but I feel those benefits are far and away outweighed by costs that it's already having on everyone else, both individually and societally.

Sorry for the rant.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

16bitvoid — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:17:20 +0000

Sorry, I don't mean to single you out in any way, but why does AI/LLMs have to get shoehorned into every discussion here? It's getting exhausting.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

16bitvoid — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:20:22 +0000

> Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon.

No, it's not because it doesn't exist (yet) and its further from reach than the other examples. Also, the guardrails are also framed as restricting usage for the development of "competing" products/services.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "AI is slowing down"

16bitvoid — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:12:35 +0000

That's just what some people generally use to refer to LLM input string/prompt/message/etc. The only thing the LLM can do is return information...in the form of text, so every request is one for information.

If we want to get really pedantic, every generated token is the answer to the query: what's the next most probable token in this sequence of tokens?

New comment by 16bitvoid in "AI is slowing down"

16bitvoid — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:53:10 +0000

No, they're saying that 80% of genai queries (aka anything sent to an LLM; I won't speak on the validity of the percentage) are not things someone would search on Google. It's things like trial-and-error vibecoding, openclaw-like agentic loops, talking to chatgpt like it's a person, etc. In other words, most genai queries are not for getting "obscure information" or even getting direct information at all. It's about either getting it to do something you don't want to do yourself, or using it as a replacement for someone else (junior dev, therapist, friend, significant other, etc).

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant"

16bitvoid — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:42:44 +0000

Sure, it's not original or unique, but that wasn't your question. Facebook itself wasn't particularly unique when it launched.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

16bitvoid — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:00:01 +0000

Bandlab Studio, maybe? Never used it, but might be what you're looking for. There's a web version and a mobile app.

https://www.bandlab.com/creation-features

New comment by 16bitvoid in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

16bitvoid — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:54:16 +0000

You don't have to login to X or download the app (if you're on mobile). X won't let you see the replies otherwise. I also prefer that the layout is denser and you can see more content at once, at least on my phone.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

16bitvoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:04:01 +0000

Community growth might imply technical success (debatable), but technical success does not imply community growth.

You can have a very technically successful project, but it doesn't mean it'll be used.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

16bitvoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:16:06 +0000

And endeavors, which are supposedly for the benefit of everyone, that listen to no one run into the ground even quicker.

That's beside the point though. I was pointing out the hypocrisy. This sidestepping and deflection seems to be a trend with you, both here and in the mailing list.

No point in responding to me though if it's just to grandstand. You've made it apparent to me that I want nothing to do with your project. Cheers.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

16bitvoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:07:21 +0000

Community size and positive community feedback, which is somewhat tangential to progress, which I assume is in the context of development. Also, the rate at which the original freenet community declines.

Number of contributors or pull requests isn't a good metric at the moment since the advent of Claude Code et al. has seen a dramatic uptick in both everywhere.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

16bitvoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:01:22 +0000

I also like how his first response to a reply to the announcement (and multiple others) was "who do you speak for?" while simultaneously framing a discussion with a single person, in private, as a good faith effort to hear from the community with the implicit assumption that that one person spoke for the community.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

16bitvoid — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:55:44 +0000

What does your progress have to do with the name? You're so defensive that you're reasoning with non sequiturs.

New comment by 16bitvoid in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

16bitvoid — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:48:38 +0000

The bar isn't any higher. There's just no grace given. No one is judging a hobby project made by a human on quality, and the person who the hobby project belongs to will rarely say that their code is high quality. And in a professional setting, I think people are fine with "good enough" but they're not going to claim anything is high-quality.

But people are so quick to label their vibe-coded codebase as high quality and no grace is going to be given to a machine.

What comments are you seeing that are calling code from humans high-quality?