Hacker News: 3form

New comment by 3form in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

3form — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:01:33 +0000

>I've learnt more since the advent of LLMs than I did in the 10 years prior. And it's not just me; that is most people's experience with LLMs

My own usage too. Yet I believe that your environment is biased towards ambitious adults aligned with your values, who want to learn things. I don't think it's representative of world as a whole, and I'm even further worried about the youth, being a particularly vulnerable group. Let's hope that teachers and parents of today and tomorrow will keep reinforcing the idea that knowing things and having skills is worthwhile.

New comment by 3form in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

3form — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:57:37 +0000

I would hardly call the requirement to understand the code you push "gatekeeping".

New comment by 3form in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

3form — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:35:51 +0000

Meaning, you wouldn't touch it with a ten feet pole?

New comment by 3form in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute"

3form — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:10:25 +0000

Same here. Sadly I think the voices like ours won't be heard, though, because Apple's looking for someone who's going to buy in on the whole ecosystem, and I think we're not it. Or at least I'm not.

New comment by 3form in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

3form — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:28:51 +0000

Well, I have not once found a single case where an app reacting to screenshots and controlling the process in any way was anything to me but hostile and annoying. This one does not help.

It somehow is perfect example of how modern software engineering feels to go astray for me. A feature in my device working completely in benefit of the one providing said software. I wish, and wish only I can, that this trend goes away at some point.

New comment by 3form in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

3form — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:11:53 +0000

Potentially. The existence of the law exemplifies the idea the law is there to protect someone; all you need then to upgrade it is to argue that the current method is insufficient protection. Spirit of the law has been established - letter of the law will follow.

New comment by 3form in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

3form — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:56:11 +0000

It's true that open handhelds are where it's at right now. Steam Deck is also just simply a wonderful thing. Yet I know it's just somehow not the same as it's been before; architecturally, there's less innovation, just more of doing the "obvious right thing" here, and the big players, especially PS and Xbox are just sad attempts at dumbing down PCs to keep their walled gardens. So, nice things are still there, it's sadly just not as exciting.

New comment by 3form in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

3form — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:53:51 +0000

>I think he picked up my "gaming is dead now" outlook since he doesn't really have any interest in new systems or games anymore

This is interesting, as I was about to say that gaming has never been more alive than it is now - but it's true that at least the developments in hardware are not nearly as exciting as they used to be in the past. Maybe that's what he's feeling?

New comment by 3form in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

3form — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:43:58 +0000

I've seen at least 3 different ideas on this topic:

- people not skilled in a thing are bad at estimating their skills

- people are generally bad at estimating their skills

- people skilled in a particular areas often feel they are intellectually fit in other areas

Out of these three I feel like there's some truth in it, at least anecdotally.

New comment by 3form in "ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms"

3form — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:48:57 +0000

What do you mean by "until"? I would argue that this situation is the _result_ of being stunted and dependent in the first place.

New comment by 3form in "ChatGPT, Roblox to fall under strictest EU rules for platforms"

3form — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:47:24 +0000

>This is just another shake down. Quickly becoming the least business friendly place on Earth.

Yes, exactly - isn't that the point?

New comment by 3form in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

3form — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:04:23 +0000

I enjoy the funny implication it creates, that then perhaps if you're entering US in 2026 it means there's something wrong with you.

New comment by 3form in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

3form — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:22:59 +0000

In fact it was often mentioned as a recommended way to try to invest in SpaceX via proxy, before IPO. I don't think that advice had much merit, but it was there nevertheless.

New comment by 3form in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

3form — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:15:45 +0000

Mind you, I'm not arguing for the CVE, just complaining that the current thinking is very selective.

New comment by 3form in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

3form — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:13:54 +0000

Why not both? Countries should be able to signal which business practices are undesirable.

New comment by 3form in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

3form — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:55:39 +0000

Because you know, the actual solution would be to have more granularity in authentication process than "allow whole device to attach to ADB", but that would be like, difficult... so they're not going to so that.

Right now any app on my PC connected to ADB could manipulate my phone then, and that's somehow not a CVE?

New comment by 3form in "Android may soon restrict on-device ADB"

3form — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:39:41 +0000

What I find most annoying aspect of all software from 2010s onwards is this stupid discourse and associated results:

- some people want A, or A might even be already in use

- A is problematic for $MODERATE_OR_MILD_REASON

- B is introduced and made default

- a config switch between A and B is never considered

So, so tiring. If I want to bind ADB to localhost, _let me_. It's my device and my problem, ffs.

New comment by 3form in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

3form — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:33:00 +0000

How do they handle these assurances? Personally I have zero trust in the AI companies not trying to use this data to get ahead in the game, and short of sharing the weights and harness so that the benchmarkers can run the models themselves, I don't see a satisfactory solution with this mindset.

New comment by 3form in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

3form — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:25:49 +0000

I believe that most of terrorism does happen because the people behind it have some goals, not for funsies; so trying to fight the causes would be one thing to do. Obviously, that's difficult for many reasons, and making life more shit for everyone else is cheap and easy, and hence preferred.

New comment by 3form in "Flux 3"

3form — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:49:39 +0000

Open-weight promise seems nice, but 1) I've seen people commenting that these hopes amounted to nothing for some previous releases (no idea which promises were made though); and 2) if the backbone is released as Dev, what will be missing? I can't easily tell from the post.