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Sparse AI: Better hardware could turn zeros into AI heroes

4lx87 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:05:07 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/sparse-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939023

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New comment by 4lx87 in "Commenting and approving pull requests"

4lx87 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:07:25 +0000

I woke up one day and the industry is gating all code changes behind PRs w/ approvals. Anyone still able to commit to main without approval from someone else? I’m even seeing companies require multiple approvals on every PR. It’s insanity.

I’m skeptical. Software is as buggy as it ever was. I come across teams shipping terrible quality software, where every line change was approved and reviewed. I come across teams that require every change have an approval, but don’t require 100% test coverage. I’m seeing senior engineers have to get approval from juniors for a copy change.

It’s theatre. It’s bad management. It’s a cargo cult. It isn’t actually driving code quality.

Code review is one thing. Code review is good. But requiring every change have an approval is something else.

New comment by 4lx87 in "Ask HN: Scaling a targeted web crawler beyond 500M pages/day"

4lx87 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:02:38 +0000

I'm curious, how do you deal with Cloudflare and similar anti-bot systems? Just keep shopping the job around to different proxies?