Hacker News: BarryMilo

New comment by BarryMilo in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

BarryMilo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:40:17 +0000

The number of ridiculous claims in this thread...

First off, all Canadian provinces are different. Here in Quebec, there is a absolutely a private option. Not everyone likes that it exists, but most people seem to like having that option.

Canadians live better for longer on average (for cheaper healthcare overall). Any other metric is just a misguided attempt to justify the US status quo, which has nothing going for it unless you're rich.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

BarryMilo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:17:51 +0000

Not my experience at all. Ever since Google neutered ABP with this move, it feels like everyone else just gave up the arms race. Which makes sense give how little market share FF now has.

New comment by BarryMilo in "AI Is Solving CTF Challenges in Minutes"

BarryMilo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:24:42 +0000

Reads like AI writing again. Can you just post the prompt?

New comment by BarryMilo in "How to Exist"

BarryMilo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:03:16 +0000

As someone who used to meditate, I don't think you did it wrong. There are many right ways to do it, depending on what you seek.

Maybe it's not what you needed at the moment, especially if you're not an anxious person. But these days most people are anxious or stressed out, and the barest amount of meditation can help tremendously. Or it might do nothing, everyone is different.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

BarryMilo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:30:06 +0000

You've seen Sam Altman's interviews, yet you still think him a competent man? I think he's rather the embodiment of the death of meritocracy as an idea.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

BarryMilo — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:20:07 +0000

Your dad owning the company?

New comment by BarryMilo in "Domain-Camouflaged Injection Attacks Evade Detection in Multi-Agent LLM Systems"

BarryMilo — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:45:44 +0000

This is an "uh oh" moment, isn't it?

New comment by BarryMilo in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

BarryMilo — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:32:06 +0000

Surely this is automated. They wouldn't waste precious dollars on employing humans just to keep other humans happy.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

BarryMilo — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:35:11 +0000

They learn if they have to, like we always did. In-person exams (proctored) are good for testing that.

New comment by BarryMilo in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

BarryMilo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:39:59 +0000

How are people still deluded enough about this economic system to believe rank implies competence?

New comment by BarryMilo in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

BarryMilo — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:17:03 +0000

It also used to be that reddit comments were the epitome of quality in their time, much closer to current HN if not better. I attributed that to the voting mechanism; clearly I was mistaken.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

BarryMilo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:53:47 +0000

Other commenters laughing at you for the price... It's not about the price it's about the barrier. Even if I love a service, I won't get very many people to try it if they need to enter a credit card.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

BarryMilo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:03:47 +0000

I seem to remember that's one of the first things they tried, but the general models tended to win out. Turns out there's more to learn from all code/discussions than from just JS.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

BarryMilo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:55:59 +0000

Indeed, Python's version format is semver but it's just aesthetics, they remove stuff in most (every?) minor version. Just yesterday I wasted hours trying to figure out a bug before realizing my colleague hadn't read the patch notes.

New comment by BarryMilo in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

BarryMilo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 04:38:39 +0000

its*

New comment by BarryMilo in "Google Workspace CLI"

BarryMilo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:08:49 +0000

Took them this long to realize MCPs are just worse APIs.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

BarryMilo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:01:02 +0000

I'm not scared that my skills will be obsolete, I'm scared employers will think they are. The labor market was already irrational enough as it was.

New comment by BarryMilo in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

BarryMilo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:58:09 +0000

Well, I've worked as a developer in many companies and have never met a DBA. I've met tons of devops, who are just rebranded sysadmins as far as anyone can tell.

New comment by BarryMilo in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

BarryMilo — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:13:14 +0000

Imagine this for a whole neighborhood! Maybe it'd be more efficient for the transport to come at regular intervals though. And while we're at it, let's pick up other people along the way, you'll need a bigger vehicle though, perhaps bus-sized...

Half-jokes aside, if you don't own it, you'll end up paying more to the robotaxi company than you would have paid to own the car. This is all but guaranteed based on all SaaS services so far.

New comment by BarryMilo in "The Writers Came at Night"

BarryMilo — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:14:00 +0000

Marvel movies is the worst example, it's a roller coaster ride, not a movie. I agree any braindead idiot or machine could write one. But they couldn't know to write The Pianist or how the subject could be approached or why it's time to write it.

AI can make slop yes, but it can't make the kind of art people don't get tired of. It's the difference between wisdom and knowledge.