Hacker News: Brotkrumen

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

Brotkrumen — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:28:16 +0000

So your point is that we should put spikes on the front end of cars?

New comment by Brotkrumen in "IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2"

Brotkrumen — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:14:01 +0000

Everyone who is curious? I mean did you know that you can run something on a real quantum computer for free? Go try out something new, or are we only getting excited about the newest AI slop machine release these days?

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

Brotkrumen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:16:39 +0000

If you handle database requests naively, every request to the database may open its own connection. This is a super simple approach but will exceed the amount of connections the database can or wants to handle concurrently.

One solution is to increase your app complexity and introduce a layer that manages connection pooling or queuing.

Or you can just keep your app naive and simple and put pgbouncer transparently in front of your DB. Even for multiple apps, so instead of every app increasing in complexity, reimplementing connection handling, you just have pgbouncer.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon"

Brotkrumen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:58:48 +0000

More anecdata, but around me, the opportunities for recent grads and self-taughts are less than try were.

If I was to bet, it seems that tasks that were given to new hires are now done by senior engineers and a prompt.

A collegue claims that the difference between an MBA and a mediocre compsci grad have disappeared due to vibe coding, so the compscis grads feel the job market is tougher because of increased competition.

All I know is that it's super hard to get junior devs to not be junior anymore because they don't have the opportunity anymore to learn on easy tasks.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

Brotkrumen — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:36:57 +0000

If I put my tinfoil hat on, one of the reasons may be in the disclaimer:

>An investment fund associated with Sam Altman held a passive investment in Software Applications Incorporated

Maybe it's just as banal as "Sam paid himself a bit more money".

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

Brotkrumen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:15:10 +0000

That conversation reads like two consultant LLMs talking past each other.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era"

Brotkrumen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:12:16 +0000

Sounds interesting, but voice input isn't working for me there. I guess I'm too niche with my Mac and Firefox setup.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Has Social Media Fuelled a Teen-Suicide Crisis?"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:36:07 +0000

Is there a law yet, such as "The more comments you read, the probability of mistaking a comment for AI-generated content approaches 1" or something?

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Denmark ends Nord Stream blast investigation but blames deliberate sabotage"

Brotkrumen — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:45:05 +0000

Uh nice! I also have very reasonable explanations why it was Russia, the Ukrainians, the Chinese or Poland!

I can even go for some of the middle-eastern countries or the nefarious Danish! Should we like found a forum or something were we can trade things that come to our minds unasked?

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The Wait Equation and AI Investment"

Brotkrumen — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 06:32:11 +0000

>C_b = (T_s - T_v) * ROC * 1/52

I have so many problems with this line

New comment by Brotkrumen in "AI model weight providers should not police uses, no matter how awful they are"

Brotkrumen — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 14:23:28 +0000

Can't find anything from anthropic like that.

Do you have any sources for the extraordinary claim that "censorship is logically inconsistent in every moral framework"? Because without further arguments, this sounds very intellectually simple.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Peter Pan copyright"

Brotkrumen — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 08:03:12 +0000

As has been pointed out: Give them perpetual funding according to the needs of the children, not pervert unrelated systems to provide an unstable income stream.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:16:31 +0000

I'm reading it as social forces making certain topics unpublishable. In his words

>facts which the Soviet government would prefer to keep hidden, is next door to unprintable.

All topics mentioned so far as "censored" have enjoyed enough publication and even being successful political platforms.

What people here mistake as censorship is usually regurgitated bad arguments being unpopular

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:41:46 +0000

I've mentioned 3. I've lost 2 popularity points so far. Am I being censored?

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:37:22 +0000

I find COVID to be an especially bad example. the whole spectrum is represented in politics.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:33:57 +0000

I've seen those posts here, I've read the arguments in the comments. What is censored then? Unpopularity or pushback isn't censorship

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:32:29 +0000

The discourse exists though, right? Here and elsewhere. Censorship isn't pushback, bad arguments aren't either

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:22:52 +0000

Are we pretending now, that even mentioning these "forbidden topics" will get you banned?

Here, I'll mention some for you: eugenics, Holocaust, incest.

So please, if I don't get censored for these, please tell me what these secret topics hidden from me are!

New comment by Brotkrumen in "The unpublished preface to Orwell’s Animal Farm"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 05:09:17 +0000

What would those topics be? I guess they are suppressed quite well, since none come to mind.

New comment by Brotkrumen in "Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples"

Brotkrumen — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:02:00 +0000

I personally go by "Carpe Diem", as musician Taylor Swift says.