Hacker News: CSSer

New comment by CSSer in "AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying"

CSSer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:36:37 +0000

Yes, and it’s trivial to form one! If you look up the documentation necessary you may not believe your eyes.

New comment by CSSer in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

CSSer — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:13:33 +0000

Given that I just read this comment after getting off a connecting flight that had me waiting on a fully boarded plane in 100 degree Phoenix weather for half an hour, it’s pretty poignant. I read an article earlier today about how Phoenix may not be inhabitable in twenty years, and I’m here to tell you that it’s already insufferable no matter how well the A/C was or was not working on that plane.

I don’t need a plane that flies faster. I need an airline that puts pure service before profit.

New comment by CSSer in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

CSSer — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:07:33 +0000

Put that on a T-shirt!

New comment by CSSer in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

CSSer — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:19:19 +0000

I think people miss this because these companies exist in a space that is new in tech, and that means lots of competition through PR and marketing. When that happens, it’s easy to feel like a company is telling you about everything they’ve been working on or are openly talking about what gives them their edge when in fact the opposite is often true.

New comment by CSSer in "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy"

CSSer — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:50:10 +0000

They want it to equal identity verification! When virtually every top tech executive who wants a favor is at the inauguration and you have companies doing 180 degrees on support for something they previously furiously opposed, someone is getting something they wanted. It seems naive to think otherwise. Furthermore, the current administration in the U.S. fired or ignored the competent people to which you’re referring, and those people oppose a centralized repository of various metadata because it creates a central point of failure, otherwise known as a target, that is generally a bad idea for both our nation and our citizens. Of course there are agencies in the federal government that possess this information already, but they possess it for their purposes only. This is good because it means that it’s both more difficult to abuse internally in addition to being more cumbersome to collect externally.

New comment by CSSer in "Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce"

CSSer — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:28:44 +0000

Everything is going to plan! Protect the precious bodily fluids.

New comment by CSSer in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

CSSer — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:10:55 +0000

And C) they don't always have to be at parity with human hands to be good enough because humans are flat out expensive. Humans need health accommodations, have sick days, vacation, and make mistakes too. The bar is much lower and the incentives are much higher than many people probably think.

New comment by CSSer in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

CSSer — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:21:15 +0000

Before LLMs, learning on the job looked like reading documentation. Now it’s a guided tour with verification. When I produce things in this way, I’m not just blindly accepting it. The goal is that by the end of it I have learned more about the codebase and architecture, not less. I feel that’s important.

New comment by CSSer in "Claude Fable 5"

CSSer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:56:51 +0000

Oh joy. A model whose safeguards make it prone towards code that make your systems less safe. How brilliant!

New comment by CSSer in "Claude Fable 5"

CSSer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:55:15 +0000

Yes, and "in collaboration with the U.S. Government" feels like a very gross ploy at appeal to authority. You don't need Mythos or really any SotA frontier model to make malware or do extensive penetration testing/reconnaissance already. Sure, Mythos might be faster/more efficient, but the cat has been out of the bag for awhile. Even the terminology "infrastructure providers" practically screams "Enterprise leads".

New comment by CSSer in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

CSSer — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:35:37 +0000

I don’t think you’re going to find a consensus on this because it really just comes down to the quality of the employees in each discipline. Actions speak louder than words. I’ve seen the IT people GP is describing. I’ve also seen yours. In GP’s scenario, they often even mean well but are very overwhelmed because they’ve come to exist in a space where _everything is IT_ because no one else is remotely qualified to fill the specialty gap. When I found myself in your scenario, the opposite was true and it completely matched what you described.

New comment by CSSer in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

CSSer — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:25:25 +0000

Anthropic (re-?)confirmed this.

New comment by CSSer in "They’re made out of weights"

CSSer — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:54:58 +0000

It works until they get to the sentience part. Neat idea!

New comment by CSSer in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"

CSSer — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:23:03 +0000

Those numbers are bullshit. The bottom of a grown woman’s cycle is around 100 pg/ml. I have no idea where they’re getting those numbers but I assure you they’re wrong, and even if they were remotely correct about E levels being close to one another at some point in the cycle the majority of the time they’re much farther apart.

New comment by CSSer in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

CSSer — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:54:24 +0000

Gold is pretty soft. You would have to cut it to 10 carat, so there’s be even more to go around!

New comment by CSSer in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

CSSer — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:00 +0000

It's practically karmic how rich this is.

New comment by CSSer in "AI is a technology not a product"

CSSer — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:10:40 +0000

Right. It's deterministic, and determinism should be the goal. It's not metaphysical. Some users know what they want while others do not. The software we create (by any means) should give users who know what they want the tools to find it, and guide those who don't until they do. Software exists to help us create our fate. It surprises me how many people are willing to relinquish that control or never wanted it, even within our ranks, by using AI to simplify experiences. IMHO, the optimization for most, but not perhaps not all, tools is to introduce AI internally to refine, create and expose more parameters, not less. Search is a perfect example of this.

New comment by CSSer in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

CSSer — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:28:16 +0000

But even then, you have to know to do that. It feels like a bit of a turtles all the way down situation, no?

New comment by CSSer in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

CSSer — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:36:12 +0000

This is what fascinates me. I have a friend, also a smart guy, who has made it to the point he’s at by being a kind of solutions expert. He’s an IT guy, basically. He’s very technical but has never claimed to be a software engineer. He’s writing software with Claude now. The other day he sent me a screenshot of some other team at his work asking him to shut off something he made that was brutalizing an API of theirs. I asked him if he had ever heard of a 429 or exponential back offs. He said no. How do you meta-prompt for that without knowledge?

New comment by CSSer in "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem"

CSSer — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:50:40 +0000

I fully agree with you about communicating, but I’m not persuaded that translates to movement or is required for wisdom, which I think you’re broadly describing.

Physical movement can be joy. Dancing, running with children, playing sports with friends, and even just taking care of errands like cleaning so we can get on to enjoying our spaces with our friends and family are all benefits from being able to move and react faster. And I imagine any number of things will slow me down as I age, so I’ll take a +10% wherever I can get it!