Hacker News: Calazon

New comment by Calazon in "Google changes its search box"

Calazon — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:49:28 +0000

I read some of the article and skimmed the rest, and didn't see anything about old-fashioned search no longer being an option.

Is the idea that by making the new AI chat UX the default, that's how they're forcing people into it and making them not able to search? Or is there something I'm missing?

New comment by Calazon in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

Calazon — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:13:10 +0000

I think that was the idea, that MAGAs would see "price discrimination" as a good thing, but "diverse pricing" as a bad thing.

New comment by Calazon in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

Calazon — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:26:30 +0000

Exhaustive brute force prompting is completely unfeasible. The number of potential prompts is impossibly large.

New comment by Calazon in "Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"

Calazon — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:02:36 +0000

Psychologists and therapists have different specialties too, for mental differences. This is generally considered a good thing.

New comment by Calazon in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

Calazon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:55:42 +0000

Hopefully he would be using the LLM as an enhanced search engine that can point him to relevant authoritative sources that he can use to fact-check its output. I have done that in the past to some effect.

New comment by Calazon in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

Calazon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:16:57 +0000

With that diversity of preferences, some organizations might also be willing and able to do rigorous testing of the updates that are most important to them.

It seems like a helpful efficiency to spread out the testing burden (both deliberate testing and just updating and running into unexpected issues). If everyone updated everything immediately, everyone would be impacted by the same problems at the same time, which seems suboptimal.

New comment by Calazon in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

Calazon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:29:41 +0000

If you like Catholicism but struggle with the papacy, have you considered Eastern Orthodoxy?

New comment by Calazon in "Typing and Keyboards"

Calazon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:00:04 +0000

Do you even use two hands for shortcuts like copy and paste?

New comment by Calazon in "Twice this week, I have come across embarassingly bad data"

Calazon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:27:49 +0000

> Sometimes the docs straight up lie, and it takes 5 minutes to figure that out. Should they also be ashamed?

Yes.

New comment by Calazon in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

Calazon — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:29:24 +0000

I feel like we do that pretty regularly in the US.

New comment by Calazon in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

Calazon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:46:26 +0000

If 1% of the people in each specialization are advancers, and you add up all the specializations together, then 1% of the total number of people are advancers.

Even this assumes that everyone has a specialization in which 1% of people contribute to the sum of human knowledge. I would probably challenge that. There are a lot of people in the world who do not do knowledge-oriented work at all.

New comment by Calazon in "The 100 hour gap between a vibecoded prototype and a working product"

Calazon — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:42:44 +0000

"Vibecoding" is about how you use AI tools, rather than who you are.

If you're asking the AI to generate large amounts of code that you don't really look at, you're definitely vibecoding. If you are mainly writing the code yourself with some assistance from AI tools, you are not vibecoding.

Naturally it's fuzzy in the middle. And for people without software development skills, vibecoding is the only option they have.

New comment by Calazon in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

Calazon — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:46:07 +0000

Most documentation is documenting things that somebody already wrote down in a different form.

The quality of AI-made documentation may be poor, but calling it 0% is just silly.

New comment by Calazon in "Take One Small Step"

Calazon — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:25:50 +0000

If you aren't any closer to the goal after the step than you were before it, you didn't take a step towards the goal.

New comment by Calazon in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

Calazon — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:17:19 +0000

I doubt Russia would invade the EU anytime soon under current conditions, even if they manage to annex all of Ukraine with no further losses.

Much more likely they invade another non-EU, non-NATO country like Moldova.

New comment by Calazon in "JSDoc is TypeScript"

Calazon — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:10:10 +0000

I recently used Preact and HTM for a small side project, for the JSX-like syntax without a build step.