Hacker News: Flavius

New comment by Flavius in "Show HN: Sycamore – next gen Rust web UI library using fine-grained reactivity"

Flavius — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:18:44 +0000

"Read the Book" button, next gen web UI. That's all you need to know about this one.

New comment by Flavius in "The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive"

Flavius — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:19:36 +0000

By asking it to cite its sources. Whenever I use AI, I have it pull direct quotes from the text to justify its interpretation. Sometimes it's spot on, sometimes it's wrong. But skimming a paper to fact-check a few specific quotes is still vastly faster than reading a dense paper completely blind.

New comment by Flavius in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

Flavius — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:44:52 +0000

That sure took a lot of work for something that nobody's gonna watch.

New comment by Flavius in "Are LLMs not getting better?"

Flavius — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:31:07 +0000

> This means llms have not improved in their programming abilities for over a year. Isn’t that wild? Why is nobody talking about this?

Because it's not true. They have improved tremendously in the last year, but it looks like they've hit a wall in the last 3 months. Still seeing some improvements but mostly in skills and token use optimization.

New comment by Flavius in "AI doesn't replace white collar work"

Flavius — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:25:37 +0000

AI won’t replace all white collar work. Just like the tractor didn't replace all farmers, only about 98% of them. The real question is: what's next? When farming automated, those workers eventually filled our factories and offices. When the offices automate, where do they go? Back to farming?

New comment by Flavius in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

Flavius — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:23:59 +0000

Oh, absolutely. Because history clearly shows that when multi-billion dollar corporations save money on labor, they immediately pass those savings directly to the consumer.

Full Linux on any Android (No Root) [video]

Flavius — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:15:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyDQmfeRXQc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47205381

Points: 5

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New comment by Flavius in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

Flavius — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:27:30 +0000

What do you mean by version 7.0? I'm running Version: 26.2.0.3 and it still looks dated after I did my best to configure the interface.

New comment by Flavius in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

Flavius — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 10:23:45 +0000

Take a look at these screenshots: https://libreoffice.en.uptodown.com/mac

It looks ancient, worse than office apps from 20 years ago.

New comment by Flavius in "LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in"

Flavius — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:48:47 +0000

The 'fake open-source' debate is interesting, but OnlyOffice is still the best free alternative for anyone coming from MS Office. LibreOffice has a great mission, but their UI feels dated and the formatting issues with DOCX/XLSX files are still a deal-breaker for me.

New comment by Flavius in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

Flavius — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:30:24 +0000

You call it "abnormality", I call it evolution. We are not the same.

New comment by Flavius in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

Flavius — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:39:21 +0000

Agreed. It’s mostly just disposable clickbait masquerading as journalism at this point. Outside of feeding people's FOMO, there's little content worth preserving for history.

New comment by Flavius in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

Flavius — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:36:53 +0000

Maybe you should be a little worried. A healthy fear never killed anyone.

New comment by Flavius in "ClawHub"

Flavius — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:08:37 +0000

Zero. If a skill actually provides value, one of two things happens: it gets absorbed into Claude Code (or similar) within a week, or a company packages it up and charges real money for it. The "free skill that gives you an edge" window is essentially nonexistent. By the time you find it, everyone else has it too. You're better off learning to prompt well against raw API docs than chasing a library of pre-built skills that are either trivial to recreate or about to be made redundant.

New comment by Flavius in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

Flavius — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:42:08 +0000

That’s a simplistic take. Displacement isn't about being "dumb", it's about unit economics. A company will replace a brilliant person with a good enough AI if it costs 10% of the salary. The "smart" people who are keeping their jobs are exactly the ones Simon is talking about. They’re being "forced" to work more to prove their value against a machine that never sleeps. That’s the intensification.

New comment by Flavius in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

Flavius — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:32:38 +0000

This intensification is really a symptom of the race to the bottom. It only feels 'exhausting' for people who don't want to lose their job or business to an agent; for everyone else, the AI is just an excuse to do less.

New comment by Flavius in "The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster"

Flavius — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:14:55 +0000

Retaining 90% range at -40°C sounds like a game changer, almost too good to be true. I'm definitely going to need to see some third-party real-world range tests to validate those claims before getting too excited.

New comment by Flavius in "How vibe coding is killing open source"

Flavius — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:35:45 +0000

Open Source isn't a tech stack or a specific way of typing syntax, it’s an ideology. It’s the belief that knowledge and tools should be free to share, study and modify. You cannot kill an idea. Whether I write a function by hand or 'vibe' it into existence with an LLM, the act of liberating that code for others to use remains the same.

New comment by Flavius in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

Flavius — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:02:57 +0000

How do you verify that the human on the other side is not an agent as well?

Spoiler alert: you don't or you can't.

New comment by Flavius in "English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings"

Flavius — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:15:22 +0000

That friction is trivial. You are comparing the effort of snapping a photo against the effort of actually reading and analyzing a text. If anyone chooses to read the paper, it's because they actually want to read it, not because using AI was too much hassle.