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New comment by ForHackernews in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

ForHackernews — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:02:32 +0000

Either housing is an economic asset subject to market forces, or it's not.

If it's not, then I would also like to live in a nice neighborhood for $100k and zero property tax, please.

On the other hand, if it is, then this person has a substantial economic asset that she could reverse mortgage, rent out, or sell.

New comment by ForHackernews in "The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:54:47 +0000

This seems fine to me. The AI people all decided we have to talk about "Alignment" and "The Singularity" like members of some millenarianist cult, so turnabout is fair play: force them to adopt some incongruous jargon representing an out-group's worldview.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:06:27 +0000

Radical idea here, but maybe those many companies could _fund_ the development of key components of their infrastructure.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:51:54 +0000

The man have been conscripted into the military to fight against an invasion of their homeland.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Deno Is Joining Cloudflare"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:19:37 +0000

Sounds like the opposite: They are killing Deno to work on celld

New comment by ForHackernews in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:40:31 +0000

One of the reddit comments from someone in the field says this signal is right at the edge of a noise threshold for existing models in use by academics.

I suppose you have to set a cutoff somewhere.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

ForHackernews — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:20:36 +0000

"and they keep hitting the same wall, the part that only a human may do"

Grim. If you're just there to click sudo buttons for the bot, you might as well give it root access and be done.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:45:33 +0000

Doing what? How many jobs involve solving Millennium Prize math challenges?

99% of everything is CRUD LoB apps.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:44:37 +0000

There absolutely is "good enough" and I agree with this author: DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is plenty good enough for all the things I would trust an AI to do at my job.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:28:45 +0000

Sure, but the ones who might plausibly end up junior SWEs at Microsoft are.

New comment by ForHackernews in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:27:51 +0000

The investors need to make a couple trillion dollars soon or it all falls apart, right? Maybe I misunderstand how the financing for this works, but my understanding is they have borrowed and set on fire an enormous pile of money as a sacrifice to summon the Machine-God.

If He fails to arrive, or arrives late, they will be the railroad financiers in the Panic of '73.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:10:48 +0000

Honestly, a lot fewer American teenagers want/are allowed summer jobs these days. They are all focused on doing enrichment activities that will look good on a college application, and low-wage menial jobs don't count for that.

I actually think it's a great thing to let young people from around the world have working holidays in America https://www.usit.ie/experiences/working-holidays/j1-usa/

New comment by ForHackernews in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:21:22 +0000

I dunno, parent claimed he can't find good people. He could hire them away from his competitors by doubling their salary if he needs them that badly.

Remember how competition was supposed to work? (psst https://conversableeconomist.com/2025/10/31/the-silicon-vall... )

New comment by ForHackernews in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Ok, but those people aren't H1B's. They were on O-1 visas.

These body shop firms are not hiring world-leading geniuses, they are getting mostly-okay Java devs who will do boring scutwork for the chance at life in America.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:57:12 +0000

Pay better.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:03:40 +0000

Donald Trump is not very bright and he has remade American politics and bent the international order to his will. Many people consider Elon Musk highly intelligent and yet his attempts to reshape government spending to his liking were an abject failure.

I submit to you that intelligence (at least the analytical, good-at-math form of intelligence) is not a major component of global influence.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM"

ForHackernews — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:15:16 +0000

Didn't they just get done porting this to Golang?

New comment by ForHackernews in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

ForHackernews — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:42:07 +0000

I dunno, using tools and resources effectively is arguably the essence of good engineering.

New comment by ForHackernews in "Navier–Stokes Lost in Translation"

ForHackernews — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:37:54 +0000

Indeed. I've never used AI to translate between natural language and Lean but I have gone from English to Golang, Python, Typescript and SQL and its interpretations can be... creative, let's say.

New comment by ForHackernews in "It may soon be possible to create "mirror life""

ForHackernews — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:13:10 +0000

Hey, finally a world-ending catastrophe that's actually plausible to worry about!