Hacker News: KolibriFly

New comment by KolibriFly in "Chinese stocks turn biggest losers as global AI trade stumbles"

KolibriFly — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:09:40 +0000

BABA belongs to consumer internet and the platform economy, which absolutely got hammered by regulators a couple of years ago. The hardware and semiconductor sector exists in a completely different political reality right now. Chipmakers in the STAR50 index are getting massive support, tax breaks, and a green light for aggressive growth because they are directly responsible for tech sovereignty.

New comment by KolibriFly in "How to engineer an AI harness for game development"

KolibriFly — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:18:23 +0000

Pleasant reminder that building good architecture for agents just ends up mirroring time-tested software engineering practices.

New comment by KolibriFly in "An AI couldn't beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat"

KolibriFly — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:17:42 +0000

Bro, it really just downloaded an executable off the internet because it could. The only humans it 'used' here are the cheat developers who open-sourced their code

New comment by KolibriFly in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

KolibriFly — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:16:02 +0000

Its funny watching Open AI and Anthropic play the role of IP defenders while quietly sliding Deepseek's KV cache research into their minor releases to salvage their unit economics

New comment by KolibriFly in "How AI tool calling works (40 lines of vanilla JavaScript)"

KolibriFly — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:23:31 +0000

An ai wrote a post explaining how to give an ai hands , and half the comments spotted the prose before even reading the code

peak tech blogging right here

New comment by KolibriFly in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

KolibriFly — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:02:55 +0000

Disliking clunky autocomplete is very different from going out of your way to replace Word with Libre Office. The average office worker will tolerate ten bad assistants before they voluntarily deal with ODF formatting quirks in a corporate environment

New comment by KolibriFly in "Chinese AI Companies Conducting Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies [pdf]"

KolibriFly — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:50:38 +0000

Wait until they find out people use compiler output to write better compilers without asking for permission

New comment by KolibriFly in "AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab"

KolibriFly — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 03:57:53 +0000

Glad to hear they are prioritizing evaluation right from the start. Usually people just throw together a rag pipeline on the knee and then judge the metrics by eye, skimming three responses in the terminal

New comment by KolibriFly in "Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?"

KolibriFly — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:49:04 +0000

You should feel ashamed of an unreviewed 1000-line PR that crashed prod, not an autocomplete saving you a couple hours of your life

New comment by KolibriFly in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

KolibriFly — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:06:43 +0000

That's docker, man. Tomorrow they're gonna add limits on sandbox runs without a premium account too

New comment by KolibriFly in "I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words"

KolibriFly — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:44:55 +0000

Squashing commits pretty much turns the whole "green carpet" into meaningless noise

New comment by KolibriFly in "I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words"

KolibriFly — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:27:04 +0000

Non-techies avoid the CLI like the plague and don't want to mess with .gitattributes for text files. But building a whole web service with a paid subscription just for that is total overkill when free desktop GUIs like Sublime Merge or VS Code exist

New comment by KolibriFly in "I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words"

KolibriFly — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:10:05 +0000

It's pretty ironic to pitch protection against AI accusations with a post that was completely generated using Claude prompts

New comment by KolibriFly in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"

KolibriFly — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:58:48 +0000

With that logic you could call SQL injections a natural feature of database management systems. If a general purpose system starts dropping tables or messing up numbers in a report just because that string was in the text it read, that system isnt worth a damn in the enterprise sector

New comment by KolibriFly in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

KolibriFly — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:59:44 +0000

A court should not quietly create a general duty to inspect everyone's private files because a provider could theoretically detect illegal content

New comment by KolibriFly in "Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance"

KolibriFly — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:17:21 +0000

Yeah, that is pretty funny considering Blackwell isn't just a chip but a whole ecosystem with a fifth-gen interconnect and huge cooling racks...

New comment by KolibriFly in "Apple's rumored M7 Ultra targets 1.5TB and Blackwell-class AI performance"

KolibriFly — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:10:35 +0000

Another important thing to keep in mind here is the software. Nvidia has been optimizing their software stack for decades to squeeze every clock cycle out of the hardware under any limits. TensorRT alone does straight up magic. Apple is just starting out with MLX, and their hardware is often idling not because it is worse per watt but because the compiler does not know how to optimally load the ALU blocks for specific graphs yet

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:00:01 +0000

A lot of the article is about who controls the tool, who is forced to use it and who absorbs the cost when it produces bad output

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:55:22 +0000

I suspect "same price, three days instead of three months" is a very real win for plenty of businesses

New comment by KolibriFly in "The difference between "today's task" and "accretive work""

KolibriFly — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:53:30 +0000

I think the argument is that AI changes the cost of creating that groundwork, not the definition of it