Hacker News: MetroWind

New comment by MetroWind in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

MetroWind — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:14:27 +0000

I just asked AI to write one for me and self-hosted it.

New comment by MetroWind in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

MetroWind — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:13:45 +0000

Fake "think tanks" are already everywhere. We've all seen it. It's called AI-generated content.

New comment by MetroWind in "At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis"

MetroWind — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:29:16 +0000

Big "inspirational" image on top = no read :->

New comment by MetroWind in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

MetroWind — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:09:02 +0000

Shrug~ I'm sure they'll find a way. They have power; they don't need more.

New comment by MetroWind in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

MetroWind — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:35:04 +0000

All over the internet I saw this news title "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook".

Shouldn't the title be something like "Trillion dollar corporation forces small opensource project from blocking their attack against users' browser"?

New comment by MetroWind in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:57:20 +0000

What? They didn't even bother to use child safety as an excuse?

New comment by MetroWind in "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:50:21 +0000

It's 2026 and programmers are still fighting over language choices. Lmao

New comment by MetroWind in "Mojo 1.0"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:46:33 +0000

> uv pip install --upgrade mojo

What's wrong with people?

New comment by MetroWind in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:33:44 +0000

They can legally do a lot more than that.

There is also a huge space between "obeying the laws and policies in the most conservative sense" (which is what you described) and being "illegal".

> do you apply this everywhere

In fact I do.

> should I let them because they can illegally shoot me

I'm not suggesting what you should do. That's up to you. I'm just saying the government can do a lot more than you think and get away with it, including "illegally" shooting you in circumstances. It's always a balance of risks. For me personally, If a normal cop ask to enter I'll refuse. But if it's ICE? That's suddenly a much harder choice.

Actually no I'll probably die either way. Who cares.

New comment by MetroWind in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:20:07 +0000

Nah... it'll never work if the cost of being ethical is profit.

New comment by MetroWind in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:17:42 +0000

I don't get why in the comments this gets compared with regulations and security teams...

Say no to regulations and security --> Fine, forced correction, fewer customers, shutdown.

Say no to ethics --> money (at least for AI companies)

Why is this so hard to understand?

New comment by MetroWind in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

MetroWind — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:13:47 +0000

Of course it is. Doesn't mean the stakeholders are willing.

New comment by MetroWind in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

MetroWind — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:09:26 +0000

Oh look, "white collar" workers lost their jobs due to automation like the blue collar workers have for decades and now it's an issue instead of advancement.

New comment by MetroWind in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

MetroWind — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:01:12 +0000

Well 99% of actual coding is just manual labor, nothing more. If that's not the case, either you are constantly at the cutting edge, which I cannot comment due to lack of experience, or your are constantly failing on the "engineering" part.

New comment by MetroWind in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

MetroWind — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:50:15 +0000

I mean it's a complex topic alright, but what you can learn with this is just a watered down pop-science level overview, which is not what I would call "learning".

A reasonable test is what I call the enhanced Feynman test: teach what you learnt to others, and be able to defend against reasonable questions.

A stretch goal I sometime use is to be able to read recent papers on the topic.

New comment by MetroWind in "Taste Is All That's Left"

MetroWind — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:45:08 +0000

Pangram said my 100% AI generated cover letter was "57% AI assisted." And the rest was human. lmao

New comment by MetroWind in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"

MetroWind — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:34:15 +0000

Yeah DeepSeek has always been terrible until the new release version of 4.

New comment by MetroWind in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

MetroWind — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:50:48 +0000

So... can we expect they all have AC in 2027?

New comment by MetroWind in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

MetroWind — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:47:22 +0000

> Personal projects must be fun above all else. The joy of working on personal projects comes from the process, not from the outcome.

I think that's my fundamental difference with the author. I only write programs I actually need. I enjoy the outcome more than the process.

New comment by MetroWind in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

MetroWind — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:29:36 +0000

"I can refuse."

Only in theory. Yes you have "rights", but they have power.