Hacker News: OtomotO

New comment by OtomotO in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

OtomotO — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:54:24 +0000

Google Recall. Hey, it's all about the marketing.

New comment by OtomotO in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

OtomotO — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Like a dream come true...

Nightmares are dreams as well and this is a nightmare like Windows Recall.

Technically wonderful though.

New comment by OtomotO in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

OtomotO — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:01:31 +0000

Neither did Linux software.

New comment by OtomotO in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

OtomotO — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:01:07 +0000

I am not dissing PHP, I am saying that the absolute majority of any code out there is mediocre and not super good and not super bad.

New comment by OtomotO in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

OtomotO — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:26:02 +0000

That's totally fine and dandy as there is a very big, very vocal, very brainwashed crowd that dramatically overstates the capabilities of remote LLMs on HN as well.

New comment by OtomotO in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

OtomotO — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:21:20 +0000

No, there are millions upon millions of mediocre lines of code out there.

And LLMs tend to converge on mediocrity. Which is totally fine.

New comment by OtomotO in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

OtomotO — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:47:53 +0000

Because when this idiotic hypemachinery finally dies an agonising, painful death, some of us still want to work with computers

New comment by OtomotO in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

OtomotO — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:43:14 +0000

But also the majority of programmers?

New comment by OtomotO in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

OtomotO — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:16:05 +0000

I find that so fascinating... I know GitHub since decades.

Over said decades I've worked on countless (open source) projects there.

Professionally? 1 project in all those years. Yes, exactly 1 (still there).

Every single other project was either in bitbucket, gitlab, gitea, forgejo or... I am sure I forgot some forge.

What I am trying to convey is: fascinating how "everything is on GitHub" is a very american way to see the world.

New comment by OtomotO in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

OtomotO — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:09:48 +0000

Buying a jolla phone now!

New comment by OtomotO in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

OtomotO — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:08:14 +0000

(Needless) complexity is going on.

KISS and you sleep better.

That and the problem of forever chasing trends and never saying: "It's done" without reinventing everything every couple of years (trends again)

Sounds too easy? It is of course simplified, but the core still holds true.

GitHub just worked, but they had to migrate to React because "that's what everyone else uses"... Pure Enshittification.

New comment by OtomotO in "Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI"

OtomotO — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:26:58 +0000

Lawful means nothing but "according to law", which is a meaningless statement...

Remember that even the third Reich had laws!

New comment by OtomotO in "Niri 26.04 was just released (scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor)"

OtomotO — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:18:30 +0000

Using Niri for over a year now.

Before that I was on sway for 6 years, before that on i3, before that on KDE, Gnome, ...

I'll never look back.

Niri is the best window manager I ever used, it just instantly clicked with me.

New comment by OtomotO in "DeepSeek v4"

OtomotO — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:51:16 +0000

> They call us warmongers and then wonder why we don't want to help them fight their war.

There is a huge difference between attacking foreign nations because of oil... Oh, pardon me, because of... Geopolitical interests... Oh, pardon me... In the name of democracy and self-defense when you're being attacked (such as Ukraine).

We came to help you after 9/11, when for some reason you invaded Iraq although Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda had taken responsibility...

But sure, think that you're white guardians of the flame of freedom and democracy all you want!

You're in exactly the same ballpark as China and Russia, they're just without the Hollywood propaganda.

New comment by OtomotO in "DeepSeek v4"

OtomotO — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:51:32 +0000

How positive for the human rights of the people of invaded countries was the US?

Ask around in Vietnam, Iraq, Syria and countless more countries around the world.

New comment by OtomotO in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

OtomotO — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:45:53 +0000

I refuse to do such things to cater to certain people.

Frankly I don't care whether I get or lose karma points, lol

New comment by OtomotO in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8k employees"

OtomotO — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:28:47 +0000

Never at the head... Although the fish begins to smell at the head, as we say here...

New comment by OtomotO in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

OtomotO — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:28:04 +0000

Asocial Grumpy Interests?

New comment by OtomotO in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

OtomotO — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:44:53 +0000

I guess it's a bit of desperation to find a sustainable business model.

The AI hype is dying, at least outside the silicon valley bubble which hackernews is very much a part of.

That and all the dogfooding by slop coding their user facing application(s).

New comment by OtomotO in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

OtomotO — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:32:40 +0000

This, so much this!

Pay by token(s) while token usage is totally intransparent is a super convenient money printing machinery.