Hacker News: Serenacula

New comment by Serenacula in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

Serenacula — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:34:24 +0000

I've worked for Amazon before as a warehouse worker, I can attest they were one of the stupidest companies I've ever worked for. Stats were blindly followed to the point of absolute stupidity, performative work was enforced for the cameras, communication between staff and management and even between managers was non-existent. I once spent nearly 3 months unable to do a portion of my job because nobody knew how to buy more cardboard boxes. Not that they couldn't, but that nobody with any responsibility over the problem was able to contact anyone capable of buying them.

Show HN: Splitby v2.0.0 – a modern alternative to cut

Serenacula — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:42:00 +0000

Heya!

So this is a project I've been working on for a fair while, and with this version it's pretty much feature complete.

For a bit more info, this is intended as a tool for manipulating strings in the terminal. Basically a more powerful and intuitive version of the cut tool.

I didn't get much traction last time I posted this, but I'd love to receive some feedback! :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069646

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Serenacula in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

Serenacula — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:59:41 +0000

Why exactly should consciousness require the ability for internal state to change? That seems like a fairly arbitrary requirement to me.

Even if we allow it, from a certain perspective it does change, otherwise each token output would be identical. They are not.

New comment by Serenacula in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

Serenacula — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:27:07 +0000

There is something deeply depressing about people using AI to write their personal blog posts.

New comment by Serenacula in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

Serenacula — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:25:16 +0000

Some of them will lie. Plenty of people do just follow the rules or are acting in good faith though, so at the very least it can help cut it down.

New comment by Serenacula in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

Serenacula — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:45:49 +0000

How do you even argue such a thing? I've had no such luck, I've met many people who seem to view copyright and a person owning their ideas and work as a sort of inherent moral.

New comment by Serenacula in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

Serenacula — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:28:39 +0000

I've been thinking about this, and I actually think these days this might be a feature not a bug.

Given the amount of AI generated content out there, I am increasingly searching for ways to keep track of the sources I DO trust to be human-made.

RSS would completely solve that problem in a way that algorithms just reintroduce, because it forces you to tailor the content yourself.

New comment by Serenacula in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

Serenacula — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:34:46 +0000

This is really cool. I think what I really wanna see though is a full multimodal Text and Speech model, that can dynamically handle tasks like looking up facts or using text-based tools while maintaining the conversation with you.

New comment by Serenacula in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

Serenacula — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:57:28 +0000

Location: England, UK Remote: Any Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: HTML/CSS/TS/React/Node, to a lesser degree Rust Resume/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EQDquYIvfRe2VqF0Kjawwoew... Email: faylee.murraybrowne@gmail.com

Additional: GitHub: https://github.com/serenacula/

Backend leaning full stack dev here. Two years of experience, primarily backend.

New comment by Serenacula in "Never buy a .online domain"

Serenacula — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:58:46 +0000

Google ties your accounts together on the backend though if they realise they're related, so this isn't as easy as it sounds.

New comment by Serenacula in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

Serenacula — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 09:51:53 +0000

Do we know anything about the method?

New comment by Serenacula in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

Serenacula — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:24:22 +0000

Have any of you looked at the openclaw commits log? It's all AIs. It's AIs writing commits to improve openclaw and AIs maintaining their own forks of it.

Have a look at this one: https://ember.vecnet.ai/

This is a fucking AI writing about its own personal philosophy of thought, in order to later reference. I found the bot in the openclaw commit logs. There's loads of them there.

Am I wrong to find this scary as hell?

New comment by Serenacula in "Ask HN: Could we replace Job Descriptions with actual Git Issues?"

Serenacula — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:52:41 +0000

This does unfortunately lead to a problem of people only getting hired for jobs exactly like what they've already done, so they no longer grow or gain experience.

Juniors would be completely screwed. But then, I guess they sort of already are.

Show HN: splitby — a modern, regex capable alternative to cut

Serenacula — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://serenacula.github.io/splitby/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784490

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by Serenacula in "UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn't budge"

Serenacula — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:03:27 +0000

I don't think people want government by petition, I think they just want petitions to have any meaningful impact at all. Which they currently don't.

New comment by Serenacula in "Show HN: An Open Source XR(AR/VR) Operating System"

Serenacula — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:56:10 +0000

When you say "deep AI integration at the OS level", what exactly does that mean? A built in chatbot? Or AI is used in OS functionality itself?

New comment by Serenacula in "In first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google"

Serenacula — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:16:10 +0000

I don't understand why there are so many anti-monopoly suits against Google, Facebook, apple etc., when Amazon has been running with explicitly monopolistic policies for years without a word.

New comment by Serenacula in "Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go"

Serenacula — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:16:20 +0000

I would put forward that mdx is not a great choice of name, given that it already has a standard meaning in the markdown ecosystem: markdown with inline react components.

New comment by Serenacula in "Freenet: A decentralized alternative to world wide web"

Serenacula — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 23:58:36 +0000

No need to imply hostility like that, it could just have been a factor of when they tried it.

New comment by Serenacula in "Ask HN: How Many Hours Do You Code in a Day?"

Serenacula — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 08:09:50 +0000

This sounds more familiar to me. xD 8 hour day, in a place with a nice or relaxed working culture that turns into 6 hours. Minus lunch break, 5. Minus meetings, 4. Minus helping others, 3. Minus whatever procrastination during the day, in practice 2 hours on actual code.

I could see that going up to 5 depending on the working environment. But people answering 7+ hours seems bonkers to me, that's more than a working day!