Hacker News: SupremumLimit

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Ads on Apple Maps"

SupremumLimit — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:59:32 +0000

It used to be that they included a bunch of software to make their hardware more useful. But I guess they couldn't resist squeezing out a bit more revenue through enshittification. The profit motive is ultimately too strong. Ads on the lock screen and in the dock next?

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

SupremumLimit — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:17:56 +0000

I take your point that there is a limit on meaningful activities one can undertake but I disagree that it's some kind of zero-sum situation. I used to find my work more meaningful and I don't think it made any other things less meaningful - I just felt that I spent more of my day doing things that meant something to me. Life, on the whole, can feel more or less meaningful; we don't distribute a fixed amount of meaning across all the things we do.

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

SupremumLimit — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:08:02 +0000

I disagree quite strongly. I derive a lot of meaning from these types of activities (in addition to family and friends of course) and zero meaning from my job. It's the narrow focus on work to the exclusion of everything else in life that is the problem - and that's what the comments above highlight.

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

SupremumLimit — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:49:40 +0000

Really? This just proves the point of the grandparent comment. I can think of at least three types of activities off the top of my head: sports (granted, not all of them, but definitely true for my sport - squash), music (playing an instrument in a group setting), and volunteering. I also know people who are in a bridge club with people twice their age.

There are still social activities connecting people of different age groups although I agree with the above comment that structurally the society we have has been eroding non-labour market interactions.

The Building Block Economy

SupremumLimit — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:07:02 +0000

Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/building-block-economy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941513

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by SupremumLimit in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

SupremumLimit — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:04:29 +0000

Could you give some examples of where it's saving you a lot of time? My main time sinks are dishes, laundry, and cleaning. Is it helping out with any of those?

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Honda is killing its EVs"

SupremumLimit — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:11:46 +0000

Sure, but there is also China where over half of new vehicle sales are EVs. Denmark is at 70%, Sweden, Iceland, Finland and the Netherlands are all above 50%, a bunch of other countries in the EU are at one third EVs. In India, 5% of sales are EVs but that is double of the year before and all the big car manufacturers in India are now offering EVs. Even Australia is at 14% after stalling on EVs for years. So change is unfolding quite quickly compared to previous years. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ev-share-new-car-sales-by-c...

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

SupremumLimit — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:19:14 +0000

Indeed. I’m holding on to my 24” Dell P2415Q that I got like 10 years ago because it’s the perfect size for my desk and there just isn’t anything in that size to replace it with.

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse"

SupremumLimit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:51:02 +0000

How’s it going so far? Greenhouse gas emissions only keep rising. There’s no basis to rate humanity’s chances positively based on actual evidence to date, even despite all the positive developments in renewable energy generation and storage.

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse"

SupremumLimit — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:46:58 +0000

The ignorance of this comment is breathtaking. How are the crops going to grow if the temperature drops by 15 degrees Celsius? What marine and terrestrial ecosystems can survive a sudden catastrophic change like that? What’s going to happen to the weather patterns after this planet-scale shift? How do you “adjust” to the collapse of your food supply and entire ecosystems?

Why senior engineers let bad projects fail

SupremumLimit — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:33:58 +0000

Article URL: https://lalitm.com/post/why-senior-engineers-let-bad-projects-fail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46640366

Points: 272

# Comments: 164

Yes, You Can Use AI in Our Interviews. In Fact, We Insist

SupremumLimit — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:45:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.canva.dev/blog/engineering/yes-you-can-use-ai-in-our-interviews/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596045

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap"

SupremumLimit — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 22:32:56 +0000

Not sure how you haven't noticed, but climate change is already affecting precipitation and drought patterns, it exacerbates heatwaves, cold snaps, and flooding, it affects harvests, disrupts ecosystems etc. etc. Reducing warming is an urgent matter.

New comment by SupremumLimit in "China bans one-pedal driving in default modes by 2027"

SupremumLimit — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:19:31 +0000

It isn’t just intuitive enough, it’s more intuitive and precise than the ICE setup. It’s safer too, as the car starts braking before I even reach the brake pedal in an emergency braking situation.

I dislike going back to the ICE setup.

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

SupremumLimit — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:59:33 +0000

Article URL: https://lobste.rs/s/i81fly/how_perplexity_is_evading_anti_crawling

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44792296

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

SupremumLimit — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:56:06 +0000

How can you assert that it will evaluate everyone equally when biases are a well documented deficiency of various flavours of AI?

New comment by SupremumLimit in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

SupremumLimit — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:06:10 +0000

I've just published https://nohypeai.dev to share what I've learned about the state of LLM agents for software development and help people who are just catching up orient themselves.

It was also important to me to provide a non-hyped, balanced view (hence the name), including pointing people to realistic assessments of the effectiveness of these tools and highlighting the risks and concerns.

Show HN: No Hype AI – get oriented in using LLM tools for software engineering

SupremumLimit — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:39:14 +0000

Hey HN! When I started looking into LLMs and agents for software development and introducing them at work, I quickly realised that a person new to the topic faces a real barrage: - all the hype (AGI, engineers getting replaced by AI etc.) - conflicting opinions in virtually every discussion—for every person saying they’ve 10x-ed their productivity, there is a comment decrying LLMs as an utter failure - a lot of jargon (MoE, MCP, RAG, distillation, quantisation etc. etc.) - a profusion of models, IDEs/IDE extensions, CLI agents, other tools etc.

Sorting through all of this can be quite tricky for somebody coming in fresh! HN users have been discussing LLM tools for a long time of course, but many programmers I know still haven’t _really_ tried anything other than an LLM web UI and haven't been following the progress of tools much.

So my goal for this project was to provide a balanced overview of the topic, point people to substantive resources on eg. context management and productivity effects, and cover the concerns and risks as well (from prompt injection to shady training data sourcing). I hope it's useful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703979

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

The Zed Debugger Is Here

SupremumLimit — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 02:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/debugger

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44314977

Points: 502

# Comments: 202

New comment by SupremumLimit in "The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes"

SupremumLimit — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:05:09 +0000

The case the article tries to make doesn’t stack up for me.

What you get when it becomes easier to generate code/applications is a whole lot more code and a whole lot more noise to deal with. Sure, some of it is going to be well crafted – but a lot of it will not be.

It’s like the mobile app stores. Once these new platforms became available, everyone had a go at building an app. A small portion of them are great examples of craftsmanship – but there is an ocean of badly designed, badly implemented, trivial, and copycat apps out there as well. And once you have this type of abundance, it creates a whole new class of problems for the users but potentially also developers.

The other thing is, it really doesn’t align with the priorities of most companies. I’m extremely skeptical that any of them will suddenly go: “Right, enough of cutting corners and tech debt, we can really sort that out with AI.”

No, instead they will simply direct extra capacity towards new features, new products, and trying to get more market share. Complexity will spiral, all the cut corners and tech debt will still be there, and the end result will be that things will be even further down the hole.