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New comment by acron0 in "Google changes its search box"

acron0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:08:24 +0000

My partner recently bought a receipe book that was probably 100% slop, from the recipes themselvea to the images for each dish.

New comment by acron0 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

acron0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:34:26 +0000

Ok, but that doesn't really address "pernicious". I understand pursuits of philosophy are inherently concerned with truth, but does not truth mean pernicious? My experience of reading philosophers is limited; is Rovelli just a materialist and that's that? Is this positivism?

New comment by acron0 in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

acron0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:59:44 +0000

> It is time to give up the pernicious dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness and embrace the reality that our soul, or our spiritual life, is consistent with our fundamental physics.

Why is it pernicious?

New comment by acron0 in "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"

acron0 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:40:50 +0000

I think the judgement angle is the only interesting part of this article, and the piece worth pursuing is automating the judgement where possible.

New comment by acron0 in "Show HN: Daemons – we pivoted from building agents to cleaning up after them"

acron0 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:51:19 +0000

> Callable skills can’t activate on a schedule or listen for events

I feel like they can. cron and git hooks have existed for a long time.

New comment by acron0 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

acron0 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:28:50 +0000

There is something uncanny about the way you've phrased your comment, as if to suggest nothing about what Tesla did was wrong.

New comment by acron0 in "Cursor 3"

acron0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:04:39 +0000

I've heard rhetoric like "we have to use LLMs to stay competitive now" which attempts to justify the cost

New comment by acron0 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

acron0 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:19:08 +0000

Could be wrong but I guess it more likely communicates with the charger. The car will always try to draw if it's plugged in, but most chargers can be switched on ("charge") and off ("don't charge") remotely. It's probably quite trivial to have something watch the price of power and on/off as appropriate

New comment by acron0 in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

acron0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:28:35 +0000

Is global economic collapse not an eschatological scenario?

When you say "everything is still getting better", what do you mean? Because the price of fuel and food, isn't getting better. It seems to be getting worse. Your version of "reality" doesn't seem to reflect the experience of a lot of people.

> people will buckle down and sort it. It's an interesting series of words that don't say a lot. There is much to wonder about.

New comment by acron0 in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

acron0 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:43:24 +0000

Bozhidar always writes like this. I can see why you would think it's AI style but I would vote that it isn't. Look at some of his pre-AI blogs, if you care to.

New comment by acron0 in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

acron0 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:10:37 +0000

How can you combat one unprovable framing by insisting on another unprovable framing?

New comment by acron0 in "Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code"

acron0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:28:11 +0000

Please can you link to a video of it being used?

New comment by acron0 in "Claude Cowboys"

acron0 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:06:49 +0000

Wow, I wrote a system very similar to the author that seems to becoming the defacto for ground-up multi-agent terminal workflows. git worktrees + tmux + claude hooks

GSD: Meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven system for Claude Code

acron0 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:00:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719331

Points: 2

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New comment by acron0 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

acron0 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:20:58 +0000

To put an economic spin on this (that no one asked for), this is also the capitalist nirvana. I don't have an immediate citation but from my experience software engineer salary is usually one of the biggest items on a P&L which prevents the capitalist approaching the singularity: limitless profit margin. Obviously this is unachievable but one of the major obstacles to this is in the process of being destablised and disrupted.

New comment by acron0 in "Artisanal Code"

acron0 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:06:29 +0000

I appreciate your response, and I will confess to a certain bias as at some point I think I made the leap of acceptance of AI, in the sense of "this is how it's going to be from now on so I better get on board with it".

Spot on. These are the exact tools I was referring to. They seem a little un-magical but the real value is the boilerplate they provide for context management. Essentially allowing coding agents to perform at their beat. For what it's worth, Taches is my tool of choice.

New comment by acron0 in "Artisanal Code"

acron0 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:15:03 +0000

I am going to give a predictable rebuttal. Many of these articles come from a place of fear and uncertainty, which is completely understandable. We ascribe value to the things we love, we love coding and therefore coding is valuable. But if it's commoditized how can it be valuable anymore? This alone is enough to shake the tree of rationality and most articles, including this one, set out with a mission of bashing a force they don't really understand. One signature of these articles, as I have noticed, is that they talk about AI writing code fairly reasonably but then insist that without a clear mental view of it, how could it ever be understood, or debugged, or optimised? This simply illuminates the lack of experience with the tools. Anyone who's used Ralph or Taches skills will understand this is a non-problem because well-attuned, AI-first codebases are actually very good at debugging, optimising, and will happily relay to you the model they've used, so that your grey matter can understand it.

New comment by acron0 in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

acron0 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:23:04 +0000

We are optimising for reducing loneliness, remember.

Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized

acron0 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:09:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-shuts-down-assassins-creed-rebellion-developer-halifax-studio-just-weeks-after-it-unionized

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New comment by acron0 in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

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New comment by acron0 in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

New comment by acron0 in "Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code"

New comment by acron0 in "Claude Cowboys"

GSD: Meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven system for Claude Code

New comment by acron0 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

New comment by acron0 in "Artisanal Code"

New comment by acron0 in "Artisanal Code"

New comment by acron0 in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

Ubisoft Shuts Assassin's Creed Developer Studio Just Weeks After It Unionized

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