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New comment by ai_critic in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

ai_critic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:54:42 +0000

Real talk: which kids have you interacted with? What social class? What ethnicity? What household structure (nuclear, multigenerational, single parent, single parent plus intermittent partner, divorced with shared custody, dirtbag but grandparent covering)?

I've found that the people who are more optimistic about kids tend to live in a particular category of socioneconomic bubble.

New comment by ai_critic in "Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language"

ai_critic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:25:30 +0000

What functional stuff is throwing you off? A whole bunch of it can be written procedurally when starting out.

New comment by ai_critic in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

ai_critic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:12:00 +0000

The word you're looking for is "copied".

Don't fall for the great lie of intellectual "property".

New comment by ai_critic in "More than 6 out of 10 people turn to AI for psychological support"

ai_critic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:32:11 +0000

Is anyone actually surprised? The baseline empathy and emotional intelligence of people, both online and offline, has absolutely tanked--I think Covid was the epoch, but arguably going a lot farther back since then. People are just shitty.

New comment by ai_critic in "Bernie Sanders: The American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act [video]"

ai_critic — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:13:36 +0000

I don't even trust the American people to handle the relatively simple task of not voting for septuagenarians and felons, to his claim midway through, much less running and guiding a company.

I also love the claim that while it all is built on humanity's works, we would only be benefiting Americans--which is it, Bernie?

"A 50% tax on stock" is also a nice way of saying "we're going to nationalize these companies", which is not really something to be done lightly if at all.

Sanders continues to be a--well-meaning!--clown.

New comment by ai_critic in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"

ai_critic — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:18:38 +0000

c'mon now it's not nice to say mean things about ed zitron like that

New comment by ai_critic in "Agents Dont Want VMs"

ai_critic — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:13:42 +0000

> if the agent does something in a VM you have to figure out what happened.

If you can't audit what users are doing on a Linux system you have no business pretending you can run a k8s cluster.

(k8s was a ZIRP-fueled evolutionary mistake for most of the industry.)

New comment by ai_critic in "Plain: A bias-free news site with no ads, no tracking, and no clutter"

ai_critic — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:02:38 +0000

Simple things:

1. When I click anywhere on a tile, have it expand out (instead of having to click just that little link).

2. It'd be cool to have a link to the source of any of this stuff.

3. Consider streamlining the font stuff to bundle/make fewer requests.

New comment by ai_critic in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

ai_critic — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:21:52 +0000

That's...exactly what happened with the Boston Tea Party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts

Had France not been willing to subsidize an insurgent campaign to distract the British, it's incredibly likely those Acts would've remained in place for some time.

People who rush to using violence as an answer frequently do not consider the outcome if they've misjudged their opponents' capacity for it.

New comment by ai_critic in "3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend"

ai_critic — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:19:25 +0000

> spherical harmonic encoded materials

This in particular has been hilarious for the exact reason you mentioned. For anybody curious, here's a paper from 2008 about this technique:

https://www.ppsloan.org/publications/StupidSH36.pdf

A Note On Distributed Computing (1994)[pdf]

ai_critic — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://waldo.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum6261/files/waldo/files/waldo-94.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162495

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Have a Coherent AI Policy

ai_critic — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:24:45 +0000

Article URL: https://brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/have-a-coherent-ai-policy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142553

Points: 70

# Comments: 62

Gyms, Zoos, and Museums: Your documentation should be in-game [video]

ai_critic — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PJRCz0t7yY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ai_critic in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

ai_critic — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:23:50 +0000

It's a combination of pragmatism (not wanting to wade through slop, not wanting to shove out newbie developers) and politics (usual contemporary techie progressive stuff that's now oddly anti-technology).

New comment by ai_critic in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

ai_critic — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:11:33 +0000

> However, there is absolutely nothing stopping an LLM from "deciding" tomorrow that a fix it built a week ago is no longer real, because not only has that fix left its context, but also the bug was not obvious.

Yeah, and we've never had deterministic tools like GCC suddenly fuck up commonly-relied-on undefined behavior between releases. Sure.

I get what you're saying, but again, to the vast majority of devs, none of that shit matters. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is a different discussion.

New comment by ai_critic in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

ai_critic — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:44:04 +0000

Counter-point: most developers have no idea or eagerness to actually do that debugging, so it doesn't really matter.

New comment by ai_critic in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

ai_critic — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:44:50 +0000

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New comment by ai_critic in "The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)"

ai_critic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:23:40 +0000

That's just because they're trying to keep all the best honey for themselves, obviously.

New comment by ai_critic in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

ai_critic — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:56:17 +0000

"Create me an SVG to drive MAXIMUM ENGAGEMENT for my sponsors".

Missing an opportunity here, lol.

New comment by ai_critic in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

ai_critic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:31:32 +0000

"meatshield" has the correct connotations for that sort of work.