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New comment by ak39 in "A Look Back: The Bloomberg Keyboard – Insights – Bloomberg Professional Services"

ak39 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:53:49 +0000

The company with the widest moat. Unassailable. A virtual monopoly at this stage of the market data game. Is there even a market for "number 2"?

New comment by ak39 in "Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?"

ak39 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:43:03 +0000

I felt ashamed because it fooled me into believing it had feelings like a living thing.

Ask HN: Do you cuss at your agent?

ak39 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:38:08 +0000

Do you vent your frustrations at your agent when it keeps making stupid mistakes and asinine assumptions or asks obvious questions?

I did it for the first time and I feel ashamed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837715

Points: 4

# Comments: 14

New comment by ak39 in "My Thoughts on AI and LLMs"

ak39 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:26:32 +0000

In order to simulate true human like intelligence, we have to simulate digital dopamine. Desire. Autonomous desire. Until then it’s still a clanker.

New comment by ak39 in "I don't want to read what you didn't write"

ak39 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:04:40 +0000

This is a great analogy, thanks.

That means folks using LLMs starting off with 300 bits KNOW that they lack the full payload of information to transfer to you. IOW, they know they need to transfer much more than 300, so they use LLM to fill those gaps. That's the crux of the slop universe out there. Folks are using LLMs for the 700 bits on top of their 300 bits and passing off the full 1000 bits as their own.

I echo the writer's sentiment. "I don't want to read the clanker's 700 bits. I want only your synthesis." (I can get the clanker to generate those 700 myself. Unless ... unless this whole LLM slop market is all about saving you the time to get an LLM to generate those 700!)

New comment by ak39 in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

ak39 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:35:58 +0000

Using FF here, no such warning on my side. Likely your ISP?

New comment by ak39 in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

ak39 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:52:37 +0000

Why hasn't anyone created a windows and mac client that git pushes changes to remote after file activities of local computer, and polls remote repo every 1 minute for changes to pull? I'd gladly pay for that. :-)

New comment by ak39 in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

ak39 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:40:30 +0000

What is the point of any treaty with the current US administration which does not play by international laws? Rules and laws that the USA itself spearheaded after WW2.

New comment by ak39 in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

ak39 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 09:21:21 +0000

"let them" in this use understood as: "let the while loop run indefinitely" as opposed to letting some autonomous robot decide for itself

New comment by ak39 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

ak39 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:45:09 +0000

Quite correct with that question.

I believe the universal answer is: incompetent malicious actors are now capable too. Which implies the pool from which to draw the intersection between capable and malicious has grown. (That's my reading)

New comment by ak39 in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

ak39 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:38:30 +0000

This type of story about management getting rid of the old guard is so common and typical, it remains one of the most frustrating aspects of this industry.

In the “enterprise scene”, this sort of purge strategy is likely linked to a big percentage of money wasted and sometimes total failure.

Why do managers keep making this mistake? “Legacy” is only a bad word in IT. :-(

New comment by ak39 in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

ak39 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:54:50 +0000

Thank you for this.

(I think HN should consider creating TLDR type of comments for upvoting separately from commentary. @Dan incentivise with different karma credits?)

New comment by ak39 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

ak39 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 22:54:44 +0000

I read "man months".

New comment by ak39 in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

ak39 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:04:48 +0000

Off-topic: TIL wal2 mode in the works. Wow. That's a no-brainer feature, IMHO.

New comment by ak39 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ak39 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:15:42 +0000

Is the 300x performance boost attributable to the threading model vs process model?

Was the code for the threading model written by hand or was it translated from the WIP threading model the human PG team is busy with as part of the 2028 roadmap?

New comment by ak39 in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ak39 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:48:09 +0000

Chuckled at the anti-climactic sentence ending! lol

New comment by ak39 in "Cloudflare Drop"

ak39 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:30:43 +0000

Unlikely. It goes further by also using the word "exploit".

If they needed permissions for conversion, they'd have made a specific mention of that and thereafter confirmed legal ownership.

New comment by ak39 in "How the first solo-founder unicorn gets built"

ak39 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:48:08 +0000

Genuine question: how did you figure this was AI generated? (If that is what you meant.)

New comment by ak39 in "Show HN: I built a web framework in C"

ak39 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:30:03 +0000

Nice.

Is if a one thread per request model?

Does it support async await type of architecture?

New comment by ak39 in "How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong"

ak39 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:00:49 +0000

By definition, a FK has to reference a PK in the “parent”.