Hacker News: ako

New comment by ako in "The road to electric in charts and data"

ako — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:43:28 +0000

Same here, not a flat but rely on street parking. There's at least 20 public charging points in walking distance of my home.

New comment by ako in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

ako — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:11:11 +0000

What is the claude linked repo with the highest number of stars?

New comment by ako in "How I write software with LLMs"

ako — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:59:42 +0000

Wouldn’t skills already solve this? A harness can start a new agent with a specific skill if it thinks that makes sense.

Ray Dalio: I fear we're entering the most dangerous phase of the 'Big Cycle'

ako — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/03/14/ray-dalio-big-cycle-debt-crisis-political-disorder-world-order/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385025

Points: 10

# Comments: 6

New comment by ako in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

ako — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:07:28 +0000

Assume you work for e.g., a cigarette company. A company responsible for many deaths by unethically adding highly addictive substances. By sabotaging the company you are making this world a better place. Ethically it's the right thing to do.

Or, assume you're hired by the Nazi to work in concentration camps. Ethically it's the right thing to do to sabotage their gas chambers.

New comment by ako in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

ako — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:38:51 +0000

No, that’s why I wrote “from my perspective”. I started long ago writing 6502 and 68000 assembly, later c and even later Java. Every step you lose ownership of the underlying layer. This is just another step. “But it’s non deterministic!”, yes so are developers. We need QA regardless who or what write the lines of code.

New comment by ako in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

ako — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:25:43 +0000

I'm currently a product manager (was a software engineer and technical architect before), so i already lost the feeling of ownership of code. But just like when you're doing product management with a team of software engineers, testers, and UXers, with AI you can still feel ownership of the feature or capability you're shipping. So from my perspective, nothing changes regarding ownership.

New comment by ako in "iPhone 17e"

ako — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:30:49 +0000

Looking at the specs of this, why would anybody need a more expensive iphone. This has everything a normal phone needs.

New comment by ako in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

ako — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:53:47 +0000

It really depends on your interests: I use daylight for sports after work, really like being able to surf until 22:30 midsummer (52 degrees), so DST works for me. On the other hand, also don't mind the switching between wintertime and summertime, it's just like a minor jetlag we all have no problem with when going on holiday.

New comment by ako in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

ako — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:22:38 +0000

This can be easily done using CLAUDE.md or similar. Easier than registering the MCP with the agent.

New comment by ako in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

ako — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:19:30 +0000

So far, cli --help seems to work quite well. I'm optimizing the cli to interact with the agent, e.g., commands that describe exactly what output is expected for the cli DSL, error messages that contain DSL examples that exactly describe the agent how to fix bugs, etc. Overall i think the DSL is more token efficient that a similar JSON, and easier to review for humans.

New comment by ako in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

ako — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:03:37 +0000

Biggest downside of CLI for me is that it needs to run in a container. You're allowing the agent to run CLI tools, so you need to limit what it can do.

New comment by ako in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

ako — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:02:16 +0000

I've been creating a cli tool with a focus on token efficiency. Dont see why cli could not be as token efficient as mcp. The cli has the option to output ascii, markdown and json.

New comment by ako in "What AI coding costs you"

ako — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:46:13 +0000

Who says that is my view of the importance of quality? My second sentence starts with "unfortunately"...

I'm just recognizing that businesses have challenges to deal with besides quality. Being able to generate revenue is just as important as software quality. And seeing how easily consumers switch to a competing product if it has a few more features, you can't neglect time to market if you want to survive as a company.

Many customers are pretty shallow: "meh, the new version looks just like to old one, nothing has changed" even if under the hood the product has significantly improved.

New comment by ako in "What AI coding costs you"

ako — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:23:51 +0000

Yes, market dynamics are a bit of a catch 22: customers looking for the best deal, companies looking to reduce costs to still make profit. Customers always looking for the newest features, companies releasing faster before the product is done.

New comment by ako in "What AI coding costs you"

ako — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:31:16 +0000

A wreck of a product is still better than being out of business by not being able to release fast enough. Unfortunately, the market in general does not reward slow high quality.

New comment by ako in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

ako — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:54:20 +0000

I dont understand your response? I'm replying to a message that literally states: "We lack basic education in fitness ... We need to educate ourselves better". Sounds to me he's stating that education IS the problem?

New comment by ako in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

ako — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:35:21 +0000

Education is not the problem. People know sugar is bad, people know cigarettes are bad, people know alcohol is bad, still millions use these substances every day.

What works best is to find some form of exercise that you really enjoy. I will get up at 5 in the morning, skip diner, skip appointments when i get a change to exercise, just because i enjoy it so much.

In addition, what also helps is to ensure normal activities require excercise. I will walk to the shop every day for groceries, walk the dog every day, cycle into town, best if you can cycle to work.

New comment by ako in "Writing code is cheap now"

ako — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:23:24 +0000

That is also getting cheaper, you can now quickly present him with a few working prototypes so he can quickly make up his mind what best suites him.

Another problem is that most users want different things, that's why you get these big bloated software suites. With LLMs it now also becomes more achievable to build custom software per user.

New comment by ako in "Toyota’s hydrogen-powered Mirai has experienced rapid depreciation"

ako — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:54:26 +0000

True, but it is a good first step. Start small, increment to larger solutions.