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New comment by ako in "Your ePub Is fine"

ako — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:19:15 +0000

I think the Appstore was planned all along, just did not fit in the first release, so they adapted the launching narrative to: "the browser is enough for all 3rd party software".

New comment by ako in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

ako — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:57:15 +0000

Apparently not enough people want what you want, that is also democracy, accepting that things other people want can be prioritized,

New comment by ako in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

ako — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:55:45 +0000

Yes, you get to say what you want, but that doesn’t mean you get what you want. With millions of people all saying something different, nobody gets exactly what they want.

New comment by ako in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

ako — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:55:11 +0000

Most relevant question in today's world seems to me how to create incorruptible governments?

New comment by ako in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

ako — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:15:22 +0000

True, maybe bundle it with an OF account?

New comment by ako in "Is Grep All You Need? How Agent Harnesses Reshape Agentic Search"

ako — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:20:40 +0000

As far as i know Claude Code also uses LSP and tree-sitter to find things in your source code.

New comment by ako in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

ako — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:17:30 +0000

People "happily" spend that on drugs, tobacco, and alcohol, so why not on porn.

New comment by ako in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

ako — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:14:42 +0000

Makes me think of Peter Tosh: "Anything you can do, I can do it better, I'm the toughest".

New comment by ako in "Claude Fable 5"

ako — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:06:03 +0000

Tool use score is 17.4% that seems really low, what does that mean?

New comment by ako in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

ako — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:54:21 +0000

I think Amazon is doing ok as the cloud where most customers run their LLM. I think a lot of companies are using e.g., Anthropic models on Bedrock so it lives inside their AWS cloud.

New comment by ako in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

ako — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:37:17 +0000

It’s better, it’s useful even for those who don’t have a deep knowledge of computers. I’d expect more AI users than programmers, than ms-word users, than excel users.

New comment by ako in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ako — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:14:16 +0000

Probably over a year ago, when I first saw reasoning in action in a debugging session: it generated some code, ran it, could not explain the results, then said “let me add some print statements to debug”, reran the application, read the logs, and then stated “now I understand why it’s not working”. Plan, do, check, act in action, AI engineering its own context, and generating the missing information.

New comment by ako in "The dead economy theory"

ako — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:13:44 +0000

Some suggestions for naming this, depending on how you organize ownership, redistribution, who gets to decide what you need: paternalism, welfare capitalism, neo-feudalism, technofeudalism, welfare state, social democracy, UBI-and-oligarchy, oligarchy, plutocracy.

We are already in a position where we could house and feed everyone, but we choose not to do so. Instead a few own almost everything, money gets spend on killing people, instead of feeding them.

If we choose not to do it now, i don't see how we can make UBI work in the future.

New comment by ako in "The dead economy theory"

ako — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:10:11 +0000

I don't see how you can relate this to communism. Sounds more like oligarchy/roman empire: a few own almost everything, but most have almost nothing and are being controlled with bread and games. Marxism is the opposite where everything is owned by everyone (in theory).

New comment by ako in "The dead economy theory"

ako — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:56:02 +0000

OpenAI may be better positioned than you think with Codex being able to drive your applications without an API according to Nate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d9ZmA-4QzU&t=1093s

New comment by ako in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ako — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:53:02 +0000

I don’t care who wrote it, as long as it is a good message, communicating what the sender intents to communicate, well articulated. I prefer it above a self written piece that is hard to understand, contains unclear wording, and could be interpreted in an incorrect way.

Not everyone is gifted with the ability to write well, so using tools to achieve that is no shame in my opinion. And no, practicing more is not always going to get you to a higher, sufficient level. We all have our limitations that cannot be crossed by just practicing more. Practice does not make Einstein.

I quite often send messages where I later think “i should have phrased it differently, maybe it was misunderstood”. And often I’ll respond way too late because lack of time.

I feel AI is a tool that helps me communicate better, and I expect that holds for many others as well.

Not understanding that some feel more effective using tools is also a sign of lack of empathy.

New comment by ako in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ako — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:08:31 +0000

Because it’s often hard to find the right voice? because it’s often hard to describe something in the correct way? Communication is hard, finding the correct tone of voice often takes me a long time, so using AI makes me more efficient in a busy day?

New comment by ako in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ako — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:18:05 +0000

I’m using ai to answer questions, but I instruct it in draft what answers to include, what info to include from my llm wiki (second brain). Saves time to write a correct response, can easily refer to past conversations, but definitely not 100% outsources to AI.

New comment by ako in "Magnifica Humanitas"

ako — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:09:51 +0000

Agreed, I think the builders are the wrong people to ask for this self reflection. Anything can be used for good and bad. A knife can be used to prepare food, or to stab someone. A drone can be used to attack a country, or to defend a country. A wooden beam can be used to build a house, or to build a cross to crucify someone. Same way AI can be used for good and bad. And it’s up to the person using the tool to act moral. Unfortunately this world is full of people that consider power and money more important than morals. For me, religion falls in this bucket, lots of “do as I say, not do as I do”. And on top of this, there’s very little agreement on what is good, and what is bad. Morals are quite fuzzy, and flexible.

New comment by ako in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ako — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:59:09 +0000

More expensive is a difficult calculation: faster can sometimes warrant the higher cost, if it means you can go faster to market. Also, LLMs work 24x7, and can be scaled up and down as needed. Faster to off board an LLM than to fire an employee (especially here in Europe). So, even if AI is more expensive than a developer, from TCO and ROI perspective it can still make business sense.