Hacker News: albedoa

New comment by albedoa in "U.S. science is in chaos"

albedoa — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:11:26 +0000

It's every time with these freaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294782

New comment by albedoa in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

albedoa — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:10:07 +0000

lmfao did you create a new account just to reply to yourself.

New comment by albedoa in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

albedoa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:03:31 +0000

If you delete the video from the DOM, then click back into the content area, it reattaches the video lol.

New comment by albedoa in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

albedoa — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:24:29 +0000

This is a confusion that you could not have predicted, but primed by your comment, I expected "terminal star" to refer to a suggested predecessor of the AI rockstar. No, it refers to the animated Claude Code star :P

New comment by albedoa in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

albedoa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:07:02 +0000

This question is fascinating. The reason why pressing the Play button when no media session is available should not open the music player is because there is no media session available. Why would launching Apple Music be the desired or even expected behavior?

New comment by albedoa in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

albedoa — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:29:37 +0000

And often your investments will lose you money, so try to avoid the unprofitable ones, especially when starting out.

New comment by albedoa in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

albedoa — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:05:59 +0000

The parent completely made up a statistic and then confidently restated it when pressed lol.

New comment by albedoa in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

albedoa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:59:13 +0000

There is nothing wrong with that, and nobody is saying there is. In fact, it is exactly what is being requested here!

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

albedoa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:43:29 +0000

What, the Zillow listing of you home doesn't have pictures of mixed 15 and 20a receptacles on the same circuit that an AI caught but that an inspector missed?

Is that what you're telling us??

New comment by albedoa in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

albedoa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:14:01 +0000

> I work with outsourced code all the time and it is a tyre fire without exception. I just spent a week scrubbing a codebase where some dev “did the needful” and committed an on-by-default flag to bypass authentication checks because he didn’t known how to set up his local work environment.

OP knows this but finds himself in the strange position of having to defend India slop in order to defend AI slop, totally unnecessarily and unprompted. It's baffling to you and me.

New comment by albedoa in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

albedoa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:00:55 +0000

> It reminds me a lot of when offshore outsources started getting more software development work from the mid-90s with all the derogatory remarks made towards 'Indian developers'.

What was the impetus of the derogatory remarks?

New comment by albedoa in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

albedoa — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:51:57 +0000

"That certainly explains it" and it refers to the literal style guide.

Buddy, you don't need to hand it to the top-level comment here. I am giving you permission to disagree with the style while admitting that the comment is bad. Be free.

New comment by albedoa in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

albedoa — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:08:23 +0000

Well, you're not twisting yourself into knots to identify breakthroughs. Try harder!

New comment by albedoa in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

albedoa — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:26:07 +0000

The quote in the original comment assesses the survey responses as "impossible". A good-faith reading of the comment is that the professor was not talking about a handful of respondents.

Nobody is doubting that there are some people who watch films 10–12 hours a day, every day of the week.

New comment by albedoa in "The worst job interview I ever had"

albedoa — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:41:56 +0000

> Keeping in mind the context of the original parent comment, yes it is 100% standard to ask about the "hardest day of your [working] life."

The original comment says:

> Like on a college application, they expect you to answer it.

I don't know if that changes your interpretation, but if the other replies are any indication, yours is not the default.

New comment by albedoa in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

albedoa — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:13:43 +0000

> They cannot be arbitrators of every little edge cases

Is this an edge case? It looks like your standard chargeback fraud accompanied by a pile of evidence. What does a common case look like in contrast?

We should expect this to become even more rampant given the ease of clicking a chargeback button and the apparent lack of repercussions.

New comment by albedoa in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

albedoa — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:35:09 +0000

> So given that context, your argument will read to many as engaging in that style, and as a result they really don't want to engage with you on the merits of what your saying

On the contrary, everyone is engaging timr within the scope of the exact challenge that he himself designed. Repeatedly, he has refused to answer his own question while insisting that he has. It's pretty wild.

New comment by albedoa in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

albedoa — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:17:56 +0000

I'm looking at that Tailwind thread. Do you really think that your comment here is a fair assessment of what you were told there? Come on now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166334

New comment by albedoa in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

albedoa — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:28:30 +0000

> Call it emotional, naive, unfair or whatever you want

We would need a pass from the mods lol.

New comment by albedoa in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

albedoa — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:28:13 +0000

> The question is why are you so eager to give critique on unrelated work

That is not the question. The topic of discussion had been defined multiple times before you commented!