Hacker News: albertgoeswoof

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:33:16 +0000

What does stays open mean

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Towards a harness that can do anything"

albertgoeswoof — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:31:49 +0000

It’s a pitch for their product ambience

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

albertgoeswoof — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:59:40 +0000

not anymore

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

albertgoeswoof — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:08:30 +0000

If this is the case then I simply won’t engage. 90 % will not engage and you’re left with the 10% who are willing to put everything they do out there publicly and permanently- probably because they have an ulterior motive or commercial reason to do so

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party"

albertgoeswoof — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:57:02 +0000

Left wing parties historically are not pro immigration as it increases the labour pool and reduces individual worker powers.

Right wing should be boosting immigration to give businesses cheaper labour and erode worker rights.

Explains why they UK immigration rose massively with the tories.

Many parties outright lie about this to grow their voter base, but the difference in policy vs promise is huge.

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Why current LLM costs are not sustainable"

albertgoeswoof — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:31:57 +0000

One thing missing here is the maturity of agent harnesses. I’m finding the free deepseek flash model in opencode can handle all of my simple tasks, because the harness is so good. Soon that will be a local model.

And the reality is that other industries aren’t finding the use for LLMs as much as programmers are. Sure there are some benefits but you can’t fire your marketing department and replace it with AI

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:21:31 +0000

Yes about 2000 years ago we read many of them, we even wrote some too!

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:23:22 +0000

Yup. I was going to finally buy half life 2 today but now I’ve seen this I guess I won’t need to.

Hard times at Valve, I suppose they’ll have to find more children to start gambling with them.

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Snap Smart Glasses"

albertgoeswoof — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 05:55:31 +0000

We need legislation that there’s a big bright red light when these things are recording.

Do we really want to live in a world where people have hidden cameras strapped to their faces?

Normal people don’t want this, it’s creepy

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

albertgoeswoof — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:32:41 +0000

Please stop using AI to write for you, it ruins what is otherwise a fascinating story, and on reflection I struggle to trust it.

If you used AI to generate the blog post, did you use AI to generate the screenshots and story?

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "AI coding at home without going broke"

albertgoeswoof — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:44:26 +0000

It won’t be long till employers get wise to this stuff, they just need to burned a couple of times.

It seems AI is good, great even at many things. But it doesn’t seem like it’s going to change the world as much as some people believe it will. And if it does it’s going to take time

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "AI coding at home without going broke"

albertgoeswoof — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:47:28 +0000

I’ve watched a bunch of layman videos where they create stuff with AI, these people burning through 12 hour tasks are literally not reading the output or understanding what it’s doing. Like they’ll ask for a program, and then right after it’s been created they ask the AI how to run it. Then when there’s a bug, they ask the AI what went wrong, or scrap the entire thing and switch model/harness and try again.

Here’s an example https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1296HY8Fw&ra=m

It’s completely different to a professional workflow (what you described). It’s a toy for consumers

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

albertgoeswoof — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:26:13 +0000

It’s in the first line of the article. It’s for people that make the world, obviously

Signs of early life in post asteroid impact sites

albertgoeswoof — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-026-03206-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972541

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:55:35 +0000

how does the agent edit the docx files then? or does it convert all docx to pdf, parse the PDF into context, make edits and then save it back to docx?

laywers live in docx not pdf

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:30:08 +0000

And yet 130 stars

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:22:23 +0000

You state that like decades and billions is a long time.

You have 10000 people who need to do this trip every hour, how will you manage that with this? It can’t scale.

In the end normal people will be stuck without proper transport, while a tiny majority will fly around in comfort.

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:13:49 +0000

How does this work with docx files? The screenshots only show pdfs?

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

albertgoeswoof — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:05:09 +0000

This so inefficient it’s painful to watch. It’s about 14 miles to go from jfk to manhattan. A train could do this in 20 minutes or so. A train could ship thousands of people in one go, supports millions of ordinary people in their daily lives, and doesn’t cause excessive noise pollution at street level (not to mention the climate, safety, and infrastructure benefits)

In London a new train line was built deep underground from Heathrow all the way through central London and out the other side. It stops all the way, travels further (19 miles) and still only takes 25 minutes, so don’t pretend it can’t be done.

Instead of supporting people we solve problems for the 0.001% who will give us a quick buck, while we pretend we’ll one day be rich enough to ride these things

New comment by albertgoeswoof in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

albertgoeswoof — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:13:22 +0000

What does your company do and what do the open claw agents do?