Hacker News: alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alchemismHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:43:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"]]>Yes, make the teachers on $25-35K annual salaries do /more/ work for no extra money. I'm sure that will fix education.

]]>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:30:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606352alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48606352<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]>I’m sure the same justification was trotted out in Hungary when they purged the intellectuals there, too.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:58:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570657alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570657https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570657<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "U.S. science is in chaos"]]>My 1.8 GPA is literally discriminated-against, too. So unfair!

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:53:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570604alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570604https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570604<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"]]>You might lease a Regus (et. al.) business address for <$100/mo.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 10:05:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552963alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552963https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552963<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"]]>The AWS Kiro (https://kiro.dev) spec-driven coding harness operates this way in Auto mode which offers the base token rate.

Manually-specifying Sonnet or Opus is a multiplier on the base token rate; specifying Qwen fractions it. Left to its own, it presumably uses the heavier models to create the plan and orchestrate the work; the bite-sized task definitions are delegated to smaller models.

]]>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:52:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552009alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552009<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"]]>The next % stake will be acquired at a discount, it seems.

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:15:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534053alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534053<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"]]>Still better than the half-brained man who loves Israel above all else.

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:13:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534030alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534030https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48534030<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"]]>Fear not: “As you can all probably tell, I got a lot of criticisms about the way this government functions. But in order for us to make it functional, we’re gonna have to do stuff,” Platner said. “And you can’t just go down there and be John Fetterman and ... just sort of be an a*hole.”

Source: https://nebraska.tv/news/nation-world/graham-platner-calls-p...

]]>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:47:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529460alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529460https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48529460<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Dopamine Fracking"]]>Athens Greece would blow your mind, friend.

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:12:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446413alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446413<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "The Cypherpunk Library"]]>"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages."

— William Shakespeare, Fantasy Author

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:16:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445723alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445723https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445723<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]>You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:43:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445250alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445250https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445250<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"]]>That is an illustrative failure. It might be absurdly simple 4/4 pattern progressions which a calculator should be able to automate. But inducing a trance requires consciousness; electrical activity in a meat brain. They will never understand such things.

]]>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:10:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438592alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438592https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438592<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering"]]>cryptocurrency economics = cryptonomics

You're welcome! =)

]]>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:54:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433617alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433617<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"]]>The politics of multimillion dollar contracts for public clouds go far, far, far beyond the preferences of an acquisition team, or what the engineers may think.

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:07:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369148alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369148https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369148<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "The dead economy theory"]]>It is still extremely common today, if you look at the demographics along the Atlantic Coast of the US. The richest zip codes always have poor ones nearby.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:51:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329090alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329090https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329090<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]>I can’t say Claude Code is not a great product with solid market fit even though the code inside it is aesthetically garbage.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 20:42:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328972alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328972<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]>A friend of mine encountered a wrecked buggy on the road and drove the Amish family inside it to the hospital and saved lives.

The entire local Amish community now comes and helps him tend his property, raised him a barn.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:46:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325740alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325740<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]>I’d probably let go of the employees who decline using agentic tools first, tbh. All things being equal.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:20:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325312alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325312<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "Private equity bought America's essential services"]]>Cull the human herd because Bob is too much of an individual to participate. An ironic solution.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 21:39:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301110alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301110https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301110<![CDATA[New comment by alchemism in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"]]>I’ve have amazing, amazing results through composing an “ADR” skill hook. It knows contextually what they are for; how to write them; when to include them as steering.

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 13:46:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257240alchemismhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257240https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257240