Hacker News: andrekandre

New comment by andrekandre in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

andrekandre — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:24:35 +0000

yes, i know that, but what on earth requires 30,000 commits a day was my question; it just sounds like tons of useless code churn

New comment by andrekandre in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

andrekandre — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:21:59 +0000

that cant be just for claude code (which is a buggy mess ime) so what else are they working on that requires such churn?

New comment by andrekandre in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

andrekandre — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:22:07 +0000

read in captain kirks voice: what does a toaster need which an llm?

New comment by andrekandre in "Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI"

andrekandre — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:16:03 +0000

if they go bankrupt, someone will buy their assets or end up in sale to someone anyways, and if they couldn't make enough money to continue operations maybe its not actually worth "hundreds of millions or billions"?

bankruptcy also gives companies a chance to redo things and get stuff in order to pay the debtors; it doesn't always end in liquidation.

in any case, its better longterm to incentivize survival of the fittest through competition than through golden exit as it is now...

New comment by andrekandre in "Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal"

andrekandre — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:17:46 +0000

relatedly, TIL both anthropic and openai are public benefit corporations...

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/explainer-p...

New comment by andrekandre in "Tom Brown used GOP ties to broker a $1.25B/month SpaceX compute deal"

andrekandre — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:10:23 +0000

  > they even prefer knowing who to bribe to get exactly what they want

look its just a standard transaction fee set to market rates (if you are a ferenghi)

New comment by andrekandre in "Nvidia in talks to acquire US 'open' model startup Reflection AI"

andrekandre — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:03:03 +0000

yes, if what we are doing capitalism anyways.

if they aren't successful they should go under, financially viable organizations should be rewarded with survival; there should be more incentive to build successful sustainable businesses and more competition to drive down costs and raise quality for customers than the quick exit we see a lot of the time

New comment by andrekandre in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

andrekandre — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:53:46 +0000

  > If you rent an apartment in China, it will come with furniture, because how else are you supposed to live in it?

+1 this. not in china, but same for me when i was a student; it was a godsend

New comment by andrekandre in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

andrekandre — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:30:46 +0000

  > the DMCA abolishes personal property so long as it contains electronics

i think this is a good distinction: electronic _personal property_ is basically abolished while _private property_ (aka means of production) is strengthened and protected.

it really goes to show the balance of influence where law is used basically say 'corporations > people' (and this isn't the first time), which begs the question do we even live in a 'democracy' if thats the norm?

New comment by andrekandre in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

andrekandre — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:23:58 +0000

same here, i call it aids (ai delusion sickness) and some companies i've seen have it bad

New comment by andrekandre in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

andrekandre — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:56:53 +0000

that is definitely true, calmly saying something completely outrageous while chastising the person passionately pointing it out... and the over-the-top behavior of some public personalities make it so easy to look sane while saying insane things because the optics are so contrasting.

New comment by andrekandre in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

andrekandre — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:49:35 +0000

slightly different i think; one bans a business model, the other bans a technology

like cigarets, they aren't banned outright but they aren't allowed to market to children etc

New comment by andrekandre in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

andrekandre — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:12:52 +0000

  > “what did these people do with all those tokens?”

asked claude to check big query (raises hand)

New comment by andrekandre in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

andrekandre — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:10:23 +0000

  > reform is prompted by competition than by the cops

i think we all would prefer this, but then who prompts the competition?

New comment by andrekandre in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

andrekandre — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:20:00 +0000

  > then they rewrote it

they keep doing this, and everything gets worse for it; i remember when they rewrite mDNSResponder and internet connectivity went to hell... and the ux in system preferences is atrocious... just text labels and lists everywhere, no attention to detail.

the people who built/designed/managed the rollout osx and nextstep were a totally different breed imo

New comment by andrekandre in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

andrekandre — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:03:58 +0000

  > fuck barrel? How about we just not have it?

yes, i agree with this. the context of my answer was n the even we have to have an appstore at all; personally i'd rather download an app from a website (and signed with their certificate, for example) than slog through a 'store'

New comment by andrekandre in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

andrekandre — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:59:49 +0000

  > So an intervention would just be anti-consumer?

maybe? but you are paying for it with you data and usage, you just don't realize it (in addition to being subsequently manipulated by it); that could also probably considered anti-consumer imho...

  > but people wouldn’t use it.

yep, thats right. thats why i think having a price signal where the actual cost is upfront; now you don't discover later your data is being used against you as a "cost" but consider upfront 'do i really wanna pay for this or do something else' etc

said in another way, i feel like giving the customer upfront knowledge about what something actually costs is more pro-consumer because now we can make informed choices

New comment by andrekandre in "There is more to code review than (automatable) detection"

andrekandre — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:49:33 +0000

performance reviews are also a great time to find a scapegoat as well

New comment by andrekandre in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

andrekandre — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:12:41 +0000

they overwhelmingly use it because its free, but if they even had to pay one cent i'd bet they'd loose half their customers and start shopping around on different metrics of quality

making things free causes a loss of price signal, so i'd say it would be a good idea to restore that...

New comment by andrekandre in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

andrekandre — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:06:33 +0000

  > Just a bunch of people who treat the codebase as a black box, pump out slop, and call it a day when the feature works?

my guess is yes, because that is what i am seeing today in front of me with new grads

  > Or, AI will actually get good enough that vibe coding is better in every case than mindful development. I guess the main factor is how long it takes for that to happen.

i think there is a limit to this; you could train an llm to never dereference a null pointer or something like that, and you could probably minimize other security related stuff, but in the end its a token predictor, so you stuck with probabilities... i wouldn't vibe anything that had any security/legal/user related things but thats just me.