Hacker News: anxoo

New comment by anxoo in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

anxoo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:41:04 +0000

no matter how good AI gets, i think it will never reach human-level in our ability to move goalposts

New comment by anxoo in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

anxoo — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:31:09 +0000

this is that xkcd "regular people can only name a few common feldspars" meme. over 90% of consumers have no knowledge at all of tech corps' philosophy on user freedom, they just buy cheap phones that have good cameras and run instagram and tiktok well.

New comment by anxoo in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

anxoo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:16:18 +0000

https://pauseai.info/

Hegseth demands Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of Claude

anxoo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/ap-report-hegseth-warns-anthropic-to-let-the-military-use-companys-ai-tech-as-it-sees-fit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146825

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by anxoo in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

anxoo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:10:22 +0000

yes, the third kind of AI user. kind of similar to the three kinds of soccer players: offence, defence, and people who don't play soccer. thanks for the comment!

New comment by anxoo in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

anxoo — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:05:00 +0000

lots of normal people like emoji. the kind of normal people who have never heard of hacker news

New comment by anxoo in "Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad"

anxoo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 03:03:21 +0000

yeah, i type on a corne everyday: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo...

having gotten over the learning curve, i definitely prefer it over conventional keyboards, but would i recommend it to 99.9% of people? no. people who use these kinds of keyboards have either 1. extremely niche problems, or 2. find intrinsic value in novelty, aesthetics, or diy/experimentation

New comment by anxoo in "A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data"

anxoo — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:43:28 +0000

>Thanks to social services, the number of Americans who are in extreme poverty is approximately zero.

or 4.19 million, if you wanted to spend 2 minutes and look up [the source](https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/poverty-explorer?tab=li...) actually listed in the main article

New comment by anxoo in "Ask HN: Is Linux for laptop worth the trouble?"

anxoo — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:32:56 +0000

what is your goal? what do you expect would be the pros and cons of linux or mac?

personally, i tried macOS 2 years ago and got frustrated by all the restrictions and differences from linux. i remember wanting to uninstall the default "chess" program, searching around and learning that i literally couldn't without turning off the default security mode, just because there was an off chance that the chess program contained essential code.

New comment by anxoo in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

anxoo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:29:36 +0000

1% of people post/comment, 99% like/retweet or just read. everyone you read on the internet is weird by default

New comment by anxoo in "Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)"

anxoo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:57:00 +0000

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Peculiar holiday calendar – an eternity of procedurally-generated holidays

anxoo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:31:38 +0000

Article URL: https://nashhigh.com/misc/peculiar-holiday-calendar

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44593857

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by anxoo in "I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone (2022)"

anxoo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:50:21 +0000

it's about twice as thick as any other typical phone

New comment by anxoo in "Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?"

anxoo — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:53:02 +0000

if you can't think of a way to reliably distinguish AIs from humans, that observation alone should raise great concerns which eclipse "spam comments on forums" or "bad results on google"

New comment by anxoo in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

anxoo — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:17:25 +0000

name 5 tasks which you think current AIs can't do. then go and spend 30 minutes seeing how current AIs can do on them. write it on a sticky note and put it somewhere that you'll see it.

otherwise, yes, you'll continue to be irritated by AI hype, maybe up until the point where our civilization starts going off the rails

New comment by anxoo in "Programming on 34 Keys (2022)"

anxoo — Sun, 25 May 2025 15:43:50 +0000

of course not. it's fun to mod and geek out about random topics.

i also assume that if you have RSI/carpal tunnel/etc then experimenting with your keyboards switches from negative switching costs to greatly positive

New comment by anxoo in "Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon"

anxoo — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:42:58 +0000

"I set a plate on a table, and glass next to it. I set a marble on the plate. Then I pick up the marble, drop it in the glass. Then I turn the glass upside down and set it on the plate. Then, I pick up the glass and put it in the microwave. Where is the marble?"

the author claims that visual reasoning will help the model solve this problem, noting that gpt-4o got the question right after making a mistake in the beginning of the response. i asked gpt-4o, claude 3.7, and gemini 2.5 pro experimental, who all answered 100% correctly.

the author also demonstrates trying to do "visual reasoning" with gpt-4o, notes that the model got it wrong, then handwaves it away by saying the model wasn't trained for visual reasoning.

"visual reasoning" is a tweet-worthy thought that the author completely fails to justify

New comment by anxoo in "Waltz's team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world"

anxoo — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:30:14 +0000

i mean... you're saying if signal weren't secure, trump's clown cabinet would stop using it? the guy who kept boxes of top secret documents in a bathroom at mar-a-lago? you don't think they'd just use SMS or facebook messenger or anything if using signal was a slight inconvenience?

New comment by anxoo in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

anxoo — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:25:02 +0000

would you rather the LLM make up something that sounds right when it doesn't know, or would you like it to claim "i don't know" for tasks it actually can figure out? because presumably both happen at some rate, and if it hallucinates an answer i can at least check what that answer is or accept it with a grain of salt.

nobody freaks out when humans make mistakes, but we assume our nascent AIs, being machines, should always function correctly all the time

New comment by anxoo in "Time for a Change: The long, contentious history of time shifts"

anxoo — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:37:32 +0000

it is not written in the constitution, the bible, or the laws of physics that people have to wake at the time called 6am and have to leave work at a time called 5pm. people can choose to do activites at the time and level of daylight they choose. societies and groups can decide to change their schedules as the seasons change, as they see fit, without the government mandating that our clocks change, which is confusing as hell