Hacker News: archagon

New comment by archagon in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

archagon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:41:40 +0000

Yes, Native Americans ought to get their land back. (What do you mean “no, not like that”?)

New comment by archagon in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

archagon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:39:37 +0000

If you read other things these industrialists say, it’s clear that their actual argument is a xenophobic/white supremacist one. The panic is entirely political, not economic. We have no shortage of viable immigrants to keep the economy going.

New comment by archagon in "Every Frame Perfect"

archagon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:00:08 +0000

Great article! We’ve become so accustomed to UI jank these days…

New comment by archagon in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

archagon — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:40:41 +0000

There used to be (is...?) an xkcd IRC chatroom where you were only allowed to post things that had never been said before. Violations resulted in an n-minute ban, increasing with each violation.

Maybe this is the future of all (interesting/worthwhile) human writing. Perpetually stay one step ahead of the machines.

New comment by archagon in "The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer"

archagon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:19:40 +0000

“I don’t care how many people die as long as my ideology wins.”

Sounds familiar.

New comment by archagon in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

archagon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:09:53 +0000

That is when you unionize and make them do what you want.

New comment by archagon in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

archagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:52:29 +0000

It’s trivial to attack things in space if you also have stuff in space. Just ram your cheap satellites into the other guy’s. Do it right and the destruction will cascade.

New comment by archagon in "Siri AI"

archagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:20:24 +0000

Average personal users don't need OpenClaw at all...

New comment by archagon in "Siri AI"

archagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:04:19 +0000

I've never been more frustrated programming something than when I tried to build a non-trivial Shortcut. Things that I could have expressed in a quick script took me literal hours to compose and debug using the WYSIWYG interface. And since there's no version control, any mistake runs the risk of dislocating an element or messing up an input/output connection and breaking everything permanently.

New comment by archagon in "Apple WWDC 2026"

archagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:00:35 +0000

I do enjoy reading about what the Swift team is doing. (And other folks working on the lower decks — kernel, Foundation, etc. The AI brainrot hasn't seeped down there yet.)

Tech Influence Watch

archagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:46:05 +0000

Article URL: https://influence.citationneeded.news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48455630

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by archagon in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

archagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:09:56 +0000

Actually, the outside world is in a constant state of low-grade rage at how poorly software works these days. Slop code will only accelerate this trend.

For the most part, people don’t need a thousand new features; the investment class does. Nobody gets mad at Craigslist.

New comment by archagon in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

archagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:05:39 +0000

Means of production, yadda yadda… I feel a great sense of deja vu.

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

archagon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:48:40 +0000

You think Anthropic wants to be the sole maintainer of thousands of forked OSS projects...? I seriously doubt that would happen, for legal, marketing, and logistical reasons alike.

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

archagon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:41:57 +0000

Things have been bad, but every company using its own bespoke LLM reimplementation of rsync and similar is so, so much worse.

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

archagon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:49:28 +0000

It just reads like Linkedin slop. One melodramatic sentence after another.

Consider collecting related thoughts into paragraphs.

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

archagon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:57:42 +0000

Is this comment LLM generated?

Have fun with 1000x more Buns that literally no one is using or maintaining. An entire software industry built on top of a burning garbage pile of crappy, dead code.

New comment by archagon in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

archagon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:49:48 +0000

TBH, I'm mostly here out of spite at this point. It's unhealthy but I can't seem to stop rage-reading.

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

archagon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:41:51 +0000

I'm pretty sure that "a ChatGPT call" will happily add or fudge stuff in your scanned PDFs. That sounds like a massive liability.

New comment by archagon in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

archagon — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:50:29 +0000

It's crazy that Musk is six million times more productive than your average tech worker! I'm certain he earned every cent by the sweat of his brow!