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New comment by asciii in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

asciii — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:07:46 +0000

$5 VPS + your AI subscription?

New comment by asciii in "Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?"

asciii — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:23:58 +0000

AI Debugger

New comment by asciii in "We might all be AI engineers now"

asciii — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:04:33 +0000

Amazing to re-watch

> "I cannot wait to castrate a 3000 pound bull as it kicks my head in"

How I feel about merging an AI-generated PR these days and waiting for the issues

New comment by asciii in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

asciii — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:59:41 +0000

There were deaths in these fishing incidents[1].

> Anyone believing these're equivalent imperialism activity is hypocrite at best.

In terms of equivalence, I would say based on their intentions they wish they could be more but would rather let the US burn it on the way down

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/asia/philippines-south-china-...

New comment by asciii in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

asciii — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:50:37 +0000

I disagree on China. What would you call China's behavior[1] in the South China Sea with regards to fishing vessels and other non-military boats?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZrcqf826E

New comment by asciii in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

asciii — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:38:04 +0000

> how we take the stability of our payments infrastructure for granted.

I was about to comment we should all closely watch those bank statements and balances...

While I'm OK with the use of AI to understand the COBOL codebase, I understand it's a single prompt away from transformation and production. Just one executive approval away ha.

New comment by asciii in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

asciii — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:37:49 +0000

It was also merged 15 days prior to production release...however, you're spot on with the empty test. That's a basic scenario that if it returned all...is like oh no.

New comment by asciii in "The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic"

asciii — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:39:08 +0000

I read recently that they removed "safely" from their mission statement...or have been moving away from it for a while.

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe...

New comment by asciii in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

asciii — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:04:18 +0000

There should be a name change to reflect the closed nature of “Open”AI…imo

New comment by asciii in "Monosketch"

asciii — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:14:44 +0000

Just my kinda thing--great stuff!

New comment by asciii in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

asciii — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:58:02 +0000

I second this, as a big Fastmail user

New comment by asciii in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

asciii — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:41:49 +0000

This tool is incredible for its simplicity. I was looking for old files I thought I deleted from flash drive and it was able to detect them instantly on my PC vs. native explorer.

New comment by asciii in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

asciii — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:35:18 +0000

Maybe Satoshi will finally sell his coins at $0 as a joke to the world

New comment by asciii in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

asciii — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:34:13 +0000

This is what I find hilarious when these articles assess "factual" knowledge..

We are at the realm of semantic / symbolic where even the release article needs some meta discussion.

It's quite the litmus test of LLMs. LLMs just carry humanities flaws

New comment by asciii in "What life is like in Minneapolis now"

asciii — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:31:53 +0000

It’s bit ironic that big tech invests so much in politics and engineers act like it’s beneath them. All technological progress tends to be political with its policy winds

New comment by asciii in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

asciii — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:17:12 +0000

> good artists copy great artists steal - pablo picasso

- steve jobs

New comment by asciii in "Travel Is Not Education"

asciii — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:21:31 +0000

> To test this theory, try the following experiment. Ask someone who just spent 10 minutes on the Wikipedia article for Turkey for an interesting fact about the country, then ask someone who just came back from a 10 day vacation to Istanbul. Probably both will tell you something equally interesting, with the former being more generally relevant and the latter being more charming or topical. Of course this is wildly unfair—we should give the web surfer 10 days of reading time and ₺100,000 liras to spend as well, but they simply don't need it to win.

Was this written by some AI or LLM because what kind of logic is that? Someone who travels vs. who reads? Is that an even worthy experiment? No..

New comment by asciii in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

asciii — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:45:45 +0000

Hope OP has nice neighbors because sharing that password is basically keys to this kingdom

New comment by asciii in "Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok"

asciii — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 03:02:06 +0000

This is so awesome - i wish I could modify that annoying voice :)

New comment by asciii in "Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default"

asciii — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:44:54 +0000

I did not realize that the fTPM on CPU can also cause speed lags and stuttering because of the overhead of security stuff