Hacker News: ath3nd

New comment by ath3nd in "Don't Be Nice"

ath3nd — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 09:14:49 +0000

> DHH, you're not welcome in the Nuxt community, because you say that Black people aren't 'native Brits' and call for the mass deportation of 'gypsies'.

100% agree. Niceness is NOT for white supremacists, and no, I am not debating whether DHH's politics are fascist-adjacent or what % of them are pure fascism.

DHH's politics and the man himself will get only shunning and ridicule from me. He's, after all, one of the weird little guys of FOSS: https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

New comment by ath3nd in "Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"

ath3nd — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:03:47 +0000

So...Ed Zitron was right?

New comment by ath3nd in "Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone"

ath3nd — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:07:52 +0000

Pre IPO glazing

New comment by ath3nd in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

ath3nd — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:55:47 +0000

DHH has the capacity to assess that going full on white supremacist is still relatively frowned upon, so he does only as much as he thinks he can get away with.

Sponsoring his badly made OSS and giving him any type of a limelight will only embolden him and the likes of him. I personally want nothing to do with him and anything he touches.

New comment by ath3nd in "The AI Conundrum: We are living in highly subsidized, interesting times"

ath3nd — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:40:15 +0000

We are already reverting to OSS local models.

New comment by ath3nd in "AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter"

ath3nd — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:43:50 +0000

LLMs are extremely convoluted random word generators, it's a stretch to think that anything can make a bunch of words with weights attached "smarter"

New comment by ath3nd in "ComplianceKit – AI-generated SoC 2 policies for early-stage startups ($499)"

ath3nd — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:54:08 +0000

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/embattled-startup-delve-ha...

New comment by ath3nd in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

ath3nd — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:11 +0000

This is pure financial engineering.

Google's parent company owns shares in SpaceX

SpaceX about to do an IPO making it the biggest grift/loss in history

Google's parent company uses Google under the pretext google needs compute (hahha) to prop up their SpaceX investment

It's not more complicated than circular investments on a planetary scale and the shamelessness and greed of everybody involved.

New comment by ath3nd in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

ath3nd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:11:40 +0000

I tried stuff like Claude and Codex and I ended up using the same as always: vim and Intellij.

New comment by ath3nd in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

ath3nd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:27:39 +0000

This is only because of AI. In the past the barrier for contribution was high because you had to know what you are doing and put effort.

Nowadays any AI lunatic with a couple of tokens to spare can spare no effort, have no understanding and still flood you with a wall of code that on first look might even look okay (spoiler: it's actually trash). That is tiring for maintainers.

This is all about AI

New comment by ath3nd in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

ath3nd — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:10:50 +0000

Any newly produced AI code is immediately legacy and trash at the same time.

New comment by ath3nd in "With Claude: Less Coding, More Testing"

ath3nd — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:18:19 +0000

> These days, I typically start a new feature by asking Claude if the description in the ticket is correct, and if so, I am asking for a suggested solution. I avoid steering Claude to a given solution, even if I have one in mind. Perhaps there are better ways of doing it that I haven’t thought about. I also don’t want Claude to just go along with whatever I suggest.

This is next level dystopian. In your own flow you are not a developer, not even a project manager or a product owne, more like some random consultant thats barely affiliated? Does that make you happy? Do you get any satisfaction out of that flow?

New comment by ath3nd in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

ath3nd — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:07:32 +0000

I also have a great experience with Google account reps.

Other companies usually have a soulless void of an automatic system which gives you no confirmation your messages and inquiries are received whatsoever. Not Google. There is always a human on the other side so you know you are in good hands. Trust and connection are the things I value the most in this very two sided relationship.

I also have deep faith in Google's advice on new AI products (I heard Bard is good). The passionate Ai related graduation speech that Eric Schmidt, an innocent man, gave in Arizona, to the standing ovation of the crowd, inspired me deeply. I am now an even bigger Google fan than I ever was.

New comment by ath3nd in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

ath3nd — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:38:31 +0000

They will deal with it alright.

It's only so many speeches like this before the boos turn into other things.

New comment by ath3nd in "El Niño is coming. The last time ocean temp. looked like this, millions died"

ath3nd — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:08:47 +0000

The seriousness of whats written is drowned in the fact that its written by AI.

New comment by ath3nd in "[dead]"

ath3nd — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:50:03 +0000

Have you considered not prompting claude to make your blog posts? In fact, have you considered not making these blog posts at all?

New comment by ath3nd in "Finance ministers and top bankers raise serious concerns about Mythos model"

ath3nd — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:08:20 +0000

Let me get this straight.

Finance ministers are concerned about a made up marketing hype thing that nobody has seen nor verified.

Finance ministers, on the other hand, have no concerns about real verified scientific impending disasters like global warming?

To me that just means we need different finance ministers who have their priorities straight.

New comment by ath3nd in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

ath3nd — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:24:48 +0000

People on this forum often confuse not crying for the death of an evil racist white supremacist fascist with applauding their death.

> Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

Agreed, just look how the US handled Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and now Venezuela and Iran.

New comment by ath3nd in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

ath3nd — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:54:30 +0000

> Both sides should be able to end employment for any reason whatsoever

What an uninformed take! That's why we have labor laws and such a thing as "wrongful termination" exists.

New comment by ath3nd in "The bottleneck now is reviewing code, not writing it"

ath3nd — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:08:39 +0000

The bottleneck is and always has been writing good code, so reviewing is as important as ever. Interestingly enough, LLMs help tremendously with writing code but severely impact writing good code, so nothing has changed.