Hacker News: automatic6131

New comment by automatic6131 in "No Slop Grenade"

automatic6131 — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:07:18 +0000

"You asked a simple question. They lobbed a document."

Oh look, another blog post that should have been a comment. No slop blogs either, loser.

New comment by automatic6131 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

automatic6131 — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:16:35 +0000

Will it be a WeWork moment? I hope so, I want some comedy gold (I cannot afford the mineral kind).

New comment by automatic6131 in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

automatic6131 — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:20:23 +0000

I just realized what the "AI summarize" feature is for. This kinda turd. I'd never wanted to use it, because either I wanted the joy of reading whatever it was - or needed the details in full because it's documentation. Now, finally, a use. Manmade horrors of daily life.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

automatic6131 — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:41:49 +0000

This article is written atrociously. It's geniunely unpleasant to read the basement tier slop like this. It doesn't matter if it has a salient point because this article could have been a comment.

New comment by automatic6131 in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

automatic6131 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:33:38 +0000

> Why do they think they are "helping" with hallucinated rubbish that can't even build?

Because they can't tell the difference between what the machine is outputting, and what people have built. All they see is the superficial resemblance (long lines of incomprehensbile code) and the reward that the people writing the code have got, and want that reward too.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

automatic6131 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:28:00 +0000

We could have the roblox oof but then there'd be the possibility of giving (a certain) amateur world backgammon championship participant money

New comment by automatic6131 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

automatic6131 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:06:29 +0000

No actually it's the worst case

New comment by automatic6131 in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:47:11 +0000

I think I'm just salty (and overfitting) that my cousin studied one opening to a stupid depth and beat me ~10 games in a row with it

New comment by automatic6131 in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

automatic6131 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:49:08 +0000

Define "average" and "very good" - it's quite easy to become good enough to beat all your friends and family (as long as you haven't made friends at the chess club or chess competitions). But if you want to do your best at the local chess competition held in a school hall at the weekend against all kinds of people, from little kids to pensioners, then yeah, you're going to need to spend lots of time studying openings, learning end game theory, and solving chess puzzles.

New comment by automatic6131 in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

automatic6131 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:30:42 +0000

> mapped capslock + J K L I

This is such a good idea that it makes other peoples machines nearly useless for you

All credit to https://tonsky.me/blog/cursor-keys/

New comment by automatic6131 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

automatic6131 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:48:17 +0000

>All that has to happen is for people to stop reproducing

And if they don't?...

New comment by automatic6131 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

automatic6131 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:53:00 +0000

There is definitely value in that, but that value is outweighed - dominated, even - by the incentive produced to fix outcomes, incentivized by that money put on the line.

New comment by automatic6131 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

automatic6131 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:47:25 +0000

Nope, using the "I am very intelligent" comic doesn't work to defend those who want to eliminate society

New comment by automatic6131 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

automatic6131 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:17:38 +0000

>The idealized future in my option has something like 1/1000th of the current population

Okay! You first though. What, still here?

New comment by automatic6131 in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

automatic6131 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:36:01 +0000

I just don't believe these geekbench numbers represent real world performance numbers. Like... Firefox compile times or late game civ 6 turn times or such things

New comment by automatic6131 in "I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture"

automatic6131 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:27:54 +0000

The hezbollah pagers op, now that was an operation. And I'm willing to bet 99% of the work was done the usual way, many years in the making.

New comment by automatic6131 in "I'm Getting a Whiff of Iain Banks' Culture"

automatic6131 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:18:26 +0000

This is pure delusion.

Completely dry of any data, based on vibes and a vague whiff that maybe a chatbot did all the hard work done by hardworking spooks.

Effective operations have happened just like this long before chatgpt launched.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

automatic6131 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:39:30 +0000

I think it's fine to lose the stalks - in a Ferrari. You're making tradeoffs in usability for aesthetics anyway so a few more makes sense. But the locations of these particular ones - at prime thumb access location, plus the high visibility of them... Not good!

New comment by automatic6131 in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

automatic6131 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:06:56 +0000

Good car interior design fulfills the functions of: usability; sensibility and brand identity. What's good for a LaFerrari (which has many of the same feature on the wheel as this, but imo, better) is not going to be good on a Hyundai i20 and vice versa.

But BMW is, in general, very good at finding a design language that fits all the right buttons in the right places while feeling like a mid-to-up market car. It's a blend of usability and aesthetics and brand (+model) identity that finds a really good balance across all three categories.

New comment by automatic6131 in "Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior"

automatic6131 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:08:35 +0000

That steering wheel looks absolutely awful. Like a budget car. And the UX is rubbish. The easiest to reach buttons are ones that are nearly never needed: drive mode (usually used 0-2 times per trip), wiper mode (but no single wipe?). The only frequently used ones are the indicators - which I don't love but I guess stalks are a bit meh aesthetically - and the speed cruise. But sensors? Suspension? Why are they there?

The clock looks like a dollar store alarm clock. The center console otherwise looks okay, environment management can be done easily, that's a good trend to continue.

The instrument cluster has no aura - completely anonymous, doesn't make me think "Ferrari" or "high performance, high technology".

Rounded square design language isn't fit for purpose in a ferrari, which is about aerodynamic shapes that reinforce that you're in a high-performance sports car.

Jony Ive is a garbage-tier car designer. He'd fit in better at Kia. Or Volvo.