<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: autonomousErwin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=autonomousErwin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:54:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=autonomousErwin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the biggest differentiator to GitHub (other than uptime). I keep hearing something along the lines of "GitHub for Agents" but would be great to hear from the devs of Origin what they actually think it means in tangible features/functionality?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:39:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338041</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could imagine running multiple different AIs seeing if they agree if something is true.<p>I imagine this is similar to how Twitter's/X's community notes work. Something along the lines of when you have two accounts that disagree traditionally and they agree on something. That's how you know it's likely to be true.<p>So from that approach, you actually want to have two AIs that are on the other side of the spectrum of whatever you're trying to find out if it's true e.g. if a conservative AI and a liberal AI both agree that something is false, it's highly likely to be false.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098024</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is the first real step from Stripe into token economics. They tried with a usage-based product, but from talking to stripe engineers, it sounds like there was less appetite than they thought. Could have been for many reasons, but I wonder if owning the actual request layer is a kind of missing ingredient?<p>If so many applications are just going to be token resellers (which, to be honest, a lot of very successful companies today are), one of the biggest issues is: if I'm charging my users $10 a month for unlimited AI usage, what does that really mean and look like? Do the other users subsidise the super users' use?<p>Big companies can stomach this uncertainty if they've raised a tonne of capital, but if you're a little solo-preneur or small startup/business (which Stripe historically favour), you have to know exactly how much this is going to cost you. Else, if you're off by a few zeros, this will bankrupt your company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:25:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097953</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had 2 MacBook Pros. One 2024 and one 2019. The 2024 one would connect fine to the internet, the 2019 one would not.<p>After pasting in the airportd logs of both (into ChatGPT and Gemini) it found it was down to band switching (2.4GHz and 5GHz) through some really old error code.<p>This fixed a problem that had plagued me for >12 months. Really magical feeling it got in on first try.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:56:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423257</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48423257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Grass always looks greener on the other side, mainly because it's been fertilised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:19:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892275</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>unless you dreamt how to debug that problem no-one else can solve</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:03:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673324</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Codegen is not productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there's some goldilocks speed limit for using these tools relative to your skillset. When you're building, you forget that you're also learning - which is why I actually favour some AI code editors that aren't as powerful because it gets me to stop and think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389279</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is the wrong way to think about it. In this case the "intelligent people who are wasted on finance and ads" are drawn to high-status, low-risk, well-paid jobs, with interesting problems to solve.<p>If you want to solve meaningful problems you need a different kind of intelligence; you need to be open to risk, have a lot of naivety, not status orientated, and a rare ability to see the forest among the trees (i.e. an interesting problem isn't necessarily a important one).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180485</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Railway (PaaS) global outage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it has it's own "metal" services they're migrating customers to. Afaik they used GCP for "legacy" cloud services.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:53:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977386</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's the rendering speed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825197</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Makes you wonder what the TTL caching for our universe is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:46:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815550</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the difference between optimisation and intelligence?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:33:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100657</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great ad for Grayscale on your phone and chrome extensions that get rid of shorts</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:00:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985102</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I see you have changed your weights Mr Bond."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730666</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45730666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in ""Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm becoming more convinced that this kind of rhetoric is usually peddled by individuals who haven't actually built anything notable (granted, that's most of us).<p>If all you're doing is using AI to build products, by definition, you're gravitating to the mean.<p>The AI doesn't care about a delightful product, it cares about satisfying its objective function and the deeper you go the more the two will diverge simply because building a good product is <i>really</i> complex and there are many many paths in the decision maze.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:46:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495453</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45495453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think first step of having good taste is admitting that you probably have bad taste</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:48:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412209</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "The Therac-25 Incident (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of the Belgium 2003 election that was impossibly skewered by a supernova light years away sending charged particles which manage to get through our atmosphere (allegedly) and flipping a bit. Not the only case it's happened.</p>
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<p>I wonder if not just checking the site every day (or minute ) would solve for this.<p>It's not necessarily the structure of the source data (the DOM, the HTML etc.) but rather the translator that needs to be contractually consistent. The translator in this case is the service for the endpoints.</p>
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<p>I thought this too, but I imagine it's a bit of pathetic fallacy for the reader's benefit else it would be (ironically) quite a boring read for us from the machine's perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 08:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992875</link><dc:creator>autonomousErwin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43992875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by autonomousErwin in "“Most promising signs yet” of alien life on a planet beyond our Solar System"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you know it's incompatible with the actual universe instead of our current understanding of the universe?<p>Take us for example, we're communicating instantly (for practical purposes) using thinking machines - how would that not seem like magic to someone thousands of years ago?<p>My point is, we don't know what the tribe have behind the bush. It's the equivalent of the Mayans wondering what's over that hill and then finding the Spanish with gunpowder, horses, and steel armour.</p>
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