Hacker News: bandrami

New comment by bandrami in "Tesla Roadster"

bandrami — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:08:32 +0000

I really want one of these, but more importantly I absolutely don't want my neighbor to have one. This has always been the problem with flying cars as a concept.

New comment by bandrami in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

bandrami — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:42:02 +0000

The childhood lead exposure generation (not being flippant; it may also be why we engaged in the worst crime spree in history as teens and young adults).

New comment by bandrami in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

bandrami — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:34:46 +0000

Dunbar strikes again

New comment by bandrami in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

bandrami — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:54:26 +0000

I think the argument is the Indus Valley civilization was dependent on international trade with the autocracies further west and collapsed when that network broke down

New comment by bandrami in "Dots: Always-on agents"

bandrami — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:01:13 +0000

I'm sorry but it's hard not to see this as a tool mainly designed to inflate token counts

New comment by bandrami in "Tcl/Tk 9.1"

bandrami — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:56:40 +0000

There's an alternate timeline where Ousterhout's dream was realized and TCL filled the role that the Javascript swamp filled. I think that's a better timeline from a tech perspective.

New comment by bandrami in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

bandrami — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:53:36 +0000

Is it the models or the users' dopamine receptors that get nerfed after a few weeks?

New comment by bandrami in "Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100"

bandrami — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:22:27 +0000

Ken Lay would like a word

New comment by bandrami in "We must pace the frontier"

bandrami — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:32:47 +0000

The fact that Ellison just backed out of a massive stock sale makes me think everybody is reading the same bond market numbers

New comment by bandrami in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

bandrami — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 04:30:20 +0000

That's "rude" but allowed; that capability is one of the reasons Wayland was developed (though their solution removed some capabilities people wanted with the result that the compositors now replicate the original flaw).

New comment by bandrami in "We must pace the frontier"

bandrami — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:13:22 +0000

Everybody's out of money and they need a way to calmly unwind this. Same reason Ellison just backed out of the stock sale.

New comment by bandrami in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

bandrami — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:31:57 +0000

A chimpanzee could turn the nuclear keys if he were given access to them. The solution is not to remove chimpanzees' thumbs; it's just to not give them the nuclear keys. This is a very basic lesson that the labs are somehow missing.

New comment by bandrami in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

bandrami — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:28:56 +0000

Every one of those posts costs money, and OpenAI is apparently willing to pay that. This really is a problem with a simple solution.

New comment by bandrami in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

bandrami — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:58:13 +0000

iPython was famous for a while but I think its popularity has waned, but yes as you point out really any dynamic language can do a repl; it's just that it's mostly the lisp/scheme and forth families that have leaned so heavily into the idea.

New comment by bandrami in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

bandrami — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:55:27 +0000

It's the same reason people like symbolic debuggers: you can run your program as many lines at a time as you want and stop and inspect the state whenever you need to. I haven't really used jupyter but I understand the workflow there is very similar.

New comment by bandrami in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

bandrami — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:06:41 +0000

As a guy who started in lisp I always find LSP to be a weird uncanny valley situation. It's like 99% of a REPL, but it will always have corner cases where that 1% difference is important.

New comment by bandrami in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

bandrami — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:04:26 +0000

Commodification of inference means the death of capital spending on buildouts, which would mean the end of both Softbank and probably Oracle.

New comment by bandrami in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

bandrami — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:11:59 +0000

Aren't the "thinking" chains always just reconstructed anyways? It would be like using a debugger that just looks at the source code rather than the actual binary.

New comment by bandrami in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

bandrami — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:08:30 +0000

There are whole industries that still don't let LLM-generated code touch production

New comment by bandrami in "Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)"

bandrami — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:50:50 +0000

I gave up on gun control as a political question when I realized you can buy a flamethrower at Home Depot