Hacker News: bckr

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

bckr — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:34 +0000

Oh yeah, he’s the one who said glue people are useless

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

bckr — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:47:39 +0000

When you have everything but can’t even keep your hands to yourself. Shameful.

New comment by bckr in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

bckr — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:42:47 +0000

I think it’s worth having a tiny model that can convert a short sentence into a structured tool call. Now you can add an orchestration layer and you have separation of concerns. That orchestration layer can be a mixture of deterministic and probabilistic systems. Break the foundation model into several single use tools, please!

New comment by bckr in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

bckr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:02:49 +0000

yes. But also some stuff will be amazing.

New comment by bckr in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

bckr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:27:24 +0000

Are you part of a union? How can we get the tech industry unionized?

New comment by bckr in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

bckr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:24:12 +0000

I think it’s ALL getting commoditized. The winners here are engineers (who are onboard with the agentic surge) and, hopefully, users who get more and better software.

New comment by bckr in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""

bckr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:37:22 +0000

“Put that **** directly into my veins”, as they say

New comment by bckr in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

bckr — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:00:20 +0000

Look, we’ve had nukes for almost 100 years now. Do you really think our ancient alien zookeepers are gonna let us wipe with AI? Semi /j

New comment by bckr in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

bckr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:15:55 +0000

not a very helpful response tbh

New comment by bckr in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

bckr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:29:50 +0000

Labor organization yes! I don't quite know how to achieve it. I also worry that my desire to become a manager is in direct conflict with my desire to contribute to labor organization.

On a separate note, I have the intensification problem in my personal work as well. I sit down to study, but, first, let me just ask Claude to do some research in the background... Oh, and how is my Cursor doing on the dashboard? Ah, right, studying... Oh, Claude is done...

New comment by bckr in "xAI joins SpaceX"

bckr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:00:19 +0000

The average person sees some headlines and gets a vague awareness that the guy is some kind of super genius who is single handedly changing the world.

The average person who has an opinion on musk has roughly the same long term memory consolidation pattern as the average person in general.

New comment by bckr in "xAI joins SpaceX"

bckr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:23:35 +0000

Conveniently, about the amount of time it takes for the average person to forget and/or rematerialize in a new parallel dimension

New comment by bckr in "The 600-year-old origins of the word 'hello'"

bckr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:55:44 +0000

> and wait for the caller to speak first

You know why this is, right? Most phone calls these days are spam or otherwise annoyances. Many are literally just seeing if a person picks up. They’re listening to see if you’re a real human being.

The phone system is FUBAR.

New comment by bckr in "Re: Mix: open-source repairable blender"

bckr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:49:42 +0000

I’ve been playing ARC Raiders. These things are how I imagine the blueprints in that game to be. Hand-buildable every day tools that prioritize for reliability

New comment by bckr in "Scott Adams has died"

bckr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:06:16 +0000

A family member has been living with prostate cancer for around a decade. Get screened and get treated.

New comment by bckr in "The future of software development is software developers"

bckr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:39:19 +0000

The new abstraction is “this corporation owns this IP and has engineers who can fix and extend it at will”. You can’t git clone that.

But if there is something off the shelf that you can use for the task at hand? Great! The stakeholders want it to do these other 3000 things before next summer.

New comment by bckr in "GPT-5.2"

bckr — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:59:05 +0000

Gemini is good at reading bad handwriting you say? Might need to give it a shot at my 10 years of journals

New comment by bckr in "Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers"

bckr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:27:33 +0000

I’m afraid you’re conflating understanding with obedience.

New comment by bckr in "I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE"

bckr — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:43:45 +0000

Extremely inspiring

New comment by bckr in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

bckr — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:39:25 +0000

That’s where they take their big pile of data and train the model to do next-token-prediction.