Hacker News: beardedwizard

New comment by beardedwizard in "The VibeSec Reckoning"

beardedwizard — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:25:56 +0000

Good engineering is good engineering. Belief that someone else uniquely possesses the skill to engineer some critical part of a system you built is, for me, just abdicating responsibility. It's a learned helplessness.

Someone else blindly operating an llm on a corpus you created with an llm is comical.

New comment by beardedwizard in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

beardedwizard — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:01:05 +0000

Did we all forget "let me google that for you"? The cycle continues.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

beardedwizard — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:45:59 +0000

I'm enjoying how nobody in this thread seems to know what a container actually is, and folks may be surprised to learn kernel namespace underpins both docker and lxc.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

beardedwizard — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:44:39 +0000

Yeah because I'd rather trade one kernel surface for another.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"

beardedwizard — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:14:42 +0000

I really love this take. AI both increases and decimates the ability of people to BS you with fancy graphics and text.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

beardedwizard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:32:57 +0000

Nah it's exactly like they have been trained on this data and parrot it back when it statistically makes sense to do so.

You don't have to teach a monkey language for it to feel sadness.

New comment by beardedwizard in "I’m joining OpenAI"

beardedwizard — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:21:20 +0000

Bring your system to my records.

The irony of systems of record is that if there is more than one, there are effectively none. Just data stuck in silos waiting for compute.

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:22:27 +0000

I mentioned military in my reply to the sibling comment - that is the most ready example. What anduril and others are doing today may be sloppy, but it's moving very quickly.

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:21:22 +0000

Military adoption is probably a decent proxy indicator - and they are ready to hand the kill switch to autonomous robots

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:15:46 +0000

"Given the state of robotics" reminds me a lot of what was said about llms and image/video models over the past 3 years. Considering how much llms improved, how long can robotics be in this state?

I have to think 3 years from now we will be having the same conversation about robots doing real physical labor.

"This is the worst they will ever be" feels more apt.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Writing a good Claude.md"

beardedwizard — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:10:23 +0000

That is strange because it's been going on since sonnet 4.5 release.

New comment by beardedwizard in "California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness"

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:46:13 +0000

41% are not from California, 59% is not exactly overwhelming. it is a little more than half.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:12:11 +0000

In the current AI = LLM world, why have a language model do taxes? Why not just have AI help you adapt your non AI tax planning platform to local tax laws by reading and comprehending them at scale, a language task, instead?

New comment by beardedwizard in "California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness"

beardedwizard — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:20:15 +0000

This is such a bad faith article, downtown Dallas is full of homeless and the cvs has everything locked up. If homelessness went down it's because they moved to CA.

We do need more accountability for non profits though.

New comment by beardedwizard in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

beardedwizard — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:53:44 +0000

More consolidation of media by the billionaire class. Wait till they start partisan gaming.

New comment by beardedwizard in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

beardedwizard — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:43:31 +0000

You lost me at "traditional horology"

New comment by beardedwizard in "GPT-5"

beardedwizard — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:20:34 +0000

I asked it how to run the image and expose a port. it was just terrible in cursor. thought a Dockerfile wasn't in the repo, called no tools, then hallucinated a novel on dockefile best practices.

New comment by beardedwizard in "No AI Content"

beardedwizard — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:41:04 +0000

What ads?

New comment by beardedwizard in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

beardedwizard — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:27:56 +0000

But you didn't tell us how many orders of magnitude more expensive it is to operate :)

New comment by beardedwizard in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

beardedwizard — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:02:58 +0000

No debating any of that, it does not change the facts: Way more investor money is going into tech, however dubious, in the US.

Maybe that will change in the next few years, but it didn't happen for NYC or Texas either.