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New comment by bizzletk in "Gemini Distillation Service"

bizzletk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:07:42 +0000

Can you explain the difference?

New comment by bizzletk in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

bizzletk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:37:41 +0000

But the lawyer would say "okay, help me prove you didn't send these messages"

We know he's innocent, and he knows he's innocent, but how does he prove it?

New comment by bizzletk in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

bizzletk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:35:51 +0000

But in a trial room, that evidence was 100% there:

> Prosecution: Mister Klayme, the criminal messages were sent from a Kik username called "fus ro dah". What's your Kik username?

> Klayme: It's "fus ro dah".

> Prosecution: It logically follows that Mister Klayme was the sender, and is therefore guilty of the offense.

New comment by bizzletk in "Our position on open-weights models"

bizzletk — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:10:32 +0000

They could ~halve their training costs with collusion.

Instead of each paying full price to generate a SOTA model in competition, they could share the result and split the cost. This gets even simpler if they merge.

New comment by bizzletk in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

bizzletk — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:41:09 +0000

Maybe they're better named Brazilian Staying-Put Spiders then

New comment by bizzletk in "Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source"

bizzletk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:33:30 +0000

I've always enjoyed the "I sell onions on the internet" story:

https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...

New comment by bizzletk in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

bizzletk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:20:13 +0000

CTOs have found reasons to standardize on k8s and it's not just for technical reasons. This was recently discussed last week:

https://notnotp.com/notes/what-job-interviews-taught-me-abou...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546428

New comment by bizzletk in "Rent collections are down in New York"

bizzletk — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:32:09 +0000

Not all bad behavior meets the threshold of police intervention.

Here's a nearly-strawman-but-definitionally-valid example: a landlord may want to remove a tenant who's being unusually hard on the place and accelerating the wear-and-tear. Could be serious enough that paying the tenant to go away would be cheaper than the cost to remediate the damage accrued over the length of the contract.

New comment by bizzletk in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

bizzletk — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:48:51 +0000

Wouldn't the real story be to get government contracts? Those are more immune to public fickleness and market competition and usually have truly ludicrous margins.

If they're the only ones who ̶a̶r̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶e̶n̶g̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶a̶u̶t̶o̶n̶o̶m̶o̶u̶s̶ ̶k̶i̶l̶l̶b̶o̶t̶s̶ can draw a reciprocation dingle-arm to reduce soinosoidal repleneration, then "I'm sure the government will buy it" [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/Ac7G7xOG2Ag?t=89

New comment by bizzletk in "Boot Naked Linux"

bizzletk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:48:19 +0000

> Write your code in Go

Container not even needed, there's projects like Tamago [0] that let you run your golang application without even needing an OS

[0] https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago

New comment by bizzletk in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

bizzletk — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:15:07 +0000

And also the mandatory "Treaty, Yeah!":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPmDLR_M50M

New comment by bizzletk in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

bizzletk — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:16:57 +0000

> someone needs to work with the business to extract the information. Typically it's not well documented.

LLM extraction of the information from the Product Owner is becoming the way to overcome poorly-documented business context.

Non-technical folk are using things like `/grill-me` [0] to seed the LLM with the long-tail complexities that they didn't know they didn't know they needed to put out.

[0] https://www.aihero.dev/my-grill-me-skill-has-gone-viral

New comment by bizzletk in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

bizzletk — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:43:14 +0000

> Does Claude leverage the trailers automatically, or is usage initiated by you?

Trailers hint is in my global CLAUDE.md so it knows: when debugging, saying something like "didn't we already discuss this in a previous session?" it will know what to look for.

I also have a manually invoked `/search-session-transcripts` that I can use to natural-language inspect previous session by day, project, session id etc. Claude often uses this skill to narrow down on parts of the conversation that are relevant to the current query.

> How often are you using the trailer lookups?

Mondays are usually the day I need to refer to previous sessions from the week before. Trailer lookups are also good for continuing buildout of adjacent features. They've also been excellent in incident post-mortems where the PR text and commit message aren't enough to gauge the "how" of decisions that led to issues.

> Any idea how this relates to token usage?

I tested this. Session-transcripts are append-only so `/clear` and `/compact` don't clear out old messages, they stay stable and accessible. I also don't clean out my `~/.claude/sessions` ever so there's a lot in there, but the info is valuable and cheap.

New comment by bizzletk in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

bizzletk — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:34:43 +0000

I've been attaching to my commit messages a Git Trailer [1] of the Session UUID from the Claude Code conversation that created that commit.

It allows Claude to look back into the session where a change was made and see the decisions made, tradeoffs discussed and other history not captured by code, tests.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-interpret-trailers

New comment by bizzletk in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

bizzletk — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:33:48 +0000

Can you enumerate why?

New comment by bizzletk in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

bizzletk — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:25:53 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Communists_Have_Better_Sex%...

New comment by bizzletk in "Show HN: Ismcpdead.com – Live dashboard tracking MCP adoption and sentiment"

bizzletk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:39:48 +0000

Something like this? https://github.com/brycehans/toolgate

New comment by bizzletk in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"

bizzletk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:26:28 +0000

Wait till you see the Honda Electro Gyrocator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator

New comment by bizzletk in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

bizzletk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:48:01 +0000

Or humans are just the "sex organs" that work to bring about the artificial life-forms that come next.

New comment by bizzletk in "Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code"

bizzletk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:10:24 +0000

How would you compare it to similar things in this space like Mog?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312728