Hacker News: block_dagger

New comment by block_dagger in "GPT-6 Astra"

block_dagger — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:42:23 +0000

Wouldn’t that mean producing novel work like relativity and QED?

New comment by block_dagger in "Starbase, LA"

block_dagger — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:56:44 +0000

So the (eastward) flight path isn't over populated land. Rapid disassembly and all that.

New comment by block_dagger in "Moon (2024)"

block_dagger — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:34:22 +0000

That’s no…oh wait, yes it is.

New comment by block_dagger in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

block_dagger — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:40:30 +0000

The premise of the article is that everyone has access to the “same tools” but that’s glossing over the specialization inherent in a specific expert’s harness config (memories, skills, rules, repos, etc) that produce actually helpful responses (eg engineer’s view vs product manager’s view).

New comment by block_dagger in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

block_dagger — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:51:45 +0000

Use an MCP proxy.

New comment by block_dagger in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

block_dagger — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:37:38 +0000

64 karma requirement? Pfft. I’d go to a 1k min karma meetup tho ;)

New comment by block_dagger in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"

block_dagger — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:01:24 +0000

Does it do flowcharts and arch diagrams? Doesn’t seem like it.

New comment by block_dagger in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

block_dagger — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:19:26 +0000

I don't know why exactly, but Fable has felt the most human LLM to arrive.

New comment by block_dagger in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

block_dagger — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:48:21 +0000

I have severe sleep apnea as well as insomnia. I may also be a multi-phasic sleeper. In any case my average sleep per night is ~3.5 hours with only ~1.5 hours of deep sleep. I use light therapy, CPAP, medications, etc but none of it solves my problems. I started taking creatine daily a couple of months ago. I've noticed a significant uptick in my cognitive abilities, despite being constantly sleep deprived. TFA doesn't touch on this apparent benefit of creatine, so thought I'd mention it for others who might be suffering from similar sleep issues.

New comment by block_dagger in "A grumpy screed about AI in software engineering"

block_dagger — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:54:41 +0000

After we get through this slop phase, I think software engineering won’t be about code at all, if it even exists as a profession. Feels like the beginning of the end for the craft.

New comment by block_dagger in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"

block_dagger — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:59:35 +0000

All of human technology resulted from human brains, which are non-deterministic at the level you're talking about, right?

New comment by block_dagger in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

block_dagger — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:32:20 +0000

I have the opposite feeling; I am liking Rust more and more and thinking most of the world's C code should be rewritten. It seems like a sweet spot of enforced memory safety, performance, and human/agent readability.

New comment by block_dagger in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

block_dagger — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:20:27 +0000

Are you sure "education" doesn't actually mean "ideology"?

New comment by block_dagger in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

block_dagger — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:19:32 +0000

It's both!

New comment by block_dagger in "My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part I (2020)"

block_dagger — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:31:00 +0000

Ah, the old days of shareware on floppies. My brother and I loved Apogee games.

New comment by block_dagger in "GPT-5.6"

block_dagger — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:08:03 +0000

This produced a disturbing mental image.

New comment by block_dagger in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

block_dagger — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:47:04 +0000

Whenever I see Vimeo in a headline, it reminds me of my lack of foresight. In college, the creator of Vimeo was in my friend group. I went to his on-campus apartment to pick him up for a party once. He showed me this "video sharing website" that he was working on. Its title was an anagram of "movie." This was in 1999. Digitized video was barely a thing. I looked at it, didn't understand how it would be useful, and assumed it was another one of his eccentric creative outlets that would go nowhere. A few years later, he was a multimillionaire and I was not.

New comment by block_dagger in "I think I have LLM burnout"

block_dagger — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:49:41 +0000

"You're right for pointing this out. Honestly, your comment raises a real concern — they genuinely RL'd that over the top." - Claude

New comment by block_dagger in "I think I have LLM burnout"

block_dagger — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:24:57 +0000

I've started feeling slightly physically ill when I read Opus output for hours straight. This article rings very true for me. I've started complaining about it with my team; at least have a personal style guide in your agent rules that eliminates emdashes, the "it's not X, it's Y"s, the long lists of modifiers before the noun, using the word "land" to mean finish, etc. I hope this is just a phase of adolescent LLMs.

New comment by block_dagger in "Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)"

block_dagger — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:29:50 +0000

Can you respect folks who are treating mental/emotional pain or just physical?