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New comment by bodash in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

bodash — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:09:57 +0000

This trend started even before AI but just go accelerated recently. Us software engineers are sitting in the front-row experiencing it first and hardest. Not just the fact AI can code now, adjacent terms of similar symptoms are also "loneliness epidemic", "cost of living", etc.

Before this turns into an endless rant, back to the question: in the age of "100:1 agents to human ratio soon?", we should be even more nicer to each other fellow human beings. That may help us find purpose/motivations again.

IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Cost to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks

bodash — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:52:29 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-08-04-ibm-and-red-hat-offer-lightwell-at-no-cost-to-universities,-ngos-and-think-tanks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49321648

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New comment by bodash in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

bodash — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:49:03 +0000

Agreed “remembering” stuff is critical in most life’s situations where if you did, you will appeared to be smart. This is probably why spaced repetition has been a key element in learning for the past few decades.

But “remembering” is only the beginning (you have to remember first!), after that, elements like understanding relations, connecting dots and remixing, timing, etc will truly make one shine.

In one way, it’s like the current “LLM + Harness” setup for agents. LLM is how well it remembers, but different harness techniques really matters, at times even a worse model mixed with great harness can outperform great model with bad harness

New comment by bodash in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

bodash — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:13:16 +0000

Few days ago, UK cyber test almost merged malware through social engineering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205790

New comment by bodash in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

bodash — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:50:46 +0000

Interesting. I’m also a night owl who struggled waking up like an early bird. Was the transition and efforts worth it? Recently I tried to find a better schedule other than spending another X years fighting my biological clock

New comment by bodash in "Discovery Loop"

bodash — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:28:44 +0000

Guys I’m joking btw, left the comment during my jest mood

New comment by bodash in "Discovery Loop"

bodash — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:19:20 +0000

When you define prosperity in large amount of people, it makes you sound like a communist, and America spent decades to avoid that. The other alternative is to sound like a capitalist, which is very much ok by today’s standards.

New comment by bodash in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

bodash — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:25:31 +0000

Stripe about to acquire OpenRouter for $10B, and Airtable is only ~1/10th of OpenRouter???

New comment by bodash in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

bodash — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:52:57 +0000

Similar to where we simply ask LLM to leave 20% of the work undone: humantodo.dev

New comment by bodash in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

bodash — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:45:46 +0000

“The oppressors left, but their systems remain”

New comment by bodash in "Meta pulls new AI image feature after days of backlash"

bodash — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:07:20 +0000

> AI companies see people's images and data as raw material to be exploited

What a quote

New comment by bodash in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

bodash — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:36:50 +0000

It’s not crazy. I always add a simple message to my prompts: “leave 20% solutions empty and I’ll implement them myself”.

It work wonders for me.

New comment by bodash in "Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents"

bodash — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:26:45 +0000

Agreed, JSON is not the most optimal spec language choice, but is it better if different projects all started to writing their own specs?

New comment by bodash in "GPT‑Live"

bodash — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:15:51 +0000

I’m completely on your side, but also I think about all the AI saturations in the society like this:

“Driving to work or running a 10km on the weekend sharing the same surface goal: from A to B.

You may have less autonomy whether you should drive to work, but you definitely have more decision power about whether to go for that run or not”

New comment by bodash in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

bodash — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:36:10 +0000

Given the audience here, I think an adjacent analogy would be “if we were to understand tech today, do we always go back to the beginning of tech?”

Then the answer is more clear as yes and no. Obviously much of our tech today adapts to modern innovations and standards, but it would not be hard to quickly find examples where even the most cutting edge tech are still being affected by the earliest decisions or natural limitations.

New comment by bodash in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

bodash — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:49:00 +0000

fyi npm 12 will have securer defaults https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-09-upcoming-breaking-c... but it will be a while for ecosystem to catch up and npm reputation already damaged

New comment by bodash in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

bodash — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:23:15 +0000

Agreed. If it's "digital", it will be used for elite power plays, because it's too easy. How else could you mass control/analyse/manipulate millions of people instantly? Digital, digital, digital...

New comment by bodash in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

bodash — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:13:05 +0000

My browser combo: Firefox Developer Edition + uBo + Privacy Badger + Facebook Containers

One time setup, it’s synced to Mozilla account for later reinstalls

New comment by bodash in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

bodash — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:57:55 +0000

GitHub repo (800+ stars) on a list of tips for protecting against npm supply chain attacks: https://github.com/bodadotsh/npm-security-best-practices

New comment by bodash in "Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)"

bodash — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:16:09 +0000

This is a surprise. And they still haven't included corepack as an official instruction on the nodejs.org download page. Is corepack a failed experiment?