<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: boonzeet</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boonzeet</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:08:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=boonzeet" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boonzeet in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It doesn't seem to be as much a trend in the UK - fast food, takeaways etc have some leaking in of AI - but when I went to Korea I was blown away by how many restaurants had these AI style menus.<p>It's a shame because it takes away the choice of either seeing the real product, or imagining it - I'm left with this shitty generated impression of what the food won't look like.</p>
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<p>Ironically to your point, I think adding a ConcurrentHashMap because it <i>might</i> be multithreaded eventually <i>IS</i> premature optimisation.<p>The work can be done in future to migrate to using ConcurrentHashMap when the feature to add multithreading support is added. There's no sense to add groundwork for unplanned, unimplemented features - that is premature optimisation in a nutshell.</p>
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<p>Having spent a lot of time in denial before investing in a few light wool turtlenecks and some Aran jumpers, I can only disagree.<p>When wool gets warm it expands, which cools you slightly. It seems to have a much better range of temperatures you can be comfortable in.<p>Synthetic jumpers and sweaters get stuffy quickly and after a few washes can end up itchy.<p>And no, good cable knits from non designer brands go for $100-$200 and will last many, many years.</p>
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<p>Interesting article, although with so few data points and such a specific time slice it is difficult to draw serious conclusions about the "improvement" of LLM models.<p>It's notably lacking newer models (4.5 Opus, 4.6 Sonnet) and models from Gemini.<p>LLMs appear to naturally progress in short leaps followed by longer plateaus, as breakthroughs are developed such as chain-of-thought, mixture-of-experts, sub-agents, etc.</p>
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<p>Not the original commenter but this felt worth adding to: you mention 'cargo culting', yet there are already two comments raising the core benefit, which is keeping main 'stable and working' while develop stays 'rough and ready'.<p>A less rigid development branch allows feature branches to be smaller and easier to merge, and keeps developers working against more recent code.<p>A more locked-down, PR-only main branch enables proper testing before merging, and ensures that the feature and release branches stemming from it start in a cleaner state.<p>I've worked with both approaches and I'm firmly in the camp of keeping main stable, with a looser shared branch for the team to iterate on.</p>
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<p>> it can also double as a NAS ... and home server<p>Devil's advocate, but it can't if it's in Starbucks ;)<p>There's far cheaper workstations out there than Macbooks, especially if you're running Linux on them.</p>
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