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New comment by cdata in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

cdata — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:33:09 +0000

The influence of cartoon foxes on business strategies in tech has a long history and cannot be overstated.

https://poignant.guide/book/chapter-3.html

International Agreement to Prevent Premature Creation of ASI

cdata — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:45:53 +0000

Article URL: https://techgov.intelligence.org/blog/new-report-an-international-agreement-to-prevent-the-premature-creation-of-artificial-superintelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768793

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cdata in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

cdata — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:48:05 +0000

This appears to be dated 2016. Did the preliminary results amount to anything?

New comment by cdata in "AI Tribalism"

cdata — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:08:20 +0000

I read a lot of AI generated code these days. It makes really bad mistakes (even when the nature of the change is a refactor). I've tried out a few different tools and methodologies, but I haven't escaped the need to babysit the "agent." If I stepped aside, it would create more work for me and others on the backend of our workflow.

I read anecdotes of teams that push through AI-driven changes as fast as possible with awe. Surely their AIs are no more capable than the ones I'm familiar with.

New comment by cdata in "AI Tribalism"

cdata — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:57:55 +0000

AI has pushed me to arrive at an epiphany: new technology is good if it helps me spend more time doing things that I enjoy doing; it's bad if it doesn't; it's worse if I end up spending more time doing things that I don't enjoy.

AI has increased the sheer volume of code we are producing per hour (and probably also the amount of energy spent per unit of code). But, it hasn't spared me or anyone I know the cost of testing, reviewing or refining that code.

Speaking for myself, writing code was always the most fun part of the job. I get a dopamine hit when CI is green, sure, but my heart sinks a bit every time I'm assigned to review a 5K+ loc mountain of AI slop (and it has been happening a lot lately).

New comment by cdata in "Google Opal"

cdata — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:04:03 +0000

Arguably the ad business is to blame. It created a perverse incentive. They maximized pay-to-play. The losers were authors that previously published on a passion budget (and would/could never pay for ads). AI is just the last nail in the coffin.

New comment by cdata in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

cdata — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:51:31 +0000

The foresters refusing to plant vast tracts of Norway Spruce aren't protecting themselves; quite the opposite, they’re falling behind. The gap is widening between states who've replaced mixed forests with a flawless mono-crop and those who haven't. The first states are growing forests faster, and harvesting a more desirable wood. The second group is... not.

New comment by cdata in "Doo: A Simple, Fast Programming Language Built on Rust and LLVM"

cdata — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:55:06 +0000

Very cool. I'm always on the lookout for languages - especially beginner-friendly ones - that are good candidates for building Wasm Components (my use case is a fantasy console with Wasm game cartridges).

Have you given any thought to supporting Wasm Components as a build target?

Guillermo del Toro: 'I'd rather die' than use generative AI

cdata — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2025/10/23/nx-s1-5577963/guillermo-del-toro-frankenstein

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687464

Points: 15

# Comments: 7

New comment by cdata in "WASM 3.0 Completed"

cdata — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:23:53 +0000

Don't sleep on the Rust toolchain for this! You can have DOM-via-Wasm today, the tools generate all the glue for you and the overhead isn't that bad, either.

Slow AGI

cdata — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://x.com/cramforce/article/1947108831596777976

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44636815

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cdata in "Mikeal Rogers has died"

cdata — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 20:22:34 +0000

I had the pleasure of meeting Mikeal on a few occasions, but mainly I've benefited from his work over the years (initially via the JavaScript ecosystem, and later through the Protocol Labs community).

PouchDB was way ahead of its time, and I'm just now coming around to how crazy cool it was and is compared to most other tech in its space.

He made a great deal of positive impact on technical areas I care about. Rest in peace.

New comment by cdata in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

cdata — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:19:09 +0000

I entered the workforce in 08/09. At that time things seemed really dire. It felt to me like the whole house of cards was coming down, and I told myself that I would take any job that I could get.

I ultimately landed a job with an odd startup, eccentric founders, working out of an attic. In hindsight I couldn't have asked for a better start to my career. But, my expectations were rock bottom at the time.

Anyway, keep your mind open to all possibilities. You never know where an unlikely choice may take you. And, good luck!

New comment by cdata in "Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell"

cdata — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:45:10 +0000

I wonder if you could pair this with nix e.g.,:

    - shell: nix develop --command {0}
      run: ...

Bigscreen Beyond 2

cdata — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://store.bigscreenvr.com/products/bigscreen-beyond-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43425399

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Nvidia DGX Spark (formerly DIGITS) available for reservation

cdata — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 22:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/developer/dgx-spark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43405910

Points: 12

# Comments: 4

New comment by cdata in "What went wrong with Horizon Worlds? Ex-Meta dev shares insider insights"

cdata — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:57:59 +0000

This is so close to validating my expectations that I'm almost skeptical of its veracity. I'm a regular Quest player, but I couldn't tell you how to launch Horizons if you held a gun to my head.

The leaders of corporate initiatives like this often tell themselves that they are building an ecosystem. They also seem convinced that an ecosystem will manifest from a highly curated, centrally developed silo that they have total control over. I guess it sort of worked for Facebook back in the day, but they were surfing on a lot of good will when it happened (and look at it now).

Things that are much closer to a metaverse than Horizons will ever be:

- Minecraft (Bedrock)

- VRChat

- Any popular multiplayer game that includes a free level editor

- The open web

New comment by cdata in "What went wrong with Horizon Worlds? Ex-Meta dev shares insider insights"

cdata — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 18:39:41 +0000

But consider the opportunity cost: open content can be used to train an AI that may approximate the works of the author!

Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard

cdata — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ryanis.cool/cosmos/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42686144

Points: 383

# Comments: 84

New comment by cdata in "Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?"

cdata — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 07:28:13 +0000

I used a Framework 13" as my daily driver for 3 years. I still have it, and now I also have a Framework 16", which has been my daily driver for the last six months.

The user serviceability and upgrade stories are real. The hardware isn't as svelte as Apple's, but mine has traveled all over the world and has yet to have any major issues. The one hardware failure I had was that the USB-C half of the charging cable on my 13" eventually broke after a few years of abuse, but that used to happen to me with Apple charging cables, too.

Framework has an active initiative to do outreach to different Linux distro communities and give them free hardware to help shore up compatibility. And, on that note, I haven't run into any Linux hardware compatibility issues (not with Pop!_OS, or more recently NixOS).

Speaking for myself, they have a loyal customer for as long as they continue to make this kind of hardware.