<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: citizenpaul</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=citizenpaul</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:23:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=citizenpaul" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it appeals to people with toxic "lone wolf" mentality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:12:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560442</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Running local models is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are still terrible at tool usage which loses 99% of the effectiveness of the agent.  I've had to concede and use paid frontier models that can use tools or its not worth using agents....copy...paste....copy....paste....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:10:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560393</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite part of this is that MS is just bending over to take it lest the gods scorn their "free"  training data temple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:30:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550219</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not.  I call it identitythiefresourcecenter.com or its shorter name freecriminalresource.com<p>I hate how normalized it became for "HR" to require you having a LI page for a job.  I don't think its as bad now but for a while it was essentially not possible to get a job without putting all your personal info on linkedin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:53:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548143</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48548143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I thought a big part of the reason for type systems was a sort of self documentation/contract?  Especially if you need to work on an unfamiliar system with bad documentation.  Also what about system boundaries?  I prefer typed languages personally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392204</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>IANAL.<p>The legals system is structurally based around manipulating text and its relations.  It seems to me that the entire legal industry is the ideal use case for LLM's to take over.<p>Of course the legal system can gatekeep forever by design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386460</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48386460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "LLMs are not the black box you were promised"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you asked me last year(2025) I would have still said LLMs are a silly toy.<p>As of Jan 2026 I have come to accept that LLMs are at least part of the puzzle of how intelligence works.  They are at this point better than the majority of humans at various intellectual tasks.  It may not be or ever be a 1:1 but good enough ran the world already before llms.<p>There is not even a formal definition of what intelligence is so saying LLM's are intelligent can't even be "right/wrong".  Its just arguing semantics and definitions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:57:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378328</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I moved to fastmail about 2 years ago.  It was not a super painful process, they make it easy as possible.  Also I used it as an opportunity to "reverse-whitelist" all my accounts by giving everything i use its own disposable masked address.<p>spam is now nonexistent in my email.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378266</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want human connection the legal system is not where you are going to find it, period.<p>I don't think there will be any such market for "non ai" law.  If I'm involved with the legal system I just want out as quick as possible as cheap as possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:44:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378216</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For Decades the huge tech companies basically faced no adversity whatsoever.   Now for the first time in their existence the massive returned investments in AI they are experiencing ... we will call it pain.<p>I would say it will be interesting to see what they do but I think rent-seeking, oppression, human rights violations would be more apt.<p>They were of course trustworthy proviers while they were untouchable but now I know how things are gonna go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 20:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068510</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068510</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The main reasons those places lost support is they became convenient prisons without due process.  Why do you think there are so many horror movies based on the setting of a sane person involuntarily put there?<p>While not ideal you gotta admit now that those people that need help are in your face rather than conveniently disappeared you are thinking about their plight some.<p>Maybe try to think of something better than forever prisons and stop becoming a ghoul.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 08:03:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060099</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48060099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Your website is not for you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My problem with most of these books is they are indirectly trying to solve the real problem.  The problem that IME HN is allergic to discussing.<p>Power Dynamics.<p>The reason the CEO is nitpicking your job is because he is not a good CEO and doesn't know his place or how to do his job.   Almost all these books are about an indirect way of dealing with the fact that, this person is a ID10T and you have to deal with them because they have more power than you.  Yet it is literally NEVER discussed.<p>The books(IDK about this one) really summarizes indirect ways of how to be subservient and not accidentally antagonize your "superiors" which are frequently people just born into a better lot in life than you, without feeling like that is what you are doing.<p>What is the CEO's primary duties, networking?, Sales, COMMUNICATING  yet its your job to read books on how to tiptoe around how to sus out what they cannot COMMUNICATE?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:21:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976565</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think its all a reflection of the price.  To make AI/LLM's useful you have to burn A LOT of tokens.  Way more than people are willing to pay for.<p>Until there is either more capacity or some efficiency breakthroughs the only way for providers to cut costs is to make the product worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664558</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>she went crazy”<p>That's literally what they tell you on the paid tour....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:23:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645563</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645563</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>DevOps won't want to support it? Burn down the company<p>Still true but you seem to blame the ops.  I've been in a job where every dept was allowed free for all tech budgets.  They would hire incompetent consultants to dump 3000hrs of work on devops then do it again next week and complain about how devops never gets anything done.  Then 5 other departments would do the same thing.<p>You know how 99% of the work is in that last 5% of the project. Thats how all those consultants would leave everything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645532</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Other surprises: GLM-5 Turbo, Xiaomi MiMo v2 Pro, and MiniMax M2.7 all outrank Gemini 3.1 Pro on performance<p>This has also been my subjective experience But has also been objective in terms of cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:14:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604477</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>better with voice.<p>Ive found most people are not good at explaining details period.<p>Also how many time have you heard something like.<p>Blah blah, except, blah, only when, blah, but not that except.......<p>To the point where they've contradicted themselves several times and made at least two mutually exclusive things true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:56:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597745</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "Show HN: I built an OS that is pure AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really cool.  It reminded me of my first thought for an AI app was a No-Interface crm/order system. I was talking to my bro in sales and all he ever does is complain about what a pain computers are.  This takes that idea to the next level.<p>llms were not quite there at the time maybe ill revisit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597709</link><dc:creator>citizenpaul</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by citizenpaul in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd argue this has already happened.  The highest end mac pro is $10k and down from there.  We might be returning to the appliance business model.<p>Its just a matter of Productizing the software to  plug and play light office admin work.</p>
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<p>Id like to see this published as well thx!</p>
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