Hacker News: citrin_ru

New comment by citrin_ru in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

citrin_ru — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:10:51 +0000

IMHO peak GUI was in 2000s - on Windows most app used Win32 API and apps which followed "Microsoft Windows User Experience" guide had consistent UI/UX. Since then Microsoft introduced many competing frameworks to create GUI all look slightly different and UX is less consistent too. And then Electron come which brought inconsistency of web to the desktop apps.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

citrin_ru — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:31:17 +0000

TUI returns what GUI lost over the last decades - low latency, low RAM/CPU usage, ability to navigate without a mouse. No one seems to be building nice GUI apps anymore.

New comment by citrin_ru in "OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS"

citrin_ru — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:13:21 +0000

Nobody ever got fired for buying I̵B̵M̵ AWS. Most corporations already use AWS, used to its legal terms and accepted the risk. Any new provider will be scrutinised by legal more than an existing one.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

citrin_ru — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:01:34 +0000

I'm personally was fine with contributing to open-source without any financial reward. But I'm reluctant to release anything in public now because it will be eventually incorporated into the training set for the technology which will (or at least can) lave me without a job and chances to find one.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

citrin_ru — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:53:54 +0000

A significant job loss will trigger a deep recession which will eventually hit most AI customers so they will have too few customers to be profitable. The best (for AI business) scenario is when productivity is increased without mass unemployment.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

citrin_ru — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:09:27 +0000

The problem is that many companies which had reasonable leadership in the past with the advent of LLM AI started to make rushed (and dubious from my point of view) decisions - using token usage to evaluate an employee performance is just one of them.

New comment by citrin_ru in "A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria"

citrin_ru — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:37:52 +0000

It's hard to separate impact of workers being replaced by AI from an impact of a recession (or stagnation). It's not obvious how AI impacts employees with various experience: on one hand a senior is better at spotting AI hallucination one other hand a junior using AI can do much more than a junior was able to do a couple years ago for a lower (if adjusted for inflation) than a couple years ago salary.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Real wages start to shrink in developed countries"

citrin_ru — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:00:40 +0000

IMHO it's around 4 years: inflation surge in late 2021/22 and following years was not matched by salaries but 2020 was not yet that bad.

New comment by citrin_ru in "AI is too expensive"

citrin_ru — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:15:20 +0000

Why we should assume that whoever offers these Chinese models makes sufficient profits and will not rise the prices eventually too?

New comment by citrin_ru in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

citrin_ru — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:08:57 +0000

At least partially the usage is driven by free plans. I use Gemini and ChatGPT for free. I will not pay for them unless traditional web search will be killed (google quality is subjectively on a downward trajectory for the last few years). My employer pays for AI but IMHO it's driven by a panic level FOMO, not evidence.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds"

citrin_ru — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:26:34 +0000

It seems the more people spend online the more they trust online picture whatever it is (for most people it's an algorithmically generated feed) and less pay attention to what they can see in person. Smartphone addition is harmful in so many ways.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence"

citrin_ru — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:21:43 +0000

Hezbollah at least recently was much stronger than Lebanese army and even nowadays Lebanese army afraid to challenge Hezbollah. Concept of a powerful non state actor is something many people in the west refuse to acknowledge.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Spain has become one of Europe’s cheapest power markets"

citrin_ru — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:56:39 +0000

Dependency on nuclear fuel is less of a problem because you don't need to re-fuel a station often. Lack of gas creates a much more urgent problem.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

citrin_ru — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:00:42 +0000

Stock market is up only because investors bet on AI, if you'll exclude AI and AI supply chain at best it would be stagnant.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

citrin_ru — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:58:49 +0000

Many CxO made a decision to spend $$$$ on AI; that's their bet and they're are adamant about it. Money should come from somewhere and layoffs is the easiest way to free some budget in a software company. Was it a good bet only time will tell.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a 'depressing' new record"

citrin_ru — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:19:37 +0000

Nuclear is an answer along with other sources. Opposition to nuclear by the Green Party in the UK is a self-sabotage IMHO. They may argue how limited government subsidies should be allocated but outright opposition to nuclear energy is just stupid to me.

New comment by citrin_ru in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

citrin_ru — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:27:28 +0000

I don't think there is a large intersection between these two groups at least in Europe. Price sensitive people didn't buy SUV. Better-off folks who buy SUV unlikely to be significantly affected by this price increase. In the US it may be different because most cars on the market are SUV/tracks and it's harder to find a small car.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

citrin_ru — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:05:28 +0000

May be base-load is not the best term but in case if batteries and other storages will run out during long cloudy stretch with weak winds nuclear will at least allow to power critical infrastructure. It’s bad that some consumers will loose power but less bad than total apocalypses when the storage is empty and you have no unintermittent power source in the grid.

New comment by citrin_ru in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

citrin_ru — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:56:06 +0000

Data hoarding predates LLMs. There where other machine learning methods which also needed data for training.

New comment by citrin_ru in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

citrin_ru — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:42:46 +0000

It's not only about buttons. A web-app of trading platform I use doesn't allow to copy-paste a fund name (both in web and in the mobile app). I don't think they disallow this intentionally, likely an artefact of GUI framework they use.