Hacker News: darkwater

New comment by darkwater in "Don't trust large context windows"

darkwater — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:33:23 +0000

What sense of rigour is going to be in a field (LLM usage as a user) where models, context sizes, tooling and broadly "rules" (scary quotes) change every few weeks? There is no literal change to have a scientific approach to anything, churn is too high, there are papers about model XYZ v 12345 from a few months ago that are already old because there is model ABC on version 54321 that addresses half of the issue shown in the paper and add 3 new problems though.

New comment by darkwater in "I Am Not a Reverse Centaur"

darkwater — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:53:20 +0000

Actually it's good for another reason, and that's the very essence of opensource: the user can customize the software to their needs, but there is no obligation to participate in a community effort (although it's definitely cool as a side effect)

New comment by darkwater in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

darkwater — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:56:01 +0000

You are just projecting yourself. You are most probably already using agents "the right way" and just wanted to understand how this new agent technology actually works and its strengths and weaknesses.

But JertLinc clearly wasn't interested in that. They are clearly more the "get rich quick" type of personality.

New comment by darkwater in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

darkwater — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:53:12 +0000

Oh that sounds like WinNuke? Good times back then!

New comment by darkwater in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

darkwater — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:36:50 +0000

It's a two ways street though, isn't it? With lazy/unskilled/unmotivated developers you will have a shitty product, or maybe your SaaS would explode the day it's starting to get traction.

New comment by darkwater in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

darkwater — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:11:05 +0000

I might be opinionated but the former clearly feels/is a problematic and unhealthy behavior. The latter is much more reasonable.

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

darkwater — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:21:13 +0000

Or by a three-letters-agency...

New comment by darkwater in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

darkwater — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:45:31 +0000

The only one doing a very bad analogy in the thread it was you. You got a response with a counter analogy just to play on your same field and then a deep answer with real scenarios. You should respond to those, if you want to continue the discussion.

New comment by darkwater in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

darkwater — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:49:05 +0000

Being an helicopter has a specific (and negative) meaning; caring and worrying for your kids seems just how many humans are wired.

New comment by darkwater in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

darkwater — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:25:13 +0000

Are you willing to deny her also the right to that thought?

I'm not in favor of eugenics but you started from there and now you are sounding "pro-life" each time more as you write more messages in the thread.

New comment by darkwater in "Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs"

darkwater — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:19:23 +0000

You start worrying when they are in the womb... and never really stop worrying til you die.

New comment by darkwater in "Claude Fable 5"

darkwater — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:20:07 +0000

Another Anthropic release, another doomsday for developers.

This time looks like we will only be able to find work making bioweapons, or distilling models.

New comment by darkwater in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

darkwater — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:57:57 +0000

But... "time to market!", "we won't have cash by the time this gets implemented properly" etc etc are the usual suspects here.

New comment by darkwater in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

darkwater — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:49:51 +0000

I don't really understand GP's message. User's comment history seems pretty normal, why would they drop a random IG link here? Wrong article?

New comment by darkwater in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

darkwater — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:57:29 +0000

> but there have been multiple examples of other bands fighting to keep the concert tickets affordable for their fans. Nirvana did that for example.

Tickets price landscape radically changed in the last 30 years. They incremented between 3x to 5x (or even more) in that lapse of time, depending on the artist and venue, and accrued inflation doesn't explain it (quick search says that in the last 30 years in the Eurozone inflation grew ~85% and in the US ~110%)

New comment by darkwater in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

darkwater — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:32:01 +0000

> I don't want my apps that have AI implemented to be able to read my messages because Europe mandates feature parity.

The AI provider would still be YOUR choice. You could stick with Apple's if you don't trust the other ones.

New comment by darkwater in "GitHub Is Down"

darkwater — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:28:35 +0000

As said, maybe I'm really hallucinating and mixed up the official and unofficial GH status pages, but there are definitely incidents published in the official one that are not counted as downtime or even partial degradation in the uptime counter.

New comment by darkwater in "DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision"

darkwater — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:06:42 +0000

Damned squishy humans, with their feelings and moods...

New comment by darkwater in "GitHub Is Down"

darkwater — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:26:33 +0000

Am I hallucinating or did they do a "cleanup" of the GH status in their status page? https://www.githubstatus.com/

API Requests with 4 nines of availability??

Issues with 99.96 uptime?

PR with 99.61% uptime last 90 days??

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ marks PRs at 95.89% in the same period as an example.

New comment by darkwater in "My Software North Star"

darkwater — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:32:08 +0000

But it links to this post

https://joshlf.com/posts/memory-safety-life-and-death/

Under a "it doesn't matter it's memory-safe if..."