Hacker News: deadlast2

New comment by deadlast2 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

deadlast2 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:23:26 +0000

I don't think it's by choice just ask all those extinct manufacturers

New comment by deadlast2 in "The US national debt now stands at $40T"

deadlast2 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:59:36 +0000

People can't see the exponential. That is why they think there is time. There is no time. Current play goes like this double the size of the stock market asap think trillion dollar new companies. Increase revenue through increased capital gains. Hope that this works before a forced default.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

deadlast2 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:35:13 +0000

Because there are so many different jobs all over the place. Job boards are full of people crying out for help. Every morning I wake up to a literal sea of emails from hiring managers looking for my aid. I only choose those jobs that look interesting and only work with the people who pay and treat me well. /s

New comment by deadlast2 in "The Color of White Light"

deadlast2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:45:40 +0000

Sun is white light. Wonder what that means. Brightest object in out awareness is modeled as clean white. Or is this the actual basic color.

New comment by deadlast2 in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:24:21 +0000

I am sure if these guys worked on it they could have better PR. It is like AI is the modern version of the oil industry.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:07:16 +0000

Is that ever the case I think we believe in it as an ideal but never see it. For instance a doctor in Pakistan that moves to the usa and ends up driving a taxi.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun"

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:16:26 +0000

The light from the sun is white so with all these anomalies would the color of this light not change even slightly.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Reverse Jevons Paradox"

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:14:15 +0000

Is it just me or is this a pervasive pattern in hackernews... Someone makes a point then someone makes a contrary point and the conversation spirals off with nothing to do with the original post or concepts. I particularly notice this in more controversial posts on politics.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:29:48 +0000

Does it not end. Like is there not a point with all this speedups and infinite intelligence that your software system is essentially done.

New comment by deadlast2 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

deadlast2 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:27:03 +0000

There are lots of countries that have a form of this and survive. Almost every country in Europe has a social welfare system and free healthcare for instance. I

New comment by deadlast2 in "Tell HN: Pretending not to use AI has made me a better developer"

deadlast2 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:52:43 +0000

Seems like you are breaking the contract with your peers. There are lots of reasons to reject AI generated work.

You are deceiving your peers who you have accepted as being the managers of the approach to this work.

You cannot realistically justify this fraud. You should own up and stop contributing.

Please note I say this as a person who only write AI code. Even if you query your AI it will say the same thing.

New comment by deadlast2 in "The Shape of Things to Come"

deadlast2 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:29:38 +0000

MOE and COT or github co-pilot. I think agents can marginally improve the performance of AI.

New comment by deadlast2 in "A big win for Android interoperability"

deadlast2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:23:14 +0000

Now let's bite the apple.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?"

deadlast2 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:43:06 +0000

Drop out take up a trade. It was never something that could be taught well and most colleges were a waste of time. Now it is dead forget about it and do something useful with your life.

New comment by deadlast2 in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

deadlast2 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:46:04 +0000

I use Open AI and Claude a lot right like a lot everyday for hours multiple hours. Open AI gives much more value for money than Claude much more I'd say x 10. Mainly I use it for writing fiction books and literally Claude is locked 90% of everyday trying to jip me for tokens. It's not as good at coding for what I do which is a very complicated application. However it is very good at writing it's really good which is why I keep it right but over 90% maybe actually all of my work except the initial draft of a chapter is done by open AI.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Companies hire more after AI adoption"

deadlast2 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:22:55 +0000

And yet when I go their website the BANNER is: Introducing Stack by Ramp — the AI operating system for accounting firms.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Firing programmers for AI is a mistake"

deadlast2 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:57:19 +0000

The programming is an interface to the machine. The AI even what we know now (LLM's, Agents, RAG) will absorb all that. It has many flaws but is still much better than most programmers.

All future programmers will be using it.

For the programmers that don't want to use it. I think there will be literally billions of lines of unbelievably bad code generated by these 1-100 generation Ai's and junior programmers that need to be corrected and fixed.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Microsoft Is Dead (2007)"

deadlast2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:26:22 +0000

[Zero to One](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0...) book by Peter Thiel. One thing I took from this book is that Google Micrsoft, Meta are all monopolies. There is no competition. Look even in [Russia](https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/russian-feder...), [China](https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china) they all use thsi stuff.

New comment by deadlast2 in "Roman Empire's use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds"

deadlast2 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:20:32 +0000

Would love to see a similar study on fluoride in modern civilizations.

New comment by deadlast2 in "California Flat Earther admits partial defeat after trip to Antarctica"

deadlast2 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 20:18:46 +0000

They are trolling the flerfs. 1. He literally had a green screen on when he was initially broadcasting. 2. He was caught vaping to try and mimic vapor breath. 3. His shadows were all over the place like doubled in length in 3 feet walk. 4. The times were wrong the direction of the sun was wrong. 5. They were saying the place is empty when there are a load of people down there recently. 6. They are walking on the ground not leaving footprints in the snow. 7. They have studio lights all around the place where they walk. 8. When recording the 24hr sun a tractor literally teleports into view. Thye also got the overlay wrong. 9. He could not pick up snow on the ground where he was talking. 10 The sun literally changed shape in the sky. 11. They kept to this tiny area with no exploration whatever the audience asked they would not do. I don't know whether they went down there but it sure felt like a staged stuidio production.