<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: devilsdata</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=devilsdata</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:27:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=devilsdata" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Ask HN: How to make AI better at writing prose?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm a fiction writer. The way you make AI better at writing prose is the same way you make a fiction writer better at writing prose...<p>You edit it manually.<p>That's it. There are no shortcuts to good prose, except perhaps paying a ghost writer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:17:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017238</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been waiting for my lobste.rs invite for years. I joined the IRC for a few days, but being in Australia, rarely saw too much activity. I could chase someone down for an invite, but at that point I just don't care that much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953042</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Ask HN: Are other people seeing a spike in IT problems with businesses?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm just dipping my toes into AI. What prospective guardrails are being considered or used?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:32:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577895</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Running local models is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just to piggyback onto this comment; has anyone tried running multiple of these in conjunction? For example, having a Python script that has one of these orchestrate others, and offloads certain tasks to better/more powerful models, or even cloud models?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:32:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563169</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563169</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For executives looking to impress? Not really. Being able to rattle off perspective on a book, curated by someone with very high media literacy would signal the same level of media literacy to their audience.<p>An LLM may be able to synthesise results well each time, but there will be quite a difference between a synopsis written by an LLM and someone whose job it is to write synopses of books.<p>Huge difference in quality, and considering the clientele, they are willing to pay for that quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:05:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391891</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "I made my phone slow on purpose"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It only does this if you have the apps in multiple groups. Dump them all in one group. Yeah it sucks that you can't configure each of them separately, but it works really reliably now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:09:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377013</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Postmortem: TanStack npm supply-chain compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Look I love Rust and hate Typescript. But if NPM didn't exist, wouldn't the attackers just hit the next most popular supply chain? Cargo isn't immune to this, as much as I love Rust and wish more shops used it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 23:54:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102364</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't wait to see what these companies will be willing to pay real humans to clean up the mess they will have made– if they survive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042463</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Come to Australia. About two years ago there was so many Teslas. In the space of two years, I've seen twice as many BYDs. I can only imagine this will continue.</p>
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<p>Are these not the same things people are complaining about in the West, though?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042042</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Am on Vyvanse. It helps, but mostly just covers my work hours.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:23:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028801</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I get my gym and novel writing done before work. But I lose steam at work <i>very</i> early. No bueno.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 00:50:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016755</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48016755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason people go from work to nothing on retirement is because work fills up the nearly all of the productive hours of a person's life. If it were to take, let's say 4 days, or six hours a day, people would be so bored, they would be making projects, business ventures, or volunteering. And then on retirement, people would still have their hobbies and passion projects they had been working on their entire life.<p>That is the biggest rock in the bucket. Smaller rocks include social media use, diet, exercise, whether the person is in a toxic home environment, mental health, or has children.<p>I have ADHD and I often struggle with having the energy to do anything outside of work. So I try to optimise my life to give me the most energy that I can have. I eat really healthy; high protein, high fibre, low saturated fat. I try to keep my social media use low, using ScreenZen. I meditate. I do resistance exercise a few times a week.<p>But even still, I find that my mind is exhausted part of a way through a workday, usually by 14:00-15:00. Maybe that's because I'm a software engineer.<p>I don't know how to fix it. But I'd really appreciate an extra day a week off, even at the cost of some remuneration. I love my work, but I don't want it to feel like it's the only thing I have going.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:28:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015803</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Redis array: short story of a long development process"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually use LLMs a lot to rubber duck my problems and help develop plans. Then I manually code, to ensure my skills don't deteriorate. I feel like I'm a lot faster, with few of the downsides. Do you have any thoughts on this process?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:22:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015738</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you ever have a social media network that is immune to this from now? You could with the best intentions start a non-profit, defederated, open-source, grass roots social network. It would go great, until the moment it hits critical mass and becomes prey for people who are willing to piss in the pond to make money.<p>There's no way to defend against it. You can just copy and paste text from an LLM into the reply box.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:09:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954712</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Builds a straw-man of the left only to tear it down.<p>Technology is neither good nor bag; nor is it neutral. If you can't think of any reasons people may be critical of AI, given the amount of layoffs, then you're not very imaginative or informed.</p>
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<p>Good advice. Personally I'm waiting until it is worthwhile to run these models locally, then I'm going to pin a version and just use that.<p>I'm only 5 years into this career, and I'm going to work manually and absorb as much knowledge as possible while I'm still able to do it. Yes, that means manually doing shit-kicker work. If AI does get so good that I need to use it, as you say, then I'll be running it locally on a version I can master and build tooling for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:33:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870182</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm still waiting on those submarines, mate</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856405</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm Aussie. Please explain to me; why should I care whether Chinese SOEs or the US tech companies are winning? Neither have my best interests at heart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:01:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841574</link><dc:creator>devilsdata</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by devilsdata in "Do you even need a database?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a cool exercise, but I would hesitate to choose files over SQLite or another Dockerised relational database in production.<p>They are overoptimising for the simplest part of writing the application; the beginning. They've half-implemented an actual database, with none of the safety features. There are a lot of potential headaches that this article has avoided talking about; perhaps because they haven't experienced them yet.<p>See: <a href="https://danluu.com/file-consistency/" rel="nofollow">https://danluu.com/file-consistency/</a><p>What happens when you need to start expanding the scope of this feature? Joining users on profiles, or users on orgs?<p>Ask yourself: how many shops have seriously written an application backed by files and stuck with it over the long-run? The answer is likely very few. Therefore, this is likely doubling up the work required.<p>There is a reason people reach for a database first. I'd strongly encourage anyone to avoid doing stuff like this.</p>
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