Hacker News: drcode

New comment by drcode in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

drcode — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:45:36 +0000

they're flailing is what they're doing

New comment by drcode in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

drcode — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:44:59 +0000

the truth is that doom is a high likelihood

sorry we don't lie about that

New comment by drcode in "Amateur may have cracked Linear A"

drcode — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:02:41 +0000

Don't know about the situation for this particular example, but keep in mind this type of analysis will necessarily involve extremely archaic dialects of all the involved languages

New comment by drcode in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

drcode — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:02:05 +0000

There are fun japanese mechanical pencils that have built-in rotation: https://www.unibrands.co/collections/kuru-toga

New comment by drcode in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

drcode — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:12:15 +0000

The comments here do seem to ignore that rocketmoney exists, and that many people use it

New comment by drcode in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

drcode — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:08:02 +0000

It seems like every three years or so I need to use a tool with a plaid link feature, I try it, it gives some internal plaid error, then I find some other way of solving the issue.

New comment by drcode in "Googlebook"

drcode — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:04:52 +0000

it's hard to guess who the winners will be in this product category, I would guess openai or microsoft are more likely than google

New comment by drcode in "Googlebook"

drcode — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:06:15 +0000

I hope you're right, it would be better for the world if you are

but that's probably not what's going to happen

New comment by drcode in "Googlebook"

drcode — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:26:55 +0000

every large corporation is going to come out with a hardware device in the next 12 months where you don't directly use applications, where the AI acts as an intermediary

openai, anthropic, meta, google, all of them

even you will want one of these devices, probably (not saying this is a positive development in the world)

New comment by drcode in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

drcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:10:55 +0000

we mostly know how to make it understand what we want. we don't know how to make it care about what we want, except via reinforcement learning. there are good reasons to believe rl won't work for this once the ai reaches a certain levels of capability.

New comment by drcode in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

drcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:08:22 +0000

https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/

New comment by drcode in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

drcode — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:19:11 +0000

> At no point in the next 30 years will there not be an active community of people who "loathe" AI and work to obstruct it.

Then I have good news for you: If humanity goes extinct in the next few years because of unaligned superintelligence, there actually will no longer "be an active community of people who loathe AI and work to obstruct it"

New comment by drcode in "[dead]"

drcode — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:28:36 +0000

please, make a car I can buy with self driving as good as a tesla, so I can sell my tesla and no longer have to support elon.

New comment by drcode in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

drcode — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:10:12 +0000

been on retatrutide a couple of months, used to drink maybe 3 beers a week

now, alcohol has become the least interesting thing in the world, I just can't make myself drink it, it is so strange

New comment by drcode in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

drcode — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:59:41 +0000

my comment is that it lowers the threshold to "just doing things"

An experiment where people "HAVE TO DO something" either way is testing something different

I know a fair amount about native android app development now because of using AI to build several native apps. I would know zero about about native android development if I had never attempted to build a native android app.

New comment by drcode in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

drcode — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:12:03 +0000

I have to stretch your analogy in weird ways to make it function within this discussion:

Imagine two people who have only sat in a chair their whole lives. Then, you have one of them learn how to drive a car, whereas the other one never leaves the chair.

The one who learned how to drive a car would then find it easier to learn how to run, compared to the person who had to continue sitting in the chair the whole time.

New comment by drcode in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

drcode — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:14:21 +0000

I'm no fan of AI in terms of its long term consequences, but being able to "just do things" with the aid of AI tools, diving head first into the most difficult programming projects, is going to improve the human programming skills worldwide to levels never before imaginable

New comment by drcode in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

drcode — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:16:29 +0000

I've been using it for over a year, if there are any trackpad issue now, I haven't noticed any

New comment by drcode in "The secret medieval tunnels that we still don't understand"

drcode — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:26:56 +0000

Maybe they needed a place to store the dodecahedrons? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

New comment by drcode in "East Germany balloon escape"

drcode — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:24:18 +0000

I think it's such a crazy idea, even if a 5 year old tell a teacher about it or something, who's going to take the story seriously?