Hacker News: dwroberts

New comment by dwroberts in "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down"

dwroberts — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:29:51 +0000

Dean has pretty big symbolic importance inside of Google regardless of what his role title is/was

Edit: sibling story in front page links to this which explains better in its lede text than what I just wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researc...

New comment by dwroberts in "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down"

dwroberts — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:41:11 +0000

Yeah I actually read this more as them scrambling because Jeff Dean is leaving? Because that is the role he is taking up

New comment by dwroberts in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

dwroberts — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:22:34 +0000

I agree, it has now become a cliche buzzword that product managers slap on boring non-technical things to make them sound important.

Isn’t there even a bug tracker that some company calls an ‘issue OS’ or something absurd?

New comment by dwroberts in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

dwroberts — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:27:49 +0000

They reference gravity in this paragraph and I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean

> Not only is it very hard to create interfaces that have limitations, but a bad decision is not just precedent – it’s code that can be copied and reused. Existing code always had tons of… well, gravity, even before LLMs.

I assume this is just LLM nonsense?

New comment by dwroberts in "Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality"

dwroberts — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:02:30 +0000

The link is 404 but not just the repo - the author’s entire account appears to be gone

New comment by dwroberts in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

dwroberts — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:32:20 +0000

Can someone explain why we’re not using it to solve the obvious big conjectures/problems though? If this stuff is solved, why isn’t Riemann the first thing to go? Even if it means a fund of several hundred $k to let it churn on it.

New comment by dwroberts in "AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included"

dwroberts — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:34:38 +0000

But it says that the agentic authoring step patches the migrator when things get stuck. So while the execution of this stuff is deterministic, its actual content is not.

New comment by dwroberts in "GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement"

dwroberts — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:35:28 +0000

I really like sourcehut but I do find it frustrating that it does not offer LFS. I know I could point at another providers’ LFS, but then I may as well use their entire git offering too

New comment by dwroberts in "Premier league bans gambling sponsors"

dwroberts — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:22:54 +0000

Because the premier league introduced this voluntarily rather than in response to specific legislation, I doubt this kind of loophole finding will happen. A team skirting the rules with a technicality will just be called out and punished (and teams will be afraid of that because the league and its brand and the things connected to it, like TV coverage, are worth huge amounts of money)

New comment by dwroberts in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

dwroberts — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:42:25 +0000

They also don’t really provide an explanation for the big uptick in bugs found M146+ in the first place.

Is that better testing? Or more bugs were being introduced in the first place?

New comment by dwroberts in "Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations"

dwroberts — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:55:08 +0000

I now think they’re doing it intentionally. Let the models do something outrageous and you have prime marketing material.

New comment by dwroberts in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

dwroberts — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:38:25 +0000

This is an advert

New comment by dwroberts in "This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)"

dwroberts — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:52:33 +0000

I didn't want to be rude but to be more specific: It comes across as "god this guy is insufferable, I don't blame them" especially the tone with which he asked to be dismissed/leave?

New comment by dwroberts in "This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)"

dwroberts — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:47:21 +0000

OP, feel bad for obviously unpleasant situation, but I don't think the way this is written makes you come across in a good light at all. Maybe just me?

New comment by dwroberts in "The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models"

dwroberts — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 08:42:56 +0000

> Riddled with irrelevant, non-essential details

You’re describing natural language too

New comment by dwroberts in "UK households free to install plug-in balcony solar panels from end of August"

dwroberts — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:13:50 +0000

Not sure I quite get how this works from the wall plug PoV: if you have smart metering on your electricity, will it actually show you drawing less from the grid due to the input provided by the panels to your local wiring etc?

Or is that it actually goes back to the grid and you would pay your bill minus the amount you’ve fed back in?

New comment by dwroberts in "'The Odyssey' Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way"

dwroberts — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:56:53 +0000

I think the article is omitting animated features as they’re treated as family/children’s films, and not really held to the same standards as dramatic movies for adult audiences

New comment by dwroberts in "Making"

dwroberts — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:14:00 +0000

> I can still take pride in something I “made” with an LLM

You didn't make it

New comment by dwroberts in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

dwroberts — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:49:07 +0000

> European countries suck completely on their own. There are people in jail without due process, we have histories full of systematic abuse of children/people with disabilities in care units, blatant disregard for constitutional rights by executive forces and you have these cases like this surfacing every other week.

This is kind of besides the point though right. If you think EU nations already have serious issues why would you then also export personal data to another nation that has those same issues and worse?

New comment by dwroberts in "Heresy (2022]"

dwroberts — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:15:55 +0000

Yeah heresy has ‘returned in a modern form’ - if you overlook the glaring issue of the fact that people were typically imprisoned or executed for heresy in the past.

What a ridiculous false equivalence.