Hacker News: edstarch

New comment by edstarch in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

edstarch — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:16:00 +0000

Windows UI is the most disjoint though, with designs accumulated over the past 20 years still kicking in various places.

You really should, yeah. I've given up Linux as a daily driver in favor of a MacBook but I do have a work mandated Windows machine and I hate that thing with a passion. I cannot think of a single thing that's better on it than on my MacBook or any Linux distro I've ran as a daily driver.

In fact, most of the time I want to do any tasks which are not directly Teams or MS office related I find it easier to just use WSL.

New comment by edstarch in "I’m joining OpenAI"

edstarch — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:03:09 +0000

Such is life in the attention economy.

New comment by edstarch in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

edstarch — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:26:34 +0000

Why would a human painstakingly craft a text which sounds exactly like an LLM when they can just instruct an LLM to write it?

New comment by edstarch in "Using proxies to hide secrets from Claude Code"

edstarch — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:13:24 +0000

While sandboxing is definitely more secure... Why not put a global deny on .env-like filename patterns as a first measure?

New comment by edstarch in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

edstarch — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:24:40 +0000

Only $40?

New comment by edstarch in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

edstarch — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:12:08 +0000

>I really, truly don't understand. This isn't just about manners, mores, or self-reflection. The inability or unwillingness to think about your behavior or its likely reception are stupefying.

Shower thought: what does a typical conversation with an LLM look like? You ask it a question, or you give a command. The model spends some time writing a large wall of text, or performing some large amount of work, probably asks some follow up questions. Most of the output is repetitive slop so the user scans for the direct answer to the question, or checks if the tests work, promptly ignores the follow-ups and proceeds to the next task.

Then the user goes to an online forum and carries on behaving the same way: all posts are instrumental, all of the replies are just directing, shepherding, shaping and cajoling the other users to his desired end (giving him recognition and a job).

I'm probably reading too much into this one dude but perhaps daily interaction with LLMs also changes how one interacts with other text based entities in their lives.

New comment by edstarch in "How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services"

edstarch — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:25:22 +0000

Unfortunately, his argument very often happens to be that AI is not useful, that there are no customers for it, that AI coding agents do not work...

I happen to agree with the overall sentiment (that AI buildout is overextending the tech sector and the financial markets), but he is utterly fixated on the evils of AI and unable to admit either the current usefulness or the future potential of the technology. This does not make him look like an honest broker.

The rambling nature of his posts also makes it harder to properly argue against them as he keeps repeating the same points over and over; some of them are decent but there is certainly a gish gallop feeling to the whole thing.