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New comment by eloisius in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

eloisius — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:51:09 +0000

“Companies that use AI well will replace the ones that don’t”

I’d type that in alternating caps but I’m on mobile.

New comment by eloisius in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

eloisius — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:55:59 +0000

>If human life was inherently valuable then the concept of poverty wouldn't exist

This only proves that injustice exists. Surprise: injustice still exists.

I'm hoping that you're still young and primarily motivated by survival, which can lure you into this cold world view. I think the reality is an inversion of that old "if you're not liberal at 20 you have no heart, but if you're not conservative by 30 you have no brain" chestnut.

Hopefully once you've made it past the raw basics of survival and the feelings of a dog-eat-dog world, you can look back and realize that compassionate people helped you over and over throughout your life, maybe without you even realizing it at the time. The next step is to realize that you can extend that same compassion to others.

New comment by eloisius in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

eloisius — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:18:29 +0000

Say the line, Bart!

New comment by eloisius in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

eloisius — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:32:34 +0000

It may be useful outside the current tech rat race. One possibility is that a decade of openly user-hostile business decisions will reach their logical conclusion even faster, and those that haven’t fried our brains with CC may be in a position to pick up customers from these behemoths as they disintegrate.

New comment by eloisius in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

eloisius — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:48:03 +0000

New comment by eloisius in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

eloisius — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:38:49 +0000

SD cards have gone through the roof. I'm anxiously awaiting them to reach a point that it justifies me shooting film that costs $12 per role.

New comment by eloisius in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

eloisius — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:58 +0000

This is sort of what Scuttlebutt did. You receive and distribute posts by anyone you follow, creating a decentralized network, not just a federated one. I enjoyed checking it out briefly a few years ago, but there really wasn’t that much to see, and it would randomly cause your computer to run hot and eat up gigs of storage. I also worry about inadvertently storing copies of illegal images on this kind of network.

New comment by eloisius in "GitHub Compromised"

eloisius — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:28:35 +0000

I think the commit timestamp is just passed through from timestamps in the git repo, not the time at which the commits were pushed to the server. You can probably set your system time to the future, make some commits and push them.

New comment by eloisius in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

eloisius — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:59:36 +0000

It’s really not hard to think of examples. Copywriter with an English degree from a state university who used to write boring blog articles for the local vet office. They aren’t really needed anymore to write the yearly article about ticks in the summer. Doesn’t mean they are enjoying any of the benefit.

Rise of the AI Soldiers

eloisius — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:06:56 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/03/09/ai-robots-soldiers-war/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eloisius in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

eloisius — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:09:13 +0000

I think it’s related to the same kind of psychology responsible for road rage. When we use a tool enough, we start to perceive it as an extension of ourselves, for better or worse. I think people that use AI to do all their writing or revision have legitimately lost the sense that it’s the output of a tool. They feel like they are helping and don’t see the different between personally writing a message for you or copying the output of Claude to you.

New comment by eloisius in "AI slop is killing online communities"

eloisius — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:22:31 +0000

You can ban a domain from search results with Kagi

New comment by eloisius in "Photoshop's challenges with focus, pt. 2"

eloisius — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:31:22 +0000

> Discrepancies between hover and focus handling are a horrible new thing I’m starting to see more in recent interfaces

I feel like I started registering this same thing around the time JS developers started rebuilding every manner of form control in the browser. A text input isn’t fancy enough, it needs to be inside several divs with custom event handling for mouse in, mouse out, keypress etc. but it’s always half baked.

New comment by eloisius in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eloisius — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:20:46 +0000

It doesn’t contain any information at all about the structure of the JSON output. Is this a greenfield endpoint and anything will work is does it need to conform to an existing API? What about response codes for different failure modes? What about logging?

Your comment exemplifies what a lot of people complain about vibe coding: it works great for greenfielding CRUD apps, but it’s a bitch to use in a real code base.

New comment by eloisius in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

eloisius — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:51:50 +0000

To continue your analogy, I had to pay for Windows before I was allowed to create something with it, or acquire a license for under terms they set forth. If AI companies stopped at the public domain, then my argument wouldn't really hold up, but they didn't do that. They acquired everyone's copyrighted works without regard for the license and now they're, in the most charitable interpretation, using them to create derivative works.

And before you give me an analogy about how someone could listen to Pink Floyd and then produce works inspired by their influence yada yada: Someone is a human being with human rights, and if we're going to start pretending that training an LLM is in any way analogous to human consumption and creativity, and not an industrial process that encodes input data into a digital artifact, then let's start by saying LLMs have human rights and cannot be owned by a company that charges for access to them.

New comment by eloisius in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

eloisius — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:22:27 +0000

> What makes you think you are entitled to tell people what they can and cant do with data they purchased

Hundreds of years of copyright law. I bought a copy of Windows, but I’m not allowed to modify that data with a cracker and sell a bootleg DVD of it.

I should edit to clarify that I’m not a big fan of Lars Ulrich or Disney, but I don’t think we’re going to get a win here for the recreational IP pirates. What’s more likely is that we’ll end up with some Frankenstein law that favors both Mikey Mouse and OpenAI, and you and I will neither get free movies nor the ability to earn a living off of our creative labor.

New comment by eloisius in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

eloisius — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:44:16 +0000

I find it grating that so many AI boosters try to frame pushing back against the AI industry as a sudden about-face for everyone that spent the last 20 years pushing back against the copyright industry. I’m also in favor of decriminalizing or legalizing small amounts of pot for personal use. That doesn’t mean I’m behind industrialized narcotic production on such a huge scale that it that it starts to distort the economy, and companies looking for new ways to add methamphetamine to every goddamn product.

New comment by eloisius in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

eloisius — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:39 +0000

See Windows 11

The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

eloisius — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/05/worker-surveillance-emotion-ai/687029/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003473

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by eloisius in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

eloisius — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:32:11 +0000

Location: Taiwan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, but will travel

Technologies: Python, Torch/PyTorch, COLMAP, OpenCV

Résumé/CV: https://zacstewart.com/resume.pdf

Email: work at zacstewart dot com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zac-stewart-79b2a5a6/

Looking for computer vision work. Multi-view stereo, camera calibration, SfM, scene reconstruction, 3D object triangulation, 3D multi-object tracking. Object detection, tracking, video processing. I mostly work in Python and C++, but the stack is not super important to me. I have 14 years of experience as a software engineer. I go the extra mile producing technical notes, reports, visualizations, etc. to help communicate my results. References available upon request. I'm accustomed to working with clients in US timezones. Willing to travel.