<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: ep103</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ep103</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:47:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ep103" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some one should let Douglas Adams know the calculation could have been so much faster if the machine just lied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:01:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492151</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47492151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see this sentiment repeated so often, and its so surprising to me that people have this train of thought.<p>If our society was organized around the needs of workers, and existed to help workers compete at their crafts (somehow), then this would make sense.<p>But it isn't.  Every one of our jobs exists as a contract that was initially offered by an owner of capital, and created in order to make that person more money.<p>As such, ownership is literally the _only_ job that will never be replaced, because it is the atom from which all the rest of the market's building blocks have been built.<p>AI could replace every job in the market, and company-owner would be the only job left untouched, because every other job in existence, ultimately, has been created to serve that person, not the other way around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:32:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491758</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Counter-point, developers that get used to not caring about function implementation, are going to culturally also not care as much about test implementation, making this proposed ideal impossible.</p>
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<p>I have literally never seen a correct google summary.  Maybe y'all are searching for different things than i am, but at this point I've started taking the viewpoint that if I don't know why the ai summary is wrong, then i also don't know enough about the topic to trust its summary enough to determine whether the summary is useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184026</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe.<p>And then win the contracts to do this and have sufficient bankroll that they can be successfully sued and recover damages if they screw up?<p>No.<p>Someone like accenture might eat their lunch though</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:12:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132775</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47132775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the first thing that occurred to me.  The people above suggesting a cobol to python or go update confuse the heck out of me.  Why not just convert to vanilla jacascript at that point?  Bizarre</p>
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<p>Yeah, I've been saying for years that LLMs are a technology that basically unlock three major new technologies:<p>1. Automatic shaping of online community discussions (social media, bots, etc)<p>2. Automatic datamining, manipulating and reacting to all digitally communicated conversations (think dropping calls or MITM manipulation of conversations between organizers of a rival poltical party in swing districts proir to an election, etc.  CointelPro as a service)<p>3. Giving users a new UI (speech) with which they can communicate with computer applications</p>
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<p>save it from the ai bubble collapse?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815467</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815467</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46815467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MacOs is extraordinarily opinionated about how everything should work and frequently attempt to predict your workflow.<p>Linux/Windows (historically) were straightforawrd, each tool did exactly what it said it would do, and it was up to you to learn how to use the tools available.<p>On linux/windows, if a button was "capture image", it would just capture the image on the screen.  On a mac a "capture image" button could do anything from displaying the image on the screen, to saving it in a photos folder, to saving and syncing it to an iCloud account.  Whatever the apple PM decided the most common use case was, and god help you if you want to do something different.<p>If you've been in the mac ecosystem for a while, you've grown used to this and don't notice any longer.  You may even occasionally express happiness when a function does something unexpected and helpful!<p>If you're coming from anywhere else, its unbelievably painful.</p>
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<p>Ai hype is predicated on the popular idea that it can easily automate someone else's job, because that job they know nothing about is easy, but my job is safe from ai because it is so nuanced.</p>
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<p>Your calculator doesn't charge per use</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639981</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46639981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> For example, in a situation where you can strongly benefit from the Napoleon technique, and all the potential negative outcomes are minor and unlikely to occur, you will almost always want to implement this technique. Conversely, in a situation where there is even a moderate likelihood that this technique will lead to serious negative outcomes, you will likely want to avoid using it, even if it has some potential positive outcomes.<p>I swear, AI is decreasing everyone's reading and writing abilities.<p>Well written language conveys maximum information (or emotional impact, or etc) with minimum verbosity.  AI is incentivized to do the exact opposite, and results in slop like the above.<p>The quoted paragraph above takes 71 words to say "You should do this technique if the positive potential outcomes outweigh the negative ones," which is such a banal thought as to have been a waste of the reader's time, the writer's time, and the electricity it took to run an AI to generate those sentences.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541732</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is everywhere, but SF really brings it to another level.  Its wild.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:35:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529452</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46529452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You and I see the tiktok slop.  But as that functionality improves, its going to make its way into the toolchain of every digital image and video editing software in existence, the same way that its finding its way into programming IDEs.  And that type of feature build is worth $. It might be a matter of time until we get to the point where we start seeing major Hollywood movies (for example) doing things that were unthinkable the same way that CGI revolutionized cinema in the 80s.  Even if it doesn't, from my layman perception, it seems that Hollywood has spent the last ~20 years differentiating itself from the rest of global cinema largely based on a moat built on IP ownership and capital intensive production value (largely around name brand actors and expensive CGI).  AI already threatens to remove one of those pillars, which I have to think in turn makes it very valuable.</p>
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<p>Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think you're right, and I think the reason for it is because Google has historically had an extremely effective astroturf marketing team for Chrome</p>
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<p>I have always been in favor of changing the definition if incorporation to ensure that over time ownership transfers slowly but increasingly to the employees of the corporate entity.  How that would work, though, would require detailed thought by experts more knowledgeable than i :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:32:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178079</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its so nice to see this echo'd somewhere.  This has been what I've been calling them for a while, but it doesn't seem to be the dominant view.  Which is a shame, because it is a seriously accurate one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:59:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982622</link><dc:creator>ep103</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ep103 in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is my wife starting up a 20 minute conversation the moment the first actor shows up on the screen xD<p>Don't worry, I love her anyway.  But yes, we're restarting the movie because no, I don't have any idea what happened either, you were talking.  ahahaha</p>
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<p>The benefit of cloud has always been that it allows the company to trade capex for opex.  From an engineering perspective, it trades scalability for complexity, but this is a secondary effect compared to the former tradeoff.</p>
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<p>How are you guys spinning up vms, specifically windows vms, so quickly?  I used to use virtual box back in the day, but that was a pain and required a manual windows OS install.<p>I'm a few years out of the loop, and would love a quick point in the right direction : )</p>
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