Hacker News: falcor84

New comment by falcor84 in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

falcor84 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:44:30 +0000

The syntax? I got 99 problems with js, but syntax ain't one of them. It's just C-style syntax, no?

New comment by falcor84 in "Waymo Premier"

falcor84 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:54:54 +0000

And hotels.com

New comment by falcor84 in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

falcor84 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:22:13 +0000

What we're seeing now reminds me of that pub dialogue about running in Back to the Future 3, paraphrased:

> Jeb: "If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody code anymore?"

> Doc Brown: "Of course we code. But for recreation. For fun."

> Jeb: "Code for fun? What the hell kind of fun is that?"

New comment by falcor84 in "World Capitals Voronoi"

falcor84 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000

Just for a bit of context, this site is from over a decade ago, at which point almost everyone outside of Ukraine used the old spelling of Kiev, despite the official transliteration change to Kyiv from 1995 [0]. Ukraine ended up having to run the KyivNotKiev [1] campaign to get other countries to adopt the new spelling, which mostly gradually happened over the last few years. But I think it's a bit much to expect every resource out there to retroactively update their spelling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Kyiv

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KyivNotKiev

New comment by falcor84 in "Steve Yegge"

falcor84 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:06:04 +0000

Ah, thanks for clarifying. To me these are just plain old anthropomorphic animals like the ones you see in kids cartoons, and I wouldn't naturally associate them with the furry subculture, but I suppose it is a slippery slope.

New comment by falcor84 in "Steve Yegge"

falcor84 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:48:30 +0000

What do you mean? What's furry about the site?

New comment by falcor84 in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

falcor84 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:23:59 +0000

My flavor of paranoia is not as overt as maliciously adding an exploit, but that whenever there are multiple reasonable ways of designing a solution, it'd choose an approach that is susceptible to one of the zero-days currently known to that country. I don't see how reproducibility would help you there.

New comment by falcor84 in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

falcor84 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:32:39 +0000

There's a higher-order concern here that I'm paranoid enough to voice: that if used as a coding agent, an AI model affiliated with a country's government might try to make my software susceptible to attacks by that government's intelligence forces.

And note that I'm not singling out China here.

New comment by falcor84 in "Bernie Sanders: A.I. Is a Public Resource. You Should Own Half of It"

falcor84 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:57:53 +0000

Could this be a real path to UBI?

New comment by falcor84 in "OpenAI Has a Branding Problem"

falcor84 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:58:21 +0000

There's yet another concern, which they haven't mentioned, and it's that ChatGPT has become a bit of a generic trademark, with a lot of other services launched over the last few years promoting themselves as a "chatgpt for X".

New comment by falcor84 in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

falcor84 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:57:43 +0000

Quite funny to think that we might have AI models meticulously nudging newspaper editors in order to carefully control the public's Overton Window about AI, playing some 5d chess.

New comment by falcor84 in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

falcor84 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:51:57 +0000

Yeah, 75% win rate is a ~200 points Elo difference, which is quite massive.

New comment by falcor84 in "Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params"

falcor84 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:06 +0000

Please share the script

New comment by falcor84 in "MCP is dead?"

falcor84 — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:11:23 +0000

I didn't mean that users would install them. I meant that if mcp and AI agents continue being popular, then Google and Apple could choose to provide apps with cli sandboxes with the proper permissions. It is a big change, but I just didn't understand the "never"; we've had bigger changes.

New comment by falcor84 in "MCP is dead?"

falcor84 — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:27:40 +0000

> CLIs do not run on mobile and never will

Can you clarify why the never? What's the issue with giving a phone-based AI a sandboxed file system and bash shell?

New comment by falcor84 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

falcor84 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:03:39 +0000

Well, either that, or a fetish.

New comment by falcor84 in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

falcor84 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:01:04 +0000

Did you mean that to sound distant? Because my reading is that if we have robots reliably doing these sorts of delicate tasks in a decade or two, it would be amazingly revolutionary and disruptive to the economy.

New comment by falcor84 in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

falcor84 — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:54:16 +0000

Concrete alone isn't enough, you also need to have it be enclosed in a Faraday Cage.

New comment by falcor84 in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

falcor84 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:26:21 +0000

> true but misleading

It seems to me that for many newspapers the bar is now significantly lower, at something like "not quite entirely untrue"

New comment by falcor84 in "Rapira (Рапира) – Soviet programming language interpreter"

falcor84 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:29:57 +0000

That was my feeling when I first heard about Lisp Machines. It's unfortunate that I never got to see or use one in person.