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New comment by fergie in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

fergie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:27:31 +0000

Started a volunteer run, drop-in, bicycle workshop a few years ago. Its still going strong- something about the vibe, the practicality, and bike maintenance being just the right level of hard. I don't run it any more, but I drop in from time to time, and it always makes me feel better.

New comment by fergie in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

fergie — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:39:33 +0000

As somebody who has spent a bit of time in academia, I have often been slightly alarmed by some of the research (and opinon) that comes out of business schools. One thing is that it is often unsubstantiated and just plain wrong, another is that it often seems like the authors kind of know it, almost as if they are intentionally pandering to a lowbrow/midwit audience, and they expect everybody else to be in on the game. Its mystifying.

New comment by fergie in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

fergie — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:13:06 +0000

Thats probably what this was all about then (use Google Translate) -> https://www.nrk.no/norge/gradert-sak-behandlet-i-ekstraordin...

New comment by fergie in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

fergie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:25:36 +0000

> They do not see Google, Meta, Amazon, etc, recruiting on campus

Really? As in FAANG has stopped recruiting graduates?

New comment by fergie in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"

fergie — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:03:16 +0000

> it's nobody else's business

Human origin certification is coming. It might be hard to enforce, but you should probably respect the intent if a project tries to enforce it.

New comment by fergie in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

fergie — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:26:47 +0000

> A court still might rule that all AI-generated code is in the public domain, because there was not enough human input in it. That’s quite possible, though probably not very likely.

Its not only likely, it is in fact the current position, at least in the US.

New comment by fergie in "No right to relicense this project"

fergie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:28:37 +0000

Answer: probably not, as API-topography is also a part of copyright

Edit: this is wrong

New comment by fergie in "Google Workspace CLI"

fergie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:48:34 +0000

Right, but surely swagger/openapi has been providing robust API discovery for years? I just don't get what LLMs don't like about it (apart from it possibly using slightly more tokens than MCP)

New comment by fergie in "Google Workspace CLI"

fergie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:18:21 +0000

> gws doesn't ship a static list of commands. It reads Google's own Discovery Service at runtime and builds its entire command surface dynamically.

What is the practical difference between a "discovery service"+API and an MCP server? Surely humans and LLMs are better off using discovery service"+API in all cases? What would be the benefit of MCP?

New comment by fergie in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

fergie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:49:55 +0000

Getting all of this to work on Windows seems like a bit of a thankless task. If customisability is important, why wouldn't you just go over to Linux?

New comment by fergie in "iPhone 17e"

fergie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:01:13 +0000

UPVOTED IN HOPE

New comment by fergie in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

fergie — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:43:47 +0000

I'm pretty confident that these would be illegal in public spaces in Norway.

New comment by fergie in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

fergie — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:42:53 +0000

> I have strong signal that Dario, Jared, and Sam would genuinely burn at the stake before acceding to something that's a) against their values, and b) they think is a net negative in the long term.

Sure, but what happens when the suits eventually take over? (see Google)

New comment by fergie in "LLM=True"

fergie — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:46:38 +0000

Given that most of the utility of Typescript is to make VSCode play nice for its human operator, _should_ we be using Typescript for systems that are written by machines?

New comment by fergie in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

fergie — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:15:32 +0000

Is it OK that these firms aren't public?

New comment by fergie in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

fergie — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:38:53 +0000

> The reason Message-ID is SHOULD rather than MUST? Mail clients

> sometimes send messages without one to their submission server, which

> adds it on their behalf. As for why Google enforces it anyway:

> spam. Messages with minor RFC violations are far more likely to be

> spam, so rejecting them is a reasonable heuristic. In practice, Google

> and Microsoft have become the de-facto standards bodies for email —

> what the RFCs say matters less than what their servers accept.

Surely the problem is on Google's end? And a metaproblem is that we are allowing corporations to change or ignore standards for critical infrastructure?

New comment by fergie in "How to make a living as an artist"

fergie — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:02:39 +0000

Could go either way- I think that ruthless free market forces are what keeps art good.

New comment by fergie in "My AI Adoption Journey"

fergie — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:42:20 +0000

He explicitly said "I don't work for, invest in, or advise any AI companies." in the article.

But yes, Hashimoto is a high profile CEO/CTO who may well have an indirect, or near-future interest in talking up AI. HN articles extoling the productivity gains of Claude on HN do generally tend to be from older, managerial types (make of that what you will).

New comment by fergie in "Company as Code"

fergie — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:19:42 +0000

Surely, in just about every company today, all of the examples in the article are already handled by databases and SQL?

New comment by fergie in "Claude Opus 4.6"

fergie — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:59:55 +0000

Say I am just an average coder doing a days work with Claude. How much will that cost?