Hacker News: fg137

New comment by fg137 in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

fg137 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:11:00 +0000

You don't have to trust WSJ's reporting, but most people do, including fellow journalists. Their track record is also solid.

(Their opinion section is of course a different matter.)

New comment by fg137 in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

fg137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:03:50 +0000

Their response:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499478

I am amused by the "I am an LLM researcher, so wasting tokens to do basic things is totally justified" perspective.

I have a lot more critical views of this author, but I'll just stop here.

New comment by fg137 in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

fg137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:01:03 +0000

This.

Depending on who you are talking to, that's the wrong question to ask.

ROI is not measured in terms of actual productivity. It is measured by how many people read their article/watch their video.

New comment by fg137 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

fg137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:27:55 +0000

> most PR feedback was stylistic, with the occasional bug identified.

I think that only speaks for your own experience. I have definitely seen more than a few PRs that needed significant work.

New comment by fg137 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

fg137 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:01:11 +0000

It's clear they consider code review a personal activity than team activity, in the sense that they think "code review is a gate before my code can be merged" rather than "code review is a process where the team discusses, understands and improves the code".

And that's not rare in teams. Lots of teams and developers do code review wrong.

I even hear other people complain that I "block" their code review. I mean, if there are issues in your code, of course I am going to flag them, what do you think the purpose of code review is?

New comment by fg137 in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

fg137 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:50:34 +0000

Only M1 and M2 (and Pro versions).

New comment by fg137 in "Port React Compiler to Rust"

fg137 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:04:33 +0000

> you focus on all the other programming logic

Does that actually happen?

New comment by fg137 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

fg137 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:52:10 +0000

> because it's interesting and a milestone in the breadth of test coverage it can pass.

Sorry, no. Let me be candid and point out that this has achieved exactly nothing except lighting $8k on fire.

Put it this way: if I suggest to my boss, "I want to spend $8k of company money to port git to Rust to just see how many tests can pass in that project, even though I don't plan to develop new features with the project, and I don't care about adoption", he is going to shot down the idea in half a second and seriously question my competence.

New comment by fg137 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:12:21 +0000

In 6 months, seeing no adoption, move the repo to maintenance mode. Archive in 12 months.

New comment by fg137 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:47:43 +0000

I think we are talking about ROI in terms of solving real world problems and making real impact, not the fact that a tool has been ported from language X to language Y.

New comment by fg137 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:46:43 +0000

Does anyone plan to use this?

Similarly, is there any momentum left for Cloudflare's EmDash? I can barely find any discussion after April.

New comment by fg137 in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:29:02 +0000

> They need something better than Microsoft/Github Copilot

Why?

What's wrong with using Claude Code/Codex?

New comment by fg137 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:50:01 +0000

> could not understand that just because a method in C# is asynchronous does not mean it executes out of order.

Want to bet how many naturally born US citizens in your colleagues can answer the question in a technical interview?

New comment by fg137 in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:46:18 +0000

You have been terribly misled.

New comment by fg137 in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

fg137 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:37:31 +0000

Usually they couldn't care less about what you say about another country. Unless, of course, if you say bad things about a certain country when you are in another certain country, you get deported. Hmm.

New comment by fg137 in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

fg137 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:25:49 +0000

I'd say your workflow is pretty typical, from what I am seeing.

Developers that are very heavily invested in terminal and (over) optimize their terminal configuration are a small but very vocal minority.

New comment by fg137 in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

fg137 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:22:11 +0000

Life is too short to waste time on things that don't matter.

New comment by fg137 in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

fg137 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:20:34 +0000

Hmm... that doesn't answer the question?

New comment by fg137 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

fg137 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:48:01 +0000

This.

If asked to choose between photo editing done within 3s using cloud provider vs an average of 30s using local compute, most consumers will choose the former without hesitation.

Most users' usage is also going to fall nicely in the free tier of a typical freemium pricing model, like ChatGPT today.

People who talk endlessly about local inference have no idea about user workflows and usability.

New comment by fg137 in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

fg137 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:40:27 +0000

You are confusing "using AI" with "running LLM locally".