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New comment by fhub in "Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?"

fhub — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:06:52 +0000

The glass half full take is that we are very lucky that there is some much literature that pre-dates LLMs. Our brains are tuned to enjoy that more. People who grow up with LLM slop from the start won't necessarily see it the same way.

HN Feature Request: Option to hide repetitive AI complaints

fhub — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:45:23 +0000

A steady number of HN discussions seem to get sidetracked by generic complaints about AI, without adding any value. But they get upvoted.

It would be nice to have an optional setting to collapse these comments.

Going a step further, perhaps warning commenters when they post could lead to more thoughtful discussions.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50061936

Points: 1

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New comment by fhub in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

fhub — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:10:23 +0000

Casually insinuating serious sexual misconduct about someone without evidence seems pretty far outside the spirit of HN.

New comment by fhub in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

fhub — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:25:44 +0000

Are you insinuating something about David Ellison here?

New comment by fhub in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

fhub — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:34:52 +0000

When I used to ride around SF on an e-bike, I’d deliberately choose undulating routes so I could climb at max assist speed and then fly down the descents above max assist speed.

New comment by fhub in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

fhub — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:46:56 +0000

Compared to who? Every professional developer? Someone learning to code? Fabrice Bellard?

New comment by fhub in "You are no longer invited to dinner"

fhub — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:06:18 +0000

I relate to this. My extravert wife throws the parties. I’m the introvert. I enjoy parties at our place so much more than at other peoples.

New comment by fhub in "When did Google get so weird?"

fhub — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:33:27 +0000

My father is 75. He often says with a smile, “Let’s just Google AI it.” The smile is because he thinks he’s cutting edge. He hasn’t been cutting edge for 30 years, but Google has made AI so accessible through his existing search habit.

I imagine their retention data through this uncanny valley transition is very good.

New comment by fhub in "What About Rails?"

fhub — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:46:21 +0000

Peak throughput per day is 3k req/m.

New comment by fhub in "What About Rails?"

fhub — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:21:55 +0000

I’m in the same boat. Hate typing on a phone. But due to chat interfaces,I’ve learned to mutter discretely into Apple keyboard dictation.

New comment by fhub in "What About Rails?"

fhub — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:59:18 +0000

I code and maintain a Rails stack. About 20% of the time an endpoint takes to respond is spent in Ruby. New Relic tells me our Apdex is 99, and it’s very rare for an endpoint to take more than 100ms. Most respond in under 80ms. I could LLM-port it (and probably will one day), but end-user response performance wouldn’t be the motivation.

What does make me consider switching is reading about things like how Shopify’s native apps are moving towards superfast product cores that can be tested incredibly quickly, with the slower UX layer kept separate. I think that model is the future, and in that world Rails starts to look pretty dead.

New comment by fhub in "OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare portal"

fhub — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:35:47 +0000

Was this another case of a pentesting agent breaking out of its sandbox and accessing the open internet?

New comment by fhub in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

fhub — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:51:12 +0000

It would be interesting to hear more about how you’re actually using them. Do you have sophisticated feedback loops around the models so they can verify their work and converge on good solutions? And how do you decide what to give the 5090 vs the Spark vs a frontier model?

Correctness matters much more than speed to me, but if I can get both, that’s obviously very interesting.

New comment by fhub in "M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review"

fhub — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:44:01 +0000

How are you deciding which work to send to the 5090 vs a frontier model, or making the two work together nicely?

Correct is much more important than fast for me, but if I could get correct and fast, that would obviously be amazing.

New comment by fhub in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

fhub — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:24:06 +0000

Context

“I’m thinking about banning Claude Code at Shopify until they change their mind and read AGENTS.md and .agents/skills etc.,”

- Tobi Lütke on X.

New comment by fhub in "Salesforce Global Outage"

fhub — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:42:12 +0000

Cause: Legacy Salesforce login service got into a resource-exhaustion cascade.

Fix: Rolling some unspecified fix they proved in testing out over the fleet seemingly very slowly (After their earlier attempts to roll something out faster failed).

Details at https://status.salesforce.com/incidents/20004433

New comment by fhub in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

fhub — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:30:02 +0000

If you can get your agent of choice to run up the app in an emulator and navigate the whole thing taking screenshots then tasks like edge-to-edge can be pretty hands off.

The way I did it was to firstly get accessibility identifiers on everything. Then have it record everything I do on an emulator to navigate the entire app. Then left it for a while to work out how to actually use the app via the emulator. Once you have this sort of baseline. A lot of changes are really quite pleasant. I often ask for an HTML gallery of screenshots covering a few device sizes as the step before I bother running it on a device myself.

New comment by fhub in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

fhub — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:08:05 +0000

Some reviews are clearly automated, some get a light human review, and some involve a human really looking hard. New apps seem to get a more rigorous human review for their first 2-4 submissions. Or at least humans looking over automated test screenshots etc. One reviewer apparently only looked at screenshots because they missed something that would be blindingly obvious on the prior screen if they did it themselves.

The explosion in LLM app development has clearly created a bottleneck at the human review steps. Not only delays but much more “dumb” rejections from likely over-stressed humans.

New comment by fhub in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

fhub — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:26:15 +0000

FWIW, I find if I’m pushing the disk limit, Spotlight search becomes unusable. So I free up ~100GB (easy to do with iOS/Android dev artifacts, emulators, etc.) and then force a Spotlight re-index from the command line:

sudo mdutil -E /

You can check indexing status with:

mdutil -s /

After that it’s usually fine again until I start pushing the disk limit.

Every sibling comment's issues I've experienced. But a reindex after freeing enough disk space seems to be a semi-stable solution for me. If only I could write a tool to remind me to free disk space before it screws up spotlight. It would be nice if MacOS put the index on its own partition.

New comment by fhub in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

fhub — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:30:40 +0000

Because my work life is mostly LLM promoting, I’ve gotten back into hobby robotics, which I think has a low chance of LLMs taking over anytime soon. Designing and building a robot that can build a wooden hardwood deck using the edge-screw method.