Hacker News: fireant

New comment by fireant in "Chatto is now open source"

fireant — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:42:08 +0000

Personally I've always found it funny that the widely used work software is called Slack which is very close to slacking (not working hard enough).

New comment by fireant in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

fireant — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:36:59 +0000

In my experience personal projects are the greatest indicator of IC competence, especially for young people. You may not like it, but turns out that when you do a thing in your free time because you like it, you get better at the thing than the people that only do it because they have to.

New comment by fireant in "Show HN: Oak – Git alternative designed for agents"

fireant — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:23:18 +0000

Personally I really dislike when the agents generate super long composed shell commands because they are really hard to audit. ffmpeg I'd whitelist, but if it makes a mistake in some super long chained git command it can have pretty scary consequences.

New comment by fireant in "Deno Desktop"

fireant — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:22:05 +0000

That's really nice. It would be really good for game GUIs too where the situation is quite poor and would work well with underlays/overlays/worldspace UIs. That said while binary size may be around 10mb, it still baloons to 500mb at runtime for your TODO list example which is more than some electron apps.

New comment by fireant in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

fireant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:32:03 +0000

That's really nice. Have you tested if it works well with longer and more detailed prompts? For example adding more whole product specs and so on. It would be nice to generate a design system from generated UI you like instead of recreating that UI directly.

New comment by fireant in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

fireant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:03:09 +0000

If the frontier models will take as much money to train as they do now, there is no way the wealthy are able to afford their training just for their own consumption. Financing of this whole thing rests on the models being available to companies and consumers who are willing to pay astronomical (compared to other software) sums for it.

New comment by fireant in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

fireant — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:58:48 +0000

This is a good point. If I were an investor, there is no way I'm investing into frontier labs after this announcement. Is this how the bubble pops?

New comment by fireant in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

fireant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:17:40 +0000

It could also be something PSD2 based. You should be able to create payment using PSD2, but the client still has to approve it inside their bank app.

New comment by fireant in "Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals"

fireant — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:11:12 +0000

OpenAI & Anthropic are winning right now. I suspect if Chinese companies get ahead in the race the cards will reverse, OpenAI will restart farming goodwill with open models and then winning companies will be releasing closed models.

New comment by fireant in "MCP is dead?"

fireant — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:00:01 +0000

Besides points already mentioned,

- remote mcps are server driven, meaning the producer can introduce new functionality without requiring all clients to update their skills and clis

- remote mcps are safe as they don't require literal code execution privileges on your system. Many times skills even bundle scripts with `npx`/`uvx` which is basically just `curl npm.com | bash` level of unsafe

New comment by fireant in "Claude Opus 4.8"

fireant — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:25:43 +0000

Wow that looks really impressive. Both the UI and the content looks good, the game is a bit buggy but still nice!

New comment by fireant in "Googlebook"

fireant — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:39:42 +0000

Somewhat, it's a tradeoff we are making willingly

New comment by fireant in "Googlebook"

fireant — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:41:17 +0000

With AI dependence, unless you are a holdout, offline development isn't really a thing anymore. Perhaps to do some code reviews, but actually producing new code?

New comment by fireant in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

fireant — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:22:09 +0000

Doordash and similar are experimenting with autonomous/remotely operated vehicles and porn is getting decimated once good enough uncensored video gen ai gets available. That doesn't sound like viable career choices either.

New comment by fireant in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

fireant — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:59:57 +0000

You can totally get a random "we've detected a suspicious activity, please verify the phone number you've used during registration" form during login.

New comment by fireant in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

fireant — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:35:44 +0000

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. If you look at effects of geopolitical events and who profits and loses, rather than stated intentions. This global oil crisis, the Ukraine crisis, tariffs ect. It's the equivalent of the "the purpose of the system is what it does".

Oil crisis: Trumps friends profit on insider info, US oil industry (also his friends) profits, Russia profits because they are another big oil producer, USD dominance is harmed (also helps Russia), everyone else in the world eats the costs

Ukraine: Russia bleeds, Ukraine bleeds, arms industry profits, politicians in general get something to grandstand on in front of the voters. Personally I believe that this conflict has been artificially prolonged just to amplify the effects

Tariffs: US public eats the costs, Trump profits politically by appearing strong, Trumps friends profit on insider info

New comment by fireant in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

fireant — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:58:38 +0000

I don't really get how this stops captcha solving as a service, which is the actual way that scaled recaptcha solving is done? Those things are incredibly cheap and are staffed by humans anyway. Instead of selecting grainy busses, they will just scan the image with their phones.

New comment by fireant in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

fireant — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:15:40 +0000

As a human occasionally writing Rust I've also frequently got stuck in type hell.

New comment by fireant in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

fireant — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:40:50 +0000

Perhaps for some very specific capabilities such as TTS, translation, voice recognition and so on. But for general intelligence models, better hardware just directly allows better models and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.

New comment by fireant in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

fireant — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:18:06 +0000

My point is that since we have had so few nuclear incidents, but they have done massive damage, it is very possible that we don't actually know much worse it could get. We have only seen a few points from a distribution that could be much wider than we think. Compared to renewable failures for which we have a pretty good idea.