Hacker News: firefoxd

OpenROAD: Open-source toolchain for Chip Design

firefoxd — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:22:32 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574005

Points: 1

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New comment by firefoxd in "Check if a file was made with Claude"

firefoxd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:19:16 +0000

This is really fascinating. Even the AI companies have incentives to reject AI generated content. It's like they want you to use AI for everything, but they don't want AI output fed back to them.

At work, right after an AI training, we were asked to use our "authentic" voice when writing mid year reviews.

A good way to present AI videos

firefoxd — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:55:52 +0000

Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/a-good-way-to-present-ai-videos-on-youtube

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525397

Points: 2

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You can't vibe code love

firefoxd — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:23:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.codinghorror.com/you-cant-vibe-code-love/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510164

Points: 2

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Did your car witness a crime? Police may be coming for your Tesla

firefoxd — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:54:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/tesla-sentry-mode-police-evidence-19731000.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49502698

Points: 8

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New comment by firefoxd in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

firefoxd — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:37:19 +0000

The law is too slow. It's like a horse carriage in the age of twitter. Why can't they expedite for special cases? Not even defending Antropic or any company. Just that if a tweet can cause damage in seconds, the law shouldn't be too far behind.

New comment by firefoxd in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

firefoxd — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:45:43 +0000

We've replaced our CEO for the better part of 6 weeks now. He has been on a media tour promoting a product we no longer sell, but it keeps him busy while we continue to grow.

While Proxy AI [0] is not open source, it is free, it is built from pure garage energy, and we are having our summer sale right now. 20% off for HN users.

[0]: https://getproxyai.com/

The Work Number: credit score but for your employment history – by Equifax

firefoxd — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://employees.theworknumber.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49416200

Points: 42

# Comments: 65

New comment by firefoxd in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

firefoxd — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:24:35 +0000

Unfortunately, this is the type of statements we can't verify. I'm not sure why these types of news are still coming out when we all have AI at work.

Whenever someone does such a huge drastic change like this, it's by ignoring a large chunk of code that most people were afraid to touch for good reasons. Now, that code is gone, AI is celebrated, things will break, people will work very hard in the background to fix it, with no fanfare.

New comment by firefoxd in "Being ambitious and being a dad"

firefoxd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:51:10 +0000

Maybe ambitious is not the right word. It's more like, at some point you have to go home.

Before my kids, I started at sunrise, and coming home was optional. Then I got married and divided my attention. Then I got twins, so I divided it even more. But it doesn't make me any less ambitious, in fact, I have more fire behind me to ensure I give them a bright future. It's just that, I come home on time now.

Edit: and thank you for writing this post. It's rarely something we mention in our personal blogs, but it's always nice to know how diverse this culture is.

New comment by firefoxd in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

firefoxd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:19:15 +0000

I had this shirt that had a snarky remark on it, it said:

> I can explain it to you, but I cannot understand it for you.

The machine understanding things doesn't make us understand things. Especially when The Machine Stops™

New comment by firefoxd in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

firefoxd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:06:25 +0000

There's an ongoing sms campaign at the moment, I'll share what I received including phone number so you can verify it:

From: 601-202-1149

> Hey, it's David. Curious what you think about America's relationship with Israel today. Can we chat? Stop2End

It looks to be an LLM response since it includes context from your messages, however it uses the exact same messages at the end of each question:

> One thing that often gets overlooked is how much Israel actually contributes to American security. Their intelligence sharing has helped prevent terrorist attacks on U.S. soil, and their tech innovations end up in American products and defense systems. It's less about charity and more about a two-way partnership that keeps Americans safer.

> Have you ever seen examples of that kind of cooperation?

I ended up just blocking the number.

New comment by firefoxd in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

firefoxd — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:43:04 +0000

I think the phenomena we are experiencing is "change". That's what change looks like. Out with the old, in with the new. It feels like nothing matters only because this is all happening too fast.

Since we are talking about AI, I'll bring up one thing that hasn't changed, or hasn't been solved at least by AI. Understanding. We are producing so much more than ever, yet we are not understanding the world better.

You can experiment it yourself, just because you have the world's knowledge at your fingertips doesn't make you an expert in every field. I asked an LLM to teach me everything I need to know about batteries so I can get into the business. All the information is there, a well crafted curriculum. The amount I didn't know that I didn't know before starting is depressing.

Extend this to the idea that now everyone knows everything about everything and you'll quickly realize that we still don't understand much about anything despite this powerful tool on our hand.

Understanding things still matters.

New comment by firefoxd in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

firefoxd — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:54:54 +0000

I've asked questions to people who wrote interesting articles where I didn't know it was AI generated. But then, they couldn't really answer me because most examples in the article wasn't something they experienced themselves. So basically, we were both reading the article for the first time, with made up scenarios.

Where Did the Productivity Gains Go?

firefoxd — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/where-did-the-productivity-gains-go

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322860

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by firefoxd in "Earth.nullschool.net"

firefoxd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:54:06 +0000

Side note: it pretty much floods the browser navigation history. Instead of pushing a new entry in history, you might want to `window.location.replace(newCoordinates)`

New comment by firefoxd in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

firefoxd — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:45:35 +0000

I feel like this is going to end up being like cookie laws. It sounds good, I don't know how any one benefits from it.

Currently I can recognize AI text because I read thousands of ai generated text. I know that 110% of yahoo finance news is generated. I don't want to read an AI generated personal blog, but if I do what's the problem really? Other than the companies distinguishing AI text for getting better training data, how do people benefit from watermarked text exactly?

New comment by firefoxd in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

firefoxd — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:04:35 +0000

I like my LinkedIn cringe hand written, thank you very much.

I'm the proud author of Two such stories, if it pleases you:

* The One Shoe CEO

* Advice from a millionaire (true story)

You'll just have to find them.

New comment by firefoxd in "Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide"

firefoxd — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:45:03 +0000

I parked in a mall when someone stole my plate and replaced it with one from a stolen car. The next day, my brother, brand new in the country, borrowed my car to go to his first job. He was surrounded with dozens of LAPD cars, held at gun point in the middle of a boulevard and dragged through the mud in his first day work clothes.

He tells me the only thing that saved him that day for not getting shot was not having the vocabulary to ask questions or explain himself. He was kneed, arms twisted, humiliated, then tossed in the back of a cruiser. Our car was a white infiniti. The stolen car was a black honda.

When the cops get information there is zero investigation. It's "we got him!" And act immediately. It's like having a giant llm generated PR and you just comment "lgtm" and merge, only someone's life is on the line.

New comment by firefoxd in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

firefoxd — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:02:06 +0000

And on the "input" side, one thing that used to improve google search result was to write like you are talking to a robot. "Ruby on rails http header set function". As opposed to "how do I set header in ruby?" Then you have to page through results until you find something specific to rails.

Now, the second example is the only thing that works. Power users have lost their powers with AI overview.