Hacker News: flembat

New comment by flembat in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

flembat — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:05:53 +0000

When purchasing any ARM based computer a key question for me, is how many of those can I purchase for the cost of a Mac mini, and how many Mac mini can I purchase for the cost of that, and does that have working drivers...

New comment by flembat in "RISC-V is coming along quite speedily: Milk-V Titan Mini-ITX 8-core board"

flembat — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:03:53 +0000

I have a couple of earlier RISC V systems that were advertised as nearly desktop performance: I always like unconventional systems, but cant find a reason to like these, they are much slower than similar priced arm systems, the software/hardware support is not as good, and the instruction set is also just not that interesting. Also once you run Linux, you are just running Linux, it is just like Linux only harder to install, and slower.

New comment by flembat in "95% of AI Pilots Fail"

flembat — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:27:06 +0000

This is why I will never get in an AI plane.

New comment by flembat in "AMD claims Arm ISA doesn't offer efficiency advantage over x86"

flembat — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:26:35 +0000

That is quite a confession from AMD. It's not X86 at all, just every implementation. It is not like the ARM processors in Macs are simple any more, thats for sure.

New comment by flembat in "GPT-5"

flembat — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:42:04 +0000

I have had gemini running as a qa tester, and it faked very convincing test results by simulating what the results would have been. I only knew it was faked because that part of the code was not even implemented yet. I am sure we have all had similar experiences.

New comment by flembat in "GPT-5"

flembat — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:37:51 +0000

Look at computer systems that cost 2000 or less and they are useless at running LLM coding assistants for example locally. A minimal subscription to a cloud service unfortunately beats them, and even more expensive systems that can run larger models, run them too slowly to be productive. Yes you can chat with them and perform tasks slowly on low cost hardware but that is all. If you put local LLMs in your IDE they slow you down or just don't work.

New comment by flembat in "Google execs say employees have to 'be more AI-savvy'"

flembat — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:18:02 +0000

The execs need to try actually using AI and verifying the correctness or lack of it in the results, THEY need to be more savvy about what AI is able to do. And if the results are garbage, and it wastes time rather than saves time they must be using it wrong, right?

New comment by flembat in "As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook"

flembat — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:16:04 +0000

You will find development much faster if you use a computer. Bad joke I know, when I was a kid I wrote out my programs on paper first and at the college you had to submit on paper so the county mainframe could run them and send back the results a week later... you can be much less careful about your thought process, when you get instant feedback.

New comment by flembat in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

flembat — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:22:57 +0000

There is a solution for young people they should look at this demographic disaster and realise they need to have children for the sake of their own future. Meanwhile the next generation or two to retire is going to have a very grim time surviving because we had two kids or none, compared to the five our parents had.

New comment by flembat in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

flembat — Mon, 26 May 2025 08:15:51 +0000

In the UK You don't get paid for lunch which is why real white collar hours worked are more like eight to six or a lot longer. And typically you get to work through your unpaid lunch, while your contract says 37.5 hours and 'any other time necessary to complete your work'. At least that's been my experience for the last forty years or so.

New comment by flembat in "Microsoft Edit"

flembat — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:09:10 +0000

Let's be real the goal was just to write some rust.

New comment by flembat in "If AI is so good at coding where are the open source contributions?"

flembat — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:13:09 +0000

I let a popular agentic ai refactor some code for me today, it looked really nice, but despite the fact that it was meant to be splitting a file full of functions that already compiled and worked it rewrote them all and broke them comprehensively, it then tried to research how to fix them, even though working code was right there in the file and just kept making the code worse and worse. It also had some limit which meant it left the code partly refactored, ran out of its quota left everything broken and then when restarted suggested refactoring some more classes.

New comment by flembat in "Fast machines, slow machines (2023)"

flembat — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:03:38 +0000

I think it's the antivirus and security protection that makes windows slow at opening apps. As for people saying the M series macs are slow, those are the first macs that felt fast to me in many years.

New comment by flembat in "Generative AI is not replacing jobs or hurting wages at all, say economists"

flembat — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:18:08 +0000

When workers save time, through automation, they are expected to complete more work. They don't get paid more. It is still the same job. Of course the employer benefits. The reason productivity does not increase is all the incidental nonsense and time wasting activities that employers like to indulge in.

New comment by flembat in "Maybe Zelenskiy Should Be Writing the Art of the Deal"

flembat — Fri, 02 May 2025 06:05:53 +0000

When the puppet pulls back on his strings.

New comment by flembat in "Show HN: Letting LLMs Run a Debugger"

flembat — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:12:17 +0000

Really great idea, I currently work for an AI, compiling and debugging its code, at least that's what it sometimes feels like. Who is the agent here exactly? The fact that the AI has no understanding at all of what we are doing, and does not apply the information it does know to solve problems is challenging. At least if it debugged the code, it would be able to see that it is clobbering the same registers that it is using, instead of me having to explain that to it. Fortunately I am talking about my hobby projects, I pity people who are doing this for a living now.

New comment by flembat in "Regularly eating eggs supports a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease"

flembat — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:02:16 +0000

Must be all the cholesterol they warned us about. I am sure we were told not to eat eggs. Well cool hand Luke eat them and he had a long and healthy life.

New comment by flembat in "White House says New Jersey drones 'authorized to be flown by FAA'"

flembat — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:06:11 +0000

FAA post authorised the alien drones to fly out of the sea and hover over people's rooftops. case closed and no lies told.

New comment by flembat in "GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable"

flembat — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:31:08 +0000

Orlando springs to mind, the pavement just siddenly ends and people who see a couple walking with a kid pull over and offer assistance, from personal experience.

New comment by flembat in "Ask HN: What will be the next trend after AI?"

flembat — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:39:01 +0000

People who renounce contamination from digital content will be paid by AIs to answer their questions on simple terminals.