Hacker News: folkrav

New comment by folkrav in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

folkrav — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:28:07 +0000

Almost anything can be made "about the kids" with the right framing.

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

folkrav — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:23:13 +0000

Meh. Just this week, I've had two Sonnet 4.8 agents generate, in parallel, a 2000 line wall of brittle bullshit, and a well architected solution with 20% of the amount of code, to the same problem, from the exact same initial context, and very similar prompts. Come on, they can do poor quality work too.

New comment by folkrav in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

folkrav — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:42:03 +0000

You're right that it's as dangerous as it's executing random third-party code on your machine, but the method also has propagated far beyond PoCs and such at this point. All of these projects and many others push that install method: Bun, Deno, rustup, k3s, Docker (if using their helper script), Homebrew, Tailscale...

New comment by folkrav in "New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker"

folkrav — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:16:01 +0000

Growth only lessens their power if it benefits those without, which, even by the most optimistic takes, hasn't really happened since at least the 80s.

New comment by folkrav in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

folkrav — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:23:37 +0000

That works, until that inevitable one merge that's harder to fix and takes longer, which in my experience then tends to snowball until it's basically the very merge hell you were trying to avoid. Can't say I've ever had a great experience with long lived feature branches. I can't imagine what it would even look like trying to do this on such a massive project and such an overarching feature.

New comment by folkrav in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

folkrav — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:05:31 +0000

Funny, I've been emulating games for literal decades at this point, but remapping buttons is one of the first things I did in every one of them, so I never knew the defaults hehe

New comment by folkrav in "Do we need billionaires?"

folkrav — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:10:49 +0000

Money pays the bills, not ambition and competition. Every freaking thing out there uses money to keep score. There's no reason we should not use money to keep score of the people hoarding more and more of the money bags, and actively using their money towards leaving the rest fighting over am ever shrinking pot.

New comment by folkrav in "Changing How We Develop Ladybird"

folkrav — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:39:15 +0000

Are you okay? You don't talk like "the only sane person here".

New comment by folkrav in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

folkrav — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:28:58 +0000

Except it's pretty well documented (and this is total conjecture, but if you ask me, there are probably are a bunch of undisclosed cases) to have had a good amount of close calls. With the fire-on-warning stance many powers have, it doesn't take an attack, but just enough of the appearance of it to trigger a response.

New comment by folkrav in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

folkrav — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:51:03 +0000

Would have Netflix had much of a senior+ applicant pool without the entire industry around it hiring and training the juniors they didn't?

New comment by folkrav in "Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace"

folkrav — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:44:27 +0000

Something something meritocracy blabla

New comment by folkrav in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

folkrav — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:08:24 +0000

Is there anything indicating this would be what would happen?

New comment by folkrav in "The people who actually want AI to replace humanity"

folkrav — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:56:06 +0000

You're talking about replacing certain humans with robots. They're talking about replacing humans with robots - final.

New comment by folkrav in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

folkrav — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:31:50 +0000

It's almost always user data these days, so probably that.

New comment by folkrav in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

folkrav — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:35:39 +0000

Funny cause I'm quite literally having this exact issue with 4.8 as we speak. I've been going back and forth with Claude since yesterday afternoon on chopping up, stabilizing and facilitating recovery on a flaky mega-pipeline. Not 5 minutes ago, I had to remind it that two of the solutions it proposed were not possible because the target technology doesn't allow what it wanted to do, despite pointing it to the very docs that says it can't be done in the first place.

As far as its tone... Both feel like sycophantic as hell to me. To be honest, they just all feel so.

New comment by folkrav in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

folkrav — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:36:40 +0000

This idea that the only way a citizen can disagree what their government is doing is by voting on election day needs to die.

New comment by folkrav in "Show HN: Open-Source AI Racing Harness"

folkrav — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:06:33 +0000

> Personally I'm in the camp that the world has bad guys, and they are building technology too. Smartest to make sure yours is better.

I get the idea, but it is also the same argument that has fueled the nuclear arms race that stuck all of us in this permanent launch-on-warning, mutually assured destruction situation.

New comment by folkrav in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

folkrav — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:52:15 +0000

"Corporations are controlled by humans, therefore critics are motivated by anti-rich sentiment" is definitely a take

New comment by folkrav in "GitHub Actions down again today"

folkrav — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:31:26 +0000

Hah, I know the feeling. I installed Ubuntu on a PC recently, it obviously happened to be one of the days they got DDOSed and apt repos were unreachable. I had other things to take care of, so I put it aside for the next week or so. It didn't help very much, cause after picking it back up, halfway through, Snapcraft went down.

New comment by folkrav in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

folkrav — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:25:18 +0000

I've been priced out of these areas. I'd gladly move back in town if I could afford anything closer, but I can't. I make quite higher income than the median, so I'd be extremely surprised if this was NOT the rationale for many others.