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New comment by foweltschmerz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

foweltschmerz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:13:10 +0000

I’ve been building an open source command-line based co-writing agent tailored for non-technical use cases.

New comment by foweltschmerz in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

foweltschmerz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:24:54 +0000

At time of writing, I was thinking of GDPR.

New comment by foweltschmerz in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

foweltschmerz — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:54:38 +0000

disheartening

New comment by foweltschmerz in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

foweltschmerz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:51:30 +0000

This is the same EU that blocks and hinders innovation in the name of privacy?

Porn Quitting App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Users

foweltschmerz — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:51:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392332

Points: 2

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New comment by foweltschmerz in "ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face"

foweltschmerz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:29:59 +0000

If it can be exploited by a bad actor, it is a flaw.

New comment by foweltschmerz in "Federal Reserve releases summary of economic projections"

foweltschmerz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:11:46 +0000

They also issued FOMC statement: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

No rate changes.

Federal Reserve releases summary of economic projections

foweltschmerz — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:08:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcprojtabl20250319.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43415423

Points: 2

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New comment by foweltschmerz in ""Normal" engineers are the key to great teams"

foweltschmerz — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 05:10:01 +0000

yes, because of nothing else we need more in this day and age than the praising of mediocrity

Pair Programming

foweltschmerz — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 20:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/on-pair-programming.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313428

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by foweltschmerz in "You can't build a cloud on a cloud"

foweltschmerz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:11:25 +0000

Good to see platform companies like these start building their own infrastructure instead of just writing AWS wrappers. Pretty ambitious for a company of just 25 people to take this on as well. Wonder how sustainable these pricing models are.

New comment by foweltschmerz in "Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to employees"

foweltschmerz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:47:22 +0000

They’ve also released their 2024 annual letter: https://assets.stripeassets.com/fzn2n1nzq965/2pt3yIHthraqR1K...

Stripe announces tender offer to provide liquidity to employees

foweltschmerz — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 21:46:30 +0000

Article URL: https://stripe.com/en-ca/newsroom/news/employee-liquidity-feb-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43247213

Points: 3

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New comment by foweltschmerz in "HashiCorp officially joins the IBM family"

foweltschmerz — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:56:24 +0000

Hopefully, HashiCorp will maintain its independence within IBM, similar to Red Hat.

Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs

foweltschmerz — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:20:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43196926

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by foweltschmerz in "Why the 'Sleeping Beauty Problem' Is Keeping Mathematicians Awake"

foweltschmerz — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:21:39 +0000

Not really. Unlike the monty hall problem, sleeping beauty receives no additional information. The thought experiment was originally brought up to illustrate how a perfectly rational agent’s credence in the relevance of her temporal position to some proposition can change over time even though she receives no new information nor suffers from a cognitive mishap. This point is more evident in the original paper by Elga: https://swh.princeton.edu/~adame/papers/sleeping/sleeping.pd...