Hacker News: freediddy

New comment by freediddy in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

freediddy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:00:57 +0000

I lived in Chinatown in Toronto (College and Spadina) and I saw a rat the size of a cat running around the inside of a Chinese supermarket around 2am when I was walking around at night during my university years. I also saw smaller rats and roaches running around Chinese restaurants as well.

New comment by freediddy in "I Fired Google"

freediddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:49:56 +0000

Sorry but this page and site have the most obnoxious number of ads on almost any page I've ever seen. After reading a couple of paragraphs I closed the window, no content is worth subjecting myself to that many ads and trying to navigate which is real content and which isn't.

New comment by freediddy in "'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today"

freediddy — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:14:08 +0000

Investigating the disappearances or suspicious deaths of scientists with close ties to nuclear secrets isn't wrong.

The problem is that there are real mysteries that are connected to a bunch of social media bullshit and more than half of the purported "mysterious disappearances" of people are people that aren't even connected to nuclear research. And then people who hate Trump like the media want to make it seem like Trump himself is being duped and is personally directing the investigators. The multiple layers of indirection here is the real problem, let the investigators do their jobs because at least a few of them need to be investigated properly.

New comment by freediddy in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

freediddy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:32:32 +0000

THANK YOU. I bought it off Steam and it's exactly what I needed!

New comment by freediddy in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

freediddy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:57:54 +0000

I was forced to switch to Windows 11 despite promising myself that I would never do this.

WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I INCREASE THE WIDTH OF THE TASKBAR? I have a 30" monitor, I can afford to have 3 or 4 rows of windows in my task bar. But I can't, not because it's technically feasible but because a human at Microsoft that believes they are more important than their customers made a decision to remove that option because they think they know better.

Whoever you are, I hate you.

New comment by freediddy in "Waymo Premier"

freediddy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:10:31 +0000

You mean like this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/technology/trapped-inside...

New comment by freediddy in "Waymo Premier"

freediddy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:03:45 +0000

They blocked the Golden Gate Bridge which included ambulances, other emergency vehicles and thousands of people trying to get to work. I'm happy that the DA is throwing the book at them, I hope they bankrupt themselves trying to defend themselves and then spend a lot of time in jail.

New comment by freediddy in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

freediddy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:04:01 +0000

> If you ask it to simplify something, it will make changes whether it needs to or not.

This is false. You can prompt it to only make changes that will have a material effect on the performance. You can create performance tests and have it run the test after every change and if nothing changes then back it out.

You're not thinking creatively enough about how to use AI to your advantage.

New comment by freediddy in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

freediddy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:00:43 +0000

Then you add an agent that goes through the code and simplifies it. Before every sprint, you get the agent to simplify whatever it can without losing fidelity.

It's really that simple.

New comment by freediddy in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

freediddy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:57:03 +0000

> Sometimes there's so much technical debt that it can never be paid off.

There is no such thing as technical debt in the age of AI. It's just a series of migrations that take minutes to come up with.

I migrated from two disparate databases using AI and it took minutes for it to write the migration code. I had it double-write the data, and then I told the AI to write code to compare between the two databases, and I then tested over the course of a week.. I fixed some small bugs, or more precisely I told the AI to fix the bugs and it did.

Then once I was satisfied, I switched it so that the new database was primary and the previous database was secondary. Then I tested to make sure the data was still in sync. Then I switched off the previous database, then I removed all traces of the previous code.

It was simple and relatively quick. The thought that there exists technical debt in this age is absurd. One person can do things an entire team used to take in a fraction of the time.

New comment by freediddy in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

freediddy — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:55:12 +0000

We have been using one of the main AIs for fixing errors or bugs in our codebase. We started early and most of the suggestions were shitty and we would pass them around as jokes. We were trying to improve it, and a little over 1 year ago, it started making very subtle fixes that were very nuanced but correct. I was shocked and thought "Oh shit, my job is gone."

New comment by freediddy in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

freediddy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:44:50 +0000

The whole-word learning "revolution" was based on a lie and misunderstood science. It set back a generation of kids and made them feel dumb because of a stupid group of educators.

New comment by freediddy in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

freediddy — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:42:28 +0000

There's only one real answer.

Give more money to schools and teachers so that classroom sizes are smaller and the children can be separated by learning ability and the lessons be catered towards them.

That's it.

New comment by freediddy in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

freediddy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:09:27 +0000

Most sane US companies will disallow use of cloud-based Chinese AI providers, because everything including code, data, PII, etc is being sent to them.

New comment by freediddy in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

freediddy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:03:52 +0000

The first thing I would do with any sort of weird issue remotely associated with my brain is to get an MRI. I would pay for it out of pocket if my doctor denied it or said it was psychiatric. Trust no doctor 100%, especially when they dismiss your symptoms as hormonal or psychiatric or anything else that doesn't go through a thorough examination with all available technology.

This is where AI like ChatGPT shine because they won't just dismiss you.

New comment by freediddy in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

freediddy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:20:39 +0000

is 51% good enough to reliably use? There's no world in which I use an AI agent where it gets even 15% of the code wrong, that's as bad a Tesla FSD where you need to pay attention to the road while engaging FSD. What's the point? My attention is what I'm trying to relieve, not mostly correct functionality. The only thing that matters is whether you can one-shot code like Claude or Codex, I'm not interested in a small but mostly-okay-but-annoyingly-buggy-every-now-and-then AI.

New comment by freediddy in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

freediddy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:10:49 +0000

OG SpaceX is growing at 7% YoY. That is not a business that commands a 150x revenue multiple. xAI is arguably shrinking. StarLink has a bunch of heavy lifting to do and unless it keeps growing 40% YoY for 10 years, law of large numbers be damned.

New comment by freediddy in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

freediddy — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:01:15 +0000

300B given its revenues would be a huge stretch. 780B is ridiculous. 1.5T is science fiction.

New comment by freediddy in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

freediddy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:51:15 +0000

How did Meta security sign off on this "feature"? That is the biggest shock in my opinion.

New comment by freediddy in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

freediddy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:08:43 +0000

This is the first time I've seen a Public, Confidential S-1 filing.