Hacker News: frobisher

New comment by frobisher in "How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI"

frobisher — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:56:20 +0000

Too soon.

New comment by frobisher in "Claude Sonnet 5"

frobisher — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:17:47 +0000

Costs are very opaque from within the product...

New comment by frobisher in "Midjourney Medical"

frobisher — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:15:41 +0000

we're hitting the hype peak shortly

New comment by frobisher in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

frobisher — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:51:55 +0000

Folks what has Meta got to do with engineering? Their products suck, we all use them because of network effects, nothing else mostly...

New comment by frobisher in "Running local models is good now"

frobisher — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 07:19:17 +0000

I suppose cloud won because: - nobody wants to deal with the networking stack on the internet - you want servers alive all the time - it's businesses running their software on servers to serve to customers

Do these apply to AI?

New comment by frobisher in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

frobisher — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:54:51 +0000

We need to move to IPFS or something federated for source code

New comment by frobisher in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

frobisher — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:17:36 +0000

Love this - modern governance has yet to take advantage of the information revolution

New comment by frobisher in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

frobisher — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:28:27 +0000

I do wonder if self-host or centralised are the only options.

Something like IPFS, but that works remains my dream - decentralised, but in the cloud nonetheless.

New comment by frobisher in "Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites"

frobisher — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:10:54 +0000

Maybe with ai assistants, everybody is effectively technical?

New comment by frobisher in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

frobisher — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:14:42 +0000

I wonder if IPFS or some form of distributed storage will ever be good enough as an alternative?

New comment by frobisher in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

frobisher — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:13:35 +0000

The "acquired by Microsoft" curse. OpenAI is already ongoing!

New comment by frobisher in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

frobisher — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:26:39 +0000

Can't win.

New comment by frobisher in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

frobisher — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:37:28 +0000

lolol Gemini

New comment by frobisher in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

frobisher — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:33:45 +0000

Although I find my brainspace being dedicated to thinking about memory, rather than the problem at hand.

Which can be a worthwhile cost if the benefits of speed and security are needed. But I think it's certainly a cognitive cost.

New comment by frobisher in "How Brussels writes so many laws"

frobisher — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:21:13 +0000

I'm surprised we still don't get github for laws (or do we?) with useful automations like suggested garbage collection.

Wasn't collaboration at scale the reason Tim Berners-Lee worked on the web at CERN? :)

New comment by frobisher in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

frobisher — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:40:54 +0000

Would be nice to systematically start with problems of the non-uv world to highlight the specific value of uv.

But nice read!

New comment by frobisher in "Radios, how do they work? (2024)"

frobisher — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:27:17 +0000

Bought it but never read it - is it worth pushing through?

New comment by frobisher in "Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)"

frobisher — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 11:04:24 +0000

I hear you. But what's integration in calculus? :)

New comment by frobisher in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

frobisher — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:22:07 +0000

zero-knowledge proofssss baybayyyyyyy

New comment by frobisher in "Boundary Conditions, Rain, and Startup Fragility"

frobisher — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:54:01 +0000

Nicely isomorphic to Musk's point on the affordability threshold - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOTs6xdx278&feature=youtu.be