<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: fungiblecog</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fungiblecog</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:05:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fungiblecog" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "A polyglot's guide to multiple-dispatch (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if only programmers cared about functionality as much as syntax we'd be living in a lisp heaven</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207671</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45207671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why are there no good films is a better question. And we know the answer. Hollywood no longer employs based on talent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:05:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503553</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Trusting your own judgement on 'AI' is a risk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whether you think LLM's in coding are good or bad largely depends on what you think of current software dev practice. He only gets to this towards the end of the article but this is the main source of personal bias.<p>If you think the shoddy code currently put into production is fine you're likely to view LLM generated code as miraculous.<p>If you think that we should stop reinventing variations on the same shoddy code over and over - and instead find ways of reusing existing solid code and generally improving quality (this was the promise of Object Orientation back in the nineties which now looks laughable) then you'll think LLM's are a cynical way to speed up the throughput of garbage code while employing fewer crappy programmers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44228423</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44228423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44228423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fluoride in water wouldn't be necessary is sugary drinks were taxed heavily (or just banned altogether) and dental care was affordable. But obviously that's considered communism if you're a typical american.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:53:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43521182</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43521182</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43521182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>She's a scientist. Most of the people on here are writing software which is essentially reinventing the wheel over and over. Of course you have a different experience of LLMs.</p>
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<p>this is exactly my experience</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:22:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489478</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Welcome to 2025...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397560</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "When the Dotcom Bubble Burst"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The upcoming AI crash is gonna be seriously big</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:48:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384070</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "I stopped everything and started writing C again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So nobody would use code written in common lisp... but they will use code written in an entirely new language.... right...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:20:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346158</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Youth and what happens when it's gone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a modern disease to seek "success" rather than mastery of a craft for it's own sake. one can lead to the other but not vice versa.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:46:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244512</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "GPT-4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enjoy your expensive garbage</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:36:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201097</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43201097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Every line is a potential bug (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the smartest people are humble and realise the limits of their capability. as a result they automatically make decisions that reduce complexity.  unfortunately software development is full of people who overestimate their capability with obvious results</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:59:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198987</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Gene Hackman has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Note to the Times writer if the obituary. you can't accidentally murder someone</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198447</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43198447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No surprise here. People who care will always do a better job than people who are getting paid but don't care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175905</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is what you get when profit is prioritised over every other factor. i'm not sure why anyone finds this surprising. Social democrats recognise the role of government is to put in place regulations that temper this kind of behaviour. under Trumps 'slash and burn' approach to regulation expect things to get worse on every field</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992424</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Apple Invites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are people all so useless now we need an app for this despite having all the tools we need already? No wonder innovation in software is dead when you can pump out the same crap over and over with shinier graphics</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:18:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940651</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42940651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "New Proofs Probe the Limits of Mathematical Truth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that's how funding used to work before the bureaucrats took control in the 1990's. it's no coincidence we mow have so much junk research</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 01:09:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926012</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "The Economic and Fiscal Effects of the Trump Administration's Proposed Tariffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, but intelligence usually correlates with attention to detail</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Feb 2025 05:06:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915170</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915170</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>while we're bitching about the bitwarden UI my pet peeve is that 99% of my accounts use my email as the username but i still have to type it in every time i create a new account. how about having auto-suggest?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:15:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856645</link><dc:creator>fungiblecog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fungiblecog in "Turning the database inside-out (2015)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Datomic</p>
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