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New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:52:23 +0000

I moved away from mac because of the OS and couldn't be happier. The hardware may be great but non-Apple hardware is fine too, and Linux is significantly better experience than MacOS these days.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:17:23 +0000

No idea, and I don't think anyone does, hence the prediction that it won't happen anytime soon. Either we need perfect simulations (seems almost impossible) for training at scale or fundamental algorithmic breakthroughs in learning from very sparse data that we can collect in the real world.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Zclaw – The 888 KiB Assistant"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:12:27 +0000

I fail to understand why 888 KiB matters if it's just a wrapper around a cloud api.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:48:10 +0000

I'd love to see what is being achieved by these massive parallel agent approaches. If it's so much more productive, where is all the great software that's being built with it? What is the OP building?

Most of what I'm seeing is AI influencers promoting their shovels.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:54:28 +0000

It's the same as it has always been, the only difference is that you are being bombarded with these issues because you are terminally online and use social media while previously you were blissfully ignorant. The solution is to touch grass and stop worrying about things outside of your control.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:18:33 +0000

Not anytime soon. The big leaps in LLMs don't really carry over to robotics much, aside from some computer vision stuff. I'd say we're still 10+ years out from robots cooking for you. Maybe we'll get some kind of dedicated 'cooking machines' if there's money in it, but not humanoid cooks walking around your kitchen. And even that's being pretty optimistic because right now there's no clear way to get there, and we'd need some real fundamental breakthroughs to make it happen.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:14:39 +0000

"Humans are now writing code in strict specification language so that AI agents have completely context and don't mistakes. This specification language is called C' and has led to a whopping 20% reduction of code. 1000 of C++ code can be expressed in no more than 800 lines of specification C' code written by humans"

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Claude Code Remote Control"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:45:18 +0000

Does that mean more issues will show up soon?

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "The Engine Behind the Hype"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:43:14 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing is a good starting point. You start seeing patterns at some point.

But more important than the writing style, there is no interesting content here. It's all generic statements and platitudes with a bunch of generated links.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "The Engine Behind the Hype"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:27:48 +0000

I don't know either what the solution is other than human verification, but nobody wants that. Perhaps the times of semi-anonymous online communities are over and the best you can do now is follow real people you trust that can filter content for you.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "The Engine Behind the Hype"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:15:38 +0000

How is this highly upvoted and on the front page? It's so clearly at least 50% AI written slop, probably closer to 95%. Wow HN these days... this site is dying, completely overrun by bots.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:10:11 +0000

It can schedule stuff and run in a loop, so it's like claude combined with cron. Truly amazing technology.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Minions – Stripe's Coding Agents Part 2"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:01:59 +0000

Where is the detail? Examples? Something concrete? I don't think it is, but it does read like LLM generated content marketing. Lots of generic statements everyone knows. Yes, dev environments are helpful. Have been for 20 years. Yes, context and rules are important for agents. Surprise.

TLDR "look we use AI at Stripe too, come work here"

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:25:24 +0000

It depends. If you have an LLM that uses reasoning the explanation for why decisions are made can often be found in the reasoning token output. So if the agent later has access to that context it could see why a decision was made.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:12:17 +0000

If you search you can easily find sites to buy aged HN accounts, lots of them. Just like reddit accounts.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:33:18 +0000

Can someone explain to me what AGI means? What is the concrete technical definition? How do we know it is achieved?

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Apache Arrow and MinIO"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 09:33:33 +0000

You're not the only one. I've worked quite a bit with Minio, Arrow, and Spark, and I don't really understand the point the article is trying to make or how it's related to Minio. It's either badly explained or just a fluff piece throwing together a bunch of technologies.

To me, the article says "columnar formats that don't require deserialization are good, oh, and you can use Minio to store data!"

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Ask HN: How do you avoid bullshit tech content in search?"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 17:21:13 +0000

I typically only look for upvoted content. Prefix your searches with "site:reddit.com", "site:news.ycombinator.com" or "site:stackoverflow.com" - The social/human filter is quite a good one in my experience and it gets rid of all the Medium-like personal branding fluff.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:39:21 +0000

I had the opposite experience. The early TF versions were difficult to use in that they required a lot of boilerplate code to do simple things, but at least there was no hidden complexity. I knew exactly what my code did and what was going on under the hood. When I use today's high-level opaque TF libraries I have no idea what's going on. It's much harder to debug subtle problems. The workflow went wrong "Damn, I need to write 200 lines of code to do this simple thing" to "I need to spend 1 hour looking through library documentations, gotchas, deprecation issues and TF-internal code to figure out which function to call with what parameters and check if it actually does exactly what I need" - I much prefer the former.

Having barriers of entry is not always a bad thing - it forces people to learn and understand concepts instead of blindly following and copying and pasting code from a Medium article and praying that it works.

But I agree with you that there are many different use cases. Those people who want to do high-level work (I have some images, just give me a classifier) shouldn't need to deal with that complexity. IMO the big mistake was trying to merge all these different use cases into one framework. Let's hope JAX doesn't go down the same route.

New comment by gas9S9zw3P9c in "Swift for TensorFlow – A system for deep learning and differentiable computing"

gas9S9zw3P9c — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 14:21:33 +0000

I'm skeptical of JAX. It feels good right now, but when the first TF beta version came out it was very much like that too - clean, simple, minimal, and just a better version of Theano. Then the "crossing the chasm" effort started and everyone at Google wanted to be part of it, making TF the big complex mess it is today. It's a great example of Conway's Law. I'm not convinced the same won't happen to JAX as it catches on.

PyTorch has already stood the test of time and proven that its development is led by a competent team.