Hacker News: gedy

New comment by gedy in "SIGSALY: Churchill's top secret hotline to the president"

gedy — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:30:04 +0000

No, inflation it's $19,476,300 in today's dollars. 19 million not billion.

New comment by gedy in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

gedy — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:54:16 +0000

Dude we have enough hacks in this industry. We need more people actually curious about understanding problems, and not just "shipping".

New comment by gedy in "Ask HN: Thoughts on hiring junior engineers in 2026?"

gedy — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:43:52 +0000

It sounds like you want to hire people to just be your fingers, and not build a team of people who care about what they’re trying to do, and who find and solve problems you aren't aware of. LLMs are not good at solving meta problems like this, teams are.

If you’re the type of person or company that would hire an outsourced team overseas without hesitation, then LLMs would probably be fine for you.

New comment by gedy in "Gemini 4 Argon"

gedy — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:32:59 +0000

It's the smaller training data /s

New comment by gedy in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

gedy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 23:14:45 +0000

This is absolutely the case in my company. The CTO is rabidly pro-AI and single-handedly trying to rewrite our SaaS company system. Hearing the "no human can understand this", "my agents are better than hiring developers", etc type talk. Months of work. No limits on tokens for him.

When you look at the new system? It's the same damn thing company has now, with ill chosen tech stack for the domain, same blind spots that the system now has, weird API, etc. I guess the CSS is cleaner?

Call me unimpressed if this is the best agentic frontier models can do.

New comment by gedy in "Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search"

gedy — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:49:59 +0000

You might be shocked that we say "red heads" instead of ginger as well.

New comment by gedy in "Scandinavia's first farmers slaughtered hunter-gatherer population, DNA suggests"

gedy — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:45:20 +0000

How does this jive with the inland Papuan tribes in Papua New Guinea? They were quite isolated and from what I read they can be just as violent (of course, not on the scale of mechanized slaughter by moderns)

New comment by gedy in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

gedy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:03:23 +0000

One annoyance I have is the suggested prompt is not a bad idea, but not what I want to do next. But it interrupts me and sometimes I go with it. So I don't think it's a accurate prediction, more like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

New comment by gedy in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

gedy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:05:44 +0000

> Does a system need the knowledge of the full works of Shakespeare to be able to output Javascript?

That's needed to interpret the 10000 monkeys typing requirements in the various corporate product roles /s

New comment by gedy in "Jonathan Haidt: AI Is the 'Neutron Bomb for Education' [video]"

gedy — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:00:21 +0000

Difference is AI involves offloading most thinking. AI may be cool for already intelligent, but it is not going to form intelligent brains leaning on that from a young age.

I don't mean "AI" like generating quizzes or whatever. But people fooling themselves that LLMs are a "bicycle for the mind" with little kids are delusional.

New comment by gedy in "Pi 1.0"

gedy — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:59:16 +0000

> Here I am with Claude Code and Codex in a terminal like a caveman

There's definitely a class of folks who like to "polish their tools" per se vs tools just being as a means to an end.

It's fine and cool, sort of like the desktop ricers do with Hyperland, Niri, etc showing off desktops, but never seem to do anything with this cool tech.

New comment by gedy in "California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states"

gedy — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:11:45 +0000

Ban is under age 18. Many states allow 16 & 17 with parents permission.

New comment by gedy in "Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)"

gedy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:07:23 +0000

I’m only half joking that someone will come up with a LLM text to speech synthesizer that pauses and plays depending on if your mouth is closed/jaw is moving. Analysizes your voice to synthesize as well.

New comment by gedy in "Show HN: Pac-Bench – How well can models one-shot a Pac-Man game?"

gedy — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 05:17:32 +0000

I did a variant of Pac Man using Claude and pointed it at a thorough blog post about the patterns and that greatly helped.

New comment by gedy in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

gedy — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:14:44 +0000

That's basically like devs being 10x with AI - they ain't getting a raise for that..

New comment by gedy in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

gedy — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:36:38 +0000

That's cool, but like with most things, I think the manager types will misunderstand:

- A lot of this is looking at an existing app and/or code for reference.

- The people doing/guiding this are skilled.

- Skilled people have thought out what to make.

Otherwise they hear "20 minutes" and think AI can spit out a logical or good product from no reference or planning.

New comment by gedy in "How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?"

gedy — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:32:55 +0000

Quite frequently, because I happen to have a carving displayed at this fair hanging in my home. (Would love to donate it to an appropriate museum, but emails go unanswered...)

New comment by gedy in "Show HN: How long do I need to work at my salary before I can coast, or retire?"

gedy — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:11:43 +0000

You mean retire at all. I think this would cause a civil war if govt pulled this.

New comment by gedy in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

gedy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:35:09 +0000

Yeah, I’ve never understood this - earlier in my career this was the standard to have technically skilled hiring managers look for and contact people.

Now people act like they must have this ridiculous firehose of resumes to sort through, then have non-technical HR gals sort and filter out based on whatever random criteria they use, and then by the time it gets to the hiring managers - they still have no idea if this person is a complete idiot or has any skills at all. The qualified people you actually want to hire don’t want to be treated like idiots or liars either.

I just don’t feel it has to be this way - there is zero value in a firehose unless you were looking for desperate and cheap people.

New comment by gedy in "Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update"

gedy — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:39:48 +0000

I guess the sellers and industries should have thought of this when they offloaded manufacturing to cheap countries that can and will undercut them.