Hacker News: gishh

New comment by gishh in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

gishh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:17:18 +0000

> There are many valid critiques of AI, but “there’s not much there” isn’t one of them.

I have solved more problems with tools like sed and awk, you know, actual tools, more than I’ve entered tokens into an LLM.

Nobody seemed to give a fuck as long as the problem was solved.

This it getting out of hand.

New comment by gishh in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

gishh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:51:58 +0000

Valve selling skins is just so trivial relative to dopamine-inducing doom-scrolling, social media in general, the toxicity of the news cycle, I can keep going.

It would be super democrat-american to address valves loot boxes before, say, fucking healthcare.

We need a government priority Jira board of things that need to be addressed. Loot boxes _might_ make the backlog.

New comment by gishh in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

gishh — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:28:44 +0000

More to the point, I think part of being a senior is being able to dig up code you wrote a few years ago and say “how awful”

New comment by gishh in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:15:57 +0000

You really think if they had the unchecked power of Stalin or mao they would be… better?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. It’s a no-kidding literary tool used throughout history.

New comment by gishh in "Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:58:15 +0000

> Jacobin is not a whole journal on literal communism. It’s a magazine with a professed socialist view point but it’s more aligned with left-of-center American politics. Think Sanders or Mamdani rather than Stalin or Mao.

> Sanders or Mamdani

Sanders and Mamdani are about as far left of center as one can get at the moment, such that they almost meld into Stalin or Mao.

The mental gymnastics you’re doing to blunt that fact is absolutely incredible.

New comment by gishh in "Addressing the adding situation"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:43:39 +0000

I worked on a C codebase once, integrating an i2c sensor. The vendor only had example code in asm. I had to learn to inline asm.

It still happens in 2025

New comment by gishh in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:35:16 +0000

Gamed tests?

New comment by gishh in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:34:16 +0000

Using US VC dollars. Where their desks are isn’t really important.

New comment by gishh in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:19:36 +0000

Oh, the bill was 12.3k

New comment by gishh in "A new AI winter is coming?"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:08:09 +0000

Does a computer understand how hot or cold it is outside? Does it understand that your offspring might be cranky because they’re hungry? Or not hungry, just tired? Can it divine the difference?

Does a computer know if your boss is mad at you or if they had a fight with their spouse last night, or whatever other reason they may be grumpy?

Can a computer establish relationships… with anything?

How about when a computer goes through puberty? Or menopause? Or a car accident? How do those things affect them?

Don’t bother responding, I think you get the point.

New comment by gishh in "A new AI winter is coming?"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:04:15 +0000

Discover, not invent

New comment by gishh in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

gishh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:42 +0000

Which bits cost 100k? The $75 ibproufen? The $47 towel? The $19,563 bed charge? Oh, the $32,925 imaging that NFL players get instantly?

Insurance in America is a fucking joke.

New comment by gishh in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:58:04 +0000

I am a male breast cancer survivor. I had a mammogram the other week. $620.

No, nobody benefits from insurance in America. Well, nobody ill.

New comment by gishh in "A new AI winter is coming?"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:42:33 +0000

If i could understand what the brain scans actually meant, I would consider it a good representation. I don't think we know yet what they mean. I saw some headline the other day about a person with "low brain activity" and said person was in complete denial about it, I would be too.

New comment by gishh in "A new AI winter is coming?"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:35:14 +0000

> I expect to see responses like yours on Reddit, not HN.

I suppose that says something about both of us.

New comment by gishh in "A new AI winter is coming?"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:12:54 +0000

> something fundamental has changed that enables a computer to pretty effectively understand natural language.

You understand how the tech works right? It's statistics and tokens. The computer understands nothing. Creating "understanding" would be a breakthrough.

Edit: I wasn't trying to be a jerk. I sincerely wasn't. I don't "understand" how LLMs "understand" anything. I'd be super pumped to learn that bit. I don't have an agenda.

New comment by gishh in "UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:08:14 +0000

The conflict has essentially been going on since Jacob and Esau, if you view the Bible as a historical record.

New comment by gishh in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:16:40 +0000

Just get a ps5. I went through the same adventure.

New comment by gishh in "Don't push AI down our throats"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:11:05 +0000

People pay for this?

New comment by gishh in "Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries"

gishh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:07:24 +0000

Umm. I guess not?

> Six years ago, I wrote that it was a terrible idea for LEGO to acquire Bricklink and revisiting some of my thoughts I expressed then, it sure seems like there’s some dodgy stuff happening behind the scenes.

> To be fair, I acknowledge that there may be compliance challenges operating in some of these countries, where things like local laws, logistics, import restrictions etc may make it difficult for LEGO/Bricklink to do their business there, but surely there could’ve been a better way to communicate this, or invite community feedback instead of turning the whole site off in 2 weeks.