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New comment by glitchc in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

glitchc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:52:27 +0000

That's still an immense amount of code for a chat interface essentially consisting of a text box and a button, which any OS (mobile or desktop) can usually throw up in a few lines of code.

New comment by glitchc in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

glitchc — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:50:50 +0000

Do trademarks not matter anymore? The name and logo are lawsuits just waiting to happen.

New comment by glitchc in "CPUs Aren't Dead. Gemma2B Out Scored GPT-3.5 Turbo on Test That Made It Famous"

glitchc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:45:29 +0000

You can do that now. Qwen-coder3.5 and gpt-oss-20b are pretty good for local coding help.

New comment by glitchc in "Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem"

glitchc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:26:27 +0000

Academia is no different from any other profession or sport. Holding it to a higher bar than say, medicine, engineering, law or accounting, doesn't make sense.

As an example, let's take soccer: All players will tackle if they think they can get away with it. Even Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe do it. Those who are caught receive a red card and are sent off the field. Do red cards stop tackles? No. Players just try hard not to get caught.

New comment by glitchc in "Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem"

glitchc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:22:23 +0000

That same professor will happily take money from the student's startup to conduct research assuming it is successful and has funds to spare. That should tell you right there how the incentives are aligned.

New comment by glitchc in "Study: Back-to-basics approach can match or outperform AI in language analysis"

glitchc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:18:01 +0000

If there's one problem that LLMs have solved, it's language. While an LLM may hallucinate, it does so in grammatically correct English sentences. Additionally, even the local version of gemma-4-26B can seamlessly switch between languages in the midst of a conversation while maintaining context. That's perhaps the most exciting part for me: We have a bonafide universal translator (that's Star Trek territory) and people seem more focused on its factual accuracy.

New comment by glitchc in "The peril of laziness lost"

glitchc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:37:32 +0000

You're conflating system level abstractions with code-based abstractions. As a counter-example, introducing a factory constructor to handle object creation makes the codebase harder to understand.

New comment by glitchc in "A soft robot has no problem moving with no motor and no gears"

glitchc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:08:23 +0000

We are soft robots (mostly flesh). The skeleton is a scaffold on which our muscles hang. It makes sense to try to replicate what works in biology.

New comment by glitchc in "The peril of laziness lost"

glitchc — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:27:13 +0000

You're taking it out of context. I'm specifically referring to abstractions introduced in the codebase to maximize code reuse, as per the OP's comment.

New comment by glitchc in "The peril of laziness lost"

glitchc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:36:51 +0000

Hard disagree with the initial assumption: Abstractions do not make a system simpler.

Note: I would have added usually but I really do mean always.

New comment by glitchc in "Layoff Thinking"

glitchc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:15:55 +0000

Can you share which company that was for our collective curiosities? I am hoping it was long enough ago and positive enough a story to reveal.

New comment by glitchc in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

glitchc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:52:49 +0000

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New comment by glitchc in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

glitchc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:47:02 +0000

Did the same for my Macbook Pro 15 unibody circa 2010. It was a great QoL improvement.

New comment by glitchc in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

glitchc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:55:24 +0000

> The UI just doesn’t reflect this.

That's the bug. Either that or MacOS has two separate/distinct mechanisms for managing permissions, which would be a huge security flaw.

New comment by glitchc in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

glitchc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:44:19 +0000

No, this is definitely a bug. The Privacy and Security panel is part of Settings, which is definitely part of the OS. Saying the Open and Save panel somehow has priority suggests that the Privacy and Security panel is not looking at the same parameters as the Open and Save panel, ergo a bug.

New comment by glitchc in "The Importance of Being Idle"

glitchc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:57:32 +0000

I would love to do this except I'm a magnet for bugs. My bliss only lasts 5 minutes or so.

New comment by glitchc in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

glitchc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:45:00 +0000

When you have f.u. money, you get to say f.u., otherwise what's the point?

New comment by glitchc in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

glitchc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:29:41 +0000

The fact that denizens of HN think that taking a company to small-claims court is a reasonable approach to getting refunds :: SMH

New comment by glitchc in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic support to respond"

glitchc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:28:12 +0000

$15K/month? USD? Are we talking company funds or personal?

New comment by glitchc in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

glitchc — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:49:13 +0000

> Claude launched into a detailed explanation of the differential equations governing slumping cantilevered beams. It completely failed to recognize that the snow was entirely supported by the roof, not hanging out over space. No physicist would make this mistake, but LLMs do this sort of thing all the time.

You have to meet some physicist friends of mine then. They are likely to assume that the roof is spherical and frictionless.