Hacker News: globalnode

New comment by globalnode in "Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM"

globalnode — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:00:14 +0000

> LLMs can be good _domain experts_ when you build an LSP, but a) I wouldn't trust them blindly, and b) the quality of code is still very much your responsibility.

That's the feeling I have with these models as well. When I read about companies replacing devs due to AI I really hope its not actual coding/design jobs they're replacing. Unless they want to become evolutionary dead ends.

New comment by globalnode in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

globalnode — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:27:42 +0000

trumps the best thing that could have happened to the rest of the world

New comment by globalnode in "A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been"

globalnode — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:24:47 +0000

i dont think a whole degree is required for software dev, prolly better to just make it a major in some other degree like eng or sci

New comment by globalnode in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

globalnode — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:18:29 +0000

thats a nightmare for privacy enthusiasts :/

New comment by globalnode in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

globalnode — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:15:39 +0000

saw an ad today for some ear pieces that look like audio speakers but theyre actually cameras as well, so it seems manufacturers realise glasses will annoy people but arent giving up.

New comment by globalnode in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

globalnode — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:18:49 +0000

make software for yourself, learn maths for enjoyment. times have changed. i guess there will always be software jobs but they wont be the same as in the past. if youre thinking of a way to make money and earn prestige at the same time in the computer industry i dont know what the answer to that is.

New comment by globalnode in "Linear algebra done right"

globalnode — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:09:38 +0000

taking it upon yourself to self teach is figuring things out for yourself, no need to make it harder than it needs to be.

New comment by globalnode in "Linear algebra done right"

globalnode — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:13:19 +0000

if self teaching you need a book that holds your hand and doesnt try to put you through the usual trials of "lets see if you can figure this out yourself.. oh you cant? maybe repeat the subject next term", or major proofs left as exercises for the reader. get a friendly hand-holdy book. im reading linear algebra, theory, intuition, code by mike cohen atm (up to ch4) and so far between that and a chatbot for clarification/links, im re-learning the L.A. i should have learn't at uni but for whatever reason just did not understand back then. those courses move fast and if you get stuck somewhere its game over. i think L.A. is way harder than calculus as a beginner, but once things start to click and fall into place it starts to feel easier.

New comment by globalnode in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

globalnode — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:26:29 +0000

im constanty being asked to fill out captchas (which i close) and am accused of being a bot by many of the sites i visit, so i guess im doing something right?

New comment by globalnode in "How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]"

globalnode — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:21:29 +0000

their parents are smarter? lol dayum.

New comment by globalnode in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

globalnode — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:55:44 +0000

I actually think ai and llm use benefit a small minority at the expense of the vast majority, and i like the tech but im not impressed with its applications. Agree you can fight whatever fight you like, but those problems you listed with fascism have been around well before llm's came along and fighting llm use wont solve problems with fascism it may just stall it a little. Its like youre focusing on the symptoms rather than the cause.

New comment by globalnode in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

globalnode — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:50:13 +0000

and thats why you lock down your privacy, so they get nothing other than "generic privacy enthusiast #1000101010101"

New comment by globalnode in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

globalnode — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:46:37 +0000

seems a lot of comments below with disdain for "bad" coworkers. every industry has them, but if theyre objectively bad why not get rid of them? surely some periodic review would do that. how did they get hired in the first place? perhaps hiring managers are the "bad" employees.. or managers that let them go on not performing are "bad". or maybe your expectations arent aligned with reality? who knows? the worlds a complicated place.

New comment by globalnode in "Force-Fed by ICE"

globalnode — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:44:01 +0000

whenever i hear someone bad mouthing the germans about ww2 i wonder why living in a pity party becomes part of some peoples identity.. like they thrive on those feelings and have to reach hard to generate more of it.

New comment by globalnode in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

globalnode — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:34:03 +0000

why is america and its people anti-china? take a chill pill and worry about yourselves instead of other people :)

New comment by globalnode in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

globalnode — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:27:23 +0000

> using ai to help create ads for your business

whenever i see this i drives me away, i'd rather buy from a business that drew stick figure ads by hand. funniest thing i saw was an ai food ad and someone asked if the ai makes the food as well. the staff were actually miffed lol.

New comment by globalnode in "Making difficulty curves in games"

globalnode — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:17:26 +0000

in games like wow where the more powerful you get the harder the enemies become, this reduces incentive to get more powerful. its a simple consequence so im not sure why they do it - probably to keep "time played" metric hovering at the desired level. which imho backfires when time played becomes 0.

New comment by globalnode in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

globalnode — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:13:18 +0000

so are mobile phones and hammers. gonna address those too? - what about clothing.. food..

New comment by globalnode in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

globalnode — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 01:12:19 +0000

Oh please, these "attacks" are marketing exercises: Look how intelligent and devious our models are, theyre so powerful, fear them!

New comment by globalnode in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

globalnode — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:50:04 +0000

defeating fascism should be tackled as a project called "defeating fascism" head on, rather than as "defeating their tools". ai is just such a generic tool that can be used in all sorts of ways to solve problems that are traditionally difficult to solve, thats why we're seeing it used everywhere right now. maybe once we have had our self inflicted extinction event we will put more care into teaching survivors of the importance of working together and all the other good things