Hacker News: gloomyday

New comment by gloomyday in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

gloomyday — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:55:22 +0000

Society is lacking people that stand up for something. My efforts to consume less is seen as being cheap by my family, which I find so sad. I much prefer donating my money than exchanging superfluous gifts on Christmas.

New comment by gloomyday in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

gloomyday — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:06:47 +0000

A quick way to make me not respect someone's economic opinion is to mention the "Efficient Market Hypothesis." This should be buried 7 palms underground.

New comment by gloomyday in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

gloomyday — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:06:36 +0000

Microsoft products are decreasing in quality at an astounding rate. You can clearly see that sales people took over the whole company.

New comment by gloomyday in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

gloomyday — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:20:55 +0000

This is a fatalistic attitude, but I can totally get behind. It has become harder to associate my job with contributing with society.

New comment by gloomyday in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

gloomyday — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:00:42 +0000

I've heard once that Americans distrust their government and trust their corporations, while Europeans distrust their corporations and trust their government. I honestly think that governments already has a huge role in shaping people's understanding of the world, and that's GREAT on good democratic countries.

What I find really weird is that I am stopping believing in the whole idea of free press, considering how the mainstream media is being bought by oligarchs around the globe. I think this is a good example of the erosion of trust in institutions in general. This won't end well.

Your idea of letting it be run by a non-profit makes me believe that you also don't trust institutions anymore.

New comment by gloomyday in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

gloomyday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:12:03 +0000

I remember my first programming class, where the exam required students to solve problems in Pascal on paper. I see no problems in this approach.

I still think pen and paper is king among students.

New comment by gloomyday in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

gloomyday — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:01:12 +0000

At the university, you are supposed to learn the foundational knowledge. If you let the LLM do the work, you are simply not learning. There are no shortcuts.

And learning how to use LLMs is pathetically easy. Really.

New comment by gloomyday in "Anthropic: Developing a Claude Code competitor using Claude Code is banned"

gloomyday — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:59:43 +0000

We have to train ourselves to not be pissed off at headlines. They are most of the time bait.

New comment by gloomyday in "ChatGPT Health"

gloomyday — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:29:30 +0000

That's a tip I recommend people to try when they are using LLMs to solve stuff. Instead of asking "how to..", ask "what alternatives are there to...". A top-k answer is way better, and you get to engage more with whatever you are trying to learn/solve.

New comment by gloomyday in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

gloomyday — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:56:25 +0000

That reminds me of my father calling the mobile phone and laptop issued to him as the "dunce kit", so he could work at home as well. He used to say that since the 90s, ahaha.

New comment by gloomyday in "Linux is good now"

gloomyday — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:48:11 +0000

Overall, I had a pretty bad experience with ALVR. I never managed to figure out the cause of stuttering on mine. I wished Meta would support Linux.

New comment by gloomyday in "Linux is good now"

gloomyday — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:43:14 +0000

There are simply too many games, and many genres are underserved by AAA studios.

New comment by gloomyday in "Linux is good now"

gloomyday — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:40:43 +0000

The only game I tried on Steam that didn't work was Slave Zero, a game from the 90s. Unfortunately, I still have to use Windows for VR games. It is too troublesome on Linux (at least for the Meta Quest 2).

New comment by gloomyday in "Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox"

gloomyday — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:51:44 +0000

OR it could be that we find the sweet spot because it's the spot we feel the best.

New comment by gloomyday in "Head of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency believes that Europe must invest in OSS"

gloomyday — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:10:32 +0000

I moved to Europe years ago, and I am still baffled by how IT in general is perceived, even by some professionals. When I compare a project like Bevy running with a yearly budget of ~$200k with someone like this getting a budget of €20M, I feel like going back to bed.

New comment by gloomyday in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

gloomyday — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:32:15 +0000

One of the biggest problems in environmental education (imo) is the lack of notion regarding the footprint of products and services we consume daily; from the water and CO2 costs of a meal, of a heated pool, of a car, etc. It is eye-opening.

I first came across this type of info with the book "How Bad Are Bananas", from Mike Berners-Lee. I really enjoyed it, and I just saw that the new edition even includes stuff like hosting a World Cup, data centers, and space tourism!

It should give a good foundation to start talking about it.

New comment by gloomyday in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

gloomyday — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:52:05 +0000

I've been around long enough to see this saying that "As soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore" in action many times.

It is almost infuriating how dismissive people are of such amazing technologies when they understand it. If anything, progress is often marked by having things becoming simpler rather than more complex. The SpaceX Raptor engine versions are such a cool example of that.

New comment by gloomyday in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

gloomyday — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:38:34 +0000

These "missions" cannot coexist with the single mission of every publicly traded company, which is to maximize shareholder value.

It is really depressing how corporations don't look like they are run by humans.

New comment by gloomyday in "Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture"

gloomyday — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:44:34 +0000

I think developers are drowning in tools to make things "easy", when in truth many problems are already easy with the most basic stuff in our tool belt (a compiler, some bash scripts, and some libraries). You can always build up from there.

This tooling fetish hurts both companies and developers.

New comment by gloomyday in "Bit is all we need: binary normalized neural networks"

gloomyday — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 11:42:16 +0000

This naming trend has been going for 8 years. Incredible.