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Zohran Mamdani's NYC Tech Team Is What DOGE Should Have Been

gorbachev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:59:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/mamdani-assembles-his-nyc-tech-team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212459

Points: 72

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The Post-Literate Engineer

gorbachev — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:12:02 +0000

Article URL: https://joereis.substack.com/p/the-post-literate-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201790

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:21:45 +0000

Oh, yes, because one example makes this generally true.

I'm sorry, but I have about 1M counter examples.

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:50:26 +0000

The cap will be reached when LLMs run out of original material to train on and the large majority of their training material is AI generated content.

New comment by gorbachev in "The End of an Era"

gorbachev — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:47:18 +0000

The average person, yes. A professional, competent writer, editor, journalist? Not even close (currently).

New comment by gorbachev in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

gorbachev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:43:55 +0000

The Olympic Committee comes pretty close, maybe even ahead of FIFA.

New comment by gorbachev in "Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting"

gorbachev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:47:01 +0000

In the UK diabetes patients get automatically invited to followup appointments by the GP and eye screening tests every months, where n depends on the severity of your condition. Adjustments to medication will happen at those appointments.

New comment by gorbachev in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

gorbachev — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:39:03 +0000

You'll understand when/if your Plex media library grows so large that every rescan takes a week.

New comment by gorbachev in "Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors"

gorbachev — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:01:04 +0000

So...don't buy any Ford vehicles designed and/or manufactured in the last 8 months or so?

New comment by gorbachev in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

gorbachev — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:54:21 +0000

yomomma@example.com works for me, most of the time. Some of the places that like to spam their users no matter what filter example.com out.

New comment by gorbachev in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

gorbachev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:27:44 +0000

I was a big fan of your OpenPhoto / Trovebox solution back in the day.

It was ahead of its time. Glad you're still working in the photo sharing space!

New comment by gorbachev in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

gorbachev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:20:36 +0000

If I read the whole thing correctly, people on the IRC channel didn't instruct the agent to set up the bloated AWS infrastructure, the agent did, and its operator clearly didn't review any of it.

That was the root cause for the costs, not actions by people on the IRC channel.

New comment by gorbachev in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

gorbachev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:53:12 +0000

If it's a one off and needs no or minimal maintenance work afterwords, sure.

If it's intended to be actively maintained, then you probably should understand how things work, unless you want to wipe everything and start from scratch when the LLM creates such a mess that it can't be sorted out.

New comment by gorbachev in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

gorbachev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:44:48 +0000

That answer will change very quickly, if someone marches to a Creative show room, sales event or CES and "patches" all of their devices.

New comment by gorbachev in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

gorbachev — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:06:09 +0000

For every Apple, there are 100 mom-and-pop companies who have nothing.

Even more so in the future when a software company can be launched by a farm of AI Agents with a founder at helm with no clue about computing or security.

What's debateable is how many of those companies actually need irontight security, because they are never realistically going to be targets of criminals and/or they have nothing valuable to steal/corrupt in the first place (other than the owner's pride).

New comment by gorbachev in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

gorbachev — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:55:21 +0000

I'm not seeing any of this, and I've have been using the same email address that forwards to gmail for decades at this point, and it's in every major email data breach.

I get, maybe, one actual spam email per year through gmail's spam filters.

I get more actual spam at my work email, which is not hosted by gmail, even though the email volume of emails sent from outside of my employer's network is orders of magnitude smaller than my personal email volume.

New comment by gorbachev in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

gorbachev — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:56:20 +0000

TD Bank is the perfect lender for this.

https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-assesses-re...

New comment by gorbachev in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

gorbachev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:16:58 +0000

Except when Zuck decides it's profitable to violate the rules.

The man is without any redeeming qualities.

New comment by gorbachev in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

gorbachev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:07:43 +0000

Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

gorbachev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:07:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7yvgy0w6o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961838

Points: 526

# Comments: 433