Hacker News: hallway_monitor

New comment by hallway_monitor in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:22:42 +0000

For all these countries that don’t get scam calls, it has nothing to do with your do not call list since these are criminals anyway. It has to do with the fact that Americans are Legion and have a lot of money.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows"

hallway_monitor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:06:00 +0000

I agree with the verbiage if not with the sentiment. These are a perversion of technology. People hold their phones up for entire songs at a concert instead of being absorbed in the experience. Removing friction from recording will multiply digital hoarding behavior no matter what other risks are at play. There is a balance there; it's nice to be reminded of experiences. But where is the line?

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:56:56 +0000

SOLUTION: Make a law that someone is responsible for a bot's actions. Either the bot is signed cryptography with someone accepting responsibility, or responsibility falls to the CEO. Charge Altman with hacking hugging face. Throw him in jail where he belongs. That will realign safety incentives.

If the HF hack were perpetrated by a human, they would certainly be charged. WHY has no one been charged???

New comment by hallway_monitor in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:19:13 +0000

IS THERE a name for the phenomenon? You are about to tap / click when the UI changes underneath you. You can end up tapping the wrong thing! I call it bait and switch and I am not sure how to fix it.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:00:58 +0000

As an outside observer, it does seem that the whole process is tedious, capricious, and corrupt. No wonder academia is crumbling - it deserves to, and it needs to be replaced with a new, better system.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:38:07 +0000

What is reasoning except applying another pattern on top of existing thought? Personally it seems like I and everyone else is simply pattern matching, albeit at a higher level than current LLMs. There is no difference in the process as far as I can tell, just different inputs.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:43:06 +0000

After the last one of these posts talking about cold brew coffee I attempted to replicate the results by just throwing some water and coffee into an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. Results were not satisfactory. I wonder if extracting the transducer from the jewelry cleaner and attaching it to my Portafilter would work.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:06:04 +0000

I think you mean “completely” instead of “at all”. Also, very cool innovative tech you are working on!

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:45:37 +0000

This is the type of thing I have to fight against daily. You already have both action available - left click or middle click. Don't bloat your software with band aids for problems that don't exist - just train your users better.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

hallway_monitor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:31:42 +0000

At what point does civil disobedience become justified? Expected even? Also let's be clear - this is not violence, not assault, it is simple destruction of property.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:40:17 +0000

I don't think anyone is saying that. You will just need to be authenticated before giving any commands to the bank. Maybe some type of TOTP that you can use over the phone or in person.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:13:43 +0000

Yes, it is called paying for the use of copyrighted material which people put a lot of time and money into creating. Is this not obvious?

New comment by hallway_monitor in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

hallway_monitor — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:30:59 +0000

The only time I want to read something written by AI is when I am interacting with an LLM directly. I don’t know who these people are that think others want to read their slop. Even if the content is good, I can’t stand reading it.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:36:54 +0000

Hobbies are great. Making a living is usually a separate endeavor. I don’t want to pay for an artisan spoon. There will be a limited market for artisan software. But make no mistake, we are entering the era of software mass production. Say goodbye to your chisels and rasps. If you want to make money you will need to operate the machine that builds the machine.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Spending 3 months coding by hand"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:49:11 +0000

Junior developers have always been a lot less effective than senior developers. We will need new senior developers so we will need to train junior developers. Maybe we train them by forcing them to do things the hard way. The slow way. By hand. Because if we let them do things the fast way they are going to cause some serious damage.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Claude Code Routines"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:04 +0000

My team was doing this until recently but I think in February, Anthropic made team accounts available for subscription instead of API billing. Assuming that is the cost you mentioned.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:46:08 +0000

Exactly.... -> Unit tests. Integration tests. UI tests. This is how code should be verified no matter the author. Just today I told my team we should not be reading every line of LLM code. Understand the pattern. Read the interesting / complex parts. Read the tests.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Nebraska wildfires leave ranchers scrambling for forage"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:15 +0000

I’m not sure if these fires are correlated with the staff reductions in BLM. In the interview with a resident she doesn’t mention anything about that, just that last year was very wet which provided a lot of fuel and this hot dry spring has turned it into a tinder box.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:41:47 +0000

This is an amazing explanation and I am going to keep it on hand for future use. In the first sentence causal is typoed as casual

New comment by hallway_monitor in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:23:01 +0000

Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess