Hacker News: hodder

New comment by hodder in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

hodder — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:37:23 +0000

Exactly. Probably an hour if you just tell your model of choice to do it for you and implement a logical testing framework.

New comment by hodder in "Deno Is Joining Cloudflare"

hodder — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:36:30 +0000

Honestly migrating back is trivial now. It just isn't that big of a pain.

New comment by hodder in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

hodder — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:37:50 +0000

Nonsense. Plenty of VERY good software that has been built at immense speed. Look at Muse as an example.

New comment by hodder in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

hodder — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:16:49 +0000

Agreed, but it is also much easier to get something made in the first place. LLMs enable rapid prototyping and rapid shifting to solve real problems. My applications are morphing from mediocre to highly useful problem solving machines much more rapidly now.

New comment by hodder in "Martian chaos terrain"

hodder — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:23:52 +0000

Fascincating article. Also a cool band name.

New comment by hodder in "The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding"

hodder — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:10:07 +0000

It misses the single most powerful positive though. It is incredibly fast and empowering to the point that putting up with the four horsemen is easily justified. Coding by hand is largely in the rearview mirror unless you are more interested in the craft of writing code than simply using code to get things done.

New comment by hodder in "Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds"

hodder — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:31:49 +0000

Highly unlikely an entire chain of military personnel knew it was a school and was like, "yeah get em good, and lets see when they come scrambling in for their kids corpses".

Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? It was definitely a mistake. One might argue criminal negligence, but there is no way everyone in the loop here is just pure evil. That just isn't how people think in North America. It is unfathomable that a team of US military (people with families of their own no doubt), would all nod along and agree with your contention.

New comment by hodder in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

hodder — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:42:54 +0000

This is a solution looking for a problem, built to satisfy the creator instead of serving the buyer. This is exactly what PG warns against doing. One would think Sam would know this too.

New comment by hodder in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

hodder — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:19:34 +0000

Amazing. Best post I've seen on HN in ages.

New comment by hodder in "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"

hodder — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:38:01 +0000

The thing is, Apple will have never lost this opportunity. The distribution advantage of the user base is so deep they can basically always implement this at will.

New comment by hodder in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

hodder — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:00:32 +0000

Cosmic expansion happens uniformly rather than through a local gravitational pull.

In physics, "we" use the raisin bread analogy where when you bake the bread, the raisins are all getting uniformly distant from each other with no central point of expansion and no obvious sign of pulling in any specific direction such as would be the case for a gravitational effect.

Jacob Coxon resignation appears to be a PR stunt for AI regulation

hodder — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:08:48 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ParkerThayer/status/2097759699626328575

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49633440

Points: 29

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New comment by hodder in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

hodder — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:51:35 +0000

The problem is no one wants a META agent. so yes LLMs are great. And still no one wants to use a Zuckerberg one.

New comment by hodder in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

hodder — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:30:22 +0000

muse is probably an awesome technological innovation and will still completely flop bc it’s a consumer product outside of social from Meta. It’s a solution in search of a problem. I get why the company wants this. I don’t get why any consumer does.

New comment by hodder in "The model picker is a dead end"

hodder — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:30:12 +0000

I don’t get how this differs from any other optimization harness. The problem is clear, but I’m not sure on what this company is doing that is unique to solve it.

New comment by hodder in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

hodder — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:42:56 +0000

You mean like Carney did in January? Trump cannot be shown reason once he has convinced himself his gut feel is correct.

New comment by hodder in "Requests for Startups: Energy"

hodder — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:42:20 +0000

The ideal VC startups are low capex, high ROIC companies.

Energy almost universally requires massive capex to achieve a dime in revenue, and capital intensity never really subsides. YC has funded energy focused startups in the past (eg. Oklo and Helion), but it certainly cannot compete with the kind of scale and ROIC you can achieve in the digital world. Energy is difficult for seed investors.

New comment by hodder in "Ask HN: Do you feel comfortable admitting that you use AI?"

hodder — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:11:32 +0000

Id be more weary of saying I didn't use AI.

New comment by hodder in "Gloomberb"

hodder — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:21:21 +0000

People repeat this rhetoric all the time, but I promise you, finance professionals can and do easily migrate to other messaging platforms such as ICE chat. This isn't a moat for BBG

New comment by hodder in "My Rules for Using Spreadsheets"

hodder — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:55:56 +0000

Excel succeeds in the business world because users interact with visible data directly on the screen rather than relying on abstract database storage and retrieval.

Non-technical workers can build functional tools rapidly, outperforming traditional software development speeds massively. Engineering CS types completely miss the point on this. If Im making a model for finance I need to see the data live, update fast, get my charts done without messing about with matplotlib etc. Get to solutions and decisions.

Spreadsheets are still prolific bc they enable rapid prototyping, visibility and flexibility that is to this day completely unmatched.