Hacker News: ilikecode

New comment by ilikecode in "GPT-6 Astra"

ilikecode — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:26:06 +0000

It’s really inconsistent. There are sessions where it nails everything perfectly and I leave happy. Then there are sessions where every turn it corrects itself and changes it mind. One session recently I found it funny how every single time it did this one task it tripped over itself and killed its own connection. Like 20 times. It didn’t bother me I just found it odd how despite it being noted down in its state file it kept doing it over and over like some idiot. Literally they can’t learn from their mistakes yet.

New comment by ilikecode in "GPT-6 Astra"

ilikecode — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:39:00 +0000

This makes me realize there is a higher bar we need to achieve with AI still. The ability for the model to evolve through interactions more on a hourly or daily basis. The models are accelerating but inference doesn’t modify the model.

New comment by ilikecode in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

ilikecode — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:15:52 +0000

Try adding this to your /etc/rc.conf:

    sshd_oomprotect=YES

Then run

   service sshd restart

New comment by ilikecode in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

ilikecode — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:11:35 +0000

I thought "just plant more trees!" and found this helpful article https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-...

New comment by ilikecode in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

ilikecode — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:33:51 +0000

It's probably to avoid trouble with federal laws.

New comment by ilikecode in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

ilikecode — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:15:10 +0000

The app shutting down does not automatically cost nothing. If all users move to the official app the server resources still are used but the users would at least see ads.

New comment by ilikecode in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

ilikecode — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 15:13:11 +0000

Source on the CEO making a claim of a threat in public?

New comment by ilikecode in "Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?"

ilikecode — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:04:32 +0000

Realizing you can’t know everything, don’t know what you don’t know, and respecting other people can have had different experiences than you. All without judging yourself negatively for those realizations. They just are facts. No need to be hard on yourself if you put in sincere effort.

Take all criticism as a learning opportunity.

New comment by ilikecode in "A philosopher who believes in living things"

ilikecode — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:20:09 +0000

Science does not explain why there is anything rather than nothing. It is still effectively magic.

Tip: don’t use science dogmatically.

New comment by ilikecode in "iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync"

ilikecode — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:38:55 +0000

Aka the binary fix is client-side security.

New comment by ilikecode in "Handwritten complaint to the court by alleged CIA Vault 7 leaker"

ilikecode — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 16:11:04 +0000

It does sound like projection. Your link comes down to depiction of “a minor”. How does one prove an image is an 18 year old, even if they are, and not 1 day younger? It’s unquestionable for children but not so clear near the age of 18. I think that is the point of the poster, that it’s really not clear on all porn what age the people are. Even with disclaimers they could be lies.

New comment by ilikecode in "GitHub is replacing Rails front end rendering with React"

ilikecode — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:55:08 +0000

Everyone fails sometimes. Take every failure as a learning experience. Taking it personally and feeling emotions doesn’t actually help the problem - that you made a mistake and need to just learn and move on. Focus on the future, on the problem, on now, not the past. If however you make a mistake and get defensive and don’t learn anything then yeah it’s only a toxic thing on you. Learning from it helps you grow.

Masters of subjects don’t learn overnight. They learn over years, decades, a lifetime. In that time they make countless mistakes. But they persevere and don’t let it affect them emotionally and they grow into those masters.

I make mistakes daily. I’ve thrown away hundreds of thousands of lines of code in my career because it didn’t work as expected. But each time I grew a little and learned something to make the next iteration better.

New comment by ilikecode in "Forgotten Employee (2002)"

ilikecode — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:12:50 +0000

I once interviewed a guy from France who said he was being paid for the last year to do nothing. Some government protection. I am in the USA so I am not sure how true that was.

Sometimes I feel like this in my Big Corp job. My manager cancelled my 1-on-1 a few months ago and that’s that. Must be nice right? Nah because it creates a lot of uncertainty that I’m working on the right stuff.

New comment by ilikecode in "The link between August birthdays and ADHD (2018)"

ilikecode — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 14:44:17 +0000

People simply don’t like admitting that they are not fully in control of themselves.

New comment by ilikecode in "Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app"

ilikecode — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 20:57:00 +0000

I’ve had so many epiphanies from journaling. I wonder what society would realize if all our thoughts were linked.

New comment by ilikecode in "Ask HN: What do we do with cash now that inflation is a risk?"

ilikecode — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:30:18 +0000

How can I buy bread with a gold bar? Serious opening question as I have a lot of cash to convert. I don't see the benefit in having gold if I expect cash to inflate to worthlessness eventually.

New comment by ilikecode in "FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1"

ilikecode — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:20:28 +0000

Well, FreeBSD 11 https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/ packages are still available. The ports tree itself cannot build packages for 11 anymore though.

I do agree that FreeBSD tends to delete stuff the second that it goes EOL. The ports project is the worst violator of this. The ports tree takes manpower to maintain and keep building. The mirrors for packages use very large donated systems and bandwidth (AFAIK) and don't have as much pressure to delete old packages.

New comment by ilikecode in "Amazon shuts small Seattle office after spate of crimes in area"

ilikecode — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:17:40 +0000

I consider myself fairly liberal but I have to say that the progressive movement has been far too focused on identity/social justice politics and not on things that will really impact and help the community. I'm left with no party that I think has it right. If anything I want a return to some moderate rational politics. Both sides just keep getting more and more extreme and shifting their policies to canceling each other and things they don't like without listening or trying to understand each other. I'm scared for where we are going.

I mean Seattle is "progressive" but we let all these homeless people live on the streets! If we are so progressive then why do we not provide and force them into housing (or mental wards or anything)? Why do we not have an income tax?! This state makes no sense but I am stuck here because my kids are in high school.

New comment by ilikecode in "FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1"

ilikecode — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:55:05 +0000

Say you install FreeBSD 12.1, you can keep your package system using the 12.1 package set forever. No updates will be available. But they'll always work.

In /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf you will find something like this: > url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly", Assuming using amd64 that maps to: https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:12:amd64/ There you can see there are "release_X" sets that map to 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3. Again, no updates will ever be published on those but they will be guaranteed to continue working so long as they don't get deleted.

The FreeBSD community just doesn't have the manpower (of volunteers) or willpower to maintain what you're asking for.

New comment by ilikecode in "Inflammation in the gut is encoded by neurons in the brain"

ilikecode — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 19:54:46 +0000

What made you determine that a specific 1 hour window was a solution?