Hacker News: ilikehurdles

New comment by ilikehurdles in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

ilikehurdles — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:10:58 +0000

couldn't your name have been changed by your hijacker and sold?

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Digg is gone again"

ilikehurdles — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:22:57 +0000

Reddit is flooded with AI slop. r/all currently has AI-generated text posts and articles on the first page. Upvoted because they're the typical orange man bad stuff, but LLM slop nonetheless. Assuming the engagement is organic, it's depressing how much of the site has no eye for this stuff.

There are decent small communities I'm a part of but the trash feels like it is encroaching.

And the notifications you describe are exactly reddit's notifications? "your comment received 10/20/50/100 upvotes!" "x responds to y about z" "News is trending"

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

ilikehurdles — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:41:11 +0000

Sorry I shadow edited while you were replying. Restating my question - What is the benefit to the owner of the account? What do they get out of this?

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

ilikehurdles — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:38:37 +0000

The irony of this ai generated comment replying in defense of ai coding on hackernews. This entire vicchenai account has used llms to generate its entire comment history. What is the benefit to the owner of the account? What do they get out of this?

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU"

ilikehurdles — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:38:48 +0000

Contrary to the implication, the Swedish fund that possibly sold $8b of its $100b worth of US Treasuries did not cite politics as its reason for doing so, and no part of the article backs up that claim. Additionally, selling out of the US dollar as the fed aimed to cut rates and as the dollar declined from historic highs against the Euro seems sensible regardless of politics.

Denmark has been exiting foreign bonds for 10 years, down from a high of $24b in 2016 to $10b in 2025. It’s not only part of a trend, but the cited $100m of bonds sold makes up a negligible 0.00026% of US treasuries.

On that note, 1 USD buys nearly $1.40 CAD.

Politics makes it easy to write stories that paint an incomplete or incorrect picture.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

ilikehurdles — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:08:16 +0000

Quoting the user it’s replying to in third person, and then hallucinating words inside the quote.

When I have asked LLMs to read/dictate a linked text, the output is usually not a clean read but something reinterpreted with its own style.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:48:29 +0000

While I might not trust C code more than Java in life saving equipment, I would trust a median C developer over a Java one.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Autoland saves King Air, everyone reported safe"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:45:40 +0000

seems like an unlikely rumor to be true at this time

New comment by ilikehurdles in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

ilikehurdles — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:43:11 +0000

Qobuz works the same way. Set and forget. Don’t know about deezer.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

ilikehurdles — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:35:03 +0000

matt-bornstein's commits in that repo do often start off with ai-generated descriptions which he then edits down. there are notes on some commits that say things like "AI GENERATED NEED TO EDIT". the other contributors' changes don't have these tells.

while it should come as no surprise to have software written by llms, if these books are in fact just picked by llms then what's the point of this list?

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

ilikehurdles — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:16:17 +0000

I thoroughly love this experience. I open subscriptions as needed to catch up on things I care about. Otherwise I use the homepage to search for something. No distractions. No infinitely scrolling feed of slop and ads.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

ilikehurdles — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:53:25 +0000

AI is useful. I use Claude code every single day for building software.

I also wouldn’t want to go back to only web search for finding things out. Search engines are generally inferior.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

ilikehurdles — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:53:18 +0000

There’s a candidate with a literal Nazi symbol tattooed on his chest and not one democrat condemned him or demanded he drop out. Guess his party affiliation.

So let’s just be clear that nobody is playing this fake outrage game anymore.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "You should write an agent"

ilikehurdles — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:13:16 +0000

I don't think hn is reflective of where programmers are today, culturally. 10 years ago, sure, it probably was.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:00:26 +0000

You need to get a grip on reality for your own sake.

I mentioned both terrorist and communist for evidence-based reasons. I am literally a naturalized citizen who had to affirm he was not affiliated with communist parties when applying for citizenship in this country. The rules were literally different for me then, than they are for me now as a citizen.

Other people “pointing out” other arguments is fine - we can disagree, one or both of us can be wrong, etc. Liberalism is built on individual rights.

But you want to label people as extreme in order to kill them. I don’t know what made your heart so corrupted by hate but I hope you find your way out

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:23:44 +0000

No, these are not crimes for all. As a citizen I am free to associate with communist parties. There’s a Communist Party USA that was a top sponsor for the most recent no kings rally. As a noncitizen I may face consequences for such associations.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:20:50 +0000

Advocacy can count in certain situations if it’s with the purpose of facilitating the other kinds of “material” support (ie funding).

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:18:45 +0000

I think me presenting an argument that basically says that certain noncitizens to the United States face consequences when exercising certain kinds of speech that citizens do not face is substantially different from your rule that I should be executed for making that argument.

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:40:21 +0000

This is tantamount to you calling for my execution and the death of other people you perceive to be your political opponents, and ironically it’s over my exercise of speech.

It is disgusting what has been allowed to fester on hackernews

New comment by ilikehurdles in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

ilikehurdles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:02:21 +0000

It’s not a crack in the argument. I literally reference similar fact in the same comment, if you read to the end.

It’s evidence that yes, indeed, citizens and non-citizens do not share the same rights. There is a long history to back this up.