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New comment by ivantop in "Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it"

ivantop — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:56:39 +0000

I don’t think we know whether or not that’s true yet. Imagine a problem which requires a paradigm shift or new novel techniques to solve. There is no proof (yet) that an AI could create one.

New comment by ivantop in "Learning to live with Waymos"

ivantop — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:59:22 +0000

On my commute home there is always a street that has 5-6 Waymos trying to turn left from the middle lane because they could not successfully change lanes. Blocks traffic every single day without fail. Probably been like this for 5-6 months.

New comment by ivantop in "Learning to live with Waymos"

ivantop — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:52:09 +0000

Seriously.. how are people so gullible? This is how it always starts…

New comment by ivantop in "Muse Wonder"

ivantop — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:52:47 +0000

Nope, I’ve actually been checking this thread throughout the day. More upvotes / comments but didn’t break #6. My tinfoil hat says that it has been intentionally suppressed because of YC investments, but who knows :)

New comment by ivantop in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

ivantop — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:23:50 +0000

Not even close to 300k

New comment by ivantop in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

ivantop — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:41:59 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something but this doesn't really make sense? Right now it's more profitable to sell to datacenters because they're less price sensitive. Consumers and consumer PC manufacturers don't really care who they're buying RAM from -- they'll just buy it for the cheapest price. When it's no longer as profitable to sell to datacenters, they'll just switch to selling for consumers and will then compete against each other. Why would any RAM manufacturer choose to handicap themselves by selling to consumers today when they can earn much more selling to datacenters?

New comment by ivantop in "When online commenters detect my art as AI"

ivantop — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:11:07 +0000

I used replit (no affiliation) and it can definitely do this for more basis use cases (simple crud app, login, etc.)

New comment by ivantop in "I Love the Computer"

ivantop — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:40:57 +0000

still 150 micros here. why would this go up?

New comment by ivantop in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

ivantop — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:11:01 +0000

The pandemic over hiring that ended 4 years ago?

New comment by ivantop in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

ivantop — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:23:53 +0000

It’s still phabricator

New comment by ivantop in "AyaFlow: A high-performance, eBPF-based network traffic analyzer written in Rust"

ivantop — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:47:41 +0000

It helped me not read it, so please do keep it up!

New comment by ivantop in "This job has become the ultimate case study why AI won't replace human workers"

ivantop — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:54:59 +0000

This is a bot

New comment by ivantop in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

ivantop — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:39:41 +0000

which workplace group did you post it to?

New comment by ivantop in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

ivantop — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:26:20 +0000

To your last point, the answer is probably much different in China

New comment by ivantop in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

ivantop — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:57:59 +0000

It’s not just boilerplate. This is a low level C++ service where latency and performance is critical (don’t want to get into too much detail since I’ll dox myself). I used to think the same thing as you: “Surely my job is safe because this system is very complex”. I used to think this would just replace front end engineers who write boilerplate react code. 95% of our codebase is not boilerplate. AI has found optimizations in how we store items, AI has alerted us to production issues (with some degree of accuracy, of course). I worry that traditional software engineering as we know it will disappear and these hybrid AI jobs will be what’s left.

New comment by ivantop in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

ivantop — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:28:35 +0000

Honestly, I am also at a faang working on a tier 0 distributed system in infra and the amount of AI generated code that is shipped on this service is probably like 40%+ at this point.

New comment by ivantop in "Show HN: yknotify – Notify when YubiKey needs touch on macOS"

ivantop — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 04:17:27 +0000

We support both at work (touchid and yubikey) and often I have my laptop in clamshell mode, so in that sense it’s easier to use the yubikey. Probably not the best reason, but works for me!

New comment by ivantop in "Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue"

ivantop — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:55:55 +0000

Makes sense! Except for one little thing..

We've been migrating off of Terraform at BigCo recently and it has been a tremendous success. The migration has saved countless hours. Before, I was jaded and routinely in the office until 8 or 9 or so manually running terraform deploys for our engineering teams in India. Now, thanks to Pulumi, I'm able to leave the office at 7:30-8 -- and I can tell you single handed that this has saved my relationship with my daughter and maybe even my marriage. I'm running the fastest for loops thanks to Pulumi. We actually compile our Python down to c and use the Pulumi C SDK for insane speed benefits when we loop over our datacenter arrays. Turns out, not having bounds checks shaves off valuable time that I would otherwise be spending with my daughter. Routinely I'd be waking up screaming at 4 in the morning due to Terraform (or, what we would refer to as Tearaform because all of the infra engineers were constantly in tears). Now, I can sleep soundly until 5:30.

New comment by ivantop in "Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue"

ivantop — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 06:36:40 +0000

How is compiling to terraform a positive? I'd rather debug python than python-compiled-to-terraform.

New comment by ivantop in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"

ivantop — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:35:34 +0000

We used 1Password at a ~6,000 employee tech company and it was fine. Never had any issues with 1Password.