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New comment by ixtli in "Codex for open source"

ixtli — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:43:12 +0000

If you only give 6mo then this is the opposite of a commitment to open source it’s a drug dealers tactic of giving the first taste for free.

New comment by ixtli in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

ixtli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:40:34 +0000

I think this collapses a global, complex heirarchy of software engineering workers into a single monolith and serves only to advertise for frontier LLM providers. the point where you no longer need engineers is not going to be reached by making LLMs better and better.

New comment by ixtli in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

ixtli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:36:58 +0000

I wish more people had casual exposure to professional translators. Its a deeply important, vanishingly small segment of the human population and has been this way for at least many thousands of years. Also, it will continue to be!

New comment by ixtli in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

ixtli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:35:42 +0000

This is sort of missing the point-- people who dont deal with linguistics dont understand that there are multiple types of translation. There's word for word (which is what you're talking about) and sense for sense. If you let an LLM do all of your translation you're letting it interpret huge amounts of intent and context it doesnt (and probably cant) access. The ways in which this impacts the translation will forever be unknown to you and in the worst case lost forever.

So i guess in the end it just matters how important the work is.

New comment by ixtli in "Can we have the day off?"

ixtli — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:40:26 +0000

Few willing to discuss this!

New comment by ixtli in "Can we have the day off?"

ixtli — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:39:54 +0000

UBI without many other anti-capitalist reforms is just a subsidy paid directly to your landlord.

New comment by ixtli in "Can we have the day off?"

ixtli — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:38:49 +0000

Marx showed this was an expression of one the central contradictions more than a century ago. Seriously it’s never too late to read about why our conditions only ever deteriorate under capitalism.

New comment by ixtli in "OSS Alternative to AWS Transfer Family Written in Elixir"

ixtli — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:29:08 +0000

Transfer family always seemed like a bit of a ripoff for me and it seems like this avoids a large amount of that cost even if you’re not already running the BEAM.

OSS Alternative to AWS Transfer Family Written in Elixir

ixtli — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:29:08 +0000

Article URL: https://hex.pm/packages/sftpd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211972

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by ixtli in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

ixtli — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:04:16 +0000

Excellent essay. I see some of this is already happening imo

New comment by ixtli in "404 Deno CEO not found"

ixtli — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:17:46 +0000

its so strange to see so many people who will never be handed 5 million dollars to write a vm jumping in front of criticism for one guy that did. sorry but when you become a public figure in this way you should expect to be subjected to a different sort of public scrutiny than, say, a rank and file employee who they pay.

i will begin to care about a CEOs feelings when they put the wellbeing of their employees before their own. not saying that the Deno CEO has done anything on the order of the raw aggression we see from other CEOs in our industry but, as they say, if you cant take the heat stay out of the kitchen.

New comment by ixtli in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

ixtli — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:40:11 +0000

They’re slowly redefining AGI so they can use it for more marketing. If you showed someone from 1960 our LLMs from and told them “this is AI” I think they’d be astounded but a little confused because “artificial intelligence” definitely carried a very clear meaning in literature and media. Now it is marketing terminology and we’re no closer to having a meaningful definition for the word intelligence.

New comment by ixtli in "Banned in California"

ixtli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:04:19 +0000

Now do economic growth?

New comment by ixtli in "Banned in California"

ixtli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:03:20 +0000

Ya a lot of people on this site are ideologically positioned in a way that required demonizing CA. I don’t have any skin in that game but it seems pretty clearly A Thing to me from the other side of the country.

New comment by ixtli in "Banned in California"

ixtli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:01:58 +0000

I lived in Mexico for a while and while I really enjoyed it it’s horrible that you have to fear the tap water. It’s not humane

New comment by ixtli in "Banned in California"

ixtli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:35 +0000

It actually makes me wanna move to CA.

New comment by ixtli in "Banned in California"

ixtli — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:01 +0000

This kinda makes me wanna move to CA. someone should take these list items and make a map of those fabs in the US so we can avoid moving near them.

New comment by ixtli in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

ixtli — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:49:00 +0000

And lets not forget that its only 22% of the total amount of people who live here. A large minority of potential voters are disenfranchised and do not vote. The government isnt just without a mandate it is extremely unpopular.

New comment by ixtli in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

ixtli — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:47:33 +0000

Very interesting way to put it. I would be less generous having lived here most of my whole life.

New comment by ixtli in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

ixtli — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:46:21 +0000

This is true in the US too. I know people who are disabled here who can not find a job because if they start making minimum wage they loose all their benefits.