Hacker News: j_bum

New comment by j_bum in "Docker Agent"

j_bum — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:46:04 +0000

> The local-first work board for teams of coding agents. Nothing ships until a second agent verifies it.

> gate: failing

Gave me a good chuckle. Cool idea though, and I like the records. Reminds me a bit of the OpenAI hacking incidents.

New comment by j_bum in "ImpactGate: A merge gate that scores the structural decay AI adds"

j_bum — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:30:07 +0000

Is it public? Would love to try it!

New comment by j_bum in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

j_bum — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:34:30 +0000

Yes. It’s called Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM).

I suffer from it quite badly. I can remember broad and important details, but struggle to remember even moderate details from anything beyond the past 2-3 months, with sharp falloff after that.

Once I started using Immich and was able to see my old photos from across adulthood and childhood (I used to just dump them onto HDDs), I experienced a sharp reconnection with myself and my past.

Maybe they could find something similar (Apple Photos, Google Photos, Immich, etc.)!

New comment by j_bum in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

j_bum — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:44:55 +0000

Ive aligned to literally the exact same lineup. Amex blue cash preferred for our 6% groceries.

New comment by j_bum in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

j_bum — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:02:21 +0000

Please expand… how does this help you find ticks?

New comment by j_bum in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

j_bum — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:10:42 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this. I’ve been saying to my wife for about a year now that I wish MacBooks had the motion cues feature… turns out I just needed to search for it!

New comment by j_bum in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

j_bum — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:28:59 +0000

My conspiracy theory is that Reddit intentionally makes the iOS Safari experience awful to drive people to download the app.

I’m sure it works.

But for me, it drove me to stop using Reddit on my phone.

New comment by j_bum in "Watching a language model think before it speaks"

j_bum — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:04:34 +0000

I’d love to see a recording of this in action for a complicated question.

This article also reads with many LLM-isms, so I can’t tell if a human actually produced it.

New comment by j_bum in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

j_bum — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:11:25 +0000

I wish a human would’ve written the overview.

Nonetheless, this is disturbing.

New comment by j_bum in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

j_bum — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:12:27 +0000

This drives me nuts as well. I hate also hate when LLMs use plan-document references in comments/doc strings too. “Landed in stage 1…”

I have a lot of CLAUDE.md rules to restrict this stuff, but realize the “encapsulation” language is something I’m missing.

New comment by j_bum in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

j_bum — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:57:04 +0000

Dick Cheney passed away in 2025, just an FYI.

New comment by j_bum in "I think I have LLM burnout"

j_bum — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:46:15 +0000

Agreed. I am working hard to restrict myself to only 1-2 agent workflows at a time. More is untenable, though it’s so easy to fall into the trap of deploying an agent “just for this minor fix.”

New comment by j_bum in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

j_bum — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:06:00 +0000

I mean, have you looked for examples of things that people using local models to build and ship? Or are you just assuming it doesn’t happen?

I’ve used Qwen 3.6 27B for many things at work, and I’m regularly able use it for reasonably scoped tasks.

I’m not saying these models are perfect.

But you are complaining about people on the extreme, while at the same shouting from the opposite extreme.

New comment by j_bum in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

j_bum — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:42:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Were you able to resolve the Lyme?

New comment by j_bum in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

j_bum — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:40:55 +0000

Commenting for future reference in case OP ever responds. Would love to learn more

New comment by j_bum in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

j_bum — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:18:10 +0000

Have you tried audiobooks?

New comment by j_bum in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

j_bum — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:15:55 +0000

Interesting idea. What languages do you support? Can it be used without a subscription?

New comment by j_bum in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

j_bum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:19:47 +0000

Sounds very Hemingway.

OP might benefit from using https://hemingwayapp.com/

New comment by j_bum in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

j_bum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:52:43 +0000

This doc on Ilya Sutskever & Geoffrey Hinton gives a great background on the progression of deep learning over the past decades [0].

Tl;dr - compute was the bottleneck.

I am not associated with this channel/video, just love it. I’ve shared it here before.

[0] https://youtu.be/glWvwvhZkQ8?si=XjcwWWy43305tl6O

New comment by j_bum in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

j_bum — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:50:24 +0000

Would you be willing to share the annotated example? I’m stunned to hear this, I didn’t know that vision had become so capable.