<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jaccola</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaccola</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:23:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jaccola" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "The Eternal Sloptember"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It can’t even write a passable novel… if you know of a great LLM-authored novel I should read please point me to it and I’ll take your recommendation!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 10:21:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265261</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> apple's hardware lead & overall design philosophy is falling apart<p>What?? Could someone tell me where I can buy hardware as good as a MBP? Genuinely I’d love this, it would be like Christmas had come early!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 17:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259063</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do the same!<p>I’d guess one reason is that there has been no iPad/App Store/YouTube invented for dogs…<p>I have a gut feeling there will be negative consequences for how much time developing minds spend consuming but in the absence of clear cut evidence it seems to be the default.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 16:09:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237851</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe a nit: LLMs do not and cannot cite their sources (at least scraped sources for the purpose of training)<p>It’s kind of the harness that is doing the citing (or providing the context for the model to).<p>But an LLM sans search can reproduce some copyrighted work with minor variations and there’s no way to know exactly where it came from.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224961</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What? If I want to read Harry Potter or watch The Matrix an AI cannot produce something equally as good for me. So I need to pay those people, or break the law.<p>For lots of online knowledge/blogs I guess it is true but even here I often read explainer blogs because AI casts everything in a certain narrative/tone that isn’t always appropriate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:57:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224893</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is how the drug industry already works. I don’t think there’s any evidence “AI” (LLM) is capable of producing valid drug modifications.</p>
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<p>Copying was prohibitively expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:53:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224831</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48224831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "SpaceX S-1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mistiming is equivalent to being wrong. And Musk is good at keeping valuations high! So who knows when it will tank.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 04:38:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217936</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "I’ve joined Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean he is basically an influencer at this point? I guess this is a marketing play and we will be hearing more from him than ever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195757</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, my statement was loose. The blob doesn’t really have a position since it is theoretically an infinite distribution in 3 space.<p>It has a mean, and that mean doesn’t have to lie on the surface, consider the case where the mean is deep inside the strawberry but its spike contributes to the surface appearance (e.g a seed could be represented this way, or it could be represented by a small well-oriented blob on the surface, the optimiser doesn’t care)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192566</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of translucent blobs composited to produce the appearance of a strawberry.<p>There is no mesh or model. The visual surface of the strawberry could be made up of blobs spaced far apart physically and not where the surface appears to be.<p>This is why they are called radiance fields, they model the light not the geometry.<p>Practically the blobs positions/rotations can be constrained to better physically match the geometry of a strawberry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 11:49:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192099</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My friend and I went to play poker this weekend. Demis Hassabis was there. I whispered to him “what the hell, that’s Demis Hassabis”!<p>My friend had no idea who he was. My friend doesn’t work in tech but he’s in his late 20s and we are both British so I was quite surprised. My guess is most of the world has no idea who these people are, despite their influence they are very niche celebrities.<p>Maybe Sam is more famous but I’d guess ~no one knows Greg Brockman.<p>So I find “most hated men in America” quite dramatic!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190758</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The obvious pushback to all of the slop is: coding was never hard. Learning resources were abundant and free.<p>If these people had a burning desire to build things prior to LLMs and couldn’t put in the effort to learn to build them (which is also fun!) then why would they ever put the effort into anything to understand it and make it good??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190621</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I set up a hook that reviews every commit and highlights potential bugs (async) and writes to a report to a dir.<p>Then I have a script that summarises that I usually run before pushing or at end of day.<p>Works quite well for both improving my code and the code ai wrote.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 08:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190608</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48190608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>52/4 = 13</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 13:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179829</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48179829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The counter argument is that the free market also allows lots of money to be made on anti-obesity drugs which incentivises them to be researched.<p>Maybe we wouldn’t have had GLP-1 (at all or as quickly) without the huge market that is the USA.<p>Not saying I fully buy this argument but it is at least plausible defence of libertarianism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177435</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177435</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can usually sniff them out because their comments are long and give lots of (vague) examples.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:01:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157911</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48157911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s a disadvantage for sure but not usually a blocker.<p>They often have security questionnaires you can complete instead. Or, as part of signing with them, you can promise to get SOC2 by x date (which will hopefully be easier with the funds from an enterprise contract).<p>I’d recommend looking online at some example security questionnaires or the types of things soc2 covers and writing an internal security doc for yourself so you know your position on everything and don’t have to scramble when it comes to it.</p>
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<p>Yeah I don’t know what’s true when reading about LLMs. Same with comments here on hacker news. So much money on the line it’s clear they would seed communities with marketing shills (and some people are just tribal).<p>Same since they own Bun, they have every incentive to make this seem easier than it was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 19:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140293</link><dc:creator>jaccola</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jaccola in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe you replied to the wrong comment? Peasants under a feudal lord couldn’t work elsewhere. If an engineer was fired from SpaceX they’d have another job before the end of the month… and if they didn’t then they wouldn’t starve to death because of welfare. That seems materially different.</p>
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