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New comment by jackdoe in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

jackdoe — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:33:33 +0000

in contrast with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kids_Aren%27t_Alright

New comment by jackdoe in "We've made the world too complicated"

jackdoe — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:16:07 +0000

relax man, just go and touch some grass, there is no 'we', do what you wanna do, go where you wanna go.

also, block the internet for a while, buy a commodore and code some machine code, make a forth, you will be alright.

read `the soul of a new machine`.

the world is in the middle of a storm right now, you cant do much, but weather through it.

New comment by jackdoe in "Claude for Small Business"

jackdoe — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:43:28 +0000

Policy makers use AI to write policies, business owners use AI to comply with said policies.

Large companies can navigate the waters with teams of lawyers and accountants.

I don't think it will be possible to run a small business without AI in the near future, as the complexity of the law will increase beyond any comprehension.

New comment by jackdoe in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

jackdoe — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:17:35 +0000

> Hacker News goes away, too.

so be it.

New comment by jackdoe in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

jackdoe — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:31:59 +0000

first slowly, then all at once.

New comment by jackdoe in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

jackdoe — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:45:25 +0000

"His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it."

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

I just love opening a page, and it is not vomited with claude's aesthetics.

New comment by jackdoe in "Talking to Transformers"

jackdoe — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:06:58 +0000

Looking at the transformer as a homoiconic machine makes reading and writing tokens much easier.

In the same time, I can feel how it is affecting my thinking.

New comment by jackdoe in "Thoth – open-source Local-first AI Assistant"

jackdoe — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:28:55 +0000

If only Hermes Trismegistus could see. What has he become.

New comment by jackdoe in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

jackdoe — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:23:23 +0000

> Most of Europe has this problem solved.

With paracetamol :)

(Dutch people know what I am talking about)

New comment by jackdoe in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

jackdoe — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:04:55 +0000

I am running a bunch of autoresearch loops that optimize various compilers and its pretty easy to burn through as much money as you want if you have a measurable goal and good tests.

New comment by jackdoe in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

jackdoe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:12:24 +0000

> The problem with this is now you are solely responsible for managing all of the changes

We seem to greatly overestimate the amount of code needed to do something.

For example, there are billions of lines of code from me pressing a key, to you seeing what I wrote. But if we were to make a special program that communicates via ipv6 and icmp, and it is written for hazard3 pico2350 with wiz5500 ethernet breakout, the whole thing including the c compiler to compile your code (which could very well outperform gcc -O3) will be 5-6k lines of code, including RA, and even barebones spi drivers, and a small preemptive os.

So, it is not unreasonable to manage all of those changes.

New comment by jackdoe in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

jackdoe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:21 +0000

I cant wait to have no dependencies.

An extreme example is now when I make interactive educational apps for my daughter, I just make Opus use plain js and html; from double pendulums to fluid simulations, works one shot. Before I had hundreds of dependencies.

Luckily with MIT licensed code I can just tell Opus to extract exactly the pieces I need and embed them, and tweaked for my usecase. So far works great for hobby projects, but hopefully in the future productions software will have no dependencies.

New comment by jackdoe in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

jackdoe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:53:59 +0000

it does, but it doesnt; there is a subtle collapse i think

New comment by jackdoe in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

jackdoe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:47:21 +0000

same, I also try not to read claude's output that much, and I have a copy of Gibson's Mona Lisa and just open it while it is thinknig, for music and even for CS stuff, I search with before:2022 on youtube

but the ship has sailed :)

there is no hiding from it

of course the content we consume modifies us, but now everybody "reads" the same book, whatever they read.

New comment by jackdoe in "Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee"

jackdoe — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:00:36 +0000

God damn metanoia.

I feel like the internet is programming me.

At this point it is impossible to tell if AI writes like people or people write like AI.

Software: Application vs SP500

jackdoe — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:50:06 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/software-application/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720782

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jackdoe in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

jackdoe — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:15:36 +0000

I will pay anything to watch styropyro!

New comment by jackdoe in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

jackdoe — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:18:28 +0000

rage against the dying of the light

New comment by jackdoe in "Elite Overproduction"

jackdoe — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:21:25 +0000

> I fully expect the next revolution to be fronted by that class.

the keyboard warriors?

New comment by jackdoe in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

jackdoe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:46:24 +0000

I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart

good times :)