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Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login

jay_kyburz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:06:57 +0000

I think I'm finally done.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

Points: 88

# Comments: 18

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

jay_kyburz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:56:21 +0000

My 15 year old kid annoys me because he will do a full shut down just to go eat his dinner. I'm like "just let it sleep" and he's like "No!"

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

jay_kyburz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:53:41 +0000

This is kind of like making sure your backups actually work.

You need to test when servers go down, and people who use them should know and understand what happens when the are off.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Free the Icons"

jay_kyburz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 05:48:07 +0000

Where you are looking should not be the cursor, that is obviously dumb. Should be where your nose is pointing.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

jay_kyburz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:05:55 +0000

sigh, another typo on my permanent record.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

jay_kyburz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:13:52 +0000

On my kids chrome books, the actual AI chatbot websites are blocked, but the kids just ask follow up questions to the AI response in a normal google search.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

jay_kyburz — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:48:10 +0000

I've been posting under my real name for over 20 years because this was always going to be the case. Using my real name is a constant reminder to not to post things I might later regret.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Why Carbon Capture Can't Conceivably Solve Climate Change"

jay_kyburz — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:53:59 +0000

Yes, but, it has to be done, so we should just get started planting those trees. Keep working on the tech in parallel.

It's all well and good to switch to solar, but we also need to capture all the carbon already released.

We need to plant diverse native forests in fertile land today. If I could afford some land I would just start doing it myself.

They may need to be irrigated too so we might as well start building desalination infrastructure as well.

Farms may just have to be smaller and more efficient. We might have to start eating produce that has a tiny blemish or weird shape.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

jay_kyburz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:14:10 +0000

It's the second point in the release notes

New comment by jay_kyburz in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

jay_kyburz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:30:38 +0000

I was reading the threads about local AI closely yesterday. Some people seem happy with it.

If I had the cash, I'd spend 6-10k on a strix halo with 128 GB and run it local with no internet connection. I think the Framework desktop is sold out but there were others seem to be still available.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

jay_kyburz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:26 +0000

I thought of an example of how this should work.

My parents used to go to the same restaurant every Friday night, for many many years. A little chit chat at the register each visit, it doesn't take long before you actually enjoy seeing that person. I began to suspect they continued going just so they had an excuse to see their friends.

You can't engineer these relationships, but you can encourage your staff to be open to a little chit chat. Make sure your team has the time and energy to be friendly. Your team has to be happy, and its needs to show.

I have no problem with the idea that you are going fill your place with good vibes so people actually want to go and hang out there!

New comment by jay_kyburz in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

jay_kyburz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:15:52 +0000

"...never fix a running thing. Replace it.

AI pushes this premise beyond infrastructure and into application code itself. When rewriting is cheap, editing in place becomes risky. Mutation accumulates entropy. Replacement resets it."

I've always found verifying some code works correctly much harder and time consuming than writing code. Replacing big chunks code means much _more_ verification and validation.

When you see a bug, and you "fix the running thing" you only need to verify what you changed.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

jay_kyburz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:47:33 +0000

Even the first story in the article sounds gross and creepy to me "The team became mini-concierges. Every guest walked in to find someone who knew them — not in a creepy, surveillance-state way, but in the way a good friend remembers what you’re going through."

I'm not going through anything. I just want some dinner.

And to be clear, the only reason they are doing this is strictly transactional. Good friends don't ask you to pay the bill at the end of dinner.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

jay_kyburz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:38:18 +0000

Can anybody let me know how just chatting with Qwen3.6 on a Strix Halo 128GB

If I give it a page of context, can it write a linked list or identify a bad line of CSS?

Is there anywhere online I can chat with a model I could be running at home to see how good it is?

New comment by jay_kyburz in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

jay_kyburz — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:46:36 +0000

We should help by shooting them into space.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Old games feel "hard" because modern emulators have layers of abstraction"

jay_kyburz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:35:31 +0000

nope, Super Mario is just hard. I set the SNES up for the kids to give it a try.

It's all skill and memory and repetition. Modern games just don't want to be to punishing. They want everybody to enjoy themselves.

Anthropic shuts down Fable, Mythos models following Trump admin directive

jay_kyburz — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/anthropic-shuts-down-fable-mythos-models-following-trump-admin-directive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515082

Points: 3

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How recent employment changes vary with work experience and exposure to AI

jay_kyburz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:58:38 +0000

Article URL: https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/project/indicators/canaries-dashboard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48497571

Points: 3

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New comment by jay_kyburz in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

jay_kyburz — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:41:59 +0000

Unity Game Engine does this, They support x distro only. So you mess around installing their chosen OS only to find stuff still doesn't work properly.

New comment by jay_kyburz in "Tony Gilroy Accepts Award for Andor: "Fuck the Empire ""

jay_kyburz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:47:22 +0000

I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars, but I'm so happy to hear Tony Gilroy drawing direct parallels to the Empire and the current US administration.

also this link. https://kottke.org/26/02/andor-creator-tony-gilroy-is-free-t...