Hacker News: jefurii

New comment by jefurii in "Why is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

jefurii — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:06:05 +0000

The elves are leaving Middle Earth..

New comment by jefurii in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

jefurii — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:27:50 +0000

This would be a different game but I'd enjoy just sailing around semi-realistic maps with realistic wind. I pixellated Hundred Rabbits simulator would be pretty cool.

New comment by jefurii in "Accelerando (2005)"

jefurii — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:11:42 +0000

Love The Daemon and FreedomTM! They are very different from most of the AI singularity novels. I wish the Daemon was real and I could move to a holon...

New comment by jefurii in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

jefurii — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:59:28 +0000

When I thought about Project Gutenberg I remembered that original brutalist non-design. The current site has been very tastefully updated but looks like it's still very accessible if you turn styles off. Great job!

New comment by jefurii in "Ask HN: Why do people hate using AI so much?"

jefurii — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:37:55 +0000

> What i will say though is that (for me anyways) working with an llm like Claude can be mentally taxing because of how fast we can move together.

"we". Not creepy at all. AI is not a person.

New comment by jefurii in "Ask HN: Why do people hate using AI so much?"

jefurii — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:02:11 +0000

I hate how it's being pushed in my face so much. Any time you see such heavy marketing it's a red flag.

> Let's ignore the potential job loss implications, and consuming AI-generated content/slop...

LOL!

New comment by jefurii in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

jefurii — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:16:42 +0000

See Permacomputing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48044638

New comment by jefurii in "Permacomputing Principles"

jefurii — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:13:05 +0000

Sorry to break it to you, but computing is totally related to colonialism. Where do you think the materials that go into a modern computer come from? It'd be nice if all that was mined in the good ol' U.S. of A but it's not, and that's where we get connected to colonialism. Not to mention labor.

New comment by jefurii in "Permacomputing Principles"

jefurii — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:30:42 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050540

New comment by jefurii in "Music with lyrics interferes with cognitive tasks (2023)"

jefurii — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:28:28 +0000

Jeez he never suggested that all ambient music was released or was popular for this reason, he just said that's what happened in that particular case. Give it a rest!

New comment by jefurii in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

jefurii — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:39:43 +0000

When will I be able to get an affordable restomod for my early-2000s Jetta?

New comment by jefurii in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

jefurii — Mon, 04 May 2026 02:04:29 +0000

I don't feel that this piece explains its title very well (to me) though the idea expressed by the title is spot-on

I've gone through hand-coding HTML, CGI, CMSes, web frameworks, and CMSes built with web frameworks. Each is (roughly) a layer of abstraction on top of lower layers.

People talk about LLMs as an extension of this layering but they're not. With the layers of abstraction I've listed you can go down to the layers underneath and understand them if you take the time.

LLMs are something different. They're a replacement for or a simulation of the thinking process involved in programming at various layers.

New comment by jefurii in "Trump admin to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases"

jefurii — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:20:08 +0000

This is an admission that fossil fuels are losing to renewables.

New comment by jefurii in "WFP projects food insecurity could reach record levels"

jefurii — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:34:01 +0000

Title: "WFP projects food insecurity could reach record levels as a result of Middle East escalation". WFP = World Food Program.

New comment by jefurii in "Magda – Open-Source DAW with Integrated AI (C++/JUCE/Tracktion Engine)"

jefurii — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:22:53 +0000

> with AI integrated from the ground up

Nope

New comment by jefurii in "Crow Watch: A Hacker News Alternative"

jefurii — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:22:51 +0000

Looks cool but it's another one of those exclusive invite-only communities.

New comment by jefurii in "Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin"

jefurii — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:48:52 +0000

Go do something ueful.

New comment by jefurii in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

jefurii — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:15:09 +0000

I would love to have a TUI for Home Assistant!

New comment by jefurii in "Show HN: VM-curator – a Linux VM manager with easy GPU-passthrough and more"

jefurii — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:59:08 +0000

Interesting project! I notice the second step under the "First Run" header is "Launch the guided VM creation wizard". Can vm-curator be used to manage an existing QEMU/KVM setup?

New comment by jefurii in "Daemon (Novel) [2006]"

jefurii — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:19:32 +0000

His 2008 talk at the LongNow was even more timely: https://longnow.org/talks/02008-suarez/. He wasn't worried so much about a strong-AI singularity but about weak AI that is used by the rich and powerful to take away human agency.