Hacker News: jobs_throwaway

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Don't be a meat proxy"

jobs_throwaway — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:41:33 +0000

Yep. I'm categorically ignoring messages and PRs that are obviously AI written.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

jobs_throwaway — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:03:34 +0000

A win for privacy and freedom

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "How to hide from killer drones"

jobs_throwaway — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:36:22 +0000

The article says that its already known to not work against human drone pilots, its specifically targeting AI-piloted ones

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Strata – An app that talks me out of dying outdoors"

jobs_throwaway — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:52:44 +0000

Classic HN responses ITT. Very Reddit-like in its absolute knee-knocking fear at any kind of liability/rule-breaking

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

jobs_throwaway — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:45:55 +0000

This is one reason why piracy is legitimate and important

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

jobs_throwaway — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:18:18 +0000

Why should I give a shit what 95% of other countries do? 99% of other countries are worse in every way that matters

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

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:27:21 +0000

The Brothers Karamazov reads like young adult literature? Hard disagree there. Maybe in terms of how navel-gazey it is, but the themes are not at all young adult.

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

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:20:20 +0000

> Romeo and Juliet is so overdone in pop culture there's nothing interesting there

The whole point is to read the actual primary text that has been so done, re-done, overdone. And hopefully to recognize there's some real beauty and drama in there

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:10:23 +0000

You didn't code it, you stole it from open source OS and compiler maintainers

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

jobs_throwaway — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:50:14 +0000

And in real life piercing the veil is extremely exceptional

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:56:02 +0000

Probably. And they deserve to be able to prove it in a way that the current tests do not allow due to their low ceiling.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:49:40 +0000

> Anyone who scores near perfect (within the margin of error) should be admitted to at least one UC campus

You really don't see a problem with that? Our best students should not be "admitted to at least one UC campus". They should have their pick of the UCs and should be getting generous scholarships to entice them. There is absolutely loads of bunching near the top the distribution which makes it impossible for actually-top students to differentiate themselves.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:37:08 +0000

Yes, the scores at the top are way too bunched. A perfect score should indicate generational genius, not the 100th smartest kid your year in California.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:24:33 +0000

A lot of hurt feelings. Which to be clear is productive. We treat university students with kid gloves far too much

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:19:46 +0000

Anathem* for those like me who googled it

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:18:32 +0000

Give teachers authority again. It shouldn't be their problem if a student wants to fail the class.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jobs_throwaway — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:08:24 +0000

It depends what you mean by locally. I don't foresee running a model on my laptop anytime soon to power a coding agent. Far more likely is an infra team at my company operating an open source model on cloud infrastructure. When they're already paying $1000 / month / dev, it starts to pencil pretty quickly.

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:20:38 +0000

Our best universities have massive endowments is a national asset

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:19:31 +0000

Laughably wrongheaded

New comment by jobs_throwaway in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

jobs_throwaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:13:37 +0000

> And frankly, it’s a loss for the nation: When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures – and you shrink the supply of future scientists.

Well said