Hacker News: joelthelion

New comment by joelthelion in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

joelthelion — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:01:08 +0000

Not surprising given that 95+% of the time it's total bullshit.

New comment by joelthelion in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

joelthelion — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:13:45 +0000

> Can't help but to think the goal of this wasn't to actually allow third-party OSes, but for development purposes

Could also be pretending to be open while making sure nothing dangerous actually gets made.

New comment by joelthelion in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

joelthelion — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:11:08 +0000

How would you set the incentives, though? Almost by definition, it's hard to reward things that aren't visible.

Note that there is also the flip side of the coin, people who spend all their time worrying about things that never happen, so it's not like you can just reward a defensive attitude things are more complicated than that.

New comment by joelthelion in "Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?"

joelthelion — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:31:57 +0000

Thank you !

New comment by joelthelion in "Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?"

joelthelion — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:03:57 +0000

Do you pay for the model? Or run it locally? If so, which hardware do you use? Is it fast?

Ask HN: What do you currently use for AI coding (personal or professional)?

joelthelion — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:14:50 +0000

Given how quickly things evolve, it's easy to get lost in the numerous offerings and hard to get the best deal. So, what do you use? Both clients/harnesses and LLM providers or local setups would be interesting.

Personally, I've been using opencode with Github copilot for work. I'm currently looking for cost-effective provider for personal work. Maybe openrouter with one of the cheap models?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433171

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New comment by joelthelion in "pg_durable: Microsoft open sources in-database durable execution"

joelthelion — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:27:59 +0000

Isn't the database already one of the hardest piece of infras to scale? Why would you want to load it with additional long-running jobs?

New comment by joelthelion in "Show HN: Prela – Purely Algebraic Relation Combinators"

joelthelion — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:52:47 +0000

Having control over the execution plan is super interesting ! This is a very common frustration when writing SQL.

Do you think it would be possible to offer Prela as a direct interface to a relational database?

New comment by joelthelion in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

joelthelion — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:18:36 +0000

You're right, but what I'm saying is that solving the problem isn't necessarily the primary goal and these new abstractions can be valuable in their own right.

New comment by joelthelion in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

joelthelion — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:10:30 +0000

It's also a way to model the world and produce new useful abstractions. It's not just about solving problems.

New comment by joelthelion in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

joelthelion — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:01:22 +0000

What a wonderful world we live in. And to think that all of this is largely self-inflicted...

New comment by joelthelion in "Shantell Sans (2023)"

joelthelion — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:23:42 +0000

Or even sample from a distribution of variations for infinite possibilities ?

New comment by joelthelion in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

joelthelion — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:01:12 +0000

I've sold all my stocks. My reasoning is that if AI stocks go bust, they will take the global stock market with them.

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

joelthelion — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:48:11 +0000

Not really, how much of a public company are you when 5% of your capital is public ?

New comment by joelthelion in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

joelthelion — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:48:46 +0000

ICE Cars have been around for 100+ years. We have a good understanding of their achievable efficiency, including theoretical guarantees.

LLMs on the other hand have only been around for a few years. Large technological breakthroughs are much more likely.

In addition, I don't think the future is billions of people chatting with ChatGPT all day. LLMs can write deterministic code for many things, and in the end, we only need their "intelligence" and brittleness in relatively few scenarios. So, with good optimization, we shouldn't need so many huge data centers.

On the topic of clean air, the US is relatively spared at the moment because past governments were more reasonable. But just wait a couple of years under the current leadership and you'll see. Just from this morning, look at the top comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214017

New comment by joelthelion in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

joelthelion — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:21:12 +0000

AI isn't a necessity in the same way that EV / solar is, we can afford to take it slow and see what sticks. Also, EV/Solar are a much more mature technology than AI, so huge technological leaps are less likely.

New comment by joelthelion in "Mistral AI acquires Emmi AI"

joelthelion — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:41:42 +0000

I see it the other way around. In a few years, algorithmic and hardware improvements will likely make these huge datacenters mostly obsolete.

Americans will get to enjoy their rusty infrastructure and polluted air, and Europe will have lean and clean infra to support just what's needed.

New comment by joelthelion in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

joelthelion — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:56:15 +0000

I hope play money prediction markets are untouched. They are useful and fun, and as far as I know, dont have the downsides of real prediction markets.

New comment by joelthelion in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

joelthelion — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:37:01 +0000

Opencode can be surprisingly hard on the CPU (could be an issue when coding on battery or a weak remote VM), and uses a lot of RAM. A little competition is always welcome.

Toto 2.0: Time series forecasting enters the scaling era

joelthelion — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:12:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/ai/toto-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147166

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