Hacker News: josephwegner

Jury clears Boeing in 737 MAX fraud lawsuit

josephwegner — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/jury-clears-boeing-737-max-fraud-lawsuit-2026-05-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251735

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Personal Computer by Perplexity

josephwegner — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/personal-computer-waitlist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339223

Points: 223

# Comments: 173

Show HN: Not All Agents – convince a room of agents that you're one of them

josephwegner — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:30:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/josephwegner/not-all-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279040

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Trump announces 'major combat operation' in Iran

josephwegner — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:58:53 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/live/live-updates-israel-iran-february-28-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47194147

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

josephwegner — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:28:03 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46708678

Points: 485

# Comments: 258

The All-New Slackbot: Your Personal AI Agent for Work

josephwegner — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:03:48 +0000

Article URL: https://slack.com/blog/news/slackbot-context-aware-ai-agent-for-work?nojsmode=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616822

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by josephwegner in "GPT-5.2"

josephwegner — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:00:19 +0000

Along with the hordes of other options people are responding with, I'm a big fan of Perplexity's voice chat. It does back-and-forth well in a way that I missed whenever I tried anything besides ChatGPT.

New comment by josephwegner in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

josephwegner — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:00:29 +0000

This assumes there is no added benefit to being able to reach your kids/be reached by your kids easier than it was historically. While I agree it's probably not as critical as many parents might make it seem, there are tangible benefits. Off the top of my head:

- Before cell phones, we were also in an age of far less mass violence in American schools. I completely empathize with parents wanting their kids to have an emergency contact device, given the relative increase in violence at schools.

- There is a long history of kids being abused, sexually or otherwise, by authority figures in their school. Having a lifeline like a quick text to a parent can easily be the escape hatch from a predator convincing a kid to do something unsafe.

Paramount hostile bid for Warner Bros., challenging offer by Netflix

josephwegner — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 19:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/paramount-warner-bros-discovery-netflix-trump-347540ae7a4f83fced833fe882f25680

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196434

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by josephwegner in "When the job search becomes impossible"

josephwegner — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:57:29 +0000

Give it time. Networks are a garden that grow over time, and moreso if you cater to them. Some of those starving grad students will be VPs in 10 years.

New comment by josephwegner in "Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru"

josephwegner — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:46:12 +0000

I will say, there is a Wendy’s near me that is piloting an AI drive-thru experience, and I prefer it 10-to-1 to the human version. It had a clear voice, it didn’t disappear randomly, it understood what I meant the first time (even though I was speaking naturally - I didn’t know at first it was AI), and it asked me for feedback (“what sort of sauce?”) in a very understandable way. Drive-thrus are famously a bad experience - I’m happy to see improvement here.

New comment by josephwegner in "Dropbox announces new gen server hardware for higher efficiency and scalability"

josephwegner — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:19:13 +0000

Pretty sure they lost to rsync ;)

New comment by josephwegner in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

josephwegner — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:59:21 +0000

See

New comment by josephwegner in "Ollama Turbo"

josephwegner — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 10:32:58 +0000

Same, actually. I’m feeling much more pro-ollama suddenly!

RFC: PHP license update

josephwegner — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:37:27 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/php_license_update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44565647

Points: 274

# Comments: 88

New comment by josephwegner in "Turkish court orders ban on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok for offensive content"

josephwegner — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 12:47:55 +0000

https://archive.ph/FwBr5

New comment by josephwegner in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

josephwegner — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:06:54 +0000

> coding isn’t about the finished product. its a lot like writing

This doesn't seem applicable in most contexts. Yes, when I'm coding for fun or purely for learning the finished product is less relevant... but I'd guess the vast majority of code that is written is for a business that _only_ cares about the product. Code is an implementation detail.

If (and this is a _big_ if) AI-based coding can increase developer velocity even as little as 50%, no sane business is going to let their engineers ignore it just because it's not as fun as artisanal code.

New comment by josephwegner in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

josephwegner — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:46:04 +0000

I become more and more convinced with each of these tweets/blogs/threads that using LLMs well is a skill set akin to using Search well.

It’s been a common mantra - at least in my bubble of technologists - that a good majority of the software engineering skill set is knowing how to search well. Knowing when search is the right tool, how to format a query, how to peruse the results and find the useful ones, what results indicate a bad query you should adjust… these all sort of become second nature the longer you’ve been using Search, but I also have noticed them as an obvious difference between people that are tech-adept vs not.

LLMs seems to have a very similar usability pattern. They’re not always the right tool, and are crippled by bad prompting. Even with good prompting, you need to know how to notice good results vs bad, how to cherry-pick and refine the useful bits, and have a sense for when to start over with a fresh prompt. And none of this is really _hard_ - just like Search, none of us need to go take a course on prompting - IMO folks jusr need to engage with LLMs as a non-perfect tool they are learning how to wield.

The fact that we have to learn a tool doesn’t make it a bad one. The fact that a tool doesn’t always get it 100% on the first try doesn’t make it useless. I strip a lot of screws with my screwdriver, but I don’t blame the screwdriver.

New comment by josephwegner in "Repairable Flatpack Toaster"

josephwegner — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 17:08:45 +0000

Thank you. It's too late to edit, but goodness am I embarrassed now. Very sorry, Kasey!

New comment by josephwegner in "Repairable Flatpack Toaster"

josephwegner — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 22:20:13 +0000

But I am actually interested in the economics! The author mentions sending her designs out to a factory - I would expect this is astonishingly expensive for a single prototype! Wouldn’t that be thousands of dollars? Is anyone familiar how to get good factory-made parts like this at DIY budgets?

Not that that takes away from the article at all. This project has many merits, and although cost may not be one of them, it’s still interesting!