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New comment by jurgenburgen in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

jurgenburgen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:37:44 +0000

Very true. I was actually thinking that telling the customer to secure the physical location where the insecure port is located is making it the customer’s problem while solving the authentication problem is making it the manufacturer’s problem. I guess you may have read it the other way?

Fair to say that everything has tradeoffs, even expensive hardware.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

jurgenburgen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:13:54 +0000

> Based on that logic, layoffs should sometimes cause the stock of a company to go down, if the shareholders think those employees contributed more value than the company saves by laying them off.

You are treating short-term stock market movements as a signal of how well the company is performing.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

jurgenburgen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:35:50 +0000

How quickly does the industry move? Would there be any value in a 2006-era instruction set? How would you even start making sure you didn’t infringe on any patents that came after 2006?

New comment by jurgenburgen in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

jurgenburgen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:34:07 +0000

> The only argument I've ever seen for RISC-V that's vaguely logical is that there's no licensing to Arm involved, but since I can get M0/M3 devices for a dollar or so with infinite tool and library support that's something that's totally irrelevant for most users.

How expensive is it to license the instruction set so you can expand it?

New comment by jurgenburgen in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

jurgenburgen — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:39:43 +0000

Sometimes theories need engineering to catch up to become testable.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

jurgenburgen — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:19:03 +0000

LLMs will take shortcuts and cheat in ways that a human would realize are counterproductive.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

jurgenburgen — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:35:32 +0000

“Make it the customers problem” always works. These days it feels like LLMs are trained to do the same.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

jurgenburgen — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:15:34 +0000

Of course. Doesn’t mean we should leave the root password written down on a post-it next to the hardware. It sounds strange that such a privileged port has no authentication.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

jurgenburgen — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:24:51 +0000

> 100% guaranteed uptime

Disagree there but I think this is an interesting idea. We would need to find some more cost-efficient hardware to run it on than Nvidia GPUs.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Build Wide, Ship Narrow"

jurgenburgen — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:33:07 +0000

> Actually I think it is the other way around - since very few people would ever read commit histories - maybe if something really bad happened and we need to trace the audit trail ~once a month or something per team.

It’s worse than that IMO. In over 10 years I’ve yet to have seen a team that even knows how to rebase, asking them to investigate commit logs or bisecting would be like teaching a cat to bark. Insisting on “good commits” (or even worse, conventional commits which is a poor solution to the wrong problem) is just adding bureaucracy where it’s least needed.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5"

jurgenburgen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:02:08 +0000

I spend all day reading AI generated text in one form or other in my day job. When I come to unwind in HN I’m not interested of more of the same. Seeing “load-bearing”, “landing things”, “it’s not x, it’s y” makes me think of work. I honestly would rather read human text with typos and warts.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

jurgenburgen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:59:16 +0000

My company got rid of line management. I now report to a director with over 20 reports and barely any time for career development. Our performance reviews are AI generated and we’re losing engineers. The industry has gone completely insane.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Automatic1111 for Apple metal, 40% speed up sd1.5"

jurgenburgen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:29:09 +0000

Trigger warning: AI content.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "llama.cpp"

jurgenburgen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:32:54 +0000

There’s now a `llama serve` command? I had to do a double take in case I was reading the `ollama` website.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "The Human Is the Loop"

jurgenburgen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:57:54 +0000

I don’t have ADHD and also focus on 1 or 2 tabs, usually one is focused on the coding task I’m doing and the other on some research I need for planning future work.

People who keep dozens of agent plates spinning all the time must have a broken understanding of productivity where they think more code = better regardless if anyone needed the code. In the old days engineers burned out when they got a promotion and thought they now need to write more code to compensate, maybe burnout in the agentic age looks different.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week"

jurgenburgen — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:25:55 +0000

If you spend your time on the wrong things you could spend 90 hours per week hurting your company producing negative value.

The age old problem of prioritization doesn’t go away just because the org starts throwing millions at Anthropic.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models"

jurgenburgen — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:40:10 +0000

Using climate-destroying AI to understand the overly convoluted tax regime in the US is peak capitalism.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

jurgenburgen — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:32:10 +0000

Why should shits be given? Find a better way to advertise than harassing people.

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Defending my own brain against enshittification"

jurgenburgen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:10:27 +0000

Does your wife get 2 hours per day to decompress?

New comment by jurgenburgen in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

jurgenburgen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:12:38 +0000

If you can’t do it cheaper on your own hardware it does make you wonder how much of the cost of inference those large LLM providers are eating? Datacenter hardware isn’t magic.