Hacker News: kburman

New comment by kburman in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

kburman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:38:39 +0000

I wonder if Elon would now reconsider IPO.

New comment by kburman in "Show HN: I nerfed our coding agents on purpose"

kburman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:42:11 +0000

All new accounts created within few min. Nothing to see here.

New comment by kburman in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

kburman — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:05:42 +0000

> If it stays at arm's length, and if it can "read only", then I am OK with it and actually somewhat pleased with it.

This isn't actually about AI. it's just classic human psychology.

You’ve had a rock-solid workflow for 25 years, so it makes total sense to be cautious and reject features you don't need.

Right now, keeping it at "arm's length" and "read-only" feels safe. But that's usually just phase one. Once that initial trust is established, those boundaries naturally start to melt away. Give it a couple of tax seasons, and you’ll probably find yourself wanting it to take on more of the heavy lifting.

New comment by kburman in "Interaction Models"

kburman — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:04:14 +0000

Simultaneous speech is best.

The Most Counterintuitive Way to Build a Brain [video]

kburman — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDxtFtoQVNc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48017061

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kburman in "GPT-5.5"

kburman — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:15:26 +0000

What a time. I am back here genuinely wishing for OpenAI to release a great model, because without stiff competition, it feels like Anthropic has completely lost its mind.

New comment by kburman in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

kburman — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:35:15 +0000

Has anyone here used Kimi for actual work?

I tried it once, although it looks amazing on benchmarks, my experience was just okay-ish.

On the other hand, Qwen 3.6 is really good. It’s still not close to Opus, but it’s easily on par with Sonnet.

New comment by kburman in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

kburman — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:01:10 +0000

Anthropic must be loving it. It's free money.

New comment by kburman in "Claude Opus 4.7"

kburman — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:06:10 +0000

Recently, Anthropic has been making bad decisions after bad decisions.

New comment by kburman in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

kburman — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:04:03 +0000

looks like opus have been nerfed from day1

New comment by kburman in "The physics behind Flow Matching models [video]"

kburman — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:12:06 +0000

Interactive tutorial - https://diffusion.fyi/tutorials/fundamentals?ch=0

The physics behind Flow Matching models [video]

kburman — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:12:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mFNpeJQjmw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739232

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

LM Studio may possibly be infected with sophisticated malware

kburman — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:46:12 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s2clw6/lm_studio_may_possibly_be_infected_with/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504406

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

How deep-sea mining is growing China's influence in the Pacific

kburman — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:36:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/china-deep-sea-mining-military-vis-intl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498938

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kburman in "The MIT paper that showed space can be more powerful than time [video]"

kburman — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:56:36 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17779

The MIT paper that showed space can be more powerful than time [video]

kburman — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:55:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQo30UaEh8I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466221

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kburman in "MCP is dead; long live MCP"

kburman — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:37:57 +0000

I’m struggling to understand the recent wave of backlash against MCP. As a standard, it elegantly solves a very real set of integration problems without forcing you to buy into a massive framework.

It provides a unified way to connect tools (whether local via stdio or remote via HTTP), handles bidirectional JSON-RPC communication natively, and forces tools to be explicit about their capabilities, which is exactly what you want for managing LLM context and agentic workflows.

This current anti-MCP hype train feels highly reminiscent of the recent phase where people started badmouthing JSON in favor of the latest niche markup language. It’s just hype driven contrarianism trying to reinvent the wheel.

New comment by kburman in "AI is making junior devs useless"

kburman — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:28:58 +0000

The "Junior Trap" is real: if you offload your thinking to Claude or GPT-4, you’re hitting "Done" for the day, but you’re accruing massive Learning Debt. You aren't building the failure-pattern recognition that actually makes an engineer valuable.

In a world where "Code is no longer a skill," the only way to survive is to stop being a "Prompt Operator" and start being a "System Auditor." If you can’t explain the trade-offs of the architectural pattern the AI just gave you, you aren't an engineer, you're just the person holding the screwdriver while the machine builds the house.

New comment by kburman in "Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2"

kburman — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:18:32 +0000

Amazing work! I'd love to hear more details about your workflow with Claude Code.

As a side note and this isn't a knock on your project specifically. I think the community needs to normalize disclaimers for "vibe-coded" packages. Consumers really need to understand the potential risks of relying on agent-generated code upfront.

New comment by kburman in "We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM"

kburman — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:33:05 +0000

Honestly, with recent models, these types of tasks are very much possible. Now it mostly depends on whether you are using the model correctly or not.