Hacker News: kh_hk

New comment by kh_hk in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

kh_hk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:02:59 +0000

And yet I have felt a general code quality decrease and overall enshittification of software products since 2023 when people were already using copilot. Or I am just biased to use that to justify any overengineered piece of shit code with that because I refuse to think any sane person would come up with such contrived code and I am looking at the wrong places.

New comment by kh_hk in "An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details"

kh_hk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:50:41 +0000

Such claims cannot be trusted as long as these news drive the heat score and hype of the companies, because these will always be inherently subjective, even unconsciously to what they want to believe. Is it real or is it LARP

New comment by kh_hk in "Light Flip Phone"

kh_hk — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:06:50 +0000

We go to lengths to complicate and make expensive the things that are not. A dumb phone costs 30/50 eur max. It does not have internet connectivity and it does not have maps. Use an smartphone for that. Use both. Strap them together. And it's still cheaper.

Food for the landfill

New comment by kh_hk in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

kh_hk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:40:42 +0000

my bad, I re-read your comment now and it's clear that this was precisely your point.

New comment by kh_hk in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

kh_hk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:25:20 +0000

Not to shit on the hype, but these are reasonably documented methods that surely are part of the training data

New comment by kh_hk in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

kh_hk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:05 +0000

I am still unsure if the complexity is an inherent trait of any big organization or a byproduct of using kubernetes

New comment by kh_hk in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

kh_hk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:54:24 +0000

Let me paraphrase the summary of Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen:

    It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to
    write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way”
    of thinking and problem solving

New comment by kh_hk in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

kh_hk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:36:29 +0000

Doesn't it come from folks that are forced to work with dynamically-typed languages but can't be arsed to understand them?

New comment by kh_hk in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

kh_hk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:40:54 +0000

I believe that all the speed gains are running on loaned time, and that time will need to be spent sooner or later.

New comment by kh_hk in "Voxel Space (2017)"

kh_hk — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:57:06 +0000

I bet

New comment by kh_hk in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

kh_hk — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:26:07 +0000

In Neal Stephenson's fall or dodge in hell there's a timeline where the internet is so flooded by fake AI generated news that characters have their own agent both filtering info and maintaining their fake social presence.

The book in particular is of a debatable quality but I keep going back to those introductory chapters as prophetic the more we go into this.

New comment by kh_hk in "Local LLMs perform better when you teach them to ask before they answer"

kh_hk — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:41:39 +0000

Isn't this akin to including all the (missing) keywords from the prompt? YMMV but to me we have found the less optimized way of using LLMs

New comment by kh_hk in "SQLite Code of Ethics"

kh_hk — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:51:08 +0000

Regardless of my own view on these ethics, the quality of SQLite is for me a testament to the usefulness of truthfully adhering to a (sub)set of noble precepts.

New comment by kh_hk in "Googlebook"

kh_hk — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:24:32 +0000

A laptop with footnotes. Thanks, I would like a computer

New comment by kh_hk in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

kh_hk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:21:39 +0000

The same reason I would not use a proprietary text editor applies to harnesses. It's enough of a constraint to use a proprietary service, for me the line is at the tooling. Sunk cost and all it's things.

New comment by kh_hk in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

kh_hk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:26:58 +0000

Prompting AI feels a bit like that feeling I had when I was copypasting random javascript and java applets for my first website. The website had MIDI, a scrolling status bar on the bottom, particles that followed the mouse, you name it. Never understood any of it, nor made me deep dive because it was too complicated. But then at some age I reached out for fundamentals and that's when I started building things.

All this to say, no, software developer probably not. Script kiddie?

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:28:29 +0000

You can also inline python inside shell scripts, does that make them equal sets? :)

    life() {
      python3 << EOF
    print(42)
    EOF
    }

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:24:02 +0000

python does EOL releases after 5 years. I guess versions are readily available for downloading and running with uv, but at that point you are on your own.

bash is glue and for me, glue code must survive the passage of time. The moment you use a high-level language for glue code it stops being glue code.

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:24:04 +0000

I guess we have wildly different expectatives of what a language is responsible for and what not.

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:50:55 +0000

Well, at least I will be able to run my bash scripts in 5 years