Hacker News: kilroy123

New comment by kilroy123 in "Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel"

kilroy123 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:35:22 +0000

I've seen this several times now. Disturbing.

IMO, LLMs will be a dead end to anything close to AGI because of this and hallucinations.

We're missing something in the mix, which I suspect is some kind of advanced JEPA model.

New comment by kilroy123 in "US Navy sailors try to throw themselves overboard after 250 days at sea"

kilroy123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:42:57 +0000

I've long theorized that if a hot war with China happened, the US would get beaten up very badly, at first.

Likely burning through stockpiles of weapons (obvious now), plus not do well against modern drone warfare and a China that can pump out drastically more weapons, ships, etc.

Would we likely get our act together? I don't even know anymore. But it would not go well in the beginning.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

kilroy123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:43:15 +0000

I've been using DeepSeek flash a lot this week to try it out. Now, I deeply want the smart frontier models to be just as fast.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

kilroy123 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:55:24 +0000

Yup, this pisses me off so much. I now just go to the web app instead of using this broken app.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

kilroy123 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:00:58 +0000

Yep, there is basic analytics with Plausible. I'd like to know if someone uses the tools I build. I don't see or want anything you type into them.

The favicon now has a cache header, thanks.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

kilroy123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:45:38 +0000

I'm working to make one of the biggest free and privacy-friendly tool websites. A lot of them are things I want and need all the time.

https://allthedamn.tools

Show HN: Make a Fake MySpace Profile

kilroy123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:56:18 +0000

Article URL: https://allthedamn.tools/myspace-profile-generator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231991

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kilroy123 in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

kilroy123 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:56:38 +0000

My first paid software gig was making a famous person's MySpace page. I got my first software job because of this. So I have a real soft spot for MySpace.

I made a fun thing this week for nostalgia:

https://allthedamn.tools/myspace-profile-generator/

New comment by kilroy123 in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

kilroy123 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:26:33 +0000

Same here and my codex plan. I have to wait until next week to get back to work.

New comment by kilroy123 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

kilroy123 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:54:22 +0000

I, too, have come to this realization. But boy, oh boy, do Europeans get disgusted by the idea. (My partner is European)

New comment by kilroy123 in "Atomic Clocks"

kilroy123 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:51:05 +0000

https://popcornph.one

You mean popcorn?

New comment by kilroy123 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

kilroy123 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:19:36 +0000

This is going to sound crazy, but I kind of wish they went back to paid accounts. This would stop a lot of this.

New comment by kilroy123 in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"

kilroy123 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:06:56 +0000

I strongly disagree. It's gone to shit and paying people for attention is killing the platform. It's endless ragebait and nonsense now.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"

kilroy123 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:36:27 +0000

Men are pretty tall in Montenegro too.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Apple is getting this wrong"

kilroy123 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:29:44 +0000

I think this is a good way to vent. I've done that a few times. Typed up a long, angry rant. Only to delete it.

Just make sure this is on your computer and not in a Slack DM or draft email. Don't want to accidentally hit send.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Apple is getting this wrong"

kilroy123 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:14:54 +0000

I guess that's why the PR industry is worth more than $100 billion.

New comment by kilroy123 in "US Treasury undertakes historic intervention in yen market"

kilroy123 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:48:55 +0000

Yup, I call it a cartoonish view of the world.

I think so many in power now, including lots of people in tech, have bonkers, cartoonish views of the world that just don't map to the reality and complexities of the 21st century. Scary stuff.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Una Watch: Garmin watch competitor but repairable, open ecosystem and USB-C"

kilroy123 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:38:07 +0000

Yes, and the sleep tracking that adds or subtracts. While not super accurate, it's good enough for me.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Over 150k Flights: Airlines Just Flew the Busiest Day in Recorded History"

kilroy123 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:40:42 +0000

I was up in the air flying that day.

It didn't seem busy at all. Everything was on time, quick, and smooth on both sides. My partner and I commented on how smooth everything went.

New comment by kilroy123 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

kilroy123 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:05:24 +0000

I'll offer another antidote. Every single place I have ever worked at that had such retreats had a big layoff within ~6 months.

It's like the CEO or execs see there are a lot of problems and think this will magically fix all the "issues". It doesn't, so they turn to the next solution. Just fire a bunch of staff and start over.