Hacker News: knivets

New comment by knivets in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

knivets — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:09:57 +0000

This is living in denial. Lots of Ukrainians didn't believe there's going to be war either. There are already Russian drones flying into Eastern European countries, while the US is lifting sanctions on Russia - you don't have to be a fortune teller to predict where this is going.

>Iran is losing its grip on Hormuz

citation needed

New comment by knivets in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

knivets — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:42:59 +0000

2025 Apple is a perfect representation of 2025 America.

New comment by knivets in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

knivets — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:17:38 +0000

Don't worry, it's always ups and downs.

New comment by knivets in "The Coming Loop"

knivets — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:36:26 +0000

These new AI trends are very tiresome, very similar to 2021 crypto mania - both trigger a lot of FOMO. If we have loops that write code and we don't need to verify anything, why are the devs still here? What's point of even learning this new trick as a dev if you truly believe that this can be used without any intervention? If loops work then it follows that a loop of loop works too - why hire any people at all? Just run a bunch of loops and build a profitable business, but then what's your moat? Any person can now launch loops on top of loops.

New comment by knivets in "Claude Fable 5"

knivets — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:50:21 +0000

He has early access to anthropic models, of course he will hype them up, so that they will keep sharing access to preview models with him (and more traffic to his website). It also does't require him to perform any rigorous analysis of model performance, just share how it feels:

> But it's all vibes, if you want a more scientific comparison you'll have to look elsewhere.

New comment by knivets in "Claude Fable 5"

knivets — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:23:18 +0000

> Software engineering. During early testing, Stripe reported that Fable 5 compressed months of engineering into days. In a 50-million-line Ruby codebase, the model performed a codebase-wide migration in a day that would otherwise have taken a whole team over two months by hand.

How was it measured? How was the output of this magnitude verified over a period of couple of days?

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

knivets — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:34:00 +0000

> Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines.

because it's true

> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works.

How can you guarantee that it works though? You can verify, but it would be at the same speed as before the AI, or even slower.

> By then, enough real-world feedback would have surfaced to identify the major issues, and tools like Claude Code would make it possible to fix and ship version 2.0 at an incredible pace.

By then you have a blackbox of a codebase which is unmaintainable, or in a worst case scenario you end up losing your data or get hacked or both.

New comment by knivets in "The dead economy theory"

knivets — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:15:49 +0000

This is not a serious analysis. No mention of open source LLMs and their impact on american AI companies. There’s also no evidence that LLMs can make significant scientific progress on their own.

New comment by knivets in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

knivets — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:27:45 +0000

Some big names in AI made predictions by pulling random dates based on vibes, the author collected this and called this data.

New comment by knivets in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

knivets — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:07:38 +0000

how long until i stop seeing this nonsense shoveled at me from every direction

New comment by knivets in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

knivets — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:06:21 +0000

Stack Overflow provides marginal value when there are LLMs. Great technical books on the other hand still provide tremendous value and complement LLMs in a learning process: a book provides a fact checked, curated set of topics with clear start and finish (a structure) and LLMs help with any blockers or missing context that readers will encounter.

New comment by knivets in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

knivets — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:50:25 +0000

This is astrology for devs.

New comment by knivets in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

knivets — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:33:10 +0000

Bot account - 70 days old, no submissions, all comments are hyping AI

New comment by knivets in "The Emacsification of Software"

knivets — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:39:02 +0000

> easier to build your own solution than to install an existing one

seriously?

New comment by knivets in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

knivets — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:44:22 +0000

how do you know the artifact is correct?

New comment by knivets in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

knivets — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:03:40 +0000

Practically, if you have AppleCare you don't need to worry about repairability.

Anthropic Mythos 0-days replicated with GPT5.4

knivets — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/kannthu1/status/2042695741844619502

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726144

Points: 4

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New comment by knivets in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

knivets — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:38:36 +0000

Refreshing to read an article with an actual engineering work as opposed to another article about AI. Great work, very inspiring!

New comment by knivets in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

knivets — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:54:36 +0000

What if your screen breaks or logic board? Top of the line MacBooks cost ~4-5k. I recently had to service a battery and they replaced a top case and a keyboard free of charge. I will continue paying for AppleCare as long as they will allow me

New comment by knivets in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

knivets — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:20:01 +0000

this is not their data though