Hacker News: kykat

New comment by kykat in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

kykat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:49:53 +0000

I swear I actually laughed out loud with this, is this a joke?

New comment by kykat in "Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026"

kykat — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:45:33 +0000

It's truly unbelievable hot right now, this "good news" of solar production is pretty sad actually

New comment by kykat in "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

kykat — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:32:08 +0000

Even if you never watched TV your whole life, you still can't escape the consequences of other people watching TV.

That's the thing to keep in mind, it's not something an individual can "fix".

That's why policies and laws are so important.

New comment by kykat in "Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

kykat — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:25:25 +0000

I've read "amusing ourselves to death" and there the author also criticises the idea that new technologies are "just tools".

The invention of the telegraph changed how information is traded and the contents of newspapers, the invention of the TV changed politics, and so on.

The medium shapes the message and induces behaviours from us. We never thought about wanting to promt chatgpt, or watch people doing sports on a screen. But the possibility of doing these things makes us change.

LLMs obviously have and will continue shaping the world, and I am also afraid that it will create a worse future than the one that we had until now.

I think deployment should slow down and research should be financed and diversified.

New comment by kykat in "America Is Headed Toward the Infinite Workweek"

kykat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:40:20 +0000

Fresh people meaning burned out from the previous job?

New comment by kykat in "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"

kykat — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:10:12 +0000

You can only say that because you know nothing about the Chinese ones

New comment by kykat in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

kykat — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:24:45 +0000

And my og comment getting downvoted on this very intellectual forum that definitely isn't an echo chamber

New comment by kykat in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

kykat — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:38:43 +0000

What? Big tech company is evil? No way! I thought cloudflare were good guys...

New comment by kykat in "Court to DOGE: Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?' Is Not Proper Legal Process"

kykat — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:18:55 +0000

I've always been confident in the ability of the US institutions to correct the mistakes being made, great to see an end to this ridiculous DOGE situation.

New comment by kykat in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

kykat — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:24 +0000

Visiting without JS: "With JavaScript off, the page cannot tell you what your browser disclosed. The data is still there. The disclosure still happened. Only the telling of it stops."

I find this hyper dramatic LLM language extremely off putting, but appreciate the signal that allows me to completely disregard it.

New comment by kykat in "Show HN: Triggering anti-cheats with just a browser tab title"

kykat — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:36:18 +0000

This has amazing trolling potential

ReactOS Introduces Unified Live/Install Media, New Storage Driver

kykat — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:09:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Unified-ISO

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002093

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by kykat in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

kykat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:35:59 +0000

It's all just a sado maso power game.

New comment by kykat in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

kykat — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:34:35 +0000

I say that we should fully support all AI initiatives and stop giving advice. Tell them AI will make them rich and that they won't have to care about anybody, and just wait to see what happens.

New comment by kykat in "Be sinceerly human – AI to undo your AI writing"

kykat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:44:34 +0000

Made by grifters, for grifters

New comment by kykat in "Audio transcription is worse in 2026 than it was in 2016"

kykat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:36:57 +0000

I haven't used transcription, but in a similar way, I think DeepL translation got worse. Now it always makes the translation more formal, "professional", and gives everything the "LLM voice".

New comment by kykat in "Mythos is shaping up to be a nothingburger"

kykat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:26:56 +0000

That was a really weird sentence that makes no sense, since when is an on demand "elite researcher" nothing? While the article appears to dismiss this model, it ends up giving it a very high praise.

New comment by kykat in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

kykat — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:17:42 +0000

I've been using colored borders as design for ages... Hate seeing it becoming an "AI tell" :(

New comment by kykat in "Study found that young adults have grown less hopeful and more angry about AI"

kykat — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Because of laziness

New comment by kykat in "Working with agents doesn't feel like flow"

kykat — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:18:45 +0000

Haven't read the page, but working with agents is like playing a visual novel game, but with random delays and slowdowns added. You just, wait, consume and do a choice. It's a passive activity. It also has gambling elements, because what happens next is random, and nobody really knows what the result will be, this often makes people spend way more time then planned/expected with agents when things don't work immediately magically.