Hacker News: lbrito

New comment by lbrito in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

lbrito — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:46:52 +0000

This is also going to debut in Saudi Arabia, right?

...Right?

New comment by lbrito in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

lbrito — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:49:50 +0000

I was looking into split ergos a while ago but was bummed by the audiophile-ness of the userbase when doing research. I don't have time or interest to learn new layouts or keymaps or whatever.

Any suggestions of simple split mechanical keyboards with standard (row staggered) layouts that aren't a small fortune?

New comment by lbrito in "China's CO2 emissions have now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months"

lbrito — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:51:43 +0000

This is great news. It's bizarre that it is buried and not on the front page. If it were not about China, I bet it would be.

AI and the Joy of Programming

lbrito — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://lbrito.ca/blog/2026/01/ai-joy-programming.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077540

Points: 2

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New comment by lbrito in "AI made coding more enjoyable"

lbrito — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:49:27 +0000

>Outside the happy path

Uh, no. The happy path is the easy part with little to no thinking required. Edge cases and error handling is where we have to think hardest and learn the most.

New comment by lbrito in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

lbrito — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:54:43 +0000

Now imagine if all those billions in taxes had been used to build real transit infrastructure instead of subsidizing Tesla.

New comment by lbrito in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

lbrito — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:27:29 +0000

I kind of think of that as just increasing the standard deviation. Its been a while since I experimented with this, but I remember trying a temp of 1 and the output was gibberish, like base64 gibberish. So something like 0.5 doesn't necessarily seem to solve this problem, it just flattens the distribution and makes the output less coherent, with rarer tokens, but still the same underlying distribution.

New comment by lbrito in "I’m joining OpenAI"

lbrito — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:02:57 +0000

He's just another alt right podcast grifter.

New comment by lbrito in "I’m joining OpenAI"

lbrito — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:38:15 +0000

>you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products

Tell that to the guy that made brew and tried to interview at Google

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

lbrito — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:05:14 +0000

And is that supposed to be bad in any way?

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

lbrito — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:02:59 +0000

Of course, there's always money invovled.

Also: extremely appalling to see these basilisk priests popping up - if they're even human that is

New comment by lbrito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

lbrito — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:19:23 +0000

They're between not caring and welcoming that outcome. A 50% reduction in non-billionaire population is highly desirable for effective altruists.

New comment by lbrito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

lbrito — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:55:13 +0000

Preach. That's always been the case though, AI just makes it slightly worse.

New comment by lbrito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

lbrito — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:52:41 +0000

>I just don't understand people working on improving ai. It just isn't worth the risk.

A cynical/accelerationist perspective would be: it enables you to rake in huge amounts of money, so no matter what comes next, you will be set up to endure it better than most.

New comment by lbrito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

lbrito — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:49:50 +0000

The black plague's capital-concentration aftermath supposedly fueled the renaissance and the city-state ascensions, and ultimately the great land discoveries of the 14th and 15th centuries.

Not sure if there's an analogy to make somewhere though

New comment by lbrito in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

lbrito — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:13:57 +0000

Then why isn't it? Just offload it to the clankers and go enjoy a margarita at the beach or something.

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

lbrito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:47:18 +0000

Truly bizarre. Thanks for sharing.

As a general rule I always do these talks with camera on; more reason to start doing it now if you're not. But I'm sure even that will eventually (sooner rather than later) be spoofed by AI as well.

What an awful time.

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

lbrito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:45:14 +0000

Suppose an agent gets funded some crypto, what's stopping it from hiring spooky services through something like silk road?

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

lbrito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:43:41 +0000

Great scifi material right there: in the future people will pray not for miracles but for a miraculous `rm -rf /` from their overlords.

New comment by lbrito in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

lbrito — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:38:46 +0000

Wait, you were _talking_ to an HR AI agent?