Hacker News: lbrito

New comment by lbrito in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

lbrito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:05:59 +0000

Token peddler says best way to do something is using more tokens.

This is not HN-worthy

New comment by lbrito in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

lbrito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:04:15 +0000

That's factually incorrect, and shouldn't be allowed here.

New comment by lbrito in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

lbrito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:24:24 +0000

>"and this might raise the baseline for the jobs..."

That's a bizarre non sequitur, pure wishful thinking. Its like saying Maybe getting cancer is good, because it will cure my arthritis.

New comment by lbrito in "Waymo in Toronto"

lbrito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:40:07 +0000

>driving is one of the most unproductive things a human can do in the modern world

Agreed. So lets build dense cities and efficient mass public transit, right? ...Right?

New comment by lbrito in "Why We're Banning AI"

lbrito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:10:34 +0000

Excellent.

New comment by lbrito in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

lbrito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:47:52 +0000

No one wants that. People pay other people to do things well. No one wants to need to discuss orthodontics with a bot, they would rather pay someone to know those things and think about them.

The inconvenient truth about convenience culture

lbrito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/cult-of-convenience-9.7371392

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50105797

Points: 3

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New comment by lbrito in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

lbrito — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:56:48 +0000

It says the 70B figure "was based on _information shared with investors_ in an attempt to create a more direct comparison to rival Anthropic".

That's a different thing from what you said, that the 70B "was based on a comparison to Anthropic". It wasn't, or we can't say that using the source material. The 70B was based on an anonymous source, which used the different metric (including cloud revenue etc) supposedly to make a comparison with anthropic, which does those things, easier.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like this is "not news"

New comment by lbrito in "OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled"

lbrito — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:17:15 +0000

"The $70b estimate was based on a comparison to Anthropic" -- Can you prove that? All I could find were major outlets (Reuters, Yahoo Finance) citing an Axios report, that itself cited "sources familiar with the financials tell Axios.". I haven't found anything similar to what you are claiming.

New comment by lbrito in "Orkut.com"

lbrito — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:25:43 +0000

73% signers from Brazil, heh

The letter is nice and all, but "sign this petition" is beyond useless

New comment by lbrito in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

lbrito — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:32:56 +0000

The person controlling the salary

New comment by lbrito in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

lbrito — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:52:49 +0000

Why did the clanker add a bubble sort implementation instead of using the stdlib sort?

New comment by lbrito in "A person has been using the Pain steering paper to make an AI torture chamber"

lbrito — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:05:06 +0000

People are this and much, much more delusional. Google "Roko's Basilisk"

New comment by lbrito in "AI Makes Me Sad"

lbrito — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:40:16 +0000

>They drink less, which has been documented extensively.

That was true a couple years ago, but now they are picking up. Maybe they were just broke.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7324161

New comment by lbrito in "AI Makes Me Sad"

lbrito — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:38:15 +0000

"Am I allowed to say that?" - no.

You are allowed to be optimistic; pessimists are "losers" (dhh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjW_dRyKXY).

You are just throwing a temper tantrum (https://archive.is/YNxJq).

Do not commit blasphemy against AI. (https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/talk-bubble-i...)

New comment by lbrito in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

lbrito — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:09:58 +0000

https://trustworthy.technology/ is throwing a 502

New comment by lbrito in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

lbrito — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:18:50 +0000

Dear God, why would anyone - more than once - downvote this? Its simply one of the best novels ever written. I hope it was downvoted by a clanker, not a real person.

New comment by lbrito in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

lbrito — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:41:53 +0000

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff. Can't recommend it enough

New comment by lbrito in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

lbrito — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 18:08:02 +0000

There are movements against consumerism and the environmental impacts of industry in general. Greenpeace is over half a century old.

The differences with AI are: 1) we are starting off (mid 2020s) from a baseline point of already being in a hopelessly shitty situation, past the 1.5C warming target; and 2) Electronics, chips, data centers etc were already a thing for a long time, but industry took _decades_ to ramp up production to pre-AI levels, and these things are used everywhere for a huge number of things. Now we're consuming electronics/data centers/water/power at an unheard-of rate, and for a single purpose (AI) with questionable benefits, besides the private interests of a handful of people.

New comment by lbrito in "GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price"

lbrito — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:37:38 +0000

If you recall history past the last 5 minutes, you will remember that people have indeed been enraged with the environmental costs of things for a long time. Its just that AI seems to have induced a mass amnesia, and people tend to forget about what happened pre 2024.