Hacker News: linkjuice4all

New comment by linkjuice4all in "The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news"

linkjuice4all — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:05:49 +0000

The Philadelphia region accounts for roughly 2% of the U.S. population and often includes southern portions of New Jersey, northern areas of Delaware, and skirts portions of Maryland. Additionally the third circuit court and a variety of state and federal offices are located there so there are many unconnected systems with different owners.

We as nerds have failed to create a common standard and we have voters have failed to expand FOIA to surface all of the many meetings, documents, agreements, etc that govern our life so we're left with AI scraping tools that likely do a poor job to fill the gap.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

linkjuice4all — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:39:26 +0000

You could just mount them to a bunch of fleet vehicles [0]. Hopefully they don't pick up any stray signals from nearby vehicles moving at low speeds (relatively) around them or have any AI, API, or Cloud integrations to combine that data with other mobile and stationary telematics.

[0] https://www.revvo.ai/product/revvo-connect/

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman"

linkjuice4all — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:58:43 +0000

Back in my day it was just stray dogs leisurely destroying my lowly desktop [0], oh how technology has complicated things.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8erHVIfbYs

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

linkjuice4all — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:38:35 +0000

State-sponsored psyop meta comments aside, the models obviously continue to get better, but there is still a lot of 'guard railing' required to keep even the latest models completely on-task. The chess example is interesting because it's clearly a well-studied and established domain so the rules, strategies, and whatever else is in the training data should make yield excellent results; but clearly there is some behavior in these systems that's difficult to engineer out.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

linkjuice4all — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:32:33 +0000

I get where you are coming from but this wasn’t a tool just left laying around, this is similar to rigging up a booby trapped shot gun to your door and then claiming the victim is responsible.

If you build a robot that shoots a bunch of TVs in your back yard, have at it. But the second that thing goes off your property you’re the one responsible.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?""

linkjuice4all — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:23:05 +0000

You hung up a “services offered” flyer on every town square around the world and want to control what people do with the information after you’ve shouted it into the void? Don’t post if you don’t want every tom, dick, or jAIne reading your stuff.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "I don't enjoy the Internet any more"

linkjuice4all — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:58:52 +0000

There are two internets: the one on your phone (ruined by outrage and mobile slop) and the one on your computer (ruined by marketing slop). They’re both dangerous and disappointing for different reasons - but mostly because independent voices got drowned out.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts"

linkjuice4all — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:25:08 +0000

Cutting them down isn’t the worst idea but it would be nice if we could just elect people that wouldn’t allow this in the first place. Knowing that won’t happen, the only chance reasonable people have to stop this is to turn these systems against the decision makers until they yield.

Some kind of Flock@home volunteer surveillance network that tracks politicians, records LEO interactions (including those involving masked unaccountable agents), and provides the only accountability that the public has left.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

linkjuice4all — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:17:49 +0000

I agree with you about juniors and remote work - but like everything else: just figure it out.

Your customers aren't sitting next to you several times a week, yet they have no problem paying you and expecting you to get your job done. Sure, you might need to meet in person a couple of times a year but if you're smart enough to use a computer you can figure out how to work with someone in a different location. The issue is probably not the distance.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

linkjuice4all — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:14:56 +0000

Yes, much like the “we’re all family but we’re reducing headcount by…”

Treat people like professionals: admit that you did a bad job but that you’d rather protect yourself and not give up any of your salary/benefits and instead you are going to layoff your “family”.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

linkjuice4all — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:33:56 +0000

It’s more than one thing. Yes there’s definitely some populism and maybe some astroturfing from outside groups - but actual electricity costs are going up and the average consumer can’t really get anymore efficient, so they’re indirectly subsidizing this stuff. Computers and related hardware have gone up in price. And then you’ve got all of the “AI layoffs” that also result in real-world pain.

Ignore at your own peril.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Muse Spark 1.1"

linkjuice4all — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:50:30 +0000

I see some similarities to 3D printing here. It’s great that everyone can make their own toothbrush holder (or whatever) but I’m probably not going to pay for someone’s weekend project.

I’m “seeing” more devs stepping into the SendCutSend stage where they’re cleaning up/fixing/productizing vibe coded projects so maybe there will be some new demand in that space?

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

linkjuice4all — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:59:10 +0000

These are all very neat things and I’m very pleased to see the hacker spirit move into AI, but I gotta admit - some of this just comes across as “what did you print with your printer?”

Another recent thread mentioned that AI has helped devs build better “shop jigs.” This seems to be where the rubber is meeting the road for AI-powered development. So maybe more people will be developing custom tooling for their own little problems but you still need reliable, deterministic, interchangeable tools to realize the value of all these shop jigs.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers"

linkjuice4all — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:52:57 +0000

Unfortunately many states (north eastern states that spread salt on their roads I’m looking at you) have rolled back their safety inspections - but this is the perfect application of a reasonable state-sanctioned activity. Tax tires, inspect vehicles, write fixit tickets, and let insurance handle the rest of the edge cases where deadbeats caused harm with their slick-tired jalopies.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

linkjuice4all — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:03:41 +0000

I mean…I guess. But this is ridiculous - how many layers does our technology need to bash through to update two records on remote systems? I get that value is being added at some point - but just charge some micropayment for transactions. This is just too much.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

linkjuice4all — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:47:23 +0000

I guess Meta still needs some people to run the core business (ads/social media rageslop) but your point about 2021 staffing levels would suggest they haven't been able to innovate or bring anything new to market in the past 5 years. Llama has certainly been impressive but doesn't really add more money to the pile or more eyeballs to the ad inventory.

It would be nice if someone with another big pile of money could put some of these ex-employees to work so us mid-level schlubs don't have to compete with former FOAMers (new initialism for the hyperscalers of layoffs) for 'regular' tech jobs, but it appears there are no new ideas or markets to capture.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Workspace Agents in ChatGPT"

linkjuice4all — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:19:59 +0000

I agree - and I've noticed that these AI transformations tend to lay bare the many issues, inconsistencies, and other problems with workspace functions and data. Unfortunately the people that are usually in charge of these projects do not have the seniority or sway to actually change the broken processes or aren't on the right team to remove cruft. Usually you have to wait until a salesperson misquotes something from an AI summary before these issues get unblocked because they actually affected revenue.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "Workspace Agents in ChatGPT"

linkjuice4all — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:45:32 +0000

Not only are businesses already doing that - they're not even cleaning up their source material so LLMs are generating garbage outputs from the old inconsistent trash that haunts Confluence, Google Drive, and all of the other dumping grounds for enterprise ephemera. Oftentimes "AI transformation" is just a slightly better search engine that regurgitates your old strategy (that didn't work the first time) and wraps it up in new sycophantic language that C-levels use to bulldoze the budgets and timelines of actual skilled front line employees.

I do believe that LLMs and AI provide actual value, but the "workspace" is usually the passive aggressive CYA battleground for employees to appear productive in-spite of leadership's blind-spots, ossified business practices, and "aligned" decision-making that doesn't actually fix a broken org. Maybe this release will be the one that finally challenges nepo-hires, not-invented here, and all of the other corpo crap that defines "enterprise" business.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

linkjuice4all — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:13:53 +0000

I guess OpenAI couldn't train AdManagerGPT to ignore the client (except when it's time to renew), suggest more ad spend, and turn off any of the features that let you control your budget.

New comment by linkjuice4all in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

linkjuice4all — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:59:21 +0000

As long as he goes by "John Apple" he should be ok - usually the bribe gets credited to the surname.