Hacker News: linuxftw

New comment by linuxftw in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

linuxftw — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:25:55 +0000

Of course not. Normal people are using gemini, it comes pre-installed on Android now.

New comment by linuxftw in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

linuxftw — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:30:29 +0000

I literally explained the thinking that the free builds on Linux aren't worth it. If you've ever shipped production software, you'd know this. Just because there's a free build available for Windows doesn't mean it costs the company $0 to release the free build. It's a lot of extra time and QA for each variant of a release. There might be many differences between the Windows and Linux builds, such as the Linux builds require proprietary 3rd party code with royalties, and they chose not to eat that cost.

There's no bait and switch. It's just people expecting things for free, as always, when this was never an open source project.

New comment by linuxftw in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

linuxftw — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:10:11 +0000

This software seems to never have been open source/freely licensed. That's not a bait and switch. They were giving you a commercial product, for free, and now have decided not to.

It's likely a case where maintaining separate builds for the free and commercial tiers was getting complex. Often times, this kind of software requires lots of manual reviewing and adding or removing modules, and they probably decided it's just not worth it.

New comment by linuxftw in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

linuxftw — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:01:06 +0000

Eh, the supply of drivers isn't as fungible as you might think. Insurance is quite expensive, that's what keeps me from doing it from time to time. That and I have zero desire to have to deal with the public.

New comment by linuxftw in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

linuxftw — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:57:57 +0000

They spent billions and billions on trying to make self-driving a thing.

New comment by linuxftw in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

linuxftw — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:26:16 +0000

LLMs are amazing at golang. They seem to have great training in the k8s world, so writing custom controllers and operators takes minutes instead of days now.

New comment by linuxftw in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:55:39 +0000

Ostensibly, there may be a third party that benefits from the exchange, rather than the two exchanging ideas.

It is surprising to see how many are still in utter denial around here, though. Maybe we should all go back to punch cards.

New comment by linuxftw in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:39:26 +0000

That describes social media for the last 10 years, at least. Not dead yet.

New comment by linuxftw in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:22:29 +0000

I agree they make mistakes in judgement, that's the whole point of plan mode. That judgement comes to the surface before lots of tokens are wasted without sight of the overall solution.

It's all very simple. "Use x library, data model should be xyz, do m, not n."

They're obviously not at the point of replacing an experienced programmer as far as knowing the start-to-finish way of accomplishing every detail, that's what the human is for.

New comment by linuxftw in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:17:19 +0000

If you understand these subtle pieces you perceive the AI to get wrong, you should include that in your prompt. Also, unit test and functional test coverage go a long way to ensure correct behavior.

New comment by linuxftw in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:24:47 +0000

You have to review the plan and fill in any missing gaps or correct anything that's wrong. Plan mode often isn't one shot, it might take a few iterations, but once the plan is nailed down, the results are usually very good.

New comment by linuxftw in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

linuxftw — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:05:24 +0000

Try plan mode. The problems you're speaking about are already solved.

New comment by linuxftw in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

linuxftw — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:45:54 +0000

It's entirely possible that modern horticultural techniques are resulting in the trees going dormant earlier, accumulating the required chill hours, and then breaking dormancy earlier. It's quite likely that the care of the trees has changed substantially from 1900 onward.

New comment by linuxftw in "I am building a cloud"

linuxftw — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:58:09 +0000

You're not missing anything. There's legions of amateurs that dislike k8s because they don't understand the value.

New comment by linuxftw in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

linuxftw — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:35:31 +0000

Why not just create a WoW-like game that doesn't infringe on the IP? Surely there are enough people following the project that at some point, they could have pivoted into a wholly unique IP.

New comment by linuxftw in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

linuxftw — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:31:33 +0000

Every time someone goes to a college or university and pays out of their own pocket to learn the skills necessary to work for a corporation, that's society subsidizing the costs of the corporation.

We're being robbed. We need to actively shame people that spend massive amounts of money on college.

New comment by linuxftw in "In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half"

linuxftw — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:30:43 +0000

Seems to be little incentive for companies to go public, other than fleecing 401k account holders that have to invest in funds managed by the same companies that underwrite IPOs.

New comment by linuxftw in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

linuxftw — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:33:50 +0000

John Deere has had a terrible reputation for over a decade now. They've always used proprietary parts for the tractors. Do 5 minutes of research.

New comment by linuxftw in "The Day the Telnet Died"

linuxftw — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:35:52 +0000

In the days of yore, Windows had telnet installed. Most hackers used telnet in the 90's and early 2000's.

New comment by linuxftw in "AI’s impact on engineering jobs may be different than expected"

linuxftw — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:17:32 +0000

I mean, I don't disagree that these are basic skills that most anyone should be able to perform. But most people are not capable to do them safely. Whether that's aptitude or motivation, doesn't matter.

Ask your average person what a 'fuse' even is, they won't be able to tell you, let alone how to locate the right one and check it.

Just think about how help the average person is when it comes to doing basic tasks on a computer, like not install the Ask(TM) Toolbar. That applies to many areas of life.