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New comment by listic in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

listic — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:53:46 +0000

Do yo have links handy for AI-assisted engineering going positively? The case I have on my mind of it going negatively is this recent Ford case [1] It's not that I believe it couldn't go positively, of course.

[1] Ford rehires human engineers after AI fails to match quality checks

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrkd41n2v9o

New comment by listic in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

listic — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:45:24 +0000

I guess it is still legal?

New comment by listic in "Elixir-lang.org has a new design"

listic — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:44:20 +0000

I heard from a fan of Erlang that Elixir was made by people who don't really understand Erlang who reworked it/BEAM to be in the style of Ruby; that made it popular even though it's an abomination. What do you think?

New comment by listic in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

listic — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:21:44 +0000

> until mothers no longer are forced to have “the talk” when their daughters get their first mobile phone

I fail do imagine what kind of world is he implying.

New comment by listic in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

listic — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:54:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing your insight.

Mind if I ask you for a few vibe coding tips? I failed to solve you gh puzzle in the profile though.

New comment by listic in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

listic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:18:29 +0000

> This is a neat idea that has been tried about 300 times over

Could you share the top 3 attempts that tried it and are better at it? I only know that things like this should exist, but didn't look any further into this class of things, yet.

My idea of what to look into is some kind of CRM for my personal contacts.

New comment by listic in "What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?"

listic — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:14:57 +0000

Interestingly, I (in my 20s back then) also asked the question in the early 2000's.

I had a CS background.

New comment by listic in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

listic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:57:26 +0000

Could you please explain exactly why you think no one you know uses Mastodon? I'm trying to figure it out. I, personally am hesitant to use it first and foremost because Mastodon (and many of its lesser known alternatives) is a variant of micro-blogging (I'm appalled how extending character limit beyond 500 apparently counts as a feature in Fediverse!)

New comment by listic in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

listic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:51:55 +0000

What do you mean by 'the fediverse that missed the Twitter alternative'? I thought Mastodon is the Twitter alternative. Sorry; I didn't het it.

New comment by listic in "Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway"

listic — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:45:12 +0000

I can see some Fossil Gen 6's on eBay in the US. (I only learned about AsteroidOS today and I'm not in the US)

New comment by listic in "Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering"

listic — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:27:18 +0000

Doesn't install on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS due to dependecy problems. Filed a bug: https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite/issues/6

New comment by listic in "Telegram introduced AI Summaries. I filed bug report for them"

listic — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:50:45 +0000

Er, do you think that's a poor choice?

What's done is done; but I was pissed and am not a native English speaker, so I asked LLM to reword what I wanted to say in a polite and proper way, so that as many people as possible could support it.

Is it ok?

New comment by listic in "Telegram introduced AI Summaries. I filed bug report for them"

listic — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:13:51 +0000

On January, 3, 2026, Telegram messenger, which I use a lot, introduced AI Summaries [1] for all posts after January, 3, 2026 with no way to switch them off; neither for the readers nor for channel admins.

I find it unacceptable and filed a bug report about that (marking that as an issue; not feature request, which in my view it is), requesting for this feature to be opt-in.

[1] https://telegram.org/blog/new-design-ai-summaries

Telegram introduced AI Summaries. I filed bug report for them

listic — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:13:51 +0000

Article URL: https://bugs.telegram.org/c/58400

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46553086

Points: 2

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New comment by listic in "YouTube Playlist Downloader"

listic — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:21:03 +0000

I, on the other hand, turned off YouTube recomendations with UnDistracted. Maybe I'm missing out; who knows.

New comment by listic in "Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free"

listic — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:21:14 +0000

build-your-own-x*, a popular compilation of "well-written, step-by-step guides for re-creating our favorite technologies from scratch", contains some.

* https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

New comment by listic in "GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability"

listic — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:05:19 +0000

How easy is it to become their (Cerebras) paying customer? Last time I looked, they seemed to be in closed beta or something.

New comment by listic in "Read Something Wonderful"

listic — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:22:38 +0000

Apparently, yes. Apparently, they present a curated set of texts.

New comment by listic in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

listic — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:25:59 +0000

I am all ready to believe that with LLMs it's not worth it trying to be too coherent: I did successfully use LLMs to make sense of what incoherent-sounding people say. (in text)

New comment by listic in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

listic — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:30:13 +0000

Thanks for the advice! Could you please share how did you enable voice transcription for your setup and what it actually is?