Hacker News: lwhi

New comment by lwhi in "Our position on open-weights models"

lwhi — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:40:49 +0000

Re. 'overpriced', I'm assuming OP talking about their theoretical stock price.

New comment by lwhi in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

lwhi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:16:39 +0000

I suppose it mitigates the potential risk of libraries being poisoned?

New comment by lwhi in "From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery"

lwhi — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:57:22 +0000

The participants end up looking a bit like Toad from Mariokart.

How realistic would it be to make a smaller device?

New comment by lwhi in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

lwhi — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:24:24 +0000

One set of people might not give a fuck.

Other interested parties can still be trying to steer the ship.

New comment by lwhi in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

lwhi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:18:41 +0000

> So far the economics are monstrously bad, there is no viable business model

Maybe frontier models will end up being traded at a nation state level; much like arms and weapons are.

New comment by lwhi in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

lwhi — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:41:20 +0000

The current digital hellscape that's developing is something we've been warned about consistently over the past 30 years.

All these dangers were known and predicted.

There's an uncanny parallel with the climate crisis.

Fatalistic somnambulism.

New comment by lwhi in "Why software engineers are grieving"

lwhi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:06:47 +0000

Well, I'm 47 .. I've been a contractor for the past 8 years. I'm still (fairly) optimistic that I'll be able to find a permanent job, but the spring that fed my motivation is no longer flowing.

Maybe I need to spend some time finding myself and rediscovering what I want and need .. but I can't help feel pretty disheartened.

New comment by lwhi in "Why software engineers are grieving"

lwhi — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:06:07 +0000

I think I'm also grieving loss.

I'm at a time in my life where I most probably have 15 to 20 years of gainful employment left in me.

Perhaps too little time to retrain; but definitely too much time to retire comfortably now.

A midlife crisis, coupled with an existential crisis.

I thought I had a clear route ahead. What do I do when everything I've learnt and dedicated myself to, is no longer valuable?

New comment by lwhi in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

lwhi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:59:16 +0000

I have a Gmail address in the format of x.surname@gmail.com, which is obviously potentially applicable to tens of thousands of people.

The amount of misdirected mail I get is astounding. I literally just got a delivery updaye for hair removal cream, with the option to sign the unknowing recipient up to a paid for tracking subscription service.

The problem isn't just making sure the address is valid.

You need to ensure you're sending communications to the correct person.

New comment by lwhi in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

lwhi — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:03:58 +0000

Maybe the solution is to make IPv4 prohibitively expensive.

New comment by lwhi in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

lwhi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:06:04 +0000

I agree, it's vital .. but more difficult to utilise when the cost of adding is reduced.

New comment by lwhi in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

lwhi — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:20:03 +0000

If the barrier to adding that new feature is removed, what happens?

If the cost is reduced — and becomes closer to zero — there's probably more chance the feature will be added ..

.. in which case, the product is less likely to be great.

So perhaps, the key superpower in the age of LLM developed software is the ability to say no.

New comment by lwhi in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

lwhi — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:52:22 +0000

You need to tell the landlord.

I think a lot of people are worried about informing the landlord (especially after two years) as market rates will have risen, and getting stuff fixed might prompt a rise on their own apartment.

New comment by lwhi in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

lwhi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:14:23 +0000

I'm not sure I fully agree with this. We can use the computer to build a deterministic system.

People aren't fully deterministic either.

New comment by lwhi in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

lwhi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:12:52 +0000

At the moment, the main visible effect is disruption in the job market.

Everyone knows it's just another stake in the coffin.

New comment by lwhi in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

lwhi — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:52:40 +0000

No thanks. If you can't see it for yourself, that's on you.

New comment by lwhi in "Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet"

lwhi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:58:52 +0000

So as well as having your details leaked, you're implicated as a consumer od cannabis.

New comment by lwhi in "The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear"

lwhi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:56:14 +0000

Unless the author's taking styling tips from AI prose.

New comment by lwhi in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

lwhi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:49:20 +0000

The fact it's agnostic has to be useful.

Being able to compare outcomes for workflows involving competitors will obviously be v v v v useful.

New comment by lwhi in "Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet"

lwhi — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:45:37 +0000

It looks like 9series[1] uses AI to develop applications.

Is this an example of a vibe coding development consultancy service messing up?

[1](www.9series.com)