Hacker News: m00x

New comment by m00x in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

m00x — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:42:54 +0000

It doesn't reveal that they have no clue of what they're talking about. They know that a good number of idiot CEOs will hear this and dictate their engineers spend more claude/codex money, which benefits them.

Jensen isn't an idiot, he's capitalizing on the market.

New comment by m00x in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

m00x — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:23:38 +0000

Minimax 2.7 is fine for most web stuff. It's slightly worse than Claude at backend, but works great for frontend.

They're all slop when the complexity is higher than a mid-tech intermediate engineer though.

New comment by m00x in "Schedule tasks on the web"

m00x — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:21:20 +0000

Must be nice working on simple stuff.

New comment by m00x in "Schedule tasks on the web"

m00x — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:20:47 +0000

Several fintechs like Block and Stripe are boasting thousands of AI-generated PRs with little to no human reviews.

Of course it's in the areas where it doesn't matter as much, like experiments, internal tooling, etc, but the CTOs will get greedy.

New comment by m00x in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

m00x — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:09:48 +0000

Law enforcement ICs do not have public records.

New comment by m00x in "AI coding is gambling"

m00x — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:54:10 +0000

AI coding is gambling on slot machines, managing developers is betting on race horses.

New comment by m00x in "The optimal age to freeze eggs is 19"

m00x — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:35:01 +0000

It's not only hard and painful, but potentially damaging to the woman's body and could leave them with permanent hormonal issues.

So, no. It's not a good policy.

New comment by m00x in "Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour of $30B investment"

m00x — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:44:30 +0000

Gemini is a generalist model and works better than all existing models at generalist problems.

Coding has been vastly improved in 3.0 and 3.1, but Google won't give us the full juice as Google usually does.

New comment by m00x in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

m00x — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:42 +0000

I never said this. I think you're the one tripping mate.

New comment by m00x in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

m00x — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:31:51 +0000

It really depends on the human and the code it outputs.

I can get my 2y old child to output 100k LoC, but it won't be very good.

New comment by m00x in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

m00x — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 04:38:33 +0000

The thing is that there is only a tiny portion of houses ever selling at any time. The only ones that would benefit from selling are people who are downsizing or moving away.

If you buy 60% of the properties on market, the rest will see this and adjust their own prices. Usually this only works when the macro is favourable (low interest rates, easy mortgage applications, etc.), but it is definitely a large factor. It sometimes creates a even hotter market, with people thinking that real estate goes up forever, then they sell.

You're right that it's not always large investment groups. Vancouver in Canada had the same thing happen, but mostly from foreign investors and criminals washing money. The latter was facilitated by politicians who cashed in big on this.

New comment by m00x in "Can Bundler be as fast as uv?"

m00x — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 22:39:13 +0000

When you're in a big company, the problem really starts showing. A service can have 100+ dependencies, many in private repos, and once you start adding and modifying dependencies, it has to figure out how to version it to create the lock file across all of these and it can be really slow.

Cloud dev environments can also take several minutes to set up.

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:36:20 +0000

You're saying that you don't think a single book exists that pushes white supremacy? Really?

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:34:37 +0000

The Passing of the Great Race Race, Evolution, and Behavior The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:33:41 +0000

Not exactly a ban, as per their own source.

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:50:47 +0000

Inclusion != ban.

A ban would be you'd get in trouble for having the book in your possession, which isn't the case here.

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:50:01 +0000

This says it's a removal from the library, not a ban. You can have it with you, but it won't be available in the school library.

Would you want your kids reading Mein Kampf or The Passing of the Great Race? I wouldn't.

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:48:13 +0000

Because they define a ban as books that were previously available but aren't, not books who were never available.

You also won't see The Passing of the Great Race in the list.

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:46:30 +0000

This isn't a school?

New comment by m00x in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

m00x — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:44:46 +0000

So it's not really fair to say it's a ban. You can have the book at school, but the school library won't have it.

Would you agree for the school to have the book "The Passing of the Great Race", a famously racist and white supremacist book in your school library?