Hacker News: medi8r

New comment by medi8r in "“It turns out” (2010)"

medi8r — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:54:02 +0000

I have a duvet. It turns out.

New comment by medi8r in "[dead]"

medi8r — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:19:02 +0000

Another day another US and/or Israel war crime

Google's Chatbot Told Man to Give It an Android Body Before Encouraging Suicide

medi8r — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:17:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/googles-chatbot-told-man-to-give-it-an-android-body-before-encouraging-suicide-lawsuit-alleges-2000729612

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256228

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by medi8r in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:19:35 +0000

Glad it has AI. AI has nothing on cars. Save a car trip a week even if electric is way more than 10k queries.

New comment by medi8r in "MacBook Neo"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:35:01 +0000

RIP, IBM compatiable PC.

New comment by medi8r in "Show HN: Rust compiler in PHP emitting x86-64 executables"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:27:03 +0000

Next: A wordpress plugin to compile Firefox to WASM.

New comment by medi8r in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:22:20 +0000

Quick everyone, create decoy repos for them to vibe in. When the feature doesn't appear "oh feature gate system has an incident try tomorrow". Even better make the decoy repo have an insufferable pipeline that always breaks and get them in a loop trying to fix it. An adveserial "red team" LLM can keep it broken! But tantalizingly with different problems so progress is felt.

New comment by medi8r in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:14:23 +0000

Oh I forgot to Doom scroll.

New comment by medi8r in "On the Design of Programming Languages (1974) [pdf]"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:07:44 +0000

Looks like AI slop to me :)

New comment by medi8r in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:37:32 +0000

TikTok is the government, morealess

New comment by medi8r in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:16:14 +0000

So it could run Doom?

New comment by medi8r in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:11:13 +0000

Are frequentists a group that self identifies? Don't scientist use the best tool for the job.

New comment by medi8r in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:07:40 +0000

You have to have really good tests as it fucks up in strange ways people don't (because I think experienced programmers run loops in their brain as they code)

Good news - agents are good at open ended adding new tests and finding bugs. Do that. Also do unit tests and playwright. Testing everything via web driving seems insane pre agents but now its more than doable.

New comment by medi8r in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

medi8r — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:20:47 +0000

Yeah that large company promo thing drives me nuts. Perpetual gaslighting "meh... that was too easy lel". Yeah thanks. Often stuff isn't easy but hard to explain why if the solution turned out to look easy.

What is funny is you can dance through the hoops for 3-5 years for promo. Or grind leet for 100 hrs and get it by jumping.

New comment by medi8r in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:05:03 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1105/

New comment by medi8r in "We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:22:24 +0000

You can screen share from browser so surely that API?

New comment by medi8r in "Simple screw counter"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:46:29 +0000

Or a vibrating seperator which can give perfect counts if needed.

New comment by medi8r in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:39:32 +0000

Maybe we have a keyword to say we are done talking. Like "over to you". This may be better as it gives you thinking time.

Even a minute if you need it!

And you can get the agent to crunch when you are ready.

Imagine you speak. you need to look something up. find it. speak some more. then "over to you!"

The agent doesn't have to behave like a human and figure out when to butt in.

After all chat rooms and Slack also have realtime 2 way but we didn't worry about emulating that in agent chat. We can be convention breaking in agentic voice chat too.

New comment by medi8r in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:58:24 +0000

That would be good. A YC company is paying people to do just this. You know the data is being uploaded, so you can avoid e.g. your kids coming into frame.

Really it should just be in the UI. Click Upload this and get 10c/minute or whatever for the video. Choose what you upload. That'd be closer in effect to using social media.

New comment by medi8r in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

medi8r — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:56:06 +0000

Lol! The no way round it defense. I'll have to remember that.