Hacker News: megamix

New comment by megamix in "Layoffs at Block"

megamix — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:46:06 +0000

Yes 10k? Insane we have companies larger than counties. This all depends on how many they needed to hire in the first place. Also, I don't this reflects the AI transition at all.

New comment by megamix in "Aesthetics of single threading"

megamix — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:17:50 +0000

I’m currently diving into Python’s asyncio

New comment by megamix in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

megamix — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:46:18 +0000

Can someone explain how much of value the iOS app is to users? I'm a noob at Patreon, aren't creators receiving their support through the website's payment gateway already? I'm not really against a company setting the rules if it's their platform, if the market cannot accept it then alternatives (competitors) will eventually find new ways.

New comment by megamix in "Claude's new constitution"

megamix — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:35:57 +0000

Claude is a machine*

New comment by megamix in "LLMs are a 400-year-long confidence trick"

megamix — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:25:59 +0000

Are you also getting dumber? https://tech.co/news/another-study-ai-making-us-dumb

New comment by megamix in "The next two years of software engineering"

megamix — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:46:23 +0000

The most important question is who will get paid the most? I don't think the future of software engineering will be attractive if all you do is more work for same or even less pay. A second danger is too much reliance on AI tools will centralise knowledge and THAT is the scariest thing. Software systems will need to perform for a long time, having juniors on board and people who understand software architecture will be massively important. Or will all software crash when this generation retires?

New comment by megamix in "Passing of Joe Mancuso"

megamix — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:19:23 +0000

Yeah or how wars are...terrible for everyone?

New comment by megamix in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

megamix — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 05:28:18 +0000

Why do you work you’re not paid to do? The exact job of a manager is to handle the staff development. If you’re not doing that then what are you getting paid for?

New comment by megamix in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

megamix — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:31:19 +0000

Without looking at the src, how does one detect these scrapers? I assume there’s a trade-off somewhere but do the scrapers not fake their headers in the request? Is this a cat-mouse game?

New comment by megamix in "Thin desires are eating life"

megamix — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:51:20 +0000

I appreciated the post, this is just not correct thought if you've heard about Open source.

"The entire economy of software assumes that code should serve millions to justify its existence."

Maybe she points to /tech industry/ and not /software/

New comment by megamix in "Thin desires are eating life"

megamix — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:32:43 +0000

Sure, but can you at least appreciate the underlying meaning (soul) of the text?

New comment by megamix in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

megamix — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:46:06 +0000

That’s a good point too

New comment by megamix in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

megamix — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 08:44:59 +0000

Excuse my ignorance, I was sincerely trying to understand the background, and had little knowledge about the different chiefs. I wanted to point to the fact “remember your roots”. Thanks!

New comment by megamix in "Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation"

megamix — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:33:39 +0000

Why no one talks about the real issue (root cause) of why they feel this way? And where’s Sitting Bull

New comment by megamix in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

megamix — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:48:24 +0000

I think it would make more sense in a pure AI-topic, but the fact that you can scrape copyrighted content and create services (AI companies) is the original idea behind my comment. I'm not sure to what extent CoPilot was trained on private repositories or other possibly copyrighted code. But if it was e.g, I'm supporting their (Zig's) cause.

New comment by megamix in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

megamix — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:19:16 +0000

You own the code, you decide where you want to host it. If anyone knows, I'm looking for copyrighted code to deploy my own cloned service to make some money, DM.

New comment by megamix in "The decline of deviance"

megamix — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:30:50 +0000

Definitely internet. When I’m not online, I goof out infinitely.

New comment by megamix in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

megamix — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:43:29 +0000

Who is here to talk about the real underlying causes instead of stating facts? One other commenter also wrote how bad it is that over a million ppl feel like this.

Ask HN: Estimation of copyright material used by LLM

megamix — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 02:29:02 +0000

1. Is it true that LLMs / AI Companies have used copyrighted material for training?

2. Is it possible to estimate how much of copyrighted material has been used?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631710

Points: 6

# Comments: 8

New comment by megamix in "Talent Is Alignment"

megamix — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:20:45 +0000

I believe this less as of now. Sure you can put in the hours, but you can see the difference between ppl that are fast learners and not.

™Do what you are" is a much better ordination. Some people are better wired for sports, maths or arts etc. Far too many are shoehorned into careers not suitable for them intrinsically - but that's also how the economy works. Hey, maybe you're talking about hobbies though?

I think also that what you're getting inner motivation from is also the most hidden from you, therefore it becomes necessary to explore and try to align with as many things as you can. If you're lucky then you do it at an early age.