<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mempko</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mempko</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:50:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mempko" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do you have respect for Rene?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:52:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498019</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:52:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498011</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498011</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, this takes me back of making my own software renderer and game engine as a teen in the 90s. Then OpenGL came out and fixed pipelines and some of the cool magic of doing anything with pixels disappeared (until pixel shaders came back). One cool rendering technique you don't see much today is voxel graphics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462388</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are firm proposals. Read the Democracy and Work effort lead by Richard Wolff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 20:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349350</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who has been a startup founder across several and who has basically been under-paid for the last decade as a result I am constantly thinking if I should have went to work at big tech again as many of my peers are much richer for doing it.<p>But Paul Graham is right, you weren't meant to have a boss. In fact this is not unique to programmers either. Nobody is meant to have a boss.<p>I encourage everyone to read "The Dawn of Everything" by David Wengrow and David Graeber to understand the kinds of human organizational structures that are possible and have existed in the past.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349260</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You made some good points, let me address them.<p>The reason comparing to TCP, DNS doesn't make sense is this doesn't replace those at all. The reason I compared against other agent frameworks and things like MCP is because that's the common question people have.<p>You are right objects don't exist in a vacuum but you are wrong an object that just exposes a description and an LLM reading it from the outside does better. Think about object oriented programming, objects expose and interface but don't reveal all of their internals. Calling the Ask handler could change internal state. Maybe response depends on what object is asking. Maybe the Ask handler might want to call the callers Ask handler too. You can't do that by just exposing a description.<p>You said the goal is to ultimately transport data to a higher layer. That's not the goal. You are thinking too hierarchical. The relationships between objects is dynamic and the concept of a higher layer makes no sense here since the point is to get rid of the hierarchical nature current agent protocols have.<p>Keep in mind I built a working system to test the concept. You can download and try it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 09:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344362</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you heard of the Ask Protocol? (<a href="https://abject.world/ask-protocol/" rel="nofollow">https://abject.world/ask-protocol/</a>).<p>I might be biased because I came up with it, but we are over complicating these systems. There is a simpler way, and it appears to work well since I built a system using it to test the idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332826</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are you talking about exceeded expectations? Starship is very far behind schedule.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 04:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319089</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "The Open/Closed Problem in AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Companies are spending about $1 trillion this year in capex in the US! World wide estimate is about $2.52 trillion in AI spend in 2026 according to Gartner. There has never been a bigger spend in tech. It's so much spend that the software industry has to basically double in revenue in the next couple years to keep up.<p>Most of that spend is on infrastructure, GPUs, ASICS, and everything else that goes into a datacenter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 12:58:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279191</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go back and look at the original plans and projections. Constantly redesigning is not something to be proud of. I call it vibe spaceship design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244464</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sometimes a design is poor and needs a lot of modification and patches to kind of work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244451</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244451</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This incremental progress, far smaller improvements than planned, has put them so far behind schedule I'm not confident this design is any good. Still haven't done orbit. This launch was not a smooth launch. SLS by contrast seems to work. Why did nasa contract SpaceX for the lander. The whole plan is bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 03:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244259</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48244259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love that open weight models are catching up so quickly. Also hilarious how far behind Grok is. I guess demand for Grok must be poor if Anthropic is able to rent resources from xAI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 18:06:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183209</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183209</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had fairly deep knowledge about the bitcoin code base 7 years ago and I got a weird vibe from it as I've seen government code before. When I learned that Tor was funded by the Navy something clicked. Just as it makes sense to have a large onion network to allow spies abroad to surf the web anonymously, it would make sense to also have a currency you can use to fund agents or groups abroad that lived outside the banking system. Bitcoin makes sense for that purpose. If you have a large border-less digital currency with many people on it, even if it is traceable, it's still less risky then using cash which you would have to launder.<p>The fact that many states are now using it for funding purposes to get around the banking system further adds proof to bitcoin's potential origin.<p>Also, it doesn't help that Satoshi Nakamoto means basically central intelligence in Japanese...<p>I'm not saying Bitcoin was created by the government, but if it was there are signs...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 17:59:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183096</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48183096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If this was true, the big tech companies would be the most optimized. Maybe efficiency isn't the biggest factor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 20:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163361</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I believe agents are the wrong abstraction. I came up with a superset called an Abject. See <a href="https://abject.world" rel="nofollow">https://abject.world</a><p>Seems safebox went after a subset.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 02:24:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003937</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Writing code is not the hard part of software development. This is coming from someone who has programmed for 30 years, writing an average of 100k+ lines a year.<p>The sooner programmers start thinking about modeling the domain, user mental models, architecture and data structures and less focus on the mechanics of writing code, the better.<p>Writing code is the EASY part. LLMs have basically solved the easiest part of software development. They however are bad at all the stuff I mentioned. LLMs don't have a point of view, you do as a software developer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 02:19:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003910</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48003910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "A desktop made for one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been building an object oriented system re-imagined in a world with LLMs called Abject (<a href="https://abject.world" rel="nofollow">https://abject.world</a>) and one thought I had was to build an OS that boots into my project. One way to do it would be a minimal linux distro (think firefox os or similar). Has anyone done something like this with their projects?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:03:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999642</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author makes a great point about learning. Learning is what increases your intelligence and if we substitute learning for AI lookup we will literally get dumber. That said, AI models have a lot of information and can assist in learning. It's a tool, how will people use it? My fear is they won't use it to help learn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:46:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953490</link><dc:creator>mempko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mempko in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love blender. They should get all the money they need.</p>
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