Hacker News: mempko

New comment by mempko in "US – Iran negotiations end with no deal reached"

mempko — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:37:17 +0000

Iran has showed it's neighbors something powerful which is US military can not protect you. The damage Iran did to us military bases is under reported.

New comment by mempko in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

mempko — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:21:53 +0000

The Dawn of Everything is not a throw away source. It's one of the most well researched anthropological and sociological works.

New comment by mempko in "Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime"

mempko — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:03:00 +0000

Thanks! Can you elaborate on what you mean by the lost art of Documentation?

New comment by mempko in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

mempko — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:56:01 +0000

Actually a lot of the enlightenment ideas (which our government is based on) came from native American critiques of European societies. Read The Dawn of Everything for the details.

New comment by mempko in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

mempko — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:12:22 +0000

Why limit to a browser? Why not the whole system. Check out this horrible thing I'm building. https://abject.world

New comment by mempko in "Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime"

mempko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:23:07 +0000

If you don't want to hack on it, you can just download the desktop apps for Mac, Linux, or Windows. Note the system is alpha, but I believe usable enough to do some fun stuff!

pnpm awake starts the backend pnpm scry starts the client.

That's really all you need. If you want to run your own signalling server you can use whisper.

I'll update the docs to make it clear, thanks.

Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime

mempko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:39:20 +0000

I've felt Agents are the wrong abstraction. This is a project I've been working on that takes what I call the Ask Protocol and tries to build a system with it from the ground up.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613668

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

New comment by mempko in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

mempko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:19:31 +0000

Their objectives keep shifting and starship is far behind schedule. Sure, it's a success if you keep objectives small. They could have tried for LEO ages ago but didn't. Each launch should maximize learning and having small objectives is anathema to that. And very wasteful.

Show HN: Abject: the first self-aware object runtime

mempko — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:43:28 +0000

I've felt Agents are the wrong abstraction. This is a project I've been working on that takes what I call the Ask Protocol and tries to build a system with it from the ground up.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600766

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mempko in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

mempko — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:12:44 +0000

It's almost like if you don't have dependencies and coupling, you really just end up with a toolbox with widgets that don't do anything special when put together.

New comment by mempko in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

mempko — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:11:18 +0000

This article really misses the point of Collaboration. In biology there is the concept of symbiogenesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiogenesis). We are writing and speaking on the web because of collaboration.

The point of collaboration is to put people together that when combined are greater than the sum of their parts. You take person A individually and they may to X, you take person B individually and they may do Y. But individually X and Y might not be that valuable, it's their combination and the glue that combines them that is valuable.

What the article misses is that yes, 20% do 80% of the work. However, you can't predict which 20% will do 80% of the work. Not only that but it's not always the same 20% that do 80% of the work for all tasks and projects.

Collaboration is the 'glue', that little bit of added information, that combines the work of individuals into truly something great.

The challenge is how do you combine the work of individuals and I can tell you what doesn't work, rigidly planning and executing.

New comment by mempko in "Honda is killing its EVs"

mempko — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:22:39 +0000

You are right. We don't need more EVs. Lets get rid of cars completely and built cheap electrified public transport. Make ICE cars illiegal. Going all EV won't help the environment. Going all public transport would.

New comment by mempko in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

mempko — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:49:11 +0000

John Carmack already had his bag and reputation when he did the code dumps.

New comment by mempko in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

mempko — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:46:46 +0000

I think the magic sauce in this project is the fact that they convert diffs in spec to diffs in code, which is likely more stable than just regenerating the whole thing.

New comment by mempko in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

mempko — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:50:42 +0000

Senior engineers have been 'vibe coding' for over a decade before AI. Think what they do, they look at PRs all day and comment. Magically the code change reflecting their comments. It's the same thing now but machines are doing it, not humans. The issue is that junior engineers have no experience working like senior engineers. The reality is that it's not that hard to work in this way. There is no excuse for software companies not being able to re-train their more junior engineers to work this way.

New comment by mempko in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

mempko — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:00:04 +0000

Literally everyone working for a wage is creating more value for others than they consume. The problem is the rent seekers are capturing that value. This is a crucial part geohot is missing. What people often don't think about and they should is that when you are employed for a wage by someone, you are the creditor and the employer is the debtor. Why? Because you work for say 2 weeks, and THEN they pay you. That whole time working you are crediting the employer and they are in debt to YOU. Think about how crazy this is. You the creditor must do what your debtor tells you. Maybe we don't think about it because it's too painful.

New comment by mempko in "A Million Pixels – a collaborative AI art canvas"

mempko — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:01:59 +0000

That's it, we have reached the Million Dollar Homepage part of this ride (https://milliondollarhomepage.com/). Make sure to take off your seatbelts and exit to your right.

New comment by mempko in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

mempko — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:15:48 +0000

I used to use a Sony phone with Sailfish but stopped when US shifted to voice over LTE and phones I used were not supported by the networks. If this phone works on US networks, I can't wait to get rid of my Android phone for sailfish. I vibed with Sailfish so hard.

New comment by mempko in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

mempko — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:43:26 +0000

The fact that you are thinking at the company level instead of an international world wide Manhattan project level should suggest how much you might not grasp the scale of the problem.

New comment by mempko in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

mempko — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:23:54 +0000

You forget the UI killed a million Iraqis and also had a torture prison. I don't think the US has every had the high ground.