Hacker News: mlinhares

New comment by mlinhares in "Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter"

mlinhares — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:12:54 +0000

Being poor sucks but at the same time being poor also makes you find alternative solutions to the incredibly expensive solutions first world countries use today. I really wish Brazil can invest heavily into renewables and free itself from oil and electrify even more of everything we do.

New comment by mlinhares in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

mlinhares — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:37:26 +0000

what an insane thing to have a patent for.

New comment by mlinhares in "Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones"

mlinhares — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:46:21 +0000

I use claude and codex to write nearly all my code today but i can't accept using it to write prose. I still handwrite every single document I have to write and have them review and propose changes, i feel like if i can't put my own ideas into words for people (and claude) to work on i've completely lost it.

New comment by mlinhares in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

mlinhares — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:14:15 +0000

The agents will leave the data center and buy stuff from the local economy, didn’t you hear that?

New comment by mlinhares in "Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI"

mlinhares — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:21:52 +0000

The number of geniuses in every field that congregate in HN is incredible, too bad they're here responding to comments instead of revolutionizing nuclear energy, math or medicine.

New comment by mlinhares in "Did they ghost you?"

mlinhares — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:25:49 +0000

The chance of a single hire being a make it or break it for the the business is pretty much null, so a single recruiter not having continuity in the processes they were doing once they get fired isn't really something to optimize for.

New comment by mlinhares in "Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

mlinhares — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:24:48 +0000

Yes, the administration is definitely and would not start a war for no reason other than to start a war.

People really have to stop sanewashing the government, it doesn't work anymore, these people are not thinking through what they're doing.

New comment by mlinhares in "John C. Dvorak has died"

mlinhares — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:10:14 +0000

same, read a lot of what he wrote back then.

New comment by mlinhares in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

mlinhares — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:07:49 +0000

The landlord also pays property taxes, so this comment must be trolling.

New comment by mlinhares in "New US homeownership measure puts people first"

mlinhares — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:08:28 +0000

Life is much harder when you don't have a roof over your head or when that roof can be taken away from your or take more from your salary than you were anticipating. I don't think people understand the psychological safety of knowing you will not pay a single dime more on a loan for your home for 30 years. It completely erases that worry from your head.

New comment by mlinhares in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

mlinhares — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:20:10 +0000

I had a pretty high rank on ruby and java answers, with some high traffic stuff, there were always people trying to completely edit my answers into something else entirely, it was such a shitty experience that I just decided the effort wasn’t worth it.

New comment by mlinhares in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

mlinhares — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:39:32 +0000

The last thing a billing system should have is defaults, this is such an insane thing.

New comment by mlinhares in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

mlinhares — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:57:11 +0000

Hard to meet a modder that isn't a loser like this.

New comment by mlinhares in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

mlinhares — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:44:47 +0000

The illusion isn't over for Tesla, not a chance it will be over for SpaceX in a year.

New comment by mlinhares in "Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM"

mlinhares — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:44:36 +0000

Here's the problem, countering a lie or hallucination takes much more energy than asking Claude something and saying its true. Its the same as trying to fight misinformation on the internet, the amount of energy you have to spend to prove someone is lying or fabricating data is very high.

And having to do this on the corporate environment saps the energy and time of people that could be doing something productive by wasting their time answering a clueless person that asked an LLM about something they don't understand, got the answer they wanted (but that isn't real), and now are asking multiple people to prove it can't be done.

Here's an example, a PM decided they wanted to build a metrics framework, to track team success, with high level metrics. They asked claude to build such high level metrics (out of nowhere, these metrics don't exist), it happily produced hallucinated code that said it was collecting the metrics and the PR opened a pull request. Now we have to go there, review, find out is all bullshit and explain to the person that what they're trying to build doesn't exist.

So now we have to fight misinformation even on the clock.

New comment by mlinhares in "Factories are just rooms"

mlinhares — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:30:15 +0000

The “gossipy, lazy, no work ethic” culture of Latin America is a tale as old as time. Even the Portuguese and the Spanish used that, might want to change the tune a bit.

New comment by mlinhares in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

mlinhares — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:09:39 +0000

The only economics that change is the full employment for engineers, as they'll be able to create infinite work rewriting systems every year. Its a win/win for the workers!

New comment by mlinhares in "Factories are just rooms"

mlinhares — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:59:58 +0000

> but my culture is too preoccupied with petty gossip of what others think and third world consumerism traps that prevent any kind of development

Your culture is the outcome of colonization, dictatorships propped up by first world powers, and being ruled by the same families that came with the Spanish 500 years ago.

Might be worth it to also invest time in reading another book, like "Open Veins of Latin America", to understand the realities of what happened to Latin American countries in general, so you stop repeating stuff like that.

New comment by mlinhares in "Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults"

mlinhares — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:50:51 +0000

hahah, so true. Also, there are multiple ways to do high intensity exercising that are very unlikely to injure you, like stationary bikes. High intensity only means going to a very high heart rate, you can do this in any way you like it.

New comment by mlinhares in "Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?"

mlinhares — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:55:18 +0000

Its more likely you'll continue to own the place than the government making something like that, that would hurt real estate owners. Renting is fine if you're on your prime years, making money and enjoying life, once you're on your way down, old and likely less employable, renting becomes an issue as you'll likely not make as much money anymore but the rents never go down.

I've seen many parents and grandparents of friends having to live on scraps and decide between healthcare and rent because they just can't make ends meet anymore.

For the young folks that can't buy because they can't save its even worse, they'll be indentured servants for as long as they're useful for the labor force and will then be thrown into the bin.