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New comment by mlinhares in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

mlinhares — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:02:04 +0000

nah dude, my mom and dad both worked full time, if they ever dreamed i was disrespectful to a teacher i'd be grounded for a month.

New comment by mlinhares in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

mlinhares — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:29:38 +0000

It has and parents are very much to blame for this.

New comment by mlinhares in "Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents""

mlinhares — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:04:34 +0000

In this very specific case I don’t think this is what is happening. Data center investment is the only thing keeping GDP positive, the moment this stops the real situation of the economy will become visible to everyone and they don’t want that.

New comment by mlinhares in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

mlinhares — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:41:54 +0000

yeah man, someone needs to turn on the server, install shit and get the agent go. agents don't take action without a lot of people wanting them to take action, so this is all bullshit.

if the same people can't prevent the agents from doing crazy shit then they should go to tail. guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.

New comment by mlinhares in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

mlinhares — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:15:17 +0000

agents don't swarm anything unless people go and direct them to do that.

New comment by mlinhares in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

mlinhares — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:12:58 +0000

That’s not common and effective, it’s buzz feed style articles.

New comment by mlinhares in "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"

mlinhares — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:19:42 +0000

Same. I do not use LLMs for writing and I recommend everyone i work with to do the same. Even for code, I come to the code with the idea of what I want and provide that to the agent, then we iterate on what needs iteration or decisions.

Just did this for some caching, started with the structure of what I wanted the cache to look like, asked the agent to start the work, didn't like how the architecture came about, scratched it and rewrote the whole thing, so it fit the model I now wanted.

Was also just having this discussion with friends, that I can only think seriously about a subject if i can put it to paper (even virtual paper). Writing lets me organize my thoughts, clearly define my assumptions and see if any of it make any sense. I can't imagine what it would be like if i couldn't write, my brain just doesn't work without it.

New comment by mlinhares in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

mlinhares — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:04:39 +0000

I have a 2023 Yukon that i like very much but i'm not going to ever replace it by another Yukon without carplay. By the time its not drivable anymore the kids won't need strollers and I'll likely pick a smaller car with car play.

They could have had me trading it in this or next year for the newer model (that does have some nicer things i'd like to have, like the larger infotainment screen) but the lack of carplay and the shitty native google maps and spotify products that come installed on it are are not acceptable for a car that sells for 90K USD.

GM decided it had all the cards, looks like they don't.

New comment by mlinhares in "When declaring an incident becomes everyone's favorite workaround"

mlinhares — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:20:35 +0000

Maybe there's the option of hiring better people as well so you don't have to babysit them at this level. If you can't trust teams to open incidents maybe the problem lies somewhere else.

New comment by mlinhares in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

mlinhares — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:53:28 +0000

Some people survive by sheer luck.

New comment by mlinhares in "Why do I lose my passion and want to do nothing?"

mlinhares — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:18:22 +0000

Because the factories of factories is mostly bullshit. OpenAI blogged about how it was complicated for them to build a project using AI alone and the specs in the repo, how easy it was for models to get lost, not do what was expected of them and the burden it was on the team.

I don't think we will never get there but we're definitely not there yet. Models still require a lot of handholding to get things done.

New comment by mlinhares in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

mlinhares — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:38:02 +0000

No one gets promoted for writing good docs.

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.