Hacker News: mmmpetrichor

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

mmmpetrichor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:17:00 +0000

I see this on my team. I honestly thought as engineers we'd all understand the limitations and nuance a bit better. Right now it's kind of a shit show. In addition to seeing my teammates open huge AI generated PRs and just asking for review without them having done much verification, I'm also seeing my teammates (smart ones whom I respect) use AI to "do code reviews". And we already have automated AI code reviews added to our PRs. So now I'm sometimes getting hallucinated BS responses from "human" reviews.

This makes me absolutely SURE that the general public is fucked and that we're going to start seeing huge AI generated fuckups on a regular basis. If people in this industry, basically experts compared to the general public, are misusing this tech in such seemingly obvious ways, imagine the ways non technical people will misunderstand and misapply it. Of course, with the help of overhyped BS from everyone hyping and selling it.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

mmmpetrichor — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:03:10 +0000

This makes sense to me. AI is amazing tech, but it's being oversold to naive public, either on the back of hype, or cynically, knowing they can do it with inpunity, (I'm not sure which). HN users have a way better than average grasp of what AI is and we can be skeptical of results, the general public has no clue.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

mmmpetrichor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:22:00 +0000

I work for a fairly big tech company, For the last 2 years, basically stopped hiring people in the US. Only hiring engineers in the India office.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

mmmpetrichor — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:39:44 +0000

I disagree strongly. I've found that they have more journalistic integrity than most mainstream news pages. Did you see the extremely strong post from the senior editor after this AI hallucination was discovered in a published story? And then the reporter was dismissed.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11"

mmmpetrichor — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:45:24 +0000

I felt the same way for a long time. I switched to linux Mint with cinnamon last september because I'd had enough of windows 11 and feel completely at home on this desktop. I still have to boot windows to play some VR games, unfortunately, but otherwise I'd never touch windows again or miss it.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

mmmpetrichor — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:56:34 +0000

Agreed. As a long time windows user, I never liked ubuntu much (and always had issues with my hardware too). Mint has been amazing for me.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Linux is good now"

mmmpetrichor — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:41:51 +0000

I have always wanted to use linux as my main OS. I tried with Ubuntu twice the past and always ran into really painful hurdles or missing features. This year I tried again with Mint and it absolutely stuck the landing. I have completely switched my desktop and laptop (and plex server) to mint. I have never even booted back into windows. I have not had any big issues and have been able to make it better than my windows desktop ever was.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "X210Ai is a new motherboard to upgrade ThinkPad X201/200"

mmmpetrichor — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:47:12 +0000

The x200 was a really neat machine. They run great with linux mint - I have mine running as a home assistant server for our house since my raspberry pi died with flash card corruption.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

mmmpetrichor — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:50:20 +0000

I'm so glad linux is well polished enough now that I can finally use it as a daily desktop. Mint 22 is amazing with cinnamon. Switched from win11 about 2 months ago and have not once booted back to windows. first time I actually find my linux desktop experience is as good or better than windows.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

mmmpetrichor — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:46:43 +0000

I think maybe the title of this topic post is the main source of misinformation.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

mmmpetrichor — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:00:08 +0000

US congress not functioning for over a decade causes a few problems.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "The Majority AI View"

mmmpetrichor — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:04:33 +0000

I've found it very weird observing how CEOs across many companies behave as if they're part of some hivemind. When to do layoffs, how to implement office policies, and now pushing AI in the same way as if they have no brain of their own. It's very offputting. I can't tell if its collusion or whether maybe capitalism has its own goals that are pursued in lockstep by its creepy agents. I think the end goal is definitely to eliminate workers as much as they possibly can. And they think whoever can do that first will "win".

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

mmmpetrichor — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:13:44 +0000

Firefox mobile was basically the only option I considered for a long time just because it lets you install Ublock origin . Not sure if other mobile browsers have that now too or not. I'm a firefox user on desktop anyway so I love having tab sharing between my phone and all my pcs. They also added a nice feature recently that optionally requires an additional login (fingerprint) to access private tabs. I have found no reason to switch.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "The math of shuffling cards almost brought down an online poker empire"

mmmpetrichor — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 02:52:39 +0000

This became a hot discussion issue in magic the gathering online (MTGO). I always felt my shuffles in MTGO felt different somehow than my offline paper shuffles. It's hard to know for sure when its all closed source. I know a lot of people were suspicious though.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery"

mmmpetrichor — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:51:15 +0000

My cornea was too thin for lasik, they offered me ICL but it was like 13k vs 5k. And the surgery seems scarier. And apparently they had complaints about the previous generation ICL causing hightened corneal pressure, so the current one with a hole in the center is pretty new. I kept my contacts.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Microbial metabolite repairs liver injury by restoring hepatic lipid metabolism"

mmmpetrichor — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:04:47 +0000

I'll drink to that!

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

mmmpetrichor — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:15:26 +0000

I've been waiting a while now for automatic translated subtitles in vlc. I thought it would be here by now. I'm probably underestimating the difficulty but I'm surprised some video player hasn't done it by now. (as far as I know).

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial"

mmmpetrichor — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 06:02:24 +0000

No need for trials, just inject it now!

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

mmmpetrichor — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:02:22 +0000

I just saw the N-word written on a fish. so eh.. that didn't last long.

New comment by mmmpetrichor in "The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It"

mmmpetrichor — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:10:39 +0000

yeah it's like hes complaining about them being evil better then he is able to. lol.