Hacker News: mnsc

New comment by mnsc in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

mnsc — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:27:38 +0000

Resistance to change is very different than reluctance of change.

New comment by mnsc in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

mnsc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:05:49 +0000

Yeah I read it and didn't get the point. So agile is dead? And we are now doing waterfall due to Ai needing unambiguous specifications? But also agile was nothing new because they knew that waterfall didn't work in the 70s. But now it works? Or are we still doing iterative development but the term agile is banned as unoriginal?

New comment by mnsc in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

mnsc — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:31:06 +0000

Oh no, the kids are going to invent agile again aren't they?

New comment by mnsc in "EFF is leaving X"

mnsc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:12:58 +0000

Nazis have no desire to be part of any democratic system so engaging with them is ultimately an act turning your back on democracy itself. Popper out.

New comment by mnsc in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

mnsc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:26:53 +0000

Well I wasn't talking about AR/VR tech. I was talking about a society where using VR like in the the visions the company Meta was drawing up. It hasn't manifested and since the company Meta is now downsizing their VR investments the progress of that AR/VR utopia is not _currently_ getting better, because people don't like it/use it. And I got a kid that was HOOKED on vr and spent so much time with his friends on VR, and now. They hang out on Discord and play CS2 on a very flat 2d screen. Will this change "In The Future(tm)"? I don't care but my point is that a statement like "code quality will be irrelevant" miiiight age poorly if in five years, taking into account model improvements, people still care about code quality and the agentic engineers still use extra effort to make certain the outputted code adhers to "good code" standards. I know I will but if ass code turns out to over time be objectively better than good code, I might change my mind or maybe start a new career in something tangible.

See https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

New comment by mnsc in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

mnsc — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:44:13 +0000

But hindsight is 20/20 as they say. In 2020 people predicted that Facebook Horizon would only go one direction, always improve and become as pervasive as the internet. So when you predict that the design and architecture capabilities of models will continue to improve, thus making code quality irrelevant, you sound very confident. And if in five years you are right, you will brag about it here. If not, well I for one will not track you down and rub it in your face. Peace out.

New comment by mnsc in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

mnsc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:50:43 +0000

Me too, why do they do that?

New comment by mnsc in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

mnsc — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:49:53 +0000

Is this your alt account?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222705

Edit: cool article, I have myself speculated that we will get a new language made for/by llms that will be torture writing by hand/ide but easy to read/follow/navigate/check for a human and super easy for Llms to develop and maintain.

New comment by mnsc in "Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right"

mnsc — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:52:34 +0000

I wonder how much the roots of erlang is showing now? Telephone calls had a very specific "natural" profile. High but bounded concurrency (number of persons alive), long process lifetime (1 min - hours), few state changes/messages per process (I know nothing of the actual protocol). I could imagine that the agentic scenario matches this somewhat where other scenarios, eg HFT, would be have a totally different profile making beam a bad choice. But then again, that's just the typical right-tool-for-the-job challenge.

New comment by mnsc in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

mnsc — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:49:09 +0000

I love that the tool in question is very calm and collected, in contrast with the emotional wreck that is the US regime. I got a very helpful response to this prompt and I will make it continue working on a python script to get my historical chats looking good in Obsidian.

> Ok. So I'm cancelling the subscription to ChatGPT and moving over to Claude because of the news of OpenAI striking a deal with us department of war. (https://www.techradar.com/pro/openai-just-signed-a-huge-deal...) Please line out a good exit strategy where I can keep the information in my chats and projects on my own hard drive.

New comment by mnsc in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

mnsc — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:22:10 +0000

What would help so much would be to force the platform to act in a way to not try to retain the user at every cost.

Like YouTube. I would love to have parental settings, "no shorts", "no recommendations on video page". Kids could search and click on the creator to see more. Combine that with blocklists and curated allow lists. Boom, YouTube is not a problem. And kids getting bored of clicking around would be a feature.

New comment by mnsc in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

mnsc — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:03:32 +0000

Conspicuous consumption? Like always?

New comment by mnsc in "Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]"

mnsc — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:14:01 +0000

I'm in the later part of the game and I feel really stupid. Some levels are so small I feel like I can understand all possible strategies but none work. Lovely game overall though, highly recommend!

New comment by mnsc in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

mnsc — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:34:19 +0000

Is it non-American all the way down?

New comment by mnsc in "I'm just having fun"

mnsc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:55:28 +0000

I think you are reading to much into kids trying to break norms and trying to be "part of a clique". It's not pretentiosness, it's part of finding yourself. They are also actively trying to get you to not read them because you are old and think they "are not serious" so mission accomplished I guess. And time will tell if these kids will invent something you have to respect. (Spoiler alert, we did and they will to)

New comment by mnsc in "I'm just having fun"

mnsc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:18:07 +0000

I read the whole thing without seeing it. But I also fail to see how you marry "pretentious" with not wanting to be taken seriously. So maybe it's me.

New comment by mnsc in "Collaboration sucks"

mnsc — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:51:05 +0000

But the click bait was conceived and written super fast by a daring driver!

New comment by mnsc in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

mnsc — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:29:13 +0000

You should read the article. :)

New comment by mnsc in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

mnsc — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:13:32 +0000

Degradation sounds passive, like something getting worse due to lack of care. Enshittification as a new word have the luxury of no baggage, so to me it perfectly captures the process of taking active, intentional steps to change stuff in a way that makes end user experience worse, but (maybe) product owner richer.

New comment by mnsc in "SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3"

mnsc — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:52:12 +0000

SSQ