Hacker News: moffers

New comment by moffers in "The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading"

moffers — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:58:18 +0000

That’s what I’m excited for: the raft of posts over the next few days as the inspired set to work

New comment by moffers in "Eunice is almost here"

moffers — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:31:17 +0000

I also feel like Wintermute is almost here. Who’s gonna arrive first?

New comment by moffers in "Tool book of a Nuremberg knight from 1505"

moffers — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:17:20 +0000

The author says in the introduction that a certain amount of the book is verified. Presence of LLM-use doesn’t inherently make something of less value.

New comment by moffers in "Body Awareness in Goffin's Cockatoos"

moffers — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:44:48 +0000

Oh cool. I’m going to try this with my Conure at home. I hadn’t thought about “BAO” as a test before, we’ve done all sorts of little things in front of the mirror to see if he responds.

New comment by moffers in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

moffers — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:41:40 +0000

We’re using it to build our web app (https://uncook.xyz) and while it’s a slight departure from my team’s NodeJS background it’s been pretty cool to work with

New comment by moffers in "Doing Everyone Else's Job"

moffers — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:34:30 +0000

This was refreshing to read. I’m a big believer in getting things done especially when some process or people get in your way. In my experience people usually understand “oh this person is trying to make things better so this arbitrary process should take a backseat here”. Even people only working the clock will work with you if you frame it well.

New comment by moffers in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

moffers — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:16:20 +0000

So is it a structured data-based language model? Or is there a model and a harness? Hopefully they’ll open up and explain more.

New comment by moffers in "Marx, Keynes, and AI"

moffers — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:53:51 +0000

But total unemployment is going up: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/U6RATE

New comment by moffers in "NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier"

moffers — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:28:00 +0000

“We put liquid bandage on a bee, and it died”

New comment by moffers in "Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD"

moffers — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:45:31 +0000

I loved MUDs as a kid, and really do miss the sense of immersion and depth that came from joining a long established server and just exploring.

New comment by moffers in "Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse"

moffers — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:59:11 +0000

It was, but it’s a dry place so I should have made it a bit more obvious

New comment by moffers in "Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse"

moffers — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:16:53 +0000

I guess we should probably start looking for a new planet. Nothing else to be done I’m afraid.

New comment by moffers in "How to organize Claude Code for product work"

moffers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:39:18 +0000

Lucid product vision is kind of the bar for “good product management”, I agree that slopping on top of a lack of direction is just going to make things worse. The issue with PMs going off on tangents with AI is the lack of engineering know how that they’ll need to adopt to stay competitive.

New comment by moffers in "How to organize Claude Code for product work"

moffers — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:51:23 +0000

Any product manager worth their salt should be in a coding interface--the line between Product and Engineering is blurring a lot more now, and to stay competitive PMs will need to reach a little further into the technicalities. Otherwise you risk just being another “idea guy” pushing tickets around, basically customer support on steroids which is getting eaten by Agents. Connecting the ideas to something tangible and translatable that an Agent could not do themselves is the new game.

(I am a PM of 15 years trying to navigate all of this…)

New comment by moffers in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

moffers — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:12:51 +0000

Wintermute is out there…

New comment by moffers in "Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ from Scratch"

moffers — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:15:07 +0000

Not trying to be critical, but there are a number of misspellings and grammatical issues and it was actually a breath of fresh air to be reminded while I was reading that a real human being wrote this. I feel a little inspired to turn off spell check for my own writing.

New comment by moffers in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

moffers — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:54:24 +0000

I don’t know that this is something specific to workplaces. I think anywhere you have a hierarchy and incentives you’ll see people perform to those incentives. But, I am not a behavioral psychologist, so maybe there is something special to “corporations”. It could be that corporations have a lot more incentive to perform for.

New comment by moffers in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

moffers — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:43:31 +0000

I wish we could get back to a “mom and pop” software market. Itch.io feels like it’s doing a lot of work for indie software that used to just be everywhere and easy to stumble onto.

New comment by moffers in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

moffers — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:51 +0000

You would purchase an AI tax stamp! Just make sure you’re being honest about your token usage. Or maybe we can have AI licenses! Sky’s the limit when you can just make up policy on the internet for free.

New comment by moffers in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

moffers — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:47:52 +0000

At uncook we’re in the middle of glamming up our ingredient normalization pipeline, so this is VERY welcome right now