Hacker News: mohamedkoubaa

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:11:46 +0000

I have the same experience, though I feel myself getting better at wrangling over the past few months

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:59:59 +0000

Or: if you do this, go live in a community where this is the norm. No, it's not possible for everyone. But then again we can't all have nice things.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:52:44 +0000

Seconded. That was one of the best stories I ever read

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

mohamedkoubaa — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:51:21 +0000

It honestly isn't a good test

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Stop Killing Games"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:57:51 +0000

I'm confused, does the author (or prompter, it would seem) of this article really feel entitled to game servers running indefinitely?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:50:05 +0000

Touché

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:39:36 +0000

Bob likes red wine, Alice prefers white wine. Nobody wants to drink piss.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "GitHub Copilot App"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:58:08 +0000

I set up multiple work trees in one vscode workspace last year and wrote in the agents.md how to merge branches - but I spend about a third of the time helping agents integrate and merge. I remember wishing the tooling would catch up

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:05:09 +0000

Yes. We expect the company that prides itself on having taste to avoid doing tasteless things.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:06:08 +0000

In other words it is equivalent to spending a million dollars on an audit by a software security consulting company

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

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:23:26 +0000

They're fighting the centralization of the means of production, surveillance, and control*

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:18:51 +0000

Scalp massages. No seriously

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:36:28 +0000

Not even as a deterrence?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:09:51 +0000

Eventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:23:05 +0000

I have no professional experience in Rust and over 10 years in c++ but to me the decision to use rust in a greenfield project written by agents was obvious.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

mohamedkoubaa — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:03:38 +0000

And then solar radiation permanently knocks out the electrical grid and you what... have coffee break until society finds a new equilibrium?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:37:40 +0000

Did you know that public market shareholders almost always vote for stock buybacks

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Show HN: Anyone interested in a tool helps to explore C++ ASTs"

mohamedkoubaa — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:24:10 +0000

Is this based on or otherwise related to kythe?

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

mohamedkoubaa — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:36:11 +0000

I write science fiction as a hobby and am in writing critique groups. One of the first rules of critiquing writing is not to suggest how to say things, but only to say what a certain phrase made you feel (confusion, boredom, etc).

LLMs harnesses try to make them useful to suggest things, but this is the most destructive thing you can do to a writer. You can work around it by just feeding Claude a writing critique skill.

New comment by mohamedkoubaa in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

mohamedkoubaa — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:13:28 +0000

I'm not complaining about it I'm just pointing out that widely held assumptions are false