Hacker News: monkaiju

New comment by monkaiju in "The desperation of NYTimes"

monkaiju — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:23:57 +0000

If you needed another reason to unsubscribe, the NYT has been a persistent peddler in American propaganda to the point that they arent willing to issue corrections for even their most falsified pieces. Their behavior since the start of the Gaza genocide has been particularly disgusting.

More info: https://writersagainstthewarongaza.com/boycott-nyt

New comment by monkaiju in "Can we have the day off?"

monkaiju — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:13:14 +0000

I mean productivity gains don't usually go towards making the workers life any better. Also I'm still less than convinced there are any net productivity gains from AI anyway.

New comment by monkaiju in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

monkaiju — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:57:32 +0000

Increasingly happy with ability to simply avoid this entire debacle. Interfacing with machine extruded text, or even people re-wording such text, isn't something I've had to deal hardly at all in or our of work. Ensuring that did take quite a bit of effort though...

New comment by monkaiju in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

monkaiju — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:05:58 +0000

Perhaps, but in terms of the average Japanese persons day to day experience it doesn't seem so bad. They outrank us in almost all QoL measures

Luddite Lab

monkaiju — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:41:01 +0000

Article URL: https://labor.dair-institute.org/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48237393

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by monkaiju in "LLM Policy for Rust Compiler"

monkaiju — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:03:52 +0000

The thread is locked so I cant add it there, but if you wanted to jank-lang could be added to your prior-art section:

https://github.com/jank-lang/jank?tab=contributing-ov-file#a...

New comment by monkaiju in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

monkaiju — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:20:10 +0000

About a year. They were making slop, then when asked to work without AI were unable to be effective for months.

New comment by monkaiju in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

monkaiju — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:28:20 +0000

Similar situation here! In fact our team has a no-LLM policy that I'm quite happy with. We did experiment with it, to the point that one of our seniors atrophied so badly we had to let him go, and we're still paying down some of the slop residue...

New comment by monkaiju in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

monkaiju — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:24:59 +0000

> as it isn't funded through taxes

This is simply not true, especially when you consider the massive amounts of government support so many parts of this "experiment with their own money" is getting. As a Utah resident its extremely evident in how forcefully they're pushing through what will be one of the largest datacenters in the world despite near universal disapproval from the citizens.

New comment by monkaiju in "Claude for Legal"

monkaiju — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:21:50 +0000

I mean if they aren't going to be forced to eat the liability then the hype they get from it is worth it. Not a great state of affairs...

New comment by monkaiju in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

monkaiju — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:18:43 +0000

Hmmmm, the sentiment is nice but it coming from the Salt Lake Tribune is pretty rich... As someone living in SLC I've seen the "quality" of their journalism firsthand, even helped write a piece about it back in 2023:

https://copdb.org/articles/name-the-bastards/

New comment by monkaiju in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

monkaiju — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:41:49 +0000

Are we considering the NYT and USA Today "independent journalism" still? Seems dubious...

New comment by monkaiju in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

monkaiju — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:14:48 +0000

Just today we started a new cycle at work to move from GitHub to Forgejo, its such a refreshing tool... So fast, supports everything we need (and more), and no AI slop. Very happy with our decision

New comment by monkaiju in "Permacomputing Principles"

monkaiju — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:09:30 +0000

Maybe thats by design? If the org believes that for this to actually be effective it is inherently anti-capitalist, then it would probably want to keep people who are only there for the surface level vibes and dont understand that to stay away.

I've definitely been a part of orgs, in my case working with homeless folks, where people vaguely want to help but become hindrances when the struggle tries to actually start to address core issues like police abusing homeless folks instead of just being a food distro where they can get their pic taken and feel like they did something.

New comment by monkaiju in "Permacomputing Principles"

monkaiju — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:02:47 +0000

I mean, not really. You could be somewhat capitalist I suppose, but certainly not "strongly" if for no other reason than that "capitalism" is defined by goals that are inherently misaligned with the others listed (sustainability, right-to-repair, privacy). You could only be capitalist insofar as you believe that companies pursuing those claims will perform better in the market, and even that gets blurry around "right-to-repair" because the word "right" would mean its something the market wouldn't be allowed to alienate you from, so a force outside of capitalism would be enforcing that.

I can't cancel GitHub Copilot

monkaiju — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/blog/I-cant-cancel-Copilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975926

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by monkaiju in "Average is all you need"

monkaiju — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:17:39 +0000

Thats because humans have "understanding" they can use to assess quality, without understanding "trying harder" just means spending more "effort" distilling an average result, at best over a larger sample size.

New comment by monkaiju in "Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails."

monkaiju — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:41:21 +0000

How is this not a bigger deal on hn? Was expecting a lot more conversation

New comment by monkaiju in "Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync"

monkaiju — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:56:21 +0000

His anti-LLM stance isnt unsurprising given the values he's posted about regularly for years, if anything his ability to avoid cargo-cult/hype nonsense is why I (and seemingly others) value his writing so much.

New comment by monkaiju in "Tar: A slop-free alternative to rsync"

monkaiju — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:55:05 +0000

Isn't a huge part of the point of developing in the open so that people can assess the entire technology, including how its developed, and choose if they want to use it?

Folks using LLMs will have to accept that that will turn people away from using their software ¯\_(ツ)_/¯