Hacker News: monksy

New comment by monksy in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"

monksy — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:59:41 +0000

For the safer link: https://xcancel.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753

New comment by monksy in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

monksy — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:36:39 +0000

> David Cameron, while leader of the opposition, managed to get his bike stolen twice, and neither time did CCTV being literally everywhere help to find who did it.

Are we talking about flock cameras and the disapparence of Nancy Guthrie?

New comment by monksy in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

monksy — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:26:33 +0000

The 2010s were not that easy to get a job in. It took quite a lot to actually get a job. It didn't take 6+ interviews and takehomes. But you could use a recruiter, go through the interview etc.

There was no leetcode and the resources weren't great. The introduction of leetcode made everything super painful.

New comment by monksy in "EFF to 4th Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant"

monksy — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:21:32 +0000

south america is also a high risk of empanadas.

New comment by monksy in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

monksy — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:38:19 +0000

I can't wait till we get VC money coming back and the recruiting strategy is engineering freedom and merit.

New comment by monksy in "Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition"

monksy — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:35:34 +0000

I'm finding it hard to be empathetic towards an ultra large business with that many customers trying to enforce bans. Also, I find it difficult to support the bans. (Given the number of customers they have, they're probably overly lenient on banning)

New comment by monksy in "Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition"

monksy — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:34:03 +0000

It's super creepy how this garbage gets rolled out. The value proposition of going to these parks is "have fun and enjoy this." But if you bought a pass and then you found out you'd have to go through this.. what do you do? The annoyed and condescending employee will grief you into complying.

There are many ways to solve this problem, but this approach is the most friendly to the owners.

This is a hard no for me to consider giving that mouse money.

New comment by monksy in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

monksy — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:57:51 +0000

Consider this and I think it needs to be acknowledged:

If you're a leader and you've said that your company is too big and have to downsize by 10+%. This is a you're the problem.

Firstly, the business needs to have active business and new initives. If you are not supporting that: You've failed.

If you're so inefficient that you need that extra 14%, you made that mistake.

If you "overhired" and didn't find a way to use that extra capacity to find the business.. you are the problem.

If you say that AI has changed your business, that 14% more people means 14%*the AI lift of more capacity to accomplish greater things.

It's not the talent, and it's not the talents' fault for your issues. A lot of people assume that layoffs means removal of bad performers. The reality is not there.

New comment by monksy in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

monksy — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:27:54 +0000

It is if it connects an individual to an explicit health outcome or category.

New comment by monksy in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

monksy — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:26:33 +0000

I kind of think this article misses the mark a little.

There is skill loss from heavy AI use.

But I want to acknowledge the awkward elephant in the room. AI Is making people too fast. I don't mean that a faster output is bad. It's a faster output and code rather than a full understanding and experience in producing the code. It's rewarding people who try to talk about business value rather than the people that are building and making safe decisions with deep knowledge.

AI: Yes, its good and it can produce some good solutions, however it ultimately doesn't know what it's doing and at the best of cases needs strong orchestrators.

We're in a cesspit of business driven development and they're not getting the right harsh and repulational punishments for bad decisions.

New comment by monksy in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

monksy — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:42:12 +0000

Roy Sutherland has a really good take on AI. Most of the AI companies are targeting a cost cutting proposoition where they should target a value creation one. Targeting and pushing towards a regressive elimination route is tox and destructive to those around it.

Then again the CEOs of these companies want to get their company at all cost to society.

New comment by monksy in "Books are not too expensive"

monksy — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:46:09 +0000

If they're good. I'll pay the 70$ for Designing Data-Intensive Applications.

New comment by monksy in "Books are not too expensive"

monksy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:01:48 +0000

I'm seeing books get released for 60/70$ a pop now in the tech market. That's insane. I don't mind the 35-40$ price which is kind of pricey, and books have a short shelf life.

New comment by monksy in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

monksy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:39:26 +0000

Game over opus

New comment by monksy in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

monksy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:59:55 +0000

Hey I really enjoy your blog. On some things I end up finding a blog post of yours thats a year+ old and at other times, you and I are investigating similar things. I just pulled Qwen3.6 - 35b -A3B (Can't believe thats a A3B coming from 35b).

I'm impressed about the reach of your blog, and I'm hoping to get into blogging similar things. I currently have a lot on my backlog to blog about.

In short, keep up the good work with an interesting blog!

New comment by monksy in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

monksy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:57:45 +0000

You're running 5.1 locally or hosted?

New comment by monksy in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

monksy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:14:36 +0000

I've been successful with getting incus running with this for sandboxing the opencode session. I plan on writing a blog post on it.

New comment by monksy in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

monksy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:59:10 +0000

PIPs are like a month.

New comment by monksy in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

monksy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:19:51 +0000

This is how I feel with the places that want to lock up your phone. There are safety considerations in that. But we're just astrotrufed into the "well this is better" PR campaigns from yondr.

New comment by monksy in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

monksy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:18:42 +0000

They caught organized outside groups stealing phones from people at these events: https://abc7chicago.com/post/lollapalooza-stolen-cell-phones...